Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-07-08
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
June o..

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TucSdpv, June 81
There is no fear of a strike on the
Delaware and Lackawanna railway.
Cleveland worlimen refuse to ride on
the few street cars manned by non
unionists.
Riots in Saragossa, Spain, against
the governments army budget resulted
in declaring martial law.
British house of lords defeated the
bill lcgalizing the election of women as
councillors and aldermen.
Mrs. Barrow, the New York ltidnap-
per of little Marion Clark. was SEN
fenced to IL years and 10 months i'm
prisonment
Judge Gunston. at Scranton. Pa. de-
clarcd unconstitutional the state law
preventing corporations from discharg-
Ing employees for joining 4 labor union
wednesday, june %.
The strike of =Buffao freight han
dlers ended in defeat for the strikers.
Detroit's plan for municipal owner
ship of street railways is Defeated.
General Otis has opened a number
of important Philippines ports TO COM
merce.
Senator Thurston. of Nebraska de-
clares he will permanently retire from
politics.
Arthur Tennyson, youngest brother
OF the celebrated poet. Alfred Tenny-
son. died yesterday in London.
Louis Otto. postmaster at Key West.
Fla. is under arrest charged with ac-
ccpting tips from his clerks.
Five hundred prisoners 1T the Ana
mosa. Ia. penitentiary have struck
for better rations and more of them.
In battle between white and negro
miners near Cardiff. Ala. three ne
groes were killed and one mortally
wounded
At Leipsic. Del, 1G-year-old Nora
Barrett (colored) burned to death the
1S-months-old son of ]. w. La!Icrty
because she was tired of caring for
him.
Thursday. June 20.
The japanese papers allcge that fully
5000 American soldiers are dead in the
Philippines.
Admiral Dewey left Colombo, Cey-
lon. yesterday afternoon on his home
ward journey.
John II. Converse of Philadelphia,
has added $500 to his previous gen
erous gifts to the University of YER
mont.
a list of the LIZ d. S created by IIar-
ward college includes French Ambas
sador Cambon, Admiral Sampson and
General Leonard Wood.
J Nearly all the white puddlers at
Moorhead Bros. e Co.'S iron works at
| Sharpsburg. Pa. were discharged and
negroes put i'll their places.
Friday. June so.
The big strike of streetcar men end
ed in Il compromise.
| Governor Roosevelt declares in favor
! of McKinleys denomination.
In a 3S-mile race in strong wind
Columbia defeated Defender 10 minutes.
Ambassador Pauncefote will retire
from the British embassy in Washing
ton next April.
Il panic at the funeral of Cardinal
Franz dc Paula Won Schonborn. ut vi
emma. resulted in two deaths.
The crops in western Cuba are gen.
orally showing well, but parts of Pinar
del Rio are suffering from drought.
Major Acosta. Cuban officer. has
been arrested at Artemisa. charged with
completely in Havana safe robbery.
Fire in a convent at New Haven
caused the death of Sister Mary
Aloysius. who succumbed after warn
ing others.
Steamer Olwill foundered in Lake
Erie. of Lorain. o. Captain Braun
his wife and seven others were drowil-
! ed Three saved
The rioting in Brussels against the
electoral reform bill has assumed a
revolutionary aspect. Mobs fight SOL
(iiers with paving stones.
Saturday. July 1.
The French chamber passed bill
admitting women lawyers to practice
Mrs. E. D. E. ~ Southworth. the
noted authoress. died in Washington.
aged 20.
American negroes will be encouraged
10 take I'D homcstcads in Hawaii and
the Philippines.
About $500 troops are now Ell route
to Manila. and 1000 more are await
ing transports.
A census of live stock in the United
States is favored by Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wilson.
The amount of subscriptions to the
Dewey home fund received yesterday
was S27S. making a total to date of
S11,SG7.
a resolution has been introduced in
the Boston council apologizing for the
treatment of Admiral Sampson by
Mayor Quincy.
Mrs. William Kelly. of Lowell, Mass,
was shot and killed on the street in
that city by her husband. from whom
she was separated.
A train carrying negro miners to
Brushs mine, near Centerville, Ills,
was fired on by strikers. One negro
woman was killed.
President Dove, of the Commercial
Travellers association declares trusts
have thrown So, 900 travellers out Of
work and reduced salaries of $4,000.
Monday, July 3.
All but two of the non-union street
car men have been induced to leave
Wheeling.
The first attempt to collect mail with
an automobile, made in Buffalo, was
eminently successful
w. T. Bottolfson rode bicycle with
out handle bars from Milwaukee to
Racine and return, SO miles.
phi1in picard his wife and Mrs JO-
seph Thompson, aged so, were drown
ed by their boat swapping in Saco bay,
Maine.
Bishop Newman, of the Methodist
church, is critically i'll from paralysis
and pneumonia at Santiago. Recovery
improbable.
Last week more than a thousand
tons of war material and fodder was
forwarded from the Woolwich eng
iand) dockyard to South Africa.
Alexander Jester arrived at Mexico,
Mo-, to stand trial for killing Gilbert