Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-05-06
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
"Wednesday. April GO.

troops to fight the Filipinos.
Senator Frye, Of Maine, says he will
vote to seat NJ. S. Quay in the senate.
Governor Tunnel, of Delaware, will
not appoint United States senator to
succeed Gray.
Russian intrigue in Corea bids fair
to make that country practically Rus
sian province.
Arrangements are being perfected
New York and Ems. Germany
An explosion of benzol at Fleer's
chewing gum factory, Philadelphia,
killed two men and destroyed over
100000 in property.
In Camden, N J., Edward Oswald
killed his wife Mary and 6-year-old
daughter Gussie, then cut his own
throat, but will recover. Another child.
9-year-old Edna, was saved by neigh
Dor.
Thursday, April 81.
Count Hohenwart Gerlachstein. ex-
premier of Austria died in Vienna,
aged rs.
A man named Herman, on trial at
Breslau. Germany is charged with 20
murders.
Our soldiers and sailors in the south
generally took part in the observance
of Confederate memorial day.
United States Judge Kohlsatt. at
Chicago, decided that Chinese actors
cannot be excluded as laborers.
Joseph Smalley and Daniel Lane.
we'll shooters. were blown to fragments
by an exploding torpedo near Bradford.
Pa.
At Philadelphia DR.. Bernardy testi-
fled that the late William M. Singerly
was a confirmed drunkard for months
before his death.
Mark L. Davis. member of Della
wares legislature, was indicted charg-
ed with trying to purchase vote for
Addicks for senator.
The widow of President u. S. Grant,
his son, General Fred Grant and his
grandchildren took part in Philadel-
phia's unveiing of an equestrian statue
of the soldier-stateSman.
Friday. April IS.
The president issued proclamation
ratitiying the eXtradition treaty with
Mexico
Twenty-Five customs inspectors have
been suspended at New York for ac-
cepting tips"
Robert Goeet, the New York mil
lionaire, died on board of his yacht
) at Naples.
In the international Sunday school
convention at Atlanta (Ga.) separate
sections are provided for whites and
blacks.
The bill to prohibit acceptance OF
passes by public officials and political
convention delegates passed the Wis
! consin legislature.
Ernest b McNair, treasurer of the
Wilmington (Del) Savings Fund So
clety, confesses to embezzling $4,000
He made the loss good.
Dead soldiers brought from Cuba
must all be inferred in Arlington
cemetery to prevent exposure OF the
bodies and danger of infection.
Saturday. April 90.
The Phoenix Bridge company. OF
! Phoenixville. Pa, has contracted to
build u steel bridges for use in Rus
STA.
Cyclone which swept Kirksville. Mo-.
destroyed many houses. and made 200
homeless. Thirty-three dead bodies re-
covered.
Mrs. Anna L. George. charged with
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Kinleys brother, at Canton. o., was
acquitted.
Mrs. Adams witnessed the hanging
of Tom Robinson (colored) at Hills
boro, Tex. for assaulting Mrs. Adams
daughter Mary.
Henry T. Sloane. the wealthy New
York society man, was granted an alb
/ solute divorce yesterday. Last night
Mrs. Sloane was married to Hon
Perry Belmont.
Monday. Nav I.
President Kruger says the gold out
put of the Transvaal in 1898 was ETC.,
240,G30.
The bodies of Colonel Egbert and
Captain Gregg. killed at Manila, were
landed at San Francisco.
Our exports of manufactured goods
for March aggregated SCOOPS, 1888, a q
per cent increase over any previous
month.
Prairie fire. swept by cyclone burn
ed strip of 25 miles, mile wide. in
Nebraska Two persons and many cat
tie burned to death.
An excursion train jumped the track
while speeding around curve near
Rochester N. Y. Two men were killed
and so persons injured
Hon. Lewis Baker, eX-minister to
Nicaragua. Costa Rica and Salvador
and noted Democratic journalist
died in Washington, aged Co.
An OcuIiSu'S Tcri-lblc Mistake.
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