Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-09-24
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS.


over Featherstone. Prohibltionist, has
grown to 3.437
Frankfort, Ky, Sept 1.-THE Frank
lin county grand jury has indicted
every coal merchant in Frankfort,
charging conspiracy. The coal men
combined the last few months, and
have been supplying the trade at prices
agreed on by the combination.
Beaufort, S. c.. Sept. 15.-Captain
Ichabod Wiley, of the wrecked schoon-
er Bartlett, OF Thomson. Me-, Captain
Henry Won Harten and a negro were
drowned off Hilton Head yesterday.
They were going in small boat to
inspect the wreck OF the Bartlett, when
their boat capslzed.
Huntington w. Va. Sept. 1S.-Yes-
terday at Central City. two miles west
Of this city, Charles Thornton, a we'll
known citizen, and who Is quite
wealthy, was probably fatally injured
by being thrown from a carriage dur
ing a runaway He remained uncon-
scious for more than four hours.
Portsmouth. Va. Sept. 1S.-Deputy
High Constable William Warren. Of
this city, in a suicidal attempt, shot
himself through the right temple to-
night with a 3S caliber pistol. and the
ball passed through the head and lodg-
ed over the left eye. He became I'M
conscious Immediately, and is now
dying. No cause is assigned for the
shooting.
Knoxville Tenn, Sept. 17.-Mahalia
Mullins, a noted moonshiner woman of
Hancock county. aged 10. the mother
of IS children, died today. Report is
that she was poisoned by envious maxi
ers of Illicit whisky. She weighed $50
pounds, and had been arrested fire.
quently. but officers could not remove
her on account of her size and the
isolated location of her home.
Norfolk, Va. Sept. 15.-Henry Lester,
proprietor of the Princess Anne cottage
at Virginia Beach, and two of his
guests, T. S. Dixon of Chicago and Ar
thur Mclaughlin of Newark, N. J.,were
drowned yesterday while bathing at the
Beach. The bodies of the first two were
discovered floating on the water by
lighthouse keeper. 1t is supposed that
Mclaughlin was carried out by reced-
ing wave and the others were drowned
in the effort to reach him.
Pinkard. Ky. Sept. 17.-Miss Dora
Richardson. who was divorced from
General Cassius NJ Clay, of Whitehall.
! Friday of last week. was yesterday
married here to Riley Brock, a 24year-
old farm hand. Dora Richardson was
only II years old when General Clay,
then 81 years old. married her four
years ago. He tried to educate and fit
her for a new sphere of life, but she
blasted all his hopes. left his roof tree,
and has lived apart from him for more
than year.
Huntington, w. Va. Sept. 17.-John
eating. of this city was shot twice to-
night by Milton Rood a jealous rival.
Rood and eating had called to see the
same lady, and both arrived at her
residence at the same time. A fight
ensued, which resulted as above.
/ Cating's wounds are not fatal, how
ever, both of them being in the left
limb. Rood ran to the river front and
escaped in a small rowboat to the
Ohio shore before the police arrived.
birmingham. Ala. Sept. 19.-At the
regular congressional district Demo-
cratic primaries Saturday Major Cen
eral Joseph Wheeler was unanimously
renominated for his ninth term in con-
gress. A good vote was cast through
out the district At the November
election he will have no opposition, as
the Republican candidate and the
Populists have announced their deter
mination to support him, state of
affairs which has not occurred often in
Alabama's history.
Norfolk, Va, Sept. 17.-When the Bay
line steamer Alabama arrived this
morning from Baltimore two young
white men, giving the names of How
ard Dunbar and Hugh McGrorarty,
were turned over to the police, charged
with refusing to pay for meals that
they obtained on that steamer. When
bill of 1925 was presented to them
they told the steward to render it to
the government, claiming to be recruits
en- route to join their command. JUS
tice Tomlin committed them to jail.
Norfolk, Va. Sept. 16.-Plummer Har-
grove, colored, died today, a raving
maniac. in the Jail in Portsmouth. The
mans death was due to a blow at the
hands Of Clarence Nicholson. Nichol-
son and Hargrove were working to-
gether in one Of the wharf gangs at
Primers Point. There was a fight, In
which Nicholson hit Hargrove over the
head with truck stave, crushing his
skull. Hargrove. in the course of his
recovery, began to show symptoms of
idiocy, which finally ripened into raw
ing insanity, and it became necessary
to place him under restraint.
Wheeling, w. Va, Sept. S.-At l
o'clock this morning Louis Ellis, aged
40 years, mill man, went to vacant
residence owned by him, adjoining the
house in which he lived with his sister,
chipped the floor full of holes with an
ak and then set the house on fire. He
then stationed himself at the door with
two revolvers, two knives and a club,
and opened fire on the police and fire
men. He fired seven shots before
policeman knocked him down. AS re-
suit of the trouble Officer Joe Dudley,
Mrs. Hams, Fire Chief Klieves and
Ellis himself were wounded. The
flames were eXtingushed after the in
terror of the house had been ruined,
and Ellis was locked up as being of I'M
sound mind.
Reynolds, Ca. Sept. 2O.-General
John B. Gordon. commander-in-chief
United Confederate Veterans, yester-
day issued the following order: THE
commanding general, with sorrow
which no words can express, announces
the death of Miss Winnie Davis, the
ldolized daughter of the Confederacy
The boundless enthusiasm which was
evoked by her every appearance at our
reunions indicated the depth Of af-
lection and the unfeigned admiration
which all Confederates felt for her.
It is not too much to say that the
ovations with which she has every
where been greeted by the ex-soldiers