Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-05-10
THE NEWS.

The private bank OF Charles y. Matncr q
Co, at Berlin, Mis-, suspended, James NJ. Haw-
ley, the Junior member of the concern, having
disappeared. were taken III Phi!a-
delpha towards organizing the American Gas
Investment Company. which is to be capt.
talized nj S5O,000,0 00.-In dispute over
small account, John NJ. Bradley, grocer, Of
Atlanta GA. WAS shot and killed by Charles
NJ. Ozburn. commission merchant.-An
investigation into the management of the
Rhode Island State House shows that II num-
Der of the children were cruelty treated.--
Mrs. Betsy Averill the Oldest inhabitant of
Connecticut, and the Oldest pensioner Of the
United States, celebrated the one hundred and
third anniversary of her birth.--Govcrno
Hill has advised the New York legislature TO
make change in the methods of determining
contest elections, advocating the courts as the
proper ribunals.-Joseph Sheetz, aged
eighty years Of Philadelphia, q prominent
member of The Dunkards, who was married re-
Gently to young woman, committed suicide.
The ii. 3. Clatlin Company has been or
ganized in New York, with the capital stock
fixed at ,000,000-C;cneral Master Work
man Powderly was before the New Jersey leg
islature urging the passage of the ballot re-
form bill.-J. Monroe Snellenberger, the
Doylestown (Pa.) lawyer who ran away after
swindling clients and farmers out Of Sl50,000'
returned and gave himselfup, weary of hiding
from the officers OF The law.-The Monigom-
cry Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit Com
pany of Norristown, Pa, suspended payment,
due to the unauthorized loans made by Treas
urcr William F. Slingluff.-Snow storms
checked the progress of the flames on the Red
Lake Reservation, in Minnesota, but not until
millions of feet of pine had been destroyed.
The Esher faction of the Evangelical
Church. at Napervile, ILL.,, nailed down the
windows and doors, Sunday, 10 keep out the
opposing faction.
Joshua Lear, ofAloscow, Idaho. shot his wife
and blew ont his own brains because his wife
urged him 10 work.-Dr. Ryland T. Brown,
u prominent minister and scientist Of Indiana,
died ut indianapolis, aged echty-two years
Extensive cleo. ion registration frauds have
been discovered in Chicago.--In view of re-
cent charges cfmiSmanagemento of the Soldiers
Home, at Leavenworth, Kan, a committee OF
the Grand Army has been appointed 10 make
an inyestigation.-A number Of buildings in
the suburban Boston town of Morgan Park
was burned--Mrs. Kate Harper the wife Of
William Harper, of The book publishing firm,
died suddenly at her home in Icnkers.-
Arthur jackson, colored, of Bristol, Conn.,. in
a mad fiji ofjealously, chopped his wife nearly
in pieces with Ratchet and was about 10 burn
the house when captured.--Three sharp
shocks ofcarthquake occurred at Nevada, Cal
a tornado demolished churches, schools
and residences al Wills Point, Texas, and sew.
eral persons were killed and many injured by
falling walls.-An investigation shows that
the support of tramps in thealmhouse andjal
ofFranklin county, Pa, during the last twenty
years cost the taxpayers over sl00,Q0Q.-
Jacob Reutschcr, quarryman aged forty
by derrick falling upon his head.-M. ].
Goldman, of Memphis, fatally shotJ. w. How.
ard, of st. Louis, at the European Hotel, At.
lanta, Ga.-Margaret katz, of Petersburg,
Va, locked her child alone in the heuse while
she went on an GRAND, and returned TO find the
little one burned 10 death.-Lewis Z. Pfeif.
fer. president, and Teller Pancoast, of the
Bank Of America, Philadelphia, were arrested,
the former on the charge of embezzlement.
Five hundred hands were thrown out by
s., nf c. RI tod 70
turers of Springfield, Mass.-The St. Louis
Merchants bridge was formally opened with
grand ceremonies.
John Kean's barn at Elizabeth, n. J.. was
burned and fourteen cows and three horscs
perished.-The Wells-Fargo Express messcn-
ger on the Southern Pacific Railroad, near
Denver, Col, was robbed of S44, 000.--The
six-year-old daughter of Lewis Supcrnaw, of
Grand Rapids, Mich, was outragcously as
saulted, and the father nearly kicked the brute
to death.-R. B. Schwartzkoff, claiming to
represent the New York Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, who had been leading Il fast
life in San Francisco, committed suicide there.
George Whites farmhouse, at PENIS
Manor, Pa, was struck by lightning and de-
stroyed.-Josiah Partridge's storage furni-
ture warehouse, in New York city was burned.
The Baptist and the Catholic churches at
West Boyston, Mon, were destroyed by fire.
The Fidelity Surety Trust and Safe De-
post Company, of Camden, n. j., has sus-
pended-The "Big Four" the Cleveland,
Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad
Company, will purchase the Alton and Terre
Haute Railroad at the rumored price of Sl0,-
000.--The will of the late Margaret Pecle
Dabney, of Salem, Mass, bequeaths $1,000
each the Mcadville, Pa, theological School,
and to the Indian School at Hampton, Ta
and the same amount to several local institu-
tions.--Thc Hon. Lewis T. Allen, an uncle
by marriage to cx-Presidcnt Cleveland, died
at Buffalo, n. Y, aged ninety ycars.-L. NJ.
Sawyer, manager of the Hampton, Va, electric
light works, was drowned near that city
There were 1S5 business failuresin the United
States and &c in Canada the past week.
Hon. George w. Nesmith, cx.judge of the SUI
preme Court of New Hampshire, died at
Franklin Falls, of influenza, aged eighty-four
years.-Gcorge Scckel Pepper, president of
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, died
in Philadelphia, aged eighty-two years
John McNIanus was convicted in Philadelphia
of murder in the first degree for the shooting
of Eugene McGinnis in quarrel about
Amanda Gross the mistress of McManus.
YIN. P Campbell, OF Illinois, has been ap-
pointed assistant general superintendent OF
the Railway Mail seryicc.-Ex-Presidens
Cicye!and was admitted TO practice in the
Supreme Court of the United States.-Thc
meeting of The Drmhlanc House Club, the
fashionable hunting organization of Wash
ington, opened ut Ivy City.--W. B. Lindsay,
deputy postmaster at Helena, Arkansas, is