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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16
THE POLICY SHOPS.

There are more than hundred policy shops
in the City of New Orleans where such tickets
are written. They are placed ut points where
they waylay the wage-earncr i'll his progress
to and from his work. From the best iufor-
nation we can get the receipts of these shops
average about $50 per diem. They swarm
daily with s!atternly women, baretooted chill
dren, bloused workingmen, youthful clerks
ami household servants sent TO market or OIL
some purchasing Grand. None but the poor
and ignorant enter these direfu doors. Some
of these shops keep dream books" and other
stimulants to aid the superstitious in selecting
lucky numbers BY daily REPETITION of play
thousands of poor wretches become afflicted
with the lottery craze" and to crafty this,
theft and embczzlement enter innumerable
households. We have the authority OF the
lottery that % per cent. of this enormous
revenue Of $50 0UO 000-a revenue greater than
that of any five average States i'll the Union
comes from the people of this country, outside
of the State of Louisiana, because its advo-
Gates have the effrontery to use this fuct rs an
argument for its rschartcr by the people of
the State of Louisiana.
Through the purchase of stock by its stock
holders and friends it has obtained control of
large portion of the organized capital of the
State. BY the force and glitter of its money
power it has warped the judgement and con.
science of many good people. 1t has captured
three-fourths of the Louisiana press, either
by control of the capital invested, or by pur-
chase or by proprietorship
lis Ubiquitous business is blaZoned by adver-
tisements of winnings all over the country,
and it has thus stimulated a gambling trust
in tens of thousands of ignorant and credulous
persons from whom it monthly receives its
enormous ill.yutten gains Being itself eX-
cluded from the mails rs fraudulent lottery,
it Sllulks under the individual name OF It's
president and the name of q national bank
chartered by the National Government. 1t is
estimated that onc-third of the whole local
mail matter that passes through the New
Orleans postoffice is lottery mail, and that
1000 per diem in postal notes and money
orders are paid TO its s:alking-horse bank.
ITS LATEST DEMAND.
The temptation to hold on to this power and
TO continue to amass this wealth has induced
these lottery people TO violate all their pro-
misses and pledges made to the trainers of the
eos. stitution, and in pursuance of this broken
faith they have precipitated the present con-
fiict by agitating for a renewal ofthe charter.
Attempt has been made to submit constitu-
t;onal amendment to be voted on by the
people in 1892, giving to John A. Morris, a
member of the original gambling syndicate OF
1856, one of the original promoters of the
Louisiana Lottery Company, and now its
lessee and largest stakeholder, and his un.
~ med associates, the exclusive privilege of
King lotteries in Louisiana for % years
from. January, 1894, in consideration of the
rs:.5,ent 70 tho State Of Fl go 600 per annum.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16
WASHINGTON NOTES.

A bill was passed by the House of Repre-
sentatves applying the Interstate commerce
law to express companies.
Commissioners Lyman and Roosevelt ex-
planned the working of the civil service sys-
tenn 10 the House Committee.
AS it came from the House the fertilization
bill appropriated S4,52l67S; The Senate in
creased it to S7,595,935. The conferrees re-
duccd it to$3,363,OUO.
The conferrees OH the ratification appro-
priation bill agreed to report in favor OF al
lowing the Secretary of War to contract with
private arties for making eight-inch, ten-inch
and twclye-inch steel guns.
The confcrrees on the sundry civil bill
agreed on all the items, except that appro-
printing $7200CO to continue irrigation sur
veys, which the Senate struck out. Another
conference will be necessary oil this point.
Secretary Tracy has ordered the war vessels
Baltimore, Atlanta, Kearsarge, Yorktown,
Dolphin, Petrol, Vesuvius and Cushing to
take part in the naval exercises during the
Grand Army cncampmenta Boston.
The House of Representatives finished the
general deficiency bill in committee OF the
whole and adopted All amendment granting an
extra months pay to Senate and House en-
pioyecs. When the commltte rose the House
refused to agree to this amendment.
Rear Admiral John J.. Worden, retired who
commanded the Monitor, has been asked by
the Navy department to attend the embarka.
ton Of the body of the inventor Ericsson.
The Senate passed bill granting leaves of
absence to clerks in irsta and second-class post
Offices
Attorney General Miller has decided that
there is no legal right to bear General Adam
l;akeuu on the rolls of the army as q retired
officer, he having resigned in 1859 to accept q
d.piomatic appointment.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16
THREE MEN BLOWN UP.

