Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-04-12
THE NEWS.


tempting 10 cross the line between Mexico and
theCnitctl States at Tiajuana Cal.-Thomas
Hope and Mrs. Mary Rogers. who died re-
ceutly in Now York, each hcqueathed many
thousands 10 charitable institutions.--A
colored girl II cmptcd 10 poison the infant
daughter of John II. Holmes, of Fredcricks
burg. Va, with carhoic acid.---F. 2. Norris
real estate dealer of Minneapolis, has Iii APP
pearcd, andnum:rouS charges of crooked deal
ings on his part are coming to light.--rwo
Italians while pummelling each other on a
railroad track, near Ncwburg. \. V, were
struck b. = train and one instantly killed, and
the other seriously iniured.---Atrs. Anna
Cooley was found dead with pistol shot
wound in hcrtcmplc, in the house of Micah W.
Norton, at New Portland, Me-, for whom she
had been housekeeper.-Sevcn thousand
carpenters of Chicago went on strike for
eight hours at forty cents an hour and many
bricklayers in sympathy with them also quit
work.--upon the appeal of Armour & CO.,
OF Chicago, Judge Hughes ofthe United States
Court, has declared The new Meat Inspection
law of Virginia unconstitonal.-Jam
Wells aged sixteen Years, shot and killed
Eugene Carroll. aged eighteen years, at Hen
derson Ky. in quarrel about a girl.--Fire
in Morsc> livery stable. Chicago, suilooated
thirteen horses and destroyed fifteen buggics.
The Chicago Board of Trade dealt another
blow at the bucket shops.-'rhe Northwest
ern Marble Iron Compcny's plant al Milwau-
kce, Wis, was damaged $4,000 by fire
The New York Methodist Episcopal Confer
encc denounced the action of the Supreme
Court of Wisconsin regarding the reading of
the Bible in pablo schools us un-American
and pasanistic.
The Johnsone Forge Company's rolling
mills, at Wilmington, DEL was burned. Loss
S200V0.-Fire damaged F. Middleton & Co.'S
coffee and spice warehouse, in Philadelphia,
$4,000 and sevral iiremen were overcome by
the fumes of burning pepper.-The body of
Joseph Jacobs, son OF Il wealthy citizen of
Hamilton, Ohio, was found in the reservoir at
that place.-Despondency caused by power
", led +. 4. Culver, of Denver, Col, TO take
half a bottle OF morphine, and then blew ont
his brains.-Conducto Gardner j. Tucker,
ola freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Railroad, had desperate en-
counter with tramps at Lima. Ohio III which
he was fatally wounded.--Four trainmen
were buried in landslide that West Shcre
freight train ran into near st. townsville, y.
Y.-Twelvew women and children were wash
ed off a raft in the Mississippi food at Boyou
Falaya-DelegateS representing the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, French,
Brakcmcn and Switchmen met in Elnira, \.
y, and adopted scheme of federation of all
the organizations of trainmen in the United
States.-1loore & Sinnott of Philadelphia
have entered suit against Il large number Of
brewing firms for money advanced to aid the
campaign against the prohibtary amendment
last year.-The strike at Oliver Bros nut
and bolt works, Pittsburg which affected one
thousand men, has been settled by the men
withdrawing their demand for the discharge
of one workman and the reinstatement of
another.--A horse backed a wagon contain.
ing two boys over prepipice fifty feet high
at Greensburg Pa, and Samuel Dorman was
killed and Mark Steele internally injured.
Twelve election officers were arrested i'll
Jersey City as result Of the legislatures in
vestigation of the ballot-box fraud.--John
O'Hara and Martin Fahey, aged about seven.
teen years were shot by Il negro in a quarrel
between whites and blacks III Pittsburg.-
By the breaking of the levee at Catfish Point,
on the Mississippi, near Grecnviiic, Miss,
that Town was nundated.--MarcuSC c. Stcarns,
suicidc.-A young Indian named Eagle
Horse shot and instantly killed Frank E.
Lewis. school teacher, at Pine Ridge Agency,
Nebraska, and then committed Suicide
Forty buildings in the village of Theresa, near
Watertown, y. y, were destroyed by fire.
Loss S15o0o0.-John 3. Price, formerly
book-keeper for Hall & Willis, wholesale hard
ware dealers, of Kansas City, has disappeared
Shortage about S6000.-By the burning of
tavern at Grcenville Junction, Maine, many
of the boarders narrowly escaped.-George
L. Noonan, his wife and daughter, of Engle-
wood, Chicago, are seriously i'll from the eff
fects of poison, and servant is suspected Of
the crime-In the siNtieth annual confer
ence of the Mormons ct Salt Lake City, Presi-
dent Woodruff stated that there would be no
more cvelations.-Rcv. John Dougherty
Wood, Methodist minister, was arrested at
Clean, \. Y, on charge OF bigamy.-'rhe
powder FORKS al Rochester y. y. blew up
killing two men.-The Chicago Gas Trust
has been broken up and the plants and fran
chises sold to new company organized under
the la,w Of New Jersey.
There were $50 business failures in the
United States and seventeen in Canada the
past wcek.-Fire at Trenton, n. j., did 49,,
900 damage.--Mrs Anna House, an aged
woman was crushed to death by railroad
train, near Littleton n. C.-At a meeting OF
the stockholders of the Chicago Worlds Fair
Association,there was lively fight over aprop-
csition to increase the number of directors to
seventy-fvc.-A shutdown of the coke fur
naces in the Scottsdalc region is threatened.
The sheriff of Atlantic county, Nj. has
in the last few days, sold two hundred farms,
tosatisfy mortgages which hadbeen foreclosed,
and forty families are graves
Of five hundred dead Cinnamon in New York
cemeteries were decorated with beautiful pa
per wives and paper blcuses, which were
burned On the sod in the belief that in the
celestial home they were changed 10 real
wives and silkcn garments.-Antrim Os-
bourne, aged scventy-two years, retired
manufacturer, residing near Chester, Pa, was
killed while walking on the railroad track
Harris a. Smiler, who killed his wife in
New York city, ii now appears, has two other
living wives, from whom he was never
legally scparatcd.-F. W. Chivois, q we'll
known merchant in New York, was shot on
his way home TO Mount Vernon, his residence,
in the suburbs of the citv--Two boys aged