Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-06-17
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
w odncsdnY, Juno q.

| Democratic leader and thrice mayor ol
Boston, died in that city, aged 81.
Admiral Dewey will accompany
President Mckinley to Chicago on
| Oct g.
In a farewell manifesto to Cubans
General Gomez urges them to coop
crate with the Americans.
Ex-Consul to Havana Ramon O.
! Williams. just returned from Cuba,
notes the wonderful improvement in
Havana.
Sheriff Hazen was killed while lead
/ ing his posse after robbers who dyna-
mited a Union Pacific train near Cas-
per, Wyo.
Thursday, June 8.
Augustin Daily. the we'll known play
wright and manager, died in Paris,
nged 81.
Gonzales de Cuba has been appointed
by. General Brooke as Cuban commits
rioner at Washington. Salary, $4,000.
Senator Mason, of the pure food in
yestigating committee, declares the
glucose trust has threatened to ruin
him.
An automobile race between M.
Charron, of France, and Alexander
Winton, of Cleveland from New York
to Chicago will take place in August.
Friday, June 81.
Senator Hanna and family will sail
for France June ID
Ten thousand miners are on strike
in the central Pennsylvania coal re-
gion.
Special dispatches from Manila to
London declared that Aguinaldo has
proclaimed himself dictator.
During the past three days there
have been So deaths and nearly a hun
dred prostrations from heat i'll and
about New York.
The kidnappers of baby Marion
Clark-Nurse Bella Anderson and Mr..
and Mrs Barrow-are now awaiting
trial in New York
Saturday, June 10.
A monument to the late Fred Doug
lass, the famous colored orator. was
unveiled yesterday at Rochester.
General Otis has decided not to enlist
Filipinos as an auxiliary force, for the
reason that they cannot be trusted.
American products are already find
ing an enlarged market in Cuba, Ha-
wall, Porto Rico and the Philippines.
A. J. Cassatt was elected president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad COM
pany to succeed the late Frank Thom-
son.
Jim Jeifries, the 24-year-old Cali
fornia giant, at Coney Island. defeated
Bob Fitzsimmons for the heavyweight
pugilistic championship.
A freight train on the Norfolk and
Western ran into washout last night
near Suffolk, Va. Conductor Sewers
and Fireman Poole were killed.
Joe w. Harris shot and instantly
killed II. r. Bennett near Odum. Ga.
Both are white Ten days ago Bennett
is said to have lnsulted Harris wife.
Monday. June la.
Near Salix, Ia, tornado killed three
persons and caused heavy property
damage.
Admiral Dewey arrived at Singapore,
whence he will continue his homeward
journey on June 16.
Mrs. Ray Higgins. who had just been
married, was shot and killed by one of
party of serenaders at Watonga, o. T.
The survey for the German-Ameri-
can cable, from Baden to Coney Island.
has been completed. 1t will cost S.
600, 900.
Sailors of the cruiser Brooklyn are
perfecting arrangements to celebrate
"Schley day." July g. Admiral Samp-
son will be invited.
Tuesday, June IS.
A party of children from Jersey City
spent the night in sailboat. which
was becalmed in New York bay.
A colored man who attacked Mrs.
Roberts at Stratford. Conn.,, has been
captured and put in the village lookup.
A desperate struggle took place in an
ambulance, between lunatic and two
surgeons of Bellevue hospital, New
York.
Brisadier General Charles King was
overcome by exhaustion while making
speech at Tacoma His condition is
not serious.
A resident of Elizabeth, N. j., has
fortified his property with cannon and
dynamite bombs against invasion by
trolley company.
The federal grand jury at Juneau,
Alaska, in its presentment, accused the
general agent of education of wasting
the school fund in needless jnunts. and
establishing schools where they are
rot required.
Terrible Nftro-Glycerine Explosion.
Marietta. 0. Iune 13.-The factory OF