Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-07-19
THE NEWS.

sion of the Cincinnati and Ohio Railroad, Mt
Gladstone, Va, run into Il freight train, and II
negro tramp was killed, and Engineer VIM.
Glove and Fireman w. G. Miller injured.-
The general offices of the Northern Pacific
Express Company, at Chicago, were entered
by masked thieves. who, at the point of re-
volvers, compelled two clerks to hand over
Sl0,0Oo.-Onc hundred aud fifty people were
Frustrated by drinking contaminated water
from an old well at " picnic near Solon la.
The town of Sherman n. y, was partially
destroyed by fire. Loss O,OOO.-John d.
Henley, of Lake Village, ~ H., in fit of
dependency, cut his throat. lie was n prom
inent member of the Grand Army.-An ac-
commodation train on the Monon Railroad,
near Smithville, Ind, collidcd with II freight
train and ten lives were lost.-Joseph r.
Huntlcy, lawyer of Long Island, was SEN
fenced to nine years in the State prison for
cmbczzling ol,00O belonging to clients
Bernard Clifford, a farmer near In Grange,
Ky, was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. He was just going into his stable with
his step-son, Willie Smith, when the lightning
was seen TO envclop him and the crash was
hcard-A[rs. Florclta Russell, of Ottawa,
Kansas, was robbed of $4,000 in cash, which
she was carrying in Mind-satchel on the
streets of Omahu-Miss Nancy Goodrich,
10 years old, died in Bloomfield, CT, her
birthplace. She had been in good hcalth.-
\ monument is being made at Rutland, W.T.
to be erected at Annapolis i'll memory of the
Inflated Jeanette and Commander De Long.
-Thomas Martin, John McNulty and John
Mcdonald, miners, employed by the Pennsyl-
vania Coal Company at Pittston, Pa, were
arrested for the murder of James Hughes, of
Oregon. THE Gould headquarters, Mer-
chants, Exchange and Henderson Buildings,
at Dallas Texas were destroyed by fire; loss
$l500O0
Annie EstcIla Murphy, aged twcniy-thrcc
years, was fatally cut by her husband on The
street in dclphia.-Clinton Shuncck,
aged thiriy-iye years, shot and killed Mary
Brunot, aged fourteen years, and then shot
himself, in Montgomery county, Pa-lohn
Cruise of Wcstboro Mass, confesscs that he
tried to kill Frank Martin, to obtain money
to pay his wedding eypenscs.-A cyclone in
Minnesota destroyed n number of houses, and
many persons were killedand injurcd.-As-
bury Hurley, aged twenty years. at Asbury
Park, ~ D., attempted to shoot Miss Alclia
Vackncr, who rejected hisatentions, and also
tried TO commit suicidc.--Pcrry Comstock, q
wealthy farmer of Owosso, Mich. aged sixty
years. shot and killed his wife, and then shot
himself 4 few years ago he married his Sec
ond wife. young woman of twenty, and II is
reported that he was very jealous Of her.
Fire at Arunswick, Ga, destroyed several
warehouses and other property to the value
of $500 O0--Robert Carey, prominent
SUGAR and rice broker of New Orleans, died in
Chicago agc,l seventy ycars.-Mrs. Ernest
Prentice died in indianapolis, and in accord
ance with her last wish, a brass band played
nj The ftlncral.-rThc wheat hasvestsn South
crn Indiana has been completed, and the yield
will be better than cxpcctcd.-A father in
Lancer. Mich sues druggiStfo for selling alco-
hoi 10 his little hoys who became intoxicated,
and were run over by "A locomotivc.-Mrs.
/. w. Hatfield, or Winamac, Ind, gave birth
toa double boy baby-The Blake manu-
featuring Company of Boston, builders of
steam pumps under the Blake and Knowles
patcnt, has been sold to an English syndicate
ot price said to be $S,0000OO.-A new
counterfeit s. silver certificate is in circula-
ton in the West.
Explorer Stanley Is suffering with gastritis,
and his wedding may have to he postponed.
Ex-senator Thomas g. McCrccry, Of Kcn-
lucky, died at his home in Owcns!orn', that
State, aged sevcnty-four ycars.-Albcrt W.
Webb chief of police at Rockford, ILL.,, forged
the name of friend and then attempted sui
cdc.-Agncs Baldwin, prostitute Of Devils
Lake, North Dakota, murdered John Kinney
and cut his body in peces.--By the cxplo-
sion of gas generator in New York city,
Christie Ackert was killed AMI his two SONS
injured.-Whilc enjoying his wedding feast,
J. T. Bcntcl, Of Freedom, Pa, was arrested
for forgcry.-Thc Henry Mullen Brewing
Company's Works. of Philadelphia, were
damaged 100000 by irc.-Thc funeral Of
General Clinton b. Fisk took place from
Madison Avenue NJ. Z. Church, New York,
after which he remains were taken to Cold
! Springs Michigan, for Charles
Venable, of Vcnablc Brothers, dealers in
granite at Atlanta, Ga, was killed by falling
under moving freight car.-In collision
on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, near
Scottsvillc Va. two locomotives and six
freight cars were wrcckcd.-Thc one hun
lrcdth Anniversary of the delivery of the first
Methodist sermon in Boston was appropriately
observcd.-By an explosion on the large
lake steamer Tioga. lying at a Chicago wharf,
! q number of men were killed, and the vessel
nearly destroyed.
Captain Walter Campbell, ofthc ship Hoag.
ley, arrived in New York, and tells terrible
story of how he rescued the crew Of the mis-.
sing schooner Carmclite, which was burned
at sea. The two crews nearly famishcd on
board the Hoagley by the food and water Civ
ing out.--Thc refinery Of the Southern Cot
tonseed Oil Mills, near atlanta, Ga, was
burned. Loss l0O,OOO.-ACowboys at sgd
ney, Neb., amused themselves by shooting al
and clipping telegraph wires and insulators,
and thereby cutting off all communication be-
tween Chicago and the Pacific coast by the
Western Unions main route.-William G.
Morehead, banker of Philadelphia, became
suddenly demented at Asbury Park, n. j., and
wandered ofr-A so-callcd wild man, with
a shaggy beard and only covered by red
blanket, has been alarming the women and
children of the vicinity of Palmyra, Mo-
John G. Nottinger, one of the Oldest settlers
of Illinois, died at La Salla, aged cightly-two
ycars.-The home of Hiram Stanton, at