Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-11-25
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS.

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| employed 500 men. but had been idle
| for several years. was started up yes
| terday Tile company will employ
about 400 men.
Birmingham. Ala, Nov. 15.-Gover-
nor Johnston. who has announced his
candidacy for the United States SEN
ate to succeed John 7. Morgan, and
who opens his campaign at Athens next
Saturday, has been challenged to q
joint debate by Senator Morgan, and
has accepted.
Greensboro. NJ c.. Nov 21.-An cpl
| demic of typhoid fever has broken out
at the State Normal and Industrial
college here. making it necessary to
close the school until Jan. /. There
are now more than so of the young
! lady students confined to their beds by
! sickness. Two have died.
Richmond, Nov. 17.-Judge Keith
yesterday handed down the unanimous
opinion of the supreme court Of ap-
peals sustaining the constitutionality
Of the LAND grabbers' law Of 1896,
under which persons can acquire land
by paying unpaid taxes. Counsel for
the plaintiff held the law unconstitu-
tional because no notice was required.
The land in dispute is valued at SIS, 900.
Carsonville, Ca. Nov. 1S.-There is
| almost reign Of terror in this COM
munity. Sam Monk, a white man, and
Key Riley. negro. Saturday night
had fight in which Riley was Sc
verely cut. Since that time several
threats have been made to lynch Riley.
and a number of shots have been fired
into his house. 1t is strong log cabin.
however. and no damage has been
done. The negroes are armed and
swear that no harm shall come to
Riley without fight.
Cordele, Ca. Nov 21.-Notice has
been served on Mr.. Anderson at
Listonia, near here, that he must give
ND a Sunday school which he had
started in which there are both white
and negro children in attendance. At
meeting of the people in the neigh
| borhood resolutions were adopted de-
claring the school vile nuisance. !"
Mr.. Anderson informed the committee
that he would continue his school at
all hazards Should he persist in his
determination serious trouble is eX-
pected.
Atlanta, Nov. 1S.-Three indictments
were found by the grand jury yester-
day in the Atlanta and West Point
railroad shortage case. Two are
against Thomas j. Hunter, the for
mer auditor of the company. and the
third is against Albert Howell, Sr..
who was until recently the Union
ticket agent The indictments are
based on shortage of about $4,000
recently discovered in the Union ticket
Office. The charge is embezzlement.
| The whereabouts Of Mr.. Hunter are
not known.
Macon, Ca, Nov. 1S.-Bishop H. M.
Turner, of the African M. E. church,
delivered a sensational address yester-
day to the Georgia conference of the
African Methodist church. He urged
every possible opposition by Georgia
negroes to the Hardwick bill to limit
the suffrage. now before the legisla-
ture. He said the law would reduce
every negro TO the ignoble status OF q
free slave. and that conditions would
be worse than before the war. It
would outlaw every black MIN and
woman.
Americas. Ca, Nov. 1S.-The cases
of the Christian Scientists who refused
to be yaccinated were settled yester-
day, so far as the mayors court can
settle them, by the sentencing OF E.
j. McNIath to Imprisonment at the
city hall for 80 days and fine of SIS.
Five ladies of the congregation were
sentenced to Is days confinement at
some place to be designated by the
chief of police. and to pay fine OF
| SO each. The sane sentences OF fine
and Imprisonment will be assessed
against such other members Of the
congregation as may refuse to obey
the vaccination ordinance. If neces-
sary the cases will lie carried to the
supreme court.
Birmingham, Ala, Nov. 20.-Strange
phenomena. Supposed to be part of the
tri-centenary :-.eteoric disturbance, was
observed he.a last night between the
hours of and 8 o'clock. AS many
as ten me..ars were seen. all Of which
were in to nubelae form, resembling
comets They first appeared as patches
of light and at times would glow a
fiery re-, ard then fade away, repeat
ing thi. a number of times before
they fi:ai'::- disappeared. During the
lurid period lie central body could be
easily sccc, the light radiating through
the entire mass. These bodies appear
ed to- be moving, the agitation being
easily distinguished with the naked
eye. HE entire zenith was overcast,
although outside the area the sky was
clear Great crowds gathered at the
street cornc-s, and many were appalled,
at the strange sight A number OF
negroes rcsorted to prayer