Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-09-09
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
w odnosdny, Aug. 80.

Senator Vest, of Missouri. says that
silver will be the leading issue in the
next presidential campaign.
-Four street cars in Cleveland were
nearly demolished by rioters last
night and the crews put to flight.
Mrs. Myrtle b. Eyler, principal of the
State Industrial School for Girls ut
Trenton, was arrested and held to
answer the charge oil extreme cruelty
to Kate Barlow. All inmate.
Thursday, Aug. 81.
Seven persons were killed yesterday
while climbing the Alps.
1t Is now considered certain that
President Diaz, of Mexico, will visit
Chicago during the corner stone cere-
monies.
John r. Mclean was nominated by
Ohio Democrats for governor. Bryan
and the Chicago platform was heartily
endorsed.
c. II. Stoddard, formerly captain in
the Seventy-first New York regiment,
enlisted as a private in the Twenty
ninth infantry.
Dan Coughlin, who forfeited S15.-
600 bond in Chicago rather than face
a jury bribing charge. has been located
in the Argentine Republic.
NJ. Mayer. an assayer Of Butte, Mont,
j. f. Boyd and James Mcdonald are
under arrest charged with stealing $780,
600 in silver bullion from the Bimetal-
lie company.
Friday. Sept. 1.
Frank Ives, the billiard champion,
died in Progresso. Mexico. OF con-
sumption.
An additional major general and five
brigadier generals are to be appointed
in the volunteer army.
Samuel Merrill. ex-governor of Ohio.
died at Los Angeles. Cal. last night
rs the result of a paralytic stroke.
General Funston says the only way
the Filipino insurgents can be sup
pressed is by whipping the natives.
The man recently taken into custody
in Mount Vernon, Ills. for insanity, is
John B. Leorie. an Italian sculptor,
who made much Of the heroic statu-
airy for the Worlds fair.
saturday. Sept. ,.
Two steamers met in collision In the
North sea canal. and one foundered,
with nine people.
Six hundred lives have been lost by
the flooding of mine at Besshi, Island
of Shilou. Japan.
Exploding boiler at the Republic
iron works. Pittsburg. killed five men
and injured seven
In bowl factory at Copemish,
Mich, the boiler exploded. killing
three and injuring four.
Sir Thomas Upton, challenger for
the Americas cup, was warmly receiv
ed at New York He talks like true
sportsman.
The Kansas regiment lost officers
and 30 men killed and 10 officers and
men from disease in the Philippines
campaign. One hundred and fifty re-
enlisted.
Monday. Sept. 1.
s. II. Ellis, of Waynesvile, o., has
accepted the Union Reform nomination
for governor.
William j. Bryan is to stump Ohio
III lllt llilCIC VI wv tiihANGtJ
for governor.
At Black Rock. near Bridgeport.
Conn, one man, three little girls and
a boy were drowned while bathing.
The University of California. at
Berkely, Will erect a monument to tho
collegians who died in the late war.
The steamer Darie sailed from San
Francisco with nearly million MeXi-
can dollars for Chinese business
houses.
Gilbert Benning. 20 years old. and
Abraham Hill. aged Is, we're drowned
from a rowboat in the harbor of Buff
falo
A new order forces the New York
Elevated railroad guards to remove
their whiskers. and officially names
them captains.
S. C. King, of Clarion, Ind, was in
stantly killed at Warrington. w. Va.
while boarding train for the Phila-
delphia G. A. r. encampment.
Frank P. Blair. of Chicago. counsel
for Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter, declares
that the latter is the victim of con-
spiracy to degrade him and says that
Carriers opposition to the Nicaraguan
canal scheme led to the court martial.
Tuesday, Sept. >.
About $500 men will sail from San
Francisco to Manila between Sept. IL
and Is.
The schooner Lisgar, of Toronto,
was wrecked on Lake Huron, and her
crew OF seven probably lost
The corn production OF the United
States this year will reach 100000
bushels, breaking all records.
The number of enlistments Satur-
day was 2G5. making total OF 2.602 for
the last ten regiments called out.
In a battle 100 miles north of Herat
the forces of the ameer OF Afghanis
tan put Sirdar Mahamed lsmail Khan
to flight.
Negroes OF Brunswick. Ca, logged a
negro woman for living with a China
man, and gave other negro women no
tice to leave their Chinese paramours.
NorionoI DcmocrDtic Carnival.