Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-08-12
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
wednesday,, Aug. e.

Minnesota destroyed many miles OF
crops.
A train wreck on the Northwestern
road, near Boone, Ia. killed four men
and injured IA.
]. H. Mckinley, cousin Of the presi-
dent. was arrested at Fitzgerald. Ca.
for threatening neighbor.
General Ludlow has suppressed the
/ Havana newspaper Ell Reconcentrado.
declaring 1t an obscene sheet.
Policeman O'Brlcn. of New York,
who robbed man injured by an cleo
trio car, was sentenced to four years
and three months In Sing Sing.
Thursday. Aug. 8.
Iowa Republicans renomlnated l.. M.
Shaw for governor.
The amount OF cash so far received
for the Dewey home fund is s17,35S.
Land on Chestnut street, Philadel-
phia, was sold for over $1,000 a front
+ foot
In battle on the Island Of Cebu,
Philippines, the Americans were again
victorious.
Maryland Democrats nominated a
straight gold standard ticket headed
by John Walter Smith for governor.
Four armed highwaymen at Cory,
Pa. destroyed an arc light, and In the
darkness held up 500 people coming
from wild west show. They escaped.
FrIdny, Aug. y.
General Alger, on returning to Do
trot. was given catering reception.
The number of enlistments Wednes-
day were 3S4. making total of 1908.
Engineers on the Brooklyn elevated
road have had their wages cut from
$3.50 to $3.50 a day.
Free delivery postal service will be
established ut Crawford and East
Orange. N j.. Oct i.
: The yacht Shamrock left England
yesterday to cross the Atlantic and
endeavor to capture the Americas cup.
At least six people were killed by
Wednesdays cyclone in southern
Maryland and the damage to crops was
enormous.
At Garfield Park. Chicago. Major
3, Taylor, the colored cyclist, rode Il mile.
/ paced by steam motor, In 1:22. the
best record.
/ Judge d. w. Shackeford received the
Democratic nomination to succeed tho
/ late Congressman r. P. Bland from the
Eighth Missouri district.
Saturday, Aug. IS.
Pennsylvania will yield about IS per
cent of n full crop of apples this season.
Harry Stocker. Philadelphia line
man, was shocked to death on an cleo
trio light pole.
Three Philadelphia grocers were ar
rested on the charge of selling oleomar-
: garine as butter.
J 1t is said that thousands Of Texas
| goats have been slaughtered and sold
in Kansas City. Mo-, for mutton.
Lieutenant Colonel Barnett, of the
Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers. has
declined the proposal to elect him colo
mel of the regiment.
Led by DR.. Seldom Grove, an elderly
physician, New York crowd burned
William Waldorf Aston in efllgy for
becoming a British subject.
Four masked burglars bound the
woman inmates Of Dr. Parkinsons
home. near Wellsburg. w. Va. and
stole 800 in government bonds.
Monday. Aug. I.
The bubonic plague has made its re-
appearance in Calcutta.
Whites are driving negroes out Of
Paragould. Ark. and a race war is
imminent.
Hundreds OF new coke ovens are be-
ing built in the southern part OF Fay
cite county. Pa.
President Mckinley has purchased
the Canton cottage where he first be-
gan housekeeping.
A leading Cuban merchant of Ha-
yana declares universal suffrage would
mean black republic.
Generals Toral and Pareja tried by
court martial at Madrid for surrender
ing Santiago were acquitted.
A mob of 80 masked men tore down
a Mormon church at Chattanooga and
chopped the timber into small pieces.
Postmaster Gordon. at Chicago. de-
MES that Admiral Cervera is to be In
yited to the postoiilce corner stone lay
ing in thut city.
United States Commissioner Trip
and German Commissioner Sternberg
arrived at San Francisco from Samoa.
British Commissioner Elliott returns
home via Australia.
Tuesday. AuG. 8.
President Of the Spanish senate Mar
shall Martinez de Campos predicts a
ministerial crisis in November.
1t is said in Michigan that General
Russell A. Alger has abandoned the
idea of running for the United States
| senate.
1t is stated that the insurgents in
the Philippines demand $7,0OO,0OO for
the release of the Spanish prisoners
held by them.
At Toledo last night Officer Langen-
derfer killed Patrick Meade, who was
beating him badly. Meade had bitten
off the officers ear.