Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-10-14
egNrg SOUTHERN NEWS.

Jacksonville, Fla, Oct. 7.-Wh& Mr..
James ]. Evans and his 16-year-old
daughter were returning from prayer
meeting at Lakeland they were run
over by an engine in the yard OF the
Savannah. Florida and Western rail
road. Mr.. Evans body was cut in two.
Miss Evans legs were severed above
and below the knee and her skull frac'
tured She died from her injuries.
Mavsvi.le. Ky, Oct. 5.-Mrs. James
Lashbrook. wife Of a well-to-do farmer
and a member of one of the best FAM
! lilies in this county, was ravished and
murdered yesterday at her home at
Clark's Station, six miles from this
city. After the outrage her assailant
secured a club and beat out the wo-
mans brains Richard Coleman.
young negro, who Is under arrest. has
confessed his guilt.
Jacksonville, Fla. Oct. 10.-C. M.
Gardner. editor and publisher of Our
Sunny Land, of Miami. was killed at
West Palm Beach yesterday by Marcus
Frank, manager OF a store there. Mr.
Gardner, who had arrived on a morn
ing train. became involved in quar-
rel with Frank regarding the publica-
ton in Gardeners paper OF an article
in which Franks mother was mention
ed. The SLAYER was arrested.
Jacksonville, Oct. 9-The naphtha
launch Idlewild, belonging to AleXan-
der Uedemann and his brother. eX-
ploded near Mayport, at the mouth OF
the St. Johns river, at o'clock last
night and catching fire was totally de-
stroyed. Alexander Uedemann is miss
ing and is supposed to have been
drowned. Will White. one of the party,
was badly burned about the face and
head. Ed Uedemann is also burned.
Norfolk, Oct. 6.-The British steam
ship Rhodesia. Captain Bates, from
New Orleans to Hamburg, arrived at
Lambert's Point yesterday, having on
board the crew of the schooner Car
RE A. Lane, Of Bath, Me-, who were
picked up in the gulf stream, ship
wrecked Tuesday. The crew is conf
posed of Captain J. Frank Skofield,
whose wife is with him. and eight men.
Their experience was a most thrilling
one.
Knoxville, Oct. 5.-Two masked
burglars yesterday entered the resi-
dence of c. a. Uranium, and after
chloroforming his sister. Mrs. Kim
brough. searched the room where
Uranium, who is treasurer of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
had several hundred dollars concealed.
They searched some time for it, but
Mrs. kimbrough had hidden the
larger part, which they did not dis
cover. The woman is in q precarious
condition, and it is feared she will die
from the effects of the drug. The po-
lice have put bloodhounds on the trail.
Columbus, Ga. Oct AT an early
hour in the morning hackman drove
lip to the home of T. w. Bates, cashier
of the Merchants and Mechanics bank,
and delivered a note signed by the
chief OF police, Wiley Williams. ask
ing Mr.. Bates to come to the bank at
once, as the chief had discovered a
plot to rob the institution. Mr.. Bates,
fearing it was a scheme to entrap him.
declined to go to the bank. He sent
the note to the chief Of police an hour
later, and the latter pronounced it a
forgery. The hackman is under ar
rest He says the note was given him
by a shabbily dressed man in front OF
q saloon.
Thomasyille, Ca, Oct. 4.-Colonel A.
L. Halves, lawyer and politician of
Cambridge, was assaulted and shot
here yesterday By w. H. Hammond,
another lawyer. The difficulty grew
from the argument of case before
Judge Hansell. of the superior court,
by Colonel Halves and Captain Will
lam Hammond, father of the man who
did the shooting. During the course
of the argument Colonel Halves charg-
ed as untrue statement made by Cap
tain Hammond. They had some words
and blows with walking canes outside
the court room, but were separated
The shooting took place later Colonel
Halves may not survive.
OwensviIle, KY, Oct. 5.-The trial of
DR.. J. w. Smith on charge of killing
Henry Craig near Darlington, this
county, % years ago, resulted last
night in an acquittal. Smith and Craig
were intimate friends when. in 1871
they fell in love with a mountaineer'
daughter Soon after Craig was found
beside lonely path, stabbed to death.
Smith fled, and aIter working as 4
farm laborer in Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri married a wealthy widow,
who sent him to college, after which
he became physician. After several
years trouble appeared in the Smith
household. and Mrs. Smith came to
Kentucky, looked up an indictment
which had been found in 1877 and had
Dr.. Smith brought here for trial.
Richmond, Va, Oct. 5.-The charge
of taking the baptismal garments of
a young lady from the line of back
yard and festooaing the front of her
house with them was preferred against
half dozen young men in the police
court today. Mr. Goodman, the father
of the lady. explained in his testimony
that his daughter was baptized Sun
day night, and after her return home
hung the garments on line in the
yard. The young men accused. the
father declared. removed the wearing
apparel from the line and festooned
the front of his house with them. This
disposition of the wearing apparel gave
the residence Il peculiar and bizarre
appearance that attracted the attention
of the ighhorhood and all passerS by.
Germans Claim Against Germany.
Washington, Oct. 10. : Ferdinand
Holzendorf, aged 81 years, native OF
Germany, but for some wears an Amer
lean citizen, arrived here yesterday to
lay before the state department an in
demnity claim against the German gov
ernmcnt. The basis of his claim is his
alleged illegal detention in an insane
asylum in Berlin for over 10 months
His Imprisonment occurred after he
had taken out naturalization papers