Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-10-14
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday, Oct. 4.

/ connection with the Deroulede con-
spiracy.
| Two masked men held up a stage
near Ouray, Colo. but failed to find
$4,000 in gold which was secreted in
the vehicle.
Mrs. Lucy Shea, of Brooklyn, cap
tured burglar in the cellar of her
house after hard fight and turned
him over to the police
( John O'Melveny, chief engineer of
the Oregon Short Line railway, was
shot dead at Salt Lake City by Captain
]. F. Mills. ex-lieutenant governor of
Idaho.
The jeweled sword voted to Admiral
Dewey was formally presented by the
president at Washington yesterday.
There was monster parade, led by
General Miles, lavish decorations and
remarkable enthusiasm.
Thursday, Oct. 8.
The Dewey home fund to date
amounts to $49.3S1.
Jimmy Logue, the notorious ex-
convict, died in Philadelphia's aims
house.
Maria Townsend, 20 years old, a
parachute jumper, fell 1000 feet to
death at Des Moines.
Ex-President Harrison's fee as chief
counsel for Venezuela before the Paris
tribunal is said to be $250,000.
Fire losses in the United States and
Canada in September aggregated $12,-
77S,O00. over $4,000, 900 more than in
September, 1898.
Governor Mount, of Indiana. and
staff took back to Texas battle flag
captured from Texas regiment dur
ing the civil war, the ceremonies TAX
ing place in Dallas.
Friday, Oct. 6.
The admissions to the National Ex
port exposition at Philadelphia yester-
day numbered 1888
James Harlan. ex-United States SEN
ator and secretary of the interior in
Lincolns cabinet. died at Des Moines,
aged 79.
Admiral Dewey is believed to have
recommended the dispatch OF more
troops as we'll as more ships to the
Philippines
A widow of Pawnee chief in Okla
homa committed suicide shortly after
her husbands death because he gave
, away their child in disposing of his
personal property.
The Mallory line steamer Leona
came into New York with fire in her
hold. and was sunk before the firemen
could subdue the flames. Loss. $780,
900.
saturday, Oct. 4.
OF $50 mules sent to the Philippines
| on the transport Siam all but 10 were
killed during two typhoons.
A Hawaiian native who went to visit
his wife's tribe in the New Hebrides
was captured roasted and eaten.
Admiral Dewev has decided to ac-
cept the home in washington sub
scribed for by over $4,000 citizens.
During the zine months ending Sept.
80 round numbered total OF 200
miles of new railroad were laid in the
United States.
Bishop Potter, of New York, it is
said is preparing for trip to the
Philippines: in company with Rev.
Percy S. Grant.
The estimates for the entire naval
establishment for the fiscal year end
ing June 50. 1901. aggregate $73,O45, 1O3,
of which 81 ,395, O92 is for League ISL
and.
The third attempt this week of Co.
lumbia and Shamrock to sail for the
Americas cup ended today in third
failure to cover the course in the time
limit
Monday, Oct. o.
Admiral Dewey has promised to visit
! Atlanta, Ga, not later than Nov. 1.
Andrew Carnegie will give public
library building to Conneaut, o.
The New England Beet Sugar COM
pany will erect 100000 plant at
North Judson. Ind.
Several parts of woman's body
found in New York harbor and in the
city are slashed like London's vic
tins of Jack the Ripper.
Locked by their parents in the house,
two children of Clifford e. Balfe, at
Terre Haute. Ind, persisted in the
| burning building.
On Dewey day, at'Three Oaks, Mich,
Miss Helen Gould will unveil the Span
ish gun captured by Dewey and won
! by the village.
Tuesday, Oct. 10.
Heavy rains in the Salemo district
OF Italy are reported to have caused
the loss of 40 lives.
Third Vice President Thomas +.
Kimball, of the Union Pacific railraod.
died suddenly in Omaha last night
The Paris Matin Is authority for the
statement that the Dreyfus family Will
shortly go to Egypt for the winter.
The navy department is preparing
the auxiliary cruiser Buffalo to take
the wives and families of naval officers
serving in the Philippines to Manila.
Nine columns of the great hypnstyle
hall of the temple of ElKarnak, built
by Setee I, dynasty XIX, one of the
most magnificent and celebrated relics
of the architecture of ancient Egypt,
have fallen.
No Transvaal Envoy For Washington
Washington, Oct 10.-No further at
| tempt to secure the recognition Of
diplomatic representative has been
made by the government OF the Trans
yaal republic since Colonel O'Beirne's
rejection. 1t is very doubtful whether
one would be received by our govern
I ment, even were he free from the OBJ
| lection of being an American citizen,
as by accepting diplomatic repre-
sentative the United States might be
placed in the position of deciding the
| merits of the contest as to suZerainty
between Great Britain and the Trans
vaal.
Over n Million From the Klondike.
New York, Oct. 10.-A local bank
received $4,000 yesterday in pay