Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-05-20
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
"Wednesday, Mny 10.

Christian scientists and similar heal
ers. !"
AT the disarmament conference Amer
/ lea and England will stand together for
international arbitration in settling
disputes
Filipinos who arrived at San Fran
cisco for exhibition in New York
dime museum. claiming to be actors.
were excluded.
It is officially declared in Washing
ton that Italy is taking vigorous meas
! ures to prevent Italian criminals from
coming to this country.
The Toledo (O.) council voted to sell
n street railway franchise to the high
est bidder, defeating Mayor Jones
municipal ownership scheme.
Thursday. Nav IL.
Hon. George Earle. first assistant
postmaster general under President
Grant. died in Washington last night.
The commissioners from the United
States, Great Britain and Germany are
In Samoa. and marines have been with
drawn.
William N. Boggs. defaulting teller
Of the Dover (Del0 bank. was SEN
fenced to six years Imprisonment and
$4,000 fine.
Kang Yu Wei the Chinese reformer.
had long interview with Sir Wllfred
Lanrier, the Canadian premier. at OF
tawa yesterday.
lowa's supreme court decides that
note or account for moneys involved
In board of trade deals cannot be col
lectcd at law in that state
Whites and blacks of Albany. Ga.
town of 5000 inhabitants, suspended
business to attend the funeral of f..
w. Mccarthy, Il prominent negro.
Mrs. Anna George. recently acqut-
ted of charge OF killing George Sax
ton, at Canton o.. lcctured in Steuben-
vile. O. Only II paid to hear her.
Friday, May IL.
General Otis cables to Washington
his belief that the Filipino insurrec-
ton is nearly ended.
The Catholic knights of America.
in convention at Kansas City. Mo. de-
cided to admit women to membership.
Senator Mcmillan. of Michigan, de-
MES Secretary Ayers statement that
he (McMlllan) had agreed to retire in
! Ayers favor.
An effort Is being made to bring
about reunion of Federal and Con-
federate soldiers of the civil war at
Evansville. Ind.
Near Howard City, Mich, Joseph
J Harvey murdered his wife. his uncle,
Robert Pierson. and his grandmother.
and wounded his father-in-luw, John
Legenslayer. and his own S-months-
old baby. Then he made fake at
tempt at suicide.
saturday, May l3.
A tornado struck the Hondo Mex
ico) coal mine section. killing "a and
injuring 40.
The Pana Qlls.) mine troubles ended
in il compromise. employers recognize
ing the union.
[ George Fl. Hayden. eX-banly examiner
of Illinois. was convicted ut Chicago
of misconduct in office.
Two apprentices on the British war
ship Comus who deserted at Halifax.
were stripped and dashed.
Admiral Dewey. responding to invi-
tations for banquets. etc, declares his
health requires rest and quiet.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans,
at Charleston, elected Walter 7. Col
quit, son of Georgias ex-governor, as
commander-in-chie he defeating Rob-
ert E. Lee, Jr.
Monday. May 10.
A monster mass meeting in Mime
apols adopted resolutions strongly up
holding McKinleys Philippines policy.
Plummer s. Page the street railway
magnate of Scranton. Pa, dropped
dead yesterday from the rupture of a
blood vessel in the head.
Luigi NIinotti. 45-year-old Italian,
outraged 5-year-old Nellie Cabasa at
Bridgeport, Conn Nelies 1S-year-old
brother Clement killed Minotti.
Reconstructed board of regents Of
Kansas State Agricultural college an
nulled an invitation to Colonel w. j.
Bryan to deliver the commencement
grafton.
Donald Mclean, western railroad
promOtor, fell over the balustrade OF
the Palmer House, Chicago, to the
stone tagging two floors below, and
was killed.
The schooner Nelson foundered in
Lake Superior Saturday, and nine per-
sons were drowned including Captain
Haghney's wife and child. The cap
tain escaped.
Tuesday, May 10.
The cause of much Of the distress
in this country is the over education
of the masses. declared C. P. Hunt
ington in a speech at San Francisco.
George D. Scott, manager of John
D. Rockefe!lcr's estate at Tarrytown,
N. Y, committed suicide by shooting.
President Mckinley is opposed to as
sembling congress in extra session UNI
less some unlocked for contingency
arises.
The New York health authorities
propose to stamp out hypnotism as
well as Christian science and all kim
dred practices.
The United States supreme court has
decided that the French steamer Olinde
Rodrigues, seized during the war with
Spain, shall be returned to its owners
A movement has been started in
Kansas to give every man in Colonel
Funstons regiment political Office
upon his return from the philippines
DR.. Briggs an Episcopal Clergyman.
New York, May 15.-In the Pro-
Cathedral on Stanton street yesterday
Rev. DR.. Charles A. Briggs, who was
suspended for heresy by the Presby-
terrain assembly. was ordained priest
of the Episcopal church. He was or
dained together with the Rev. Charles
A. Snedeker, and the ordination cere-
monies were conducted by Bishop Pot
ter. The little church was crowded
f1o