Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-08
THE NEWS,

Y. was burned aud 4 young woman fatally
injured by leaping from window
Chalkley Lcconey was acquitted at Camden
n. j., OF the murder Of his niece. The
fiu;t prospects in Lancaster, Pa, are said to
have been ruined by the recent frosts.-
Ex-Pus;master William II. Bennett, OF Long
Branch, WAS held Tor the action OF the United
States grand jary, CHAR ,cI with being $1,000
snort in his acc1u u.s. 'Earles A. Wi e,
of South Greenfield, y. Y, committed sui
eide on raiiros! train, ut Roanoke, Va. -
Mayor Elysou, OF R.camoni. Va, reports
that tie accounts of A. Il. Woohsoa, late
city collector, show deficit OF SIS, OS0 -
Mt joy, Lutheran Church, near Gettysburg,
Pu., was burned young Catholic
women OF Dlytrook, H., have become in
sane upoa the question of Christian sciencs.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Keilhs5urg, H., was burned. Lass $4,000
in the wreck of freight train near
Mcss;llon, Ohio, several train men were
killed, an oil tank eX llnding Colonel E.
e. Briant's stock barn near Huntingdon,I Ind,
was burned, and thirty five thoroughbred
pooled Angus cattle per.shed.-Auoiher
attempt TO pass q o.e cry Til through the
North D .::o:a legislature viii b. made. =
electromagnetic Apach are tealing horses AMI
comm;ttin.; o.htr drrreiAtionS in Sonora,
Mexico.-The B.edl. House, as NeeI.e
Valley, in The Adirondack Mountains, WAS
burned. L.ss $50 co.. The Supreme
Court OF Mlss.ssipp. has ltliemed the sentence
o: the lower cour5 in the X IRAN case. an
the pugii;ss uUss serve Two months in jail.
-The snowfall il Bas on and through
oat New Engleud is from twelve 20 eighteen
Inches
The dead bodies OF man nafsel Holmes,
his vile end two children, were found near
Shawnee l. T., and it is supposed the whole
iaui:y were .urr Tered by the outlaws that
inf-st that !ocality.-Frank MCGOWAN,
who r:skel his lie in the interest OF science
TO lid rare fib4r OF bamboo in South
America for E ison, has disappeared from
Lis homo il Orange, n. J. -Wh!tecaps
whipped threo women and two mon near
Rockingham, y C-Presijent Chauncsy
D.Dew, of the New York Central Railroad,
denies the report that he will resign his pc.
stion, in view OF his possible nomination by
the Republicans for tho presidency.-The
Whittier memorial building, on the Hamp-
10: Normal School grounds, Fort Monroe,
Va, was burned. The rubber shoe manu-.
l.c:urers combine propose to advance the
,rica li:,e.n per csnt.-Ths loss OF life by
thu breaking of the big dam near Prescott,
Ar.zoau. is not so great as first reported. In
MI thrty-nine bodies have been recovered.
Frank Ftrmenicb, manager. and w. 5.
Smith, superintendent of the Formenich
Glucose Works, GEAR Marsha.ltown, Iowa,
have been indicted for pousins the Iowa
river and maintaining a nWsance.-Firea at
Kensington, ILL.,, destroyed the hotel and
cumb.r OF buitiir S. Loss, SIG. 0OO.-The
Nanawha aud Western Railroad Company
has been Incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, to
ronduc. line ninety miles from London,G.
on the little Miami, into the Hooking VAL
ley coal fields, connecting with the kanawba
and Cno near Athens. Carter
Harrison, OF Chicago, has distinguished
himself by capturing o burElar.-James j.
Broichair, of Schenectady, n. Y, was suffo.
Gated in trying to save some property in his
burning house--A combination OF the
metal roofing aud smelling companies of the
United States has b .en formed, with head
quarters at Denyar.-Ex-Govern James
Z lward English, of Connecticut. died at
New Haven, aged seventy. eight years.
Sam Mason, Q notorious Pittsburg gambler,
attempted suicide on q railroad traia.---
Gill g. Forests roller mills at Hillsboro,
Mimi. ware burned. Loss, $500, 900. First
heavy frost Of the season in Southern Florida
a d fretZny weather. in Savannah A man
supposed TO be Rev. Peter Herbert Feron,
OF baltimore, died in Philadelphia hospital
under suspicious circumstances.-Aug
Groth, of Saltwater, MINI. murdered his
wife and then committed suicide. aying q
noe stating that his wife had confessed 10
him that she had been seduced by police
nan in Germany in lSS3.-Miss Lii,
Ian Moore was shot three times in the street
in Washington by Harry Franklin, who, it
issil, was a rel .cted lover.-Noyes, Nor
man g. Co. $ wholesale boot AMI shoe house
at ST. Joseph, No., was burned. Loss $685.
900.
1t is In, OF Lion o: lending lawyers III
Congress that bill can be passed which will
nullify the reGi;tricting laws passed. By the
Maryland and Ohio legislatures
Blair ohjsc's greatly because his speeches
are not more fully reported in the news
papers. Congressman Taulbee was
dangerously wounded by Charles kincaid, q
Kentucky journalist.-D.ck Halves wa
hanged at Birmingham, Ala, for the murder
CT his wife and children.-Brown Wash
ing;on, coior.d, WAS lynched Mt Atlanta, Ga,
for the outrage ana murder of a nine-year-
cd While girl.--Dr. E. A. Kilbourne, an
expert on the treatment of insanity diseases,
did at Elsin Ills.-Nalcolm Cumps.on,
aged five years, while playing with pistol
at his honle, in Chicago, accidentally sho.
and killed his tGree-yea old brother. Miss
LIZZIE Cowan, aged twenty years, school
teacher OF Middeburs, CT, was murderously
assaulted by Dan'e: Web.rer.- IL. J. Coy.
Ian, Jr., observer al the United States S G.
mai Station, st. Vircent, Mimi, has LETT for
parts unknown, leaving many creditors
a wonderful stream of oil is spouting on the
farm OF Andrew Toothman, near tine little
kanowha r.ver, in West Virginia. -There
were 257 business fixtures IN the United
States, and A in Canada the past week.
Bishop Weaver, in thi United Brethren Con-
ference at Chambcrsburg, Pa, stated that in
six conferences uade. his direction there
were forty-two thousand members, and that
but fifteen preachers and two hundred men,
beers had seceded.-lIeavy snow falls in
Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. During q
shooting match on Robert Stewards farm.
near Moortstown, n. J, Joseph Kimtle VS.
ccidentaly shot and fatally wounded l.y