Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-03-04
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
"Wednesday, Fob. &c.

Our military officials in Cuba are show
| ing marked courtesy to Cuban General
Gomez
Robert T.. McBisson was renominated
ns Republican candidate for mayor Of
| Cleveland.
The Reading Pa.) Iron company has
voluntarily advanced wages of its 1000
employees.
| A plot to extcrminate all foreigners in
and about Manila was checkmated by
General Otis vigilance.
The first message of President Loubct
to parliament has greatly strengthened
the French republic.
Thursday, Feb. 30.
Lord Charles Bcresford, Of England,
predicts that China will be bankrupt in
four. years.
The khnlifa is advancing on the Nile
with 10000 troops against the Anglo
Egyptian forces.
The Spnnish-American war passed
without n single execution of soldier
for military crimes.
The French court Of cessation, it is
said, will annul the conviction Of ORGY
fus without retrial.
A young woman was found dead in
New York hotel usphyxiated by gas. Her
escort had left her shortly before.
The body of G. 3. Mceks, the first
American soldier killed in the Spanish
war, arrived ut Clyde, o., from Key
West.
Commissioners from Negroes Island,
one of the Philippines, have assured
General Otis of allegiance of that island
to the United States.
Friday, Feb. "a.
Ex-State Treasurer Benjamin j. Hay
wood, Of Pennsylvania, died ut his home
in Sharon, aged 50.
Filipinos started several fires in Man
| lin and caused great destruction Of prop
erty. Our troops arrested $50.
A delegation of Kicknpoo Indians in
Mexico are endcavoring to arrange for
the emigration of their tribe to that
country.
The bill reviewing the grade of adj
miral of the navy, intended for Rear Adj
miral Dewey. passed the national house
with shout.
Edward Ycakcr, Democrat defeated
for mayor of Reading, Pa, by IS votes,
will contest the election OF his Republi-
can opponent, 4. II. Lauer.
The funeral OF the late President
Faurc, in Paris, was brilliant tribute.
President Loubet and cx-Prcsidcnt CAST
mr-Perier walked in the funeral pro-
cession.
Saturday, Feb. 80.
The national senate passed the river
and harbor bill by 80 to 3.
The entry into Havana Of General
Mamimo Gomez, escorted b. United
States troops, aroused the widest en-
thusiasm.
Admiral Dewey telegraphed to Wash
ington that, for political reasons" the
battlcship Oregon should be sent TO
Manila at once.
Congressman Johnson, Indiana Re
publican, declared in II speech that the
senate was coerced into ratifying the
peace treaty.
The Hamburg-American line steamer
Bulgaria, supposed to have been lost mt
sen Feb. 3, arrived at Ponta Dclgada,
Azores Islands. Several passengers were
injured during the gales.
Monday, Feb. 81.
Congressman Levi Maish, of Penn
sylvana, died in Washington, aged g.
Premier Dupuy is acting energetically
in suppressing monarchist activity in
France.
Secretary Ager has abandoned his
proposed trip in n government vessel to
Cuba and Porto Rico.
Since the close OF the war the immi-
grafton of Spaniards to this country has
increased 100 per cent.
The report that Admiral Dewey has
had a collision with the German naval
commander at Manila is without foun-
dation.
Charles Problem and Harry Morgan,
boys of 16 and ID years. were killed by
an explosion in fireworks factory at
Granitcville, S. l., where they were en-
ploycd