The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-09-02
GENERAL NEWS.

horace Adc0ckss IL years of age, died
from fright reeeiyed during q heavy cleo
tricai stotm at Naeomb. I'll. Z
-Jphn ssearles, 80 wealthy farmer,
Ill. With his pockefknife he cnt his
Wife's throat. -.
PETER Horner, wife and daughter, at
StringtoWn, w. Va, we're found uncon-
scious. Their house was ransacked and
$50 stolen. Mrs. Homer will die.
Elmer J. Gourdain, Co. X, Second
New York volunteers, and John Is.
Brawand, Third United States infantry.
died ct Fort McP herson, Ga, off typhoid
David sorensen, 10 years old, jumped
j+buque, Ia, from which the oats were be
ing drawn to the cars below. He was
| smothered to death. =
| AS the result of a. wager, Miles Nc
Donald, teamster, diyed from the ton
railing of Eads bridge at st. Louis into
| the Mississippi and came out uniniured
| and triumphant.
"A carload of lemons and other fruit
obtained by. the efforts of the Red Cross
society to be forwarded to the sick sol
d der Ct Gen. Shafters army, left San
-,AtSIdaho Springs, ol,=James Rev.
"AN' SLZio.nl puSHisi, uieu from injuries
Eeceiyed in twenty-round contest with
Robert Watkins, a colored fighter. Walk
ms is under arrest. So
Charles II. Meyer, German consul in
Philadelphia, died at his home there Of
| apoplexy, aged u years. Mr.. Meyer was
| member Of the wholesale. dry goods
firm of Meyer & Dickinson. II.
Mrs. Womert, wife of Emanuel
Womert, who was murdered in bed near
Lancaster, "a, by supposed burglars
whilesh wife was asleep by his side.
committed suicide last night.
-Ge0rge Emmett, 81 years Of age. son Of
Ehenas Emmett, a contractor, shot and
instantly killed his sister. Anna Emmett. IS
years old, and then committed suicide. the
tragedy king place at the family home
Mrs. DeiIah Cromwell, the j. oldest
| womanin Nebraska, Is dead at her home
near Table Rock, .Neb:s She was a small
girl when Washington was President
and insisted that she was born in ITS.
1t is thought she was about ITO years
old. Il
The steel Yukon river steamer Mable
Lane, owned by Lane & Cole of Chica 20.
and in tow of the steamer Portla nd foY
St. Michael, was lost in Behring sea by
the foolish action of frightened crew.
The men were saved with great difficult
~ II II = >
"A .caboose and several cars ran off a
siding on the Valley railway at Akron
TO-, colliding with asfreight. Club Muir.
ray, brakeman, of Leavittsburg,sO. and
Ross Morris, an operator of Fairmont, W,
Va, We're killed. Both were asleep in the
caboose.s =
.-Advices from Melbourne report that
the American bark C.. c.. Funk, Can't.
Nissen, (which sailed from Tacoma MAY
% for Melbourne, has been wrecked On
Flinders island, Tasmania Eleven Of
those on board, including Capt Nissen
his wife, and two children. were drowned.
d. The, body Of Thomas Jansen was
found III well7sen the farm Of Andrew
Hawkins, near Stockyille, Neb. Jansen
was asWealthy money loaner from Beat
rice. who has been missing He was
known to have $1,000 in cash and nego-
|: table securities.
Information has been received BY Chief
Wilkie Of the treasury secret service of
| the arrest at Detroit, Mich. of gang of
counterfeiters, whose operations have
given the government considerable trou-
BILE. They are Charles, Edward and Da-
vid. johnson, with headquarters at 1876
TwentyEsixth street, from which place.
throughsefforts of Secret Service Opera.
tive Webb, the department has secured
some ofsthe important paraphernalia used
nv the men