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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-10-06
NUMBER IA
AN EMBARRASSING RIDE.
The Awkward Position In Which Two Baah-
ionnbIe Ladies Found Themselves.


Two very pretty and fashionable
young women set out from Montolair to
Bloomfield. N. J., one day recently on
foot, and. as they were going to
luncheon. had on most fetching" tot
let's The road was hot and dusty, and
after q little one young woman's Louis
Quinze heel and Piccadilly too began to
give her bother, so that the walk ahead
grew to assume fairly insurmountable
proportions. Just as she limped and
hobbled at her worst along came great
high wagon with wide drivers seat
over the top.
The whistling drivers CHEEKY consent
to their request for ride solved their
difficulty He chuckled bit Us no
handed them up beside him. but he was
mighty genial about II, and they felt no
other sensation than that Of relief, with
an idea that they were perhaps oonspion-
ously high.
AS they rode along everybody stared
at them. Some folk actually stopped
by the roadside and shielded thoir eyes
with their rural palms 20 watch the
young women. By and by the gazing
grew embarrassing, and as they neared
the town they felt that surely something
strange must be the matter with either
one beyond the fact Of being modish
young woman taking free ride away
up where women are not wont to climb.
They pulled down their skirts and
drew in their feet, adjusted their hats,
assured each other that they looked all
right and did everything else that nerv-
GUS young women may do. As they en-
tered the town things assumed awful
proportions Everybody stood and
stared Shopksepers ran to their doors,
heads were thrust out of windows, there
were whispering and pointing and fol.
lowing until the young women in grim
agony held down their parasols and felt
creeping upon them an incipient paraly
sis which would prevent their ever be-
ing able to step down from this dread
full pinnacle
at last the driver began TO see 1t.
Guess, he SAID "they think itsort
O. queer me carryin a load like this.
Never seen one like 1t afore on this
wagon, sure 'nough, but they don't need
to be such durn idiots, maxim such fuss
about it. It's only the prison wagon"
And straight In the face of the crowd
those young women stepped down A
few feet more, and they might have been
landed In front Of the prison, and they
would show the public, whatever 1t cost.
that they were completely free women.
But they were shaken women, and never
will they take free ride again without
an advance account Of the natur Of tho
wagon. New York Herald
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-10-06

Won will find everything belongs rst'elass carriage
such as B Bug % al sye
9 at all prices my best made of David oats
Cart bor asce wh
carriages Warranted year will endeayo to give sats
facon both price and quality win be pleased snow
line viii do we'll to stock before purchasing else
where Thanking my many friends for their patronage during
+ta mast and asking for a continuance of same, am
~ pN Yours very respectfully,
q w f.Ov1NGTON New Church, Va.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-10-06

Nashville b the Arss dty In the wor2di
eor hard wood lumber and the largest
milling CITY i9 Che serth.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
SWEPT UP A FORTUNE
STRANGE SOURCE OF INCOME
FOR AN Ex-SlAvE.
Ohio Miners In an Ugly Mood-Murderoua
Deed of Discharged Employe = Hard
Experience of Kansas Journalistic OPP
ponent OF Woman Suffrage.
A Wealthy Ex-Slave.

Joseph II. Hudlum. who swept up a for
tune from the fior OF the Chicago Board
of Trade, died sunday night at his home
Hudlum was born as slave near Rich
mond. Va, in October, 1s2a He took his
masters name. and when the latter removed
10 Bonneville. Mo. and took charge OF a
hotel at Choteau Springs he m lde Hudlum
his steward. Hudlum was afterward en-
ployed as steward Of the Mississippi River
steamboat Yellowstone He served In the
same capacity on three trips to Europe. He
arrived In Chicago In 1855. and his frstsitu-
alton was as janitor OF the Board OF Trade.
Hudlum received a good salary, but his
chief income was derived from the sweep
ings from the floor Great quantities OF
wheat corn and oats. brought there as
samples, are scattered over the floor In the
course OF n days trading All this grain
became The property OF the head janitor.
together with anything else OF value that
might be dropped In the pit Thes1 sweep
ings OF grain were cleaned and sold at feed
stores and feed stables HudluIn knew
how to practice economy and he leaves
property estimated at over $4,000 to his
family, which consists of the widow and
two sols
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
Filled with Frenzy.