Explosion of Gas in n Well Brought oil
By Foolish Experiment..
An accident occurred at Norwood, Ohio, on
the premises of o. Buddemer by which three
men will probably lose their lives. Contrac-
tor Espel, who was at work on the church adj
jacent, was granted the privilege of drawing
all the water he wanted from Buddemeir's
well. The fact that it was sixty feet deep and
contains forty-fve feet Of water was secuted
by one of the victims. Michael Kuenzel and
Joe Sebastian were drawn into the discussion,
and the former was not willing to accept the
statement that the well was so deep. He
opened the trap-door on the six-foot-square
platform over the wells mouth. Lighting a
MATCH Kuenzel dropped it toward the water,
but it went out 'Ismcll gas, remarked Mr..
Kuenzel He did, but he foolishly twisted a
newspaper and sentitaftert the burnt out match
In an instant there was an explosion. Kucn-
gel, Sebastian and q teamster named Barney
Prues, who were standing on the platform,
were blown into the air, All were horribly
burned and bruised, and it is doubtful if any
one of them RECEIVERS.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16
CABLE SPARKS.

The Aletagaras are in state of revolt at
Cundahar, India.
ONE hundred and seventy-fvc deaths from
cholera are reported in Mecca.
AT THE tenth international Medical Con.
gress in session in Berlin, FIVE hundred Amer
lean physicians are present.
TIE total expenditures of the Panama
Canal Company thus far amount to 1873, 00O,-
00U francs while the assets are 16,0OO,OOO.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, has been
asked to espouse the cause of cremation by
the cremation conference in Session at Paris.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany is the
guest of his grandmother, Queen Victoria OF
OIL the isle of Wight.
SIR JAMES FERGUSON, British under for
eign secretary, stated in the House of Com.
interfere with the Cars treatment OF lie
brews
THE Appeal Court of France has sustained
the sentence of six months Imprisonment
imposed on NJ. Secrctan for his question.
able operations in connection with the copper
syndicate.
THERE was another explosion of hrc-lamp
in the coal pit at st. Etienne, France, where 4
great number of miners were killed recently.
and in the second accident twelve mon were
seriously injured.
EYRAUD, the murderer of the notary Gouffc,
attempted to strangle himself in his cell in
Paris with a rope made from strips OF his
shirt, but was saved by warden, who was
attracted by means from Eyraud.
FRANCE has sent an ultimatum to Daho.
mey demanding the cession of kotQnou and
Whydah, and if the demand is rejected an ex-
petition, to be composed chiefly of Senegalese
and Arabs, will start for Abomey in October.
TIE people of Buenos Ayres are delighted
at the downfall of President Celman, of the
Argentine Republic who according to the
speech of General Roca, the leader OF the op.
position to him, delivered in the Chamber OF
Deputies was opposed by every honest man
in the country.
WHILE. crossing the street in Portsmouth,
England, to enter the Admiralty House, En-:
peror William of Germany, narrowly escaped
from being knocked down by the horses at
tached to an English admiral carriage, which
were approaching the Admiralty House. The
Emperor escaped by jumping nimbly aside.
IN THE House of Commons ?. O'Brien
stated thut poem by the poet Swinburne in
the Fortnightly Review was grossly calcu.
lated to incite the murder of the Car, for
which production Mr.. O'Brien asked if the
British government would prosecute hepoet
The Speaker of the House said that Parlia-
ment could not control the poems Of Swim
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16
HALF HIS SKULL GONE.
Aiobaniun Living Under Remnrka-

i. Ainbamiun Living Under Remnrka-
BILE Circumstances.
Dennis Hammond, farmer in st. Clair
county, Ala, has lived three days with nearly
half his skull gone and one side of his brain
exposed, and the attending physicians think
the man will recover and tough skin grow
over and protect the brain,
Two years ago Hammond suffered case OF
sunstroke, from which he never fully recov-
cred. At times he would complain that his
brains seemed to be burning, and he suffered
great pain.
A few days ago he had severe attack OF his
trouble. While at the supper table that night
he suddenly sprang up saying: MY brain IS
burning up, my brain is oil lire." re ran out
of the house and into the woods, streking witn
pain. His family searched in vain for him that
night, and the next day he came home win
one side his head crushed and portion Or
his skull gone. His brains could be plainly
seen through the gaping wound. lie was per-
fectly rational and explained that ne oroKe
his skull with rock and poured waterln tlie
opening to cool his burning brain; Or. ASH;
OF Sprinpyille. was summoned. lie removed
the pieces of broken skull, spouged off the ex-
posed brain, and the patient soon fell a
ppatural sleep. He seems to be improving, and
Dr. Dr., Ash thinks there is change for recovery.
IF Hammond RECEIVERS it will be the only case
of the kind on record.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16

