Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-09-23
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
"Wednesday, sept. IL.


ception.
New York state trades unions have
increased 131 in NUMBER and $1,000 in
membership in a year.
Miss Alice Knott was found dead in
bed at Washington. having been as
phyxiated. A pet parrot had turned
on the gas.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, multi-milion-
nire and head of the famous Van
derbilt family, died suddenly of cere-
bral hemorrhagc in New York. aged Sc.
AT Tuckahoc, N. Y, Terry McGov-
ern. of Brooklyn, defeated Pedlar Pal
mer, of England. III minutes and 80
seconds for $4,000 purse and the
worlds bantamweight championship.
Thursday, Sept, IL.
There are now II COS soldiers quar-
tered at the Presidio, San Francisco.
At Fiskdalc. Mass. Peter King muir
dered his aged parents while under the
influence of liquor.
EX-Speaker Reed thinks the Ameri-
can people will soon tire of spending
$4,000. 900 annually on the Philippines.
Charles f. Snedes, grain merchant
of Harlem, N. d.. suicided by shooting
on Il crowded train near Glenvicw, Ills.
Philadelphia export exposition was
formally opened today. under auspi-
cious circumstances First days at
tendance. 22.O27.
Mr.. and Mrs Shenoweth. Christian
Scientists, of Frankfort. Ind. are I'M
der arrest for murder. They refused
TO give their dying child medicine.
Judge Talcott. OF Valparaiso. Ind,
aged So. married 74-year-old Mrs.
Boardman. The judge first wife died
after G2 years OF married life.
Friday, Sept. 10.
None of the cabinet officials will take
part in New Works Dewey reception.
a platoon of Indians is to be re-
cruited for service in the Philippines.
Postmaster General Smith will speak
for the administration in the Ohio
campaign.
Mrs. Catherine Kennedy was burn
ed to death in Il tenement house fire in
Brooklyn.
Paul e. Aver, of Columbia. S. c.,
a veteran of the Spanish war, chal-
lenges Count EsterhaZy to duel.
Colonel DENLY and Professor Wor-
cester, of the Philippines commission,
have been summoned home for confer
ence by the president.
saturday, sept, IG.
Two marines of the cruiser Philadel-
phia were killed by drinking wood
alcohol.
An aerolyte weighing 500 pounds fell
near Sycamore. o.. making the earth
tremb!e.
The revolution in Venezuela. despite
contrary reports. is assuming alarm
ing proportions.
The Chinese government is suppress
ing kilograms to the German minister
at Pehin regarding The destruction of
German property by natives in the
Hintcrland.
B. R. Banning. Il Hawaiian capital
list, arrived at San Francisco with d
yalise containing $50. 900. He after
wards missed it. and it is believed to
mistake.
Monday. Sept. IS.
The pope's encyclical to France does
not refer to the Dreyfus case.
Seven hours of rain has broken the
drought which has existed in northern
Texas since June %
A Paris dispatch says General Mer-
cier will be candidate for the senate
in the department of Sarthe.
Manuel Cordova. wife and six chill
drenw were killed by the collapse of their
adobe house near Mora, n. NJ.
Charles A. Pillsbury, founder Of the
famous Pillsbury flour mills in Mime
apolis, died in that city. aged 81.
Congressman Daniel Ermentrout. OF
the Ninth Pennsylvania district, died
in Reading, aged G2.
Maurus Jokai. the noted Hungarian
novelist, Is years old, married 1S-year-
old Arabella Grossnagy, popular ac-
tress.
Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Fire in Los Angeles, CAL, caused
$3.50 900 loss and fatally burned two
firemen.
A case of smallpox prevented the
departure of the Thirty-first infantry
from San Francisco for Manila.
The number of enlistments to date
is G.GS5. The Thirty-eighth regiment
leads with 926, and the Thirty-ninth,
with 9S1 men.
A boat containing the captain and IL
men of the French steamer. Dunral, re-
ported to have foundered. is believed
to have been lost.
The Epoca. newspaper. of Havana,
speaking of Cuba's future, says the
United States will not tolerate Hayti
or San Domingo at its doors.
The remains of General Antonio
Macco and Francisco Gomez were eX-
humed at Bejucal. Cuba. in the pres
ence of large crowd of people.
1t is said that apartments have been
engaged at Folkestone, England, for
Nine. Dreyfus and her children in the
event of her husbands pardon.