Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-07-15
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
wednesday,, July s.


Kalakauna, died in Honolulu, aged G5.
General Horatio G.. Wright, hero
OF the civil war, died in Washington,
aged TO-
The agitation in Belgium against the
electoral reform bill has forced the
government to withdraw the measure.
The Fourth was loyalty celebrated
in our new possessions. In Manila
america" WAS sung by children of
Spaniards, Filipinos and Chinese in u
curious mixture of dialects.
Thursday. July @.
Bishop John P. Newman, of the
Methodist church, died in New York,
aged Is.
The execution of Catlett Upton, a
murderer was witnessed by his wife
and five children at Chattanooga, Tenn.
The American delegates at The
Hague have succeeded in securing a
vote which will create Il special con-
ference to consider private property az
sea in time of war.
A cyclone near Ainsworth. Neb., de-
stroyed several farm houses. Mrs
Lockmlle, who had escaped to her eel
lar, went out to save her son and was
killed The son escaped.
Friday, July I.
General Joe Wheeler has been or
dered for war duty in the Philippines.
Robert Bonner, the well known pub
Usher of the New York Ledger. died
in that city. aged rs.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall YVES chosen
president of the international Women S
Congress. succeeding the Countess of
Aberdeen.
In triangular race of 80 miles sailed
off Sandy Hook between the yachts Co.
lumbia and Defender, Columbia Won
by min, SO sec.
An alleged plot of General Gomez to
invade San Domingo. kill President
HeureauX and have himself proclaimed
dictator is published in Havana.
Ex-King Milan. while driving in Bel
grade. WAS shot and slightly wounded
in the bacllby an anarchist named
Knezevic, who was captured.
Saturday, July :.
The miners of the Blairsvile, Pa,
coal region have gone on strike.
The Portuguese house of peers yes
terday adopted the commercial con-
vention with the United States.
Emil Smith has confessed that he
and Sigmund Bresche murdered Mar
tin Meier, the wealthy Chicago recluse
Secretary Alger declares he has
formed no alliance with Pingree and
has no intention of leaving the cabinet
Head on collision between trolley
ears. near Akron, o., resulted in one
dead, two fatally and five seriously
hurt.
In the Henley regatta the diamond
sculls were won by B. II. Howell, the
American student of Trinity Hall
Cambridge.
Thomas Ashworth, an ex-saloon
keeper of Philadelphia. was kicked to
death and robbed by four young hood
lums. who were arrested.
Monday. July 10.
A cooperative city is to be estab-
lished on the banks of Lake Erie near
Toledo.
Helen Lcrsch, of Trenton, 2 years
old, was Bit by kissing bug" Blood
poisoning cnsued and the child died
William Reinhard, his wife and five
children went driving near Columbus
o. All were killed by a train except
14-year-old Clarence.
BY the explosion of a boiler on the
Moran oil tract, near Oil City, Pa.
James McCray was killed and John
Turk seriously injured.
Major Edward NJ. Hayes. OF the
Fourth cavalry. succeeds Colonel Henry
Wagner, retired, in command of that
regiment, at San Francisco.
y carriage containing William NJ
Diem and Miss Lizzie Prequesel was
struck by train last night at Buffalo
and both were instantly killed.
Tuesday, july IL.
Charles Mali for the past 36 years
Belgian consul in New York, died in