Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-07-22
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
"Wednesday. July 10.

w c0ncSu0Ns July lSs
Secretary Gage favors making the
single gold standard a leading feature
of the next Republican platform.
General Wheeler left Washington
yesterday afternoon for Manila. He
will not resign his seat in congress.
Congressman Hull declares not u
foot of Alaskan territory will be yield
cd in settling the boundary dispute.
Elias Hatfield, the noted West Vir-
ginia desperate, surrendered in person
to Governor Atkinson. at Gray, Ky.
He shot Sheriff Ellis week ago.
Colonel &c. r. Cooper serving term
in the New Jersey state prison for
completely in the Dover (Del) bank
looting, died in that institution.
Thursday, july IL.
General Joe Wheeler. en- route for the
Philippines, expects to return by De-
cember.
The Oregon volunteers from Manila
arrived at San Francisco yesterday and
were wildly welcomed.
Representative Hawlcy, of Texas, is-
sues an appeal for relief for the suf-
ferers from the recent Texas floods.
The strike Of central Pennsylvania
miners, affecting 10000 miners and
several thousand other workers. ends
favorably to the strikers.
a personal encounter between Sen
ators Chandler and Gallingcr was mar
rowly avcrtcd at Concord, N. H., in the
civil service hearing investigating the
charges against Galinger of politically
assessing federal employees.
Friday, July IA.
Kentucky Republicans nominated
ticket headed by Attorney General
Taylor for governor.
Alabama undergraduates are urging
the governor to declare vacant the seat
of Congressman Joseph Wheeler.
A dispute about dog near Peach
Bottom. Pa, led to the shooting Of r.
Marion Wiley, it is alleged, by Edwin
]. Brogan.
Mary b. Kemper saved her younger
sister from drowning ut Nantasket
Beach. Mass, then fell dead of heart
disease in the surf.
The British ships Carlisle Castle and
City of York were lost off the West
Australian coast All but Is of the
crew OF the former and of the latter
persisted.
saturday. July 10.
The MiddlescX County bank. OF Perth
Amboy. N. j., has been looted of $125.-
600. and the cashier is in Jail.
Mrs. katherine S. Belt. New York
oOIOrnJ ,uo,nnn ic tha In pct virt i'm NJ
Christian science in New York.
Webb C. Hayes. son of the late presi-
dent, has been appointed lieutenant
colonel of volunteers. and will go to
Manila.
The friends of Major General Shat
ter, who will reach the age limit in
few months. are working quietly for
his retention.
Roy Terry is at the hospital in.Iames-
town. n. Y. as a result he alleges. OF
injuries received while being initiated
into a secret society.
Monday, Juno Ia.
+. NJ. Girard. of the Oregon volun-
teers. deserted his regiment to so to
his dying mother.
Two hundred Klondikcrs. with $780,
600 in gold and drafts, arrived at Vic
toria, B. c., homeward bound.
Fifteen Austrian coal miners are en-
route from Rathburn. Ia. to be de-
ported under the foreign contract law.
Captain Andrews, who tried to cross
the ocean in dory, was picked up
exhausted 700 miles from the Irish
coast.
Tin plate workers throughout the
country. to the number of $4,000, re-
sumed work today on II per cent
advance in wages.
Annie and Mary Kinney, sisters. aged
II and II, and their l5-year-old cousin,
Ella Kinney. were drowned while
bathing at Derby. Conn.
Vincent II. Perkins, who may sue
coed Carter Harrison as mayor of Chi
cago, names Harrison as the Demo-
cratic nominee for president in 1904.
Tuesday, July IL.
At Quincy. His. Glenn Joiner, aged
10, killed John w. Allen, aged IL. in
fist fight.
Rev. P. A. Jordan, Il Catholic priest,
fell from a Philadelphia streetcar and
was killed.
Ralph Sicily, years old, was beaten
to death by four little playmates at
Indianapolis.
The contributions Yesterday to the
Dewey home fund amounted to S149.
making S14,4S0 in all.
An attempt to prevent street preach
ing in Atlanta by city ordinance was
defeated by the preachers.
The dead from Fourth of July ac-
cidents throughout the country num-
Der III. So dying Of lockjaw.
Willie Campbell was killed by foul
gas in an abandoned mine near Wheel
ing. -Four paymates escaped.
For executing Goings, the Indian
murderer, at Atlikchi, l. T.. District
Attorney Clay, Clerk Tyler and Sheriff
Watson are under arrest for murder.