The statement of the proposition demons
strntcs the cnormity of the crime involved in
it. John A. Morris and his associates, who
neither toll nor spin, who take but pay no
honest wage, make no product, till no field,
SOW no crop, rGnpno harvest, who add nothing
to the sum Of human wealth or happiness, are
to be auth@1 .ed by a sovereign State for q
pnItry participation in the plumber to convert
her territory for generation into gambling
snare for the unwary of this Whole country
and fitch from them by fraudulent lottery
schemes untold millions.
WHAT THE CONVENTION ASKS.
This vast money power must be confronted,
concludes the address. The people of Louisi-
ann will do their part, but alone they cannot
hope to win. The people of every State in the
Union are interested in this conflict and must
contribute their aid. The convention recon-
mends the immediate adoption of al amend
nient to the federal constitution prohibiting
any State from clrartering or licensing any
lottery or gift prize, and abolishing those
already established, and giving the Congress
power to enforce the prohibition by appro-
pirate legislation. Until such an amendment
can be adopted Congress is asked to speedily
onnct the bill recommended by the President
and the Postmaster General to exclude lottery
business and advertisements from the mails
snd express companies.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16
TRADES INDICATOR.
Favorable Crop Reports from Through.
out the South and West.
Grain in the Northwest Not Quite Up to

Grain III the Northwest Not Quite UP to
TO the NIarL-Busincss Failures In the
United Stntes and Canada.
Special kilograms to Bradstreet's corrobo.
rate late favorable crop reports from the South
and Southwest and the rather unfayorable
grain reports from the West and Northwest
Southern merchants at interior distributing
points are ordering with considerable freedom,
owing to the size of the yields of cotton, rice
and other products.
In California wheat is tliroshing out better
than was expected and it is predicted, that
counting 100000 bushels of wheat carried
over, the State will have 100000 bushels
for export this cereal year. In Nebraska
there has been little improvement in the
crop situation, but rain is still much needed.
The wheat markets nave been more bullish
on crop damage reports and prices are up q!
cents Indiana corn has been likewise affected
and gains 81 cents per bushel; and oats, out Of
sympathy, are 81 cents higher. Exports Of
wheat, both coasts land flour as wheat) equal
2lG6,263 bushels this week, against 2. 273, S5S
bushels last week, and agallst2 ,056, 000 bushels
in the like week of August 1889.
4 feature of the week has been the buoyancy
of leather. Boot and shoe manufacturers
have not thus far been able to secure cores.
punding advance, though it is unlikely that
additional orders will be taken at former
prices. Hides, too, are strong.
Cattle and hogs continue to come forward,
Mt the West the former being 80 per cent.
higher than astwcek. In hog products there
has been an active demand and firm prices.
Grocery and hardware staples have shown a
moderate degree of activity. Mercantile col
lrctions are generally slow, except. at the
South, where little complaint is heard.
Dry goods arc in increased demand: Cotton
goods prices are affected by the high cost OF
raw material, and very firm. Print cloths and
brown and bleached goods tend upward.
Some Improvement is noted in the demand
for mems wear woolens. Raw woods continue
weak, although rather more business has been
done in leading seaboard markets. Worsted
and l,n: goods manufacturers are taking fair
quantities but cashmere mills are light takers:
Texas wool hus been sold at concessions OF
sulc.
Rio coffee is &c higher on good demand and
light stocks. Speculation is irregular and
prices show little change. Refined sugar is
i-l6c lower.
business fixtures reported to Bradstreet's
numbered 15l in the United States this week,
against 13l last week, and 173 this week last
year. Canada had % this week, against 70
asst week. The total number Of failures in
.lnc United States, January !, to date, Is $500,
against 1882 in like portion of 1859.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16
WORK AND WORKERS.

