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

murdered and another fatally wounded
The .chooner Fannie L. Jones and the Two
Fannics. sunk in Lake Erie. Both crews,with
the exception of Capt. E. c. Cummings, ofthe
Funnie L. Jones, we're saved.-Am man named
Oxcnham, of Wyoming, Ont, was tarred and
feathered for taking advantage of IN imbe.
cile woman.-Mrs. Louisa Wilbarn, aged
thirty.one years. who had been picking bcr-
rics was killed on the railroad track near
Scranton. PA cloudburst, accompanied
nv violent electric storm, played havoc at
Rapid City, s. D., Sanford Clark being killed
bv lrhtnlns-A tavern at Hcckert's camp
near Doadwood, S. D, was blown up by drunken
tramps.-Tho flint glass factories In TIT
West resumcd.-Henry> Collins, aged nine
teen, of Newark, N. j., attempted suicide
upon discovering that his sweetheart was his
alfsister.-Judge Jackson, of Cincinnati,
dismissed the action of the Interstate CON-
mcrcc Commission against the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company for selling round-trip
tickets to theatrical companies without post
ing the ratcs-In collision between pas
senger train and q freight train on the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad William John
ston and J. c. Kennedy, postal clerks, were
injured Meter, a PROMINENT Re-
publican of Kanawha county, w. Va, was
shot and seriously wounded while returning
home from primary election.-Thc work
of counting the population of the United
States will be finished within ten days
The Auti-lottery bill has been favorably re-
ported to the Senatc.-By the bursting. Of
watcrspout over the Rockies the cabin of w.
j. King and wife, at Boulder, Col, was swept
away, and both drowned.-E. F. G. Hall,
representing himself as contractor for the
Nicaragua Canal, travelling in the West for
his health. is wanted in Denver for passing
forged drafts on New York banks for nearly
s., OOO.--William Beaver, colored, aged
twenty years, was lynched at Warren, Ark,
for an attempted assaultupon young woman.
News was received of the death of Warren
]. Harris and Frank Gates, missionaries, at
Sierra Leone, Africa, of fever, July &c.
w. 3. Canning, the widely known educator
and writer of prose and poetry, died suddenly
at Stockbridgc, Mass, aged seventy-fve.
The first prize in the trennial cantonmen
of the Patriarch Militant, I. o. O. f., was
awarded to Marion, Indiana.-John Boyle
O'Reilly the poet and editor of the Boston
Pilot, died at his summon home, in Hull Mass.
from an overdose of choral, taken for in
somna.-The strikers of the New York
Central Railroad are disappointed ut being
unable to stop the business of the road, many
passenger trains being run. Powderly says
the support of the entire order of the Knights
of Labor will be given the strikcrs.-The
York Match Company's works, at York, Pa,
we're burned Loss 5,000.-IIarry II.
Byram Observation-Disclosures Pittsburg Chroai-
Gle Telegraph, died oftyphoid-pncumonia.-
The accounts of G. Austin, treasurer of San
Jose county, Cal, who died last May, was
found short 7DOO.-Jephtha II. Warde,
one of the oldest and wealthicst citizens OF
Cleveland, O., died at the age of seventy-nine
ycars.-A passenger train collided with a
work train at Dallas, Texas. Engineer George
Blake and Fireman Lee Hughes were fatally
injured.-Frank Alonza, an Italian, and the
leader of a countcrfciting gang in New York,
has been arrested.-Threc New York green
goods" swindlers were captured through n
letter they wrote Russell B. Harrison, the son
of President Harrison, at Helena, Mont
The authorities seized number of original
package liquor places III Des Mones under
the new Wilson law.-By the explosion of a
boiler in Montana, one man was killed and
two others fatally injurcd.-All the original
package houses in Topeka, Kansas, have been
closed The Carpenters National Conven.
ton decided to meet the next time in st. Louis.
a wealthy Mexican lady lost $4,000 worth
Of diamonds in Buffalo, n. y. They were
subsequently found and will be returned
The cigar factory of William N. Jacobs & Co.,
at Boyertown, Pa, WAS destroyed by fire. Loss
over S15, 900, partially insurcd.-The Read
ing Railway company has purchased the New
Middleton and llummclstown Railroad which
runs between these two points in Dauphin
county, PA family in Pittsburg was
made seriously ill by drinking poisoned coffee.
-Buckskin Joe, Il notorious pension swind.
Ter, was captured in Erie county, Ohio.
Max Stalla, secretary Of the New York
Cloakmakers' Union, was held to bail Oh the
charge ofinciting men to riot.-Banker Sci
lyman and other prominent New York he
brcws have started movement to prevent the
expulsion of the Jews from Russla.-kay
Merrick, aged nine years, son o. professor
II. V. Merrick, of Cadiz, Ohio, while playing
with rifle shot Norris Garvin, aged ten years,
through the heart, killing him instantly
Three men were fatally wounded by the ex-
plosion of gas in Norwood, "a can OF
kerosene explodedi in Chicago aud killed MIS-
Boersna and her infant chi:d.--Ninc horses
were burned to death in barn at hokadau-
qua, Pa,-Jerome Sweet, of Chicago, poured
kerosene over his wife anu set fire to her dress
She is fatally injured.-Murray Hall, sum.
mer hotel at Pablo Beach, Fla. was destroyer
by 6re-EdwardT rensh, supposedly a poor
pocketbook vender in Chicago, dropped dcau'
and sewed in his clothes was roll of -, OOo'
There was a fue parade of the Odd Eel
lows in Chicago.-Tbe Georgia Democratic
State Convention nominated w. j. Northen
! for governor-A revolt of convicts i'll the
Massachusetts, state prison at Charlestown re-
suited in a number of them being dubbed by
the officers.-Tucson, Arizona, is cut OF
from the East by railroad washouts. There
has been no train for FIVE days The damage
to the Southern Pacific Company is Sl5O,oVO'
The Anti-Lottery League of Louisiana
met in New Orleans with five hundred dele
gates, and the campaign against the lottery
forces was begun.-The House Committee
on Civil Service Reform is investigating the
working of the system.-An official rough
count shows that Chicago's population is
greater than that of Philadelphia, and gives
the Western city second place.
The President has approved the Original
Package bill.-The Senate has passed Sena-
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