Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-12-16
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wednesday,. Dec. Q.

Wednesday, Dec. @.
United States Senator Hayward died
at Nebraska City. Neb., aged SO.
Amos Finley suicided at Assumption.
Ills, by blowing his head off with
dynamite.
An opinion was handed down by the
North Carolina supreme court holding
the Southern railway liable to $1,000
fine for issuing free pass.
The national house refused to per-
NIT Roberts, the Mormon from Utah.
to take his seat pending an investi-
CATION into his eligibility.
For masquerading as single man
]. A. Miller was sentenced to six
months Imprisonment at Shawnee. O..
He was about to marry Miss McClan-
nacan.
Thursday, Dec. Z.
Chester, Pa. is enjoying the great
est boom in its history.
The next G. A. R. encampment meets
in Chicago from Aug. % to Sept. 1.
General Wood, governor Of Santiago
de Cuba, has been nominated for major
general of volunteers.
A syndicate headed by Tom L. John.
son and Albert Johnson will build
street railway in Honolulu.
The war between the YaQui Indians
and Mexican troops has apparently
ceased until the Indians can make a
concerted movement.
Populist and Silver Republican SEN
ators have requested the governor Of
Nebraska to appoint ex-senator Allen
in the place of Senator Haywood, de-
ceased.
Richard Coleman, negro who con-
fessed to assaulting and numbering his
employers wife, was taken from off,
GERS and burned by mob at Mays
vile, Ky.
Friday, Dec. s.
The Delaware and Hudson railroad
will expend s5.0O0,0OO for new rolling
stock.
James P. Reed. ex-champion checker
player Of the world, died in Pittsburg,
aged 40.
Virginia Democrats nominated Uni
ted States Senator I. S. Martin to sue
coed himself.
Douglas Duncan and Walter Smith,
l0-year-old boys. were drowned yes
terday at Toronto while skating on
thin ice.
Ferdinand W. Peck. our commits
sioner general to the Paris exposition,
declines reelection as president of the
National Business League.
P. A. B. Widener, the Philadelphia
multi-millionaire, will establish and
! endow an Industrial home for crippled
children, at cost of S2,000OO0.
Saturday, Dec. ..
The copper mines of Pennington, N.
j., are to be reopened.
The Canadian steamer Niagara
foundered on Lake Erie Tuesday, and
her crew of 16 were drowned.
Joseph C. Hoagland the founder and
president of the Royal Baking Powder
company, died in New York yesterday.
ASS Confederate note was passed on
g farmer in the Lancaster (Pa.) mar
ket He was told that it was the latest
style of United States currency.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Republican League will meet i'll
Washington Tuesday to decide upon a
place for holding the next Republican
national convention.
Monday, Dec. II.
About $4,000 New England cotton
mill operatives today received an adj
vance of 10 per cent in their wages.
The grand jury at Geneva, N. Y.
failed to indict any one for the drown.
ing of young Berkeley. the Cornell stu
dent.
An Arizona delegation. headed by
Governor N. o. Murphy. will visit
Washington early in January to advo-
cate statehood.
Inventors Dupont and Frodoroff, OF
France and Russia, respectively, claim
to have invented a light steel flying
machine capable Of travelling 100 miles
an hour with one man aboard.
Tuesday, Dec. 12.
Dispatches from Iowa and Mime
sofa tell of heavy snow in those states.
A bomb was exploded in theater in
Murcia. Spain, destroying the build.
ing No one was injured.
The state department says that Den
mark has not offered to sell her West
Indian islands to the United States.
George White, arrested in Philadel
phia on Saturday for shoplifting. was
yesterday sentenced to prison for two
years and six months.
Colonel Graham and William P.
Cunneen, of ST. Mary's. Kan, were
fatally poisoned by drinking disin-
fectant in mistake for whisky.
The supreme court has decided
against the seizure of the steamer
Buena Ventura during the war with
Spain, and the distribution of prize
money.