A CALL has been issued for. State Conven-
tio:; of the Union Labor party of Wisconsin,
to be held in Milwaukee on September 9Th.
A NUMBER Of leading Canadian and Amer;
Jean lumbermen met at Ottawa, Ontario ana
discussed the depression in the lumber trade.
THE night switchmen in the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railroad yards at Lima;
Ohio, struck because the company took or
ono Of the engines.
THE Cloak Contractors Association in New
York have decided to cut loose from the Cloak
Operators Association, and hereafter make
no distinction between union and non-unlon
men.
THE puddlers at the Reading pa Rolling
Mill, who struck week ago because OF the
firms refusal to sign the Amalgamated Asso-
station scale, resumed work on their employ
ers' terms.
THE biennial convention of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, was
held in Chicago. There were in attendance
It's delegates, representing membership OF
1900 carpenters.
TIE strike at the rolling mill of the Cata-
sauqua Manufacturing Company, begun fye
weeks ago, has ended, the men accepting the
companys proposition to pay the Pnliadci-
phia scale of wages.
1HE dQVauCe OI OU pCE CS'lb. Oii diA
ments demanded by the New York cloak
makers is generally being compromised by the
manufactures for general advance OF 70 per
cent. The leaders Of the union do not anticl-
pate any serious trouble.
THE International Brotherhood OF Ma
chinery Molders began their trienniai session
at indianapolis, Indiana. One of the chief
topics of discussion was the propriety OF ADAM
doning the system of piece work.
THE fifth annual convention of the Mer:
chant Tailors' National Exchange was held
in Boston. The annual address Of the presi'
dent, james S. Burbank, contained references
to the Tariff bill and to the smuggling OF
clothing into this country.
THE strike of the cigar makers Mt Bing-
hamton, New York, is now in its seventh
week, and the prospects of settlement are re-
mote Arrests of strikers for disorderly con.
duct have been made, and counter.arresis OF
men who took the strikers places have been
made.
A TELEGRAM from Mt Carmel, Pa. reports
unusual activity in that section in opening up
new coal works. A contract has just been
awarded for the erection of a mammoth
breaker on Big Mountain. Another structure
with daily capacity of 1900, is to be COM
pleted by the Midvallcy Coal Company. by
| the first of next year. The new operations
will employ 1900 hands.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16

II is stated that oysters ten inches
,ono are found in New Guinea.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16
CATTLE

THE Grown Prince of Italy is devoted
lover of his beautiful and clever mother.
When he is absent from her he sends two long
kilograms to her each day beside writing her
a letter. Like the Queen the FRINGE speaks
and writes auently French, English and
German.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-08-16
MARKETS..

E-Flour-City Mills, extra: $40
@s5.25. Wheat-Southern Fultz, 9I@97t.
Gorn-Southern White 57@5!Sc., Yellow,
54G55c. Oats-Southern and Pennsy llvaniia
45Il4Sc. Rye-Maryland and Pennsyl vania
5SGlGOc. Hay-Maryland and Pennsylyanni.a
11.50@S12.50. Straw = Wheat, 7.O0@SS.0o.
Butter-Eastern Creamery, 800 l7c, nearby
receipts 12@13c. Cheese-Eastern Fancy
Cream 0@9lc, Western, S@S1c Eggsol639,
lie. Tobacco, Lcaf-Interior, 1@$l.5O Good
Common, 4@S5OG, Middling, 6@$S0o, Good
to fine red, 9@S1O0O. Fancy, .1O@SlS-OO,,
New YoRK.-Flour Southern Good to
choice extra, 2.6O@s3.25. Wheat.No. White
9S@99c. Rye-State 5S@60c. Corn-South-
43M44c. Butter-State, 17@1Sc. Cheese
State. 5@73c. Eggs-l44@14Ic.
PnIL4DELPIIIA : Flour Pennsy wanna
fancy, 4.25@S4.75. Wheat, Pennsylvania and
Southern Red, 964@97c. Rye, Pennsylvania,
56C457c. Corn-Southcrn Yellow, 4S@4S9c.
Oats = 47@4Sc. Butter State, 169l7c.
Cheesc-New York Factory, 1O@1o2c. Eggs
State, 17@l74c.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Sheep
350MsJ.75. Hogs-4OO@$15
New YoRK-Bccf- 4.50@S5.5o. Sheep
400@S125. Hogs-i.OO@S4.25.
EAST LIHEETY- Beef--4.40@Sl.7O Sheep
5OO@s5aO. Hogs-39O@s3.95.
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B B.
o Arrange Horscs-B. B. NlEARs
Arrange Mechanical Implements G T. BENSON
To Arrange Stockan Fowl-R R. HUTCHINSON.
To Arrange Produce Department-W. A BIoxoM
To Arrange Ladies' Dlarment-W, j.. WYATT, JNo NJ WEST
Police Deparmen- w. L. Hutchinson, w Bundck
L. D. Dummond L Doughty, David Winde, S H. Bell
Ticket W. NJ. Nottingham, Horace Lane
Geo w Elliott Jos Drummond
E.. Bradford Clas Browne -
superintendens slandW Johnson CouerWilie L. Bull
DESIGNATION his aids
bi rote: the Members @
the Marshal and their employees
PRIILEGS ETcPns desiring privileges of any kind on the
etc. No stands
exhibitions will be allowed inside the enclosure unless duly
for that Tickets must be
Ground enclosure
Colored people Grounds but not in the Ladies
Hall. Speakers Grand Stand.
RATES OF ADMISSION
Single Admission, 25 Cents Coored People 20 cents
GRAND SrASD-Adults 25 Cents Children 10 Cents
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-30
Members of Assembly.