Despite the efforts made by tie officials
to keep the record OF deaths In Hong Kong
caused by the plague from the knowledge
OF the people, 1t has been definitely learned
that since the pestilence broke out seven
teen hundred persons have been Gained
as its victims This is the mortality for
Hong Kong alone In little over month
In Canton the effects OF the plague have
been much worse. Very fortunately the
disease has not spread 10 the European
population, althoush contrary reports have
gained circulation The European resi-
dents have taken strict precautionary
measures They have avoided associa-
ton with the Chinese, kept away from In
fected districts and used all kinds OF fu-
migating disinfectants This has doubt
lie S caused their immunity from the sick
ness so far. In the Chinese quarters off,
GERS making a house to house visitation
we're stoned and houses barricaded
against their approach. In Canton
this sort Of feeling against the au-
thorities. who are doing all In their
power to got control over the scourge. has
grown almost to frenzy on the part OF the
Chinese Placards have been posted In
the streets there declaring that IL the Gov
ernor destroys the Chinese quarters. the
British section OF the city, located on the
Island OF Sha- mien, will be burned The
worship OF idols among the Chinese Is car
ried on with "a fervor amounting 10 mad
ness The people look TO their gods for
relief, and will not trust the health Off
GERS, thereby giving the disease a greater
hold.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
TO RAE THE CAPITOL
REDS WOULD USE DYNAMITE
AT WASHINGTON.
william Walter Phelps, Politician and
Diplomat. Expires at His Home-Quick
Voyage OF Americas Racing Yacht
scant Mercy of Mob.
Plot of the Reds.

The Washington Post publishes an ex-
posture of a plot which had for It's object
the destruction OF the Capitol and perhaps
other buildings According TO the story.
the plot was formed at the time Coxey's
army was on the march. ] he Post says:
al he prime mover In the anarchstic plot,
that is. the Washington end Of It, was
Honore Jaxon. He come from Chicago,
and is Still In the city. He Is profess
sional Indian In Chicago he has teen Il
disturber for years. At the time OF the
Haymarket riot he narrowly escaped being
arrested as a principal conspirator, and
was Swallowed by the detectives for long
time after that most memorable affair
Jaxon is a half breed OF unknown tribal
origin He was one OF Louis Riel's lieu
tenants In the Canadian rebellion some
years ago The man has done some little
newspaper work, and has frequently
passed himself of as reporter on the Chi
cnuO Times
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22

Awful scourge Carrying on Celestials by
the thousand.

the thousand.
China Is being decimatod by an awful
plague that Is raging there Thousands OF
people have died from IL. and full details
OF the alarming spread of the terrible
scourge have just bsen brought by the
steamer Empress OF Japan. The plague
first made its appearance In Canton
wards the end of April IL Is similar 10
the great plague that ragged In London
with such direful effect In the sixteenth
century, and Is carrying on large
numbers OF victims From Canion IL soon
spread to Hong Kong. appearing there In
May. Thus far IL is chiefly confined to
Chinese. All business has been paralyzed
by the plague. AMI most OF the big steam
ship lines refuse to take either passengers
or cargoes from Hong Kong. The symp-
toms OF the disease are described as fol-
lows: Witho ut any premontory warning
In the shape of chill, victims are attack
ed with a sudden feve-, rising to los de-
grees or over There Il much headache,
accompanied by stupor In twelve or
twenty four hours n glandular swelling
occurs I'm the neck or armpt. increasing
TO the size OF fowls egg. being hard and
tender With or without the decline OF
coma aud dies at the end of twenty -four
or forty eight hours IL six days is eached
recovery is possible In Canton there Is
scarcely a house that has not some one
dead In IT. The plague commenced there
I'm the Mohammedan quarters. and 100
cases are reported daily
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
Dcities Made TO Order.

1t is possible TO- any Chinaman, or
even any Chinese woman, TO become a
deity by paying for the honor. A few
years ago a rich and devout Chinese
lady del in Soochoo Her friends
thought that an apotheosis was no
more than her due, and commun' Gated
with the prize Is. who interviewed the
gods on the subject and discovered
that the Gcd OF the Left Little Tee
Nail had no wife. The cd LAZY was
accoi dinghy married To his godship,
and is now enrolled as the "Godde 8 OF
the Left Little Toe Nail" The honor
cost the old lady's estate over 5000.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
BIG RIOT Is THREATENED.
Coal Miners of Ohio Say Their Demands
Must he Granted.

