Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-04-29

it at any time.
after that" proceeded Captain
Coghlan, they did not breathe more
than four times successfully without
asking permission"
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
wednesday, April 10.
At the Pana Qlls.) election the main
issue was union labor, and union la
Dor won.
1t is believed that the war lnvesti-
gators report will not sustain General
Miles charges.
1t is believed that all volunteers who
desire to return from Manila will have
opportunity by June l.
BY the wreck of the fishing schooner
Eliza, of Beverly, Mass. Captain Hop
kins and 10 sailors drowned.
Wealthy and prominent Filipinos are
endeavoring to arrange truce be-
tween the Americans and Aguinaldