Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-15
TIE NEWS,

hv's warchous, at Kansas City was burned.
Loss about 800. 000-Frank Hanson. OF
Norristown, Pa, has been Sentenced to eight
years in the p-niten ilry for outrasing tue
saven- year. old dausht of Philip Simons
The will of &C. Havemeyer,th the wealthy
sugar retiner OF New York, gives S259. OOO to
Charitable institutions -Fire i'll Lud ow
street tenement, New York city, caused q
panic, and many persons made narrow es'
capes. Two thousand shirtmaSers, mostly
women of New York have struck again
working fourteen hours day.-lwo thou,
sand miners an thar families a.tendad re,
QUEEN services in the Catholic church a1
Wilkesbarre. Pa in memory of the entomoed
miners in the South Wilkesbarre shaft--
Ono of the Mississippi river levees broke at
Arkansas City, 0loding the Tensas basin OF
Louisiana, consisting OF four or five parishes.
Franz JcbuSch. who had long been
incurred as by his relatives, aston shed
them By his appearance 1T his old home, OSh'
kosh. Wis, fter an absence OF thirty years.
Charles Williams aud his tweigs-yoar-
old son of Kansas City, were found murdere
in their bed. The body Of Bernhard June-
haus. German horse buyer, OF Peoria, ILL.,
who is supposed to have been robbed ana
murdered, was found lodged against snag
in the Illinois river.-Frank Mingus, OF
Lagrange, lad, murdered his mother-ln-!aw
FOR refusing him permission to se' his chs'u'
which had been placed in the care OF ms u
vo.ced wife AN overheatal furnace SET
fire TO tue second reformed Church, at Granh
Haven, Mich, causing o loss o. SS,UO1-
Three hundred men rode into Spartanourg'
s. c., with small cannon, and determined
to attack the Jail and lynch George 5. Iur-
ner, who shot aud killed his brother-in-law'
Eiwarl Finger, but the mob was repulseI
nud the cannon spiked.
Fire in Detroit destroyed Gray & Baff,'S
furniture factory, Carroll & Hunts CHAIR
manu!actory the Carroll Cigar Works ami
the Os;ler Printing House. Aggregate loss
;25l0OO.-Oid Fellows Hall at B,rmins-
ham, Ala, and other Luldipgs were burned,
th4 ODD Fellows losing all their records and
regalia. -Rowland Leach, O New York
commercial traveller, WIS murdered III Chi
cago. Al Graham, former Auditor OF
Warren county, OHIO, was sentenced to
eighteen years in prison anil to pay fine of
Sl2G, 423 for emb zz'iug So. COO ofthe county's
funds. the ma ;ician, in his de-
capi,ation act, inflicted cash upon his wife's
throat by slip of the sword. Hundreds
Of prairie schooners are moving on to the
Cherokee. s;rip.-Spotted fever or malig-
nant meningitis is epidemic in Summer
county, Tenp.-The discovery of several
soft coal veins in the ne hborheod Of Cham
berlain, South Dakota,is c.usag much ex-
element in that $ection.-Tbe Trinitaran
Church ct New Be lford, Mass, was burned,
Loss. :pS1O.-A detachment OF United
States troops pursued a party of renegade
Apaches on the Salt river, Arizona, and in
n fight with them, killed two aud captured
three.-In quarrel about family scan
dial George s. Turner, wealthy mill owner
of yail.y Falls, S. c., shot and killed his
brother in-law. Edward Finger.-J. P.
Mitchell was blown into pieces by nitro.
clycerne explosion in Franklin, Pa.-Fire
OF Joliet, ILL.,, destroyed block of buildings
owned by j. L. Bush. Loss $50, O0O--Prof.
Edwin D. Bangs. aged seventy-four years, a
former teacher at Princeton, died at Gales
burg, he sht persons we're injured in
runaway s!eighing accident in Baldwin,
visa Zig mass meeting was held in
Topekn. Kas., in the interest of abolishlcS
The prohibition law, which was declared to
be failure. funeral of Hon. George
H. P.n.!! ION. who died in Germany, took
mace in Cincinnati. The Anchor line
Steamship Caledonia, at New York from tue
Mediterranean, reports finding the aoan-
den d brig Progress. of Grnstad, IN MD
ocean an feel the wreck, the crew had pre-
viously been taken off aud landed as 01
Johns.
4 scheme has been discovered in Michigan
for the secret importation of Chinese, num-
Der of them WIG had been struggled in being
captured by government oficers.--A dis
puto over increasing the salary OF Rev. Mr.
Williams, pastor OF thu Englewood First
Preshy terian Church, of Chicago, caused an
exciting scane in the church. The board
OF managers of the Ohio Pententiary has
rec mmended E. L. Harper, the notorious
ans wrecker, for pardon, be having four
Y AIS more 10 se.ve-E w. Planes screen
door factory ut Be!videre, ILL.,, was destroyed
y fire. Loss, $25 ,000.-BurglarS broke into
tie j.we!ry store OF RobertJ. Dunning, Kan
sas CITY, and under the glare Of an electric
light broke open the safe AMI got away with
$4,000 worth OF diamonds and other j4wals.
a bill is before the Massachusetts, legis-
iature to compel returns to the tax commits
s.onar by foreign corporations doing business
Ill that state. Such returns will cover nun
dreds of million of dollars which now escape
taxation snow and sleet storm did
rot effect the main peach. growing district or
tie Delaware peuinsula. II. Farnum,
assistant secretary OF the Northwestern Mu-
tua Life Insurance Company at MilwAuk ,e,
VS., committed sui:ide.-Cbicago friends
OF United States Minister Lincoln express
the opinion that, in view Of The death of his
SOD, BE- will resign the office and return home.
Mrs. Joseph Kubus, of Greensburg, Pa,
prompted by jealousy, Shot aud seriously
wounded her husband john Gibney, his
wife and their seventeen-year-olls servant girl
were found nearly sutfocated by gas in their
home in Philadelphia The Belgian Steam
ship De Ruyter, of the White Cross Line,
from Antwerp, went ashore on the rocks
rear Scituate, Mass.-Three children of
William Robinson, of Parry Sound, Oat.,
were burned to death Bucknell,
the Philadelphia phlunthropist, died of apo
llexy, aged seventy.nne years. He had given
hundreds OF thousands OF dollars to Biptist
Church and educational purposes. -R9v.
CenentM Butler, D. D.. a former chaplain OF
the Unit Il States Senate, diel IN German
town, Pa, agcl eighty years.-The strike
OF the mill hanls at Nashua, n. f., has been
tiled Ezra L. Stevens, for thirty years
,;e oIari- of tina Tnterior DenartneDt at