Must Be Granted.
Reports received at Cleveland. O, from
points along the Cleveland, Lorain and
Wheeling Road show that work was re-
sumed at only tNo mines on the entire
length OF the road. These mines were at
Rock Hill In the Massillon district not u
man went to work, the miners having de-
cided In mass meeting not t. able by the
Columbus agreement They will hold out
for 15-cent differential over the rate
paid in the Hooking district The militia
companies continue TO guard all bridges
and trestles along the Cleveland, Lorain
aud Wheeling. In converse ion with min
ers at Camp Bee they stated that as
long as the diferential was withheld not
O pick would lie raised, and that II nom
union men were chosen In their stead there
would be ;he biggest riot la the his tory OF
the country and that the militia would be
unable TO suppress It. I he miners in the
New Lisbon district returned to WORK On
the basis adopted by the Columbus con-
ference. An attempt was made by strikers
or their sympathizers 10 shoot Corporal
Sherman, Company X. number of so.-
diers chased the men anu frel volley after
volley, but the strikers escaped In the
darkness. Afterward an inspection of the
ground where the shooting occurred dis
closed the dead bodies OF two men. 1t is
supposed they ere killed by the fire which
the soldiers returned when they were at
tackled.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22

Incendiary at Monroe, La, His Own Execu-
toner Before n Great Mob.

Incendiary at Monroe, La, His Own Execu-
toner Before Great Mob.
For six or eight weeks past Monroe. La,
has been stirred TO a white heat over fires
OF an incendiary origin Although efforts
were made to discover the fire bugs they
escaped detection until the other day,
when. after the burning OF some small
buildings In the outskirts OF the town.
bloodhounds were put on the tracks
Of a man who had evidently left the burn
Ing building. and the dogs followed the
trail, finally running down a man named
Day. who was arrested and confessed.
The jail was broken open and he was
taken some distance from town, escorted
by crowd OF 400 TO 600 people. Day said
he knew his time had come. but besought
his captors TO allow him to execute him
self After some parleying this was
granted. Day had the rope which was
tr5und his neck flung over the limb of
tree. where 1t was securely fastened. then
he climbed the tree and jumped from the
first branch. breaking his neck. His body
swayed TO and fro. while a shout went up
from the crowd, which had become silent
during the preliminaries The spectators
at once dispersed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
This and That.

ONE pound of cork will support
man of Ordinary size in the wafer.
In the Chinese Empire 400, 600
people arc struggling for existence.
THERE are stars whose dianeters
are greater than that Of our whole
solar system.
IT Is said the Congo Free State has
decided u construct telegraph line
rom Bowa to Lake Tanganyika
AN explosive with power equal to
that OF high-grade dynamite Is bsing
made in Germany from a preparation
OF common hemp.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22

The Jury Couples the Verdict with . Roo
ommendation To Mercy.

AhS g0ry .ooPaSs s"c 'Cses"s WIN - WV
ommendation tn Mercy.
Erastus wiman. on trial at New York
for forgery In the second degree. was con-
victed Friday afternoon The court room
was half emptied when word was sent
from the jury room that they had
reHchel vercict Justice Ingrahsm
took his seat on the bench aud the
jury fled In. Mr.. Wiman d d not
look at them He know what the verdict
must be. Several OF the juror, showed
more emotion than did the defendant
sGentlemen of the jury said tie clerk.
shave you reached IA verlicti" awe have"
sad Georae Murray. the foreman Mr.
wiman stood up The jury arose sWhat
Is your verdict? Do you find the prisoner
At the bar guilty or MT guiity?'
In voice so low that II could be
heard only u few feet away Mr. Muir
ray said: @With sorrow We say IL. We
find the prisoner guilty. with recon-
mendatlon to mercy" The indictment on
which Mr. Wiman was convicted was for
forgery I'm the second degree in fors Ing the
Endorsement OF +. w. Bullinger TO check
for $1,000 made by X c. Dun & Co.. and
drawn on the Chemical Bank Mr.. Wiman
said TO a reporter: "There Is nothing more
that can say. My case will, OF course,
be appealed i am not guilty. did not
intend TO defraud any one 1 was perse-
cuted, not prosecuted"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22

The woman suffragists OF Kingman.
Kan. male and female. have @got evenn
with W. l. Brown. the Populist editor OF a
Kingman paper When he return ID home
from the Peoples party State con,en ton,
at which he bitterly opposed the resolu-
tion indorslny the pending constitutional
amendment. a large body of them met him
at the depot and as he left the train they
seized him. arrayed him in a nariny yell
low Mother Hubbard dress and sun bonnet
and compelled him to march through the
principal streets at the head OF brass
band Yellow is the Populist color.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
ADDS TO THE LANGUAGE.
Code OF Commercial Nomenclature, just
Issued, Contains Many New Words.

