Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-12-09
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
wednesday,, nov. 20.

, DR.. William Is. CanHelu, d DdlllmOre
physician, fell from the steps of New
York residence and fractured his skull.
President Mckinley will urge a con-
gressional medal of honor for Colonel
J. Franklin Bell for gallantry in the
Philippines.
Montyloo A. Cole, former University
of Pennsylvania student, was sentenc-
ed at Wilmington, Del, to five years
Imprisonment, $500 fine and costs for
killing w. A. Montague.
Thursday, Nov. 80.
General Fitzhugh Lee left Richmond
hurriedly for his station in Havana.
Aguinaldo is ten days ahead OF Cen
eral Young, if the latest report sent
here from Manila is correct.
The Italian supreme court has de-
cided that the Vatican cannot be con-
sidered as foreign territory.
An advance of 10 per cent in wages
has been granted to the thousands en-
ployed in Fall Rivers cotton mills.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron company's employees are now
getting the best wages in ten years.
In a speech at Leicester Sir Joseph
Chamberlain. British colonial secre-
tary, declared that the understanding
between England, Germany and Amer
lea assured the peace Of the world.
Friday, Dec. L.
General Joseph Wheeler will soon
return from Manila to take his seaf
in congress.
The long strike of coal miners in
Nanticoke, Pa, is practically ended.
The company made minor concessions.
The transports Dolni Vostock and
Columbia sailed from San Francisco
for Manila last evening with the Forty
second infantry on board.
In a railroad wreck at Paterson, N.
j., six persons were killed, including
Alexander Craig, his wife and two
children, of Scranton, Pa.
Andrew Wind. Spanish war veteran,
fought with R. B. Hartman. an engi-
neer, in st. Louis. Wind grasped the
elevator lever. The elevator assembled
and crushed him to death.
The annual Thanksgiving banquet of
the American Society in London was
attended by 275 guests and was mark
, ed by enthusiastic demonstrations OF
friendship for England in the war
against the Beers.
Saturday, Dee. =.
The Elgin Qlls) Watch company,
employing 2,400 men. voluntarily re-
stores the wages paid in 1892.
Ex-senator Edmunds will represent
the professionals against the seating OF
: Quay before the senate committee.
BY the will of the late Vice Presi-
dent Hobart Mrs. Hobart is bequeathed
one-half of the estate, or $1,OOO,0 900.
The rest is disposed of privately and
to charities.
Near Branchville, white masked
man held up two express messengers
on moving train, secured s1.7OO, pull
ed the bell cord and escaped as the
train slowed up.
National Committeeman Henry c..
Payne says that Senator Hanna will
decline a reelection as chairman Of
the Republican national committee, on
account of feeble health.
Monday. Dec. 4.
At the close of the fiscal year there
were 991, 519 pensioners on the rolls.
John +. Blair, the mut-millionaire
and railroad magnate, died at Blairs-
town, N j., aged 81.
An investigation of the Franklin
syndicate, Brooklyn, shows that Miller
escaped with 100000.
Philadelphias export exposition,
closed Saturday, had over 10000
visitors and had profit Of 5000 to
$4,000.
Saturdays football game at Philadel-
Lhia between West Point army cadets
and Annapolis cadets resulted in a
victory for the army, II to 5.
Edward Williams, colored, arrested
at Trenton, conlesses the murder OF
Miss Miss Minnie Eisley at Yardville,
! N. J. He denies attempted assault.
Tuesday, Dec. 3.
| "A Wabash train demolished street
car in Chicago, injuring II persons.
Paris police are SEEING caricatures
and songs insulting to Queen Victoria
and the British army.
By rear end collision between a
freight and a passenger car at Green's
boro, N. c., the passenger fireman, a
negro, was killed.
During fire in Chicago John Bohan-
non was killed and James Donnelly
seriously injured by a falling wall.
Both were tiremen.