Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-09-06
THE NEWS.

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Frederick Kimball, the absconding paving
teller OF; the Peoples Saving Bank, of War
ccster Mass, was arrested us he stepped off q
steamer ut New York from liverpool
Samuel Frances, bricklaycr of Altoona Pa,
WAS assaulted by footpads, robbed of his
money and his tongue nearly torn out-A
mob at little Rock, Ark, attacked j. b. Nc.
Laughlin a Union Labor speaker and Geo.
Small, q Republican politician and beat the
latter into insensbility.-- the explosion
of Il balloon about TO ascend ut Lincoln, Ncb,
F. F. Knapp was fatally burncd.-John
Germ. aged seventy years, a tollgate keeper,
near Wilmington, Del, was nearly beaten
to death by men who had refused to pay their
toll.-Edward Farrell, aged twelve years,
was shot while stealing apples near Philadel.
phia.-NIrs. Susan l.. Barr, wife of Dr.. D.
Miller Barr, proprietor Of the lIygenia Hotel,
Ocean Grove, died of Lockjaw E. W. Ben
nett and David Williams. while at work in
the Lexington tunnel ut Durango Col, wcro
blown to atoms by 4 premature explosion
An English syndicate, headed by &C. Morgan
is reported TO have secured an option on all
the leading silver mines near Aspen, Col. nj
the enormous sum of 81, 000,0 00.-Finan.
cial troubles led John Britain, general mana
ger of the Butler (Pa.) Salt and Chemical
Works, 10 commit suicide. Thomas Dew,
aged twenty-years Il lineman of the Brush
Company, was killed in Cincinnati, by taking
hold of live electric light wirc.-Jamcs
II. McWillians, aged tiity-fvc years Il bach
elor retired merchant of Cincinnati, commit
ted suicide.-A thicfattacked the paymastcr
of the Addystonc Company's Iron Works,
near Cincinnati, as he alightcd from the train,
but the former was armed, and sent several
shots after the thief.-Edgar NJ. Mayer aged
seventeen ye.rs, representing himself as the
son of DR.. D. Mayer, of Charleston, W. Va,
got draft cashed in Mobile Alabama, to
which he had forged the name of the mayor
of the city.-Fivc pool-room proprietors, of
Covington, Ky, were indicted by the grand
jury for maintaininga public nuisance and
fined $3.50 each.-Five dealers in Original
packages at Washington, Pa, have been
fined heavily and sentenced to the workhouse.
George Gilbert miser, who died at
Youngstown, Ohio boosted that it did not
cost him three cents day to live.-A tor
nado swept the town of Coldwater, Mich. do
ing considerable damage but causing no loss
of life-The wheat crop Of Manitoba is one
of the largest ever known.-Prairie fires
along the little Missouri river, in North Da-
kota. did great damage, twelve hundred
horses being burned to dcath.-Charles H.
Nichols, prc>i lent of the Nichols Bank of
Kansas City, has been arrested on the charge
of receivlng money on deposit when he knew
the bank was in a failing condition.-An
attempt was made to wreck the Chicago cx
press near Albany, n. y, on the New York
Central, and the strikers say it was the work
OF the Pnkcrton men.-A baby slipped
from its lite coach in Camden, Nj, IN |
tallia: INFO the street WAS crushed 10 death
bcacath horses hoofs
Otho G. Keane, prominent lawyer of Rich
mond, Va, died aft a long illness.-IIenry
George arrived in New York from his tour of
the world, and was given big reception by
the followers of his single tax theory, who are
nOlulnr Il IldllOIdl COllNtuliOll " UQN uhSS lhO
idea.-Bill Gallagher, of Calaveras county,
Cal. killed his wife and ten-year-old son and
then committed suicide.-In family quar-
rel at Salina, ks John Sinks, & farmer, at
tempted 10 kill his wife and succeeded in
killing himself-The Traut Run House, on
the mountains near Williamsport, Pa, was
destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000 David Smith,
aged ten years, in quarrel with Peter Han
son, aged twelve years, at Coburg, Ontario
was fatally siabbed.-Thc Wolford House
at Como, Col, was burned, three persons
perishing in the hames.-Samuel Lutz, a
veteran of the war of 1872, died Circleville,
Ohio, aged 102 years.-Etta Simpson, aged
seventeen years, has been asleep whole week.
The total cotton crop of the United States
this year amounts to 1911 1922 bales an in
crease Of 265,4S9 bales over the largest crop
ever grown in this Countrywide at Erie,
Pa, destroyed the Bousehard Bros planning
mills, causing loss of Sl25, 00o.-In an cleo.
ton quarrel at Conway, Ark, John Mccullough
was shot and killed.-The President COM
muted to life imprisonment John Wahpoose,
an Indian, convicted in Wisconsin of rape.
Tn the wreck OF freight train on the New
York Central Railroad number of cars were
demolished and Albert luck, the engineer,
fatally injured.-Lelan Beck, an old man
from ST. Claircounty, H., lcaped from n train,
bound from Philadelphia to New York, and
was killed, and his little daughter jumped off
the train alter lin, receiving fatal injuries.
The couple were on their way to Hamburg.
John Meehan, who four years ago robbed
the Bank of England os S4S 900, has been cap.
tured in Chicago.--lIcnry Duifeld, aged
seventeen years died at Bridgeton, n: j., from
injuries inflicted by Harry Pierte with whip.
General Millcdge l.. Bonham, railroad
commissioner of South Carolii a, was found
deal in his bed at HAYWOOD, White Sulphur
Springs, n C.-Acc Madison, farmer OF
Edmondson county, KY, shot and killed his
sixte n.ycar-old daughtcr.-The trial trip of
the United States cruiser San Francisco was
successful, making an average speed of 19t
knots.-C. H. Nichols, C. Tideman and
Charles Warrincr, officials of the Nichols
Banking Company, of Kansas City, were ar
rested on the charge of fraud.-Wilson \.
Jones was elected governor of the Choctaw
Nation-A fire in an electric fixtures fac
tory. West Thirty-fourth street, New York,
caused damage of $25,000.-A fourteen
year-old boy killed his father at Nebo, III
Fire damaged the Eastern Manufacturing
Company's plant ut South Brewer, Me-, $780,
0OO.-Scven aldermen Of Biddleford, Me-,
were arrested forirregularties in Election mat
ters.---By theexplosion of locomotive boiler
on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railroad near Mansfield, O., Albert Graham
and Joseph Murphy were killed and the train
(oill set on fre-Jacob Reed, a wealthy re-
tired merchant Of Philadelphia, is dead
Peter Diehl's machine shops and McSweeny's
glove factory At Gloversville, N. y, injured
N ono l>,.