Code of Commercial Nomenclature, just
Issued, Contains Many New Words
The first volume OF a code OF "commer-
clal nomenclaturen was issued from the
Bureau CT American Rel ublics Tuesday.
Its s42 pages present more than 100000
business terms extending from "a" to "ma-
chimes, inclusive" such as are apt to appear
in commercial correspondence on the Amer
lean continent and neigh boring islands.
Very few OF the terms given are TO DO
found in dictionaries, the latest inventions
even in electricity teIng fully treated In
the present work he second volume,
completing the alphabet, will be issued
some time In July. The book. which Is
the most elaborate work yet attempted by
the bureau. and which has been in course
OF preparation for two years, will, 1t is
thought, be Invaluable TO persons engaged
IN business with countries to the south Of
the United States
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
yIGILANT CROSSES THE OCEAN.
The American Yacht Makes Fast Time and
NEWCOMERS Rejoice.

NEWCOMERS Rejoice.
There was great rejoicing among the
members OF the New York Yacht Club when
the report that the Vigilant had passed
Tory Island, Ireland. was posted on the
bulletin board of their Madison avenue
club house. The voyage OF the Vigilant Is
one OF the most remarkable In point
OF speed ever made by sailin; ves-
sci. and while under her present yawl
rig she can hardly be classified as
IA single sticker, her time Will bear
close comparison with the records OF Amer
lean clipper ships and racing schooners in
their palm est days She was IL days 10
hours and so minuJes In crossing. The
fastest trip ever made across the Atlantic
by a yacht was In 1869. when the Ameri-
can schooner-yacht sappho sailed from
Staten Island to Queenstown light In
~ days hours and "a minue. In the
great race in 1866 for 500. 900 between the
American schooner yachts Henri eta,
Fleetwing. and Vesta the Henrietta made
the voyage from Sandy Hook TO the
Needles, Isle OF Wight, In ID days 81 hours
and 55 minutes-an average OF niue and
one-half knsts for g. 106 miles.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
Widow OF the Pathfinder Sued.

A suit In equity was fled In the United
States Circuit Court at Los Angeles. Cal
by Loren Jones. OF New York,
against Mrs Jessie Benton Fremont,
widow OF General Fremont the
path finder, to restrain her from coll
lecting mouey from Congress for the
seizure of land by the Govern ment belong
Ing to her husband. The complainant
AYERS that the land seized by the Govern
ment In California was heavily mortgaged
by Gen. Fremont and that the property
was foreclosed The complaint severely
crlticlses Gea. Fremont's business meth
CdS
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
Child Wedding a Failure.

The welded life OF Clyde Mann and H.
year-old Anna Zoller, OF Fort Wayne.
who we're married at Goshen last
week, Is not proving very sue
cessful deal The brides parents we're
opposed to the match and she not being
OF manageable age IL was necessary 10
call In William Johnston, IA friend OF the
groom. who swore that she, Anna, was Is
On the strength OF this they secured IL
cense 10 Fort Wayne County and few TO
Goshen where Squire chamberlain married
them Johnson Is now In the Fortwayne jail
as a result OF his perjury and Anna has
been captured by her mother =,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
Dangers of the Knife.

Conservative ply sicians OF St Louis are
contemplating crusade against the In
competent wielders OF the surgeons knife
Many physicians complain that capital
operations are being performed when there
was no necessity for them OF these opera
tions laparotomy seems to have been the
favorite OF the amateurs Dr. Thomas
O'Reilly, prominent surgeon, has writton
a letter TO Health Commissioners Homan In
which he calls DIR. Romans attention to
the many deaths resulting from laparot-
omy. He characterlzes the knife OF the
surgeon when employed in such operations
TO be fully as dangerous as that OF the
assassin, and In the name of humanity asks
DIR. Homan to protect sufferers from this
ODeration.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
SUN DANCE ENDED.
Cree Indians Conclude Three Days Fer
farnance NJ Torfure

Cree Indians Conclude Three Days Fer
Torrance of Torture.
A special from Havre. Mont, says: The
Cree sun dance has just been concluded
here, after going OF for three days Every
sheriff In the State had been instructed to
prevent the dance at any hazard, but there
was no interference here. Three braves
were hung up by thongs thrust into Sits In
their breast, slashed by Little Eggs, TIE
chief All tainted before the ordeal was
over. A young buck had Sits cut ia his
shoulders, and to the inserted thongs were
tied four buffalo skulls which he dragged
after him. Eighty pieces OF flesh we're cut
from his arms Co be kept rs tokens
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
Dlfched Their Engine.