REPUBLICANS 2ND DISTRICT ATTENTION.
Vote for Jacob Schreiner, the repub-
lcan nominee. who is one of the SUBJ
stantial farmers of Blakes Prairie. an
old soldier, who served three years in
the cavalry branch of the army of the
west; self made man, scrupuously
honest and incorruptibe; we'll informed
upon the public issues of the day. who
will make safe legislator.
1t should be borne in mind that the
next legislature not only elects a U. S.
Senator, out also reaportions the state
into congressional, senatorial and as
sembly districts.
A legislation of equal importance will
not be again elected within ten years.
Republicans turn out and vote for your
nominee Consider the educational
features of this campaign, they are of
the most Importance. The republicans
stand pledged to protect and defend the
rights of every childin the state to learn
to read and write the English language,
so that as the future citizen of the state
he may be able TO read the ballot he
may cast.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-30
Washington Letter.
From our regular correspon emit

(From our Regular Correspon 3entl
WASHINGTON. ID. G.. Oct. p. 1890.
The republican congressional cam
paign committee has practically COM
pleted its work; it has distributed fifteen
million documents. covering every
question acted upon at the last session
Of Congress. and defining the position
occupied by the republican party upon
them. and also upon every important
question ROW before the pubic. The
number of documents distributed is
largely in excess of the number sent out
during the last presidential campaign.
and if every voter in the land is not
fully enlightened it is not the fault of
the committee.
| called at the committee headquar-
tiers this morning to make some inquir-
les in relation TO the charge that the
committee was oompt ling the depart
ment clerks to contrll ute to the CAM
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-30
Legal N Notices.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS or JoHx PoLLocK,
~ Deceased.
state of Wisconsin, Grant County s. County
Court IN and for said County
In the matter OF the estate of John Pollock.
deceased
Letters Of administration with VIII annexed
in said matter having been issued to George c
Mccarthy Of the city OF Lancaster Oh motion Of
Bushnell 4 Watkins his attorneys. il i ordered
that from this date until. and inCludus the eth
day of April, A. D.. 1891 be, and the same hereby
is allowed and limited fer the creditors Of the
said John Pollock, deceased. TO exhibit snd pre-
sent TO this Court. their claims and demands
against said deceased for examination and allow
anee that such claims and demands viii be re-
ceived hy said Court, ii the Court House I'll the
city OF Lancaster in said County az each term
thereof within said time. and said Court will ex-
anime and adjust The same, at the regular terms
thereof, to be begun and held 81 said Court
House on the first Tuesdays OF March snd April.
A d. 1897 and notice Of all which shall be given.
by the publication ofthis order. under the above
caption. far four successive weeks. in the Grant
County HERALD weekly newspaper published
at the city CT Lancaster. in said County, the
first such publication to be within fifteen days
from this date.
Dated October 4,h, 1899. BY the Court.
SS-S6. GEO, b. CARTER,
County Judge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-30
DEMOCRATIC LOVE FOR SOL
DIERS.

The Madison Democrat seems to have
a strong, sympathetic feeling for the
veterans, all democrats have, so much
so that it would like to see them mis-
represented in congress by a democrat,
from this district, even though that
democrat is IN ex-soldier bur in the
matter of county offices here III Dane
county where a man. if elected, does a
certain amount OF work for a certain
amount of pay, why that IS different.
and does not touch the tender chords Of
democratic sympathy in the least
Think of the Madison Democrat en-
couraging the veterans of Dane county
to vote for Estes, O'Connell or Rowell
because they are veterans, aud it 50
happened, accidentally, Of course, that
no veteran was nominated on the demo-
cratic county ticket, although there are
some democratic ex-soldiers in Dane
county capable of filling any office in