The 500 Coxeyites who seized Unto
Pacific engine at Jules burg, Col. and at
tempted TO make up train 10 carry them
east wers thwarted by tie accidental
ditcbing 81 their engine in switching. They
then determined TO seize the regular east
bound passenger train from Denver. but IL
was held. Fifty deputy United States
marshals have been sent TO arrest the Gov
erites should they seize train
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
CLEANED our A TRAIN.
Robbers Make Haul on the st. Louis
Air Line.

Train robbers boarded the Louisville.
Evansville and 81. Louis, or Air Line. train
leaving st. Louis ats p m, at Centralia,
Ill. the other night, and cleaned out the
passengers of what cash they had There
were FIVE robbers In the gang and they
boarded the train at the depot Between
that point ard the Illinois Central Cross
ing, half u mile south, they knocked what
passengers the rear coach contained down
and secured their money. taking from one
man s100 bill Just how much In all they
secured has not been learned. there we're
four small and one heavy set men who did
the job Police are on the track OF them
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
chief Justice of England Dead.

London cable; Lori Chief Justice Col
eridge Is dead. He was unconscious for a
few hours before his death. which was
painless His son Bernard will sue
coed him In the peerage 1t Is
announced that Baron Russell will
succeed Lord Coleridge as Lord Chief Jus
tice, and that Sir John Rgby will become
a Lord Justice OF Appeal IN place OF Baron
Russell Robert T. Reid. now solicitor
General. will become Attorney General,
and Richard b. Ialdenan, NJ. p. Solicitor
General
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
No Preferred Iron Hall Claims.

At Indian apolis. Judge Winter, has de-
cided that all the claims fled By Receiver
Failey In the Iron Hall case for sick bene-
fits, and claims upon warrants drawn but
not paid for sick benefits. are not preferred
claims. and should not be paid. lie hold
that the members fling them shall receive
such dividends as have been declared on
the amounts whc1 they have paid In on
assessments This decision dlsposes OF
about three hundred claims.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
Countcrfeiters Working In Indiana.

A very shrewd gang Of counterfeiters is
operating In Elwood, Ind, and the officers
engaged In trying TO ferret out mem bers of
the gang have failed TO locate them. The
money is in dollars OF 1882, half-dollars OF
1888, and nickels OF later date. The
milling OF the larger coins Is defective,
but the nickels are almost perfect
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
PHELPS Is No MORE.
Ex-Minister to Germany succumbs After a
Long Illness.

IIIntsS.
William Walter Phelps died at his resi-
dence at Englewoo1, N. j., Sunday morn
Ing a ter recognizing the different MEM
bers OF his family who were at his bedside
He realized that his end was drawing near
and babe them all good by. Though known
for many years as representative
Jerseyman, Mr. Phelps was born In
New York City OF New Eng
laud family which traces it's ancestry back
TO William Phelps, brother OF John
Phelps. who was Oliver Cromwell's private
secretary. He has been a very prominent
man In political and dipomatic circles.
having been Minister to Austria under
Garfield, and Germany under Harrison.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22
FULFILLs HIS THREAT.
Discharged Employe Shoots Frederick
Swain, a Chicago business Nun.

Frederick +. Swain. President OF the
Swain Lubrlcating Company. at Chicago,
was shot and fatally wounded In his Office
Sunday evening by an ex-employe named
Henry Vaughan. Two men. employees
of the Lubricating company, who
we're 81 ting near by. heard the shot
and FASTENED as quickly as possible
into the Office, reaching there just as the
assassin was about to fire another bullet
at Mr.. Swain. Before he could again shoot
they overpowered him. but not until utter
a fierce struggle. They held him down
until Officer stefiin'. who also heard the
shot, reached the scene and placed him
under arrest A year ago Vaughan threat
ened vengeance for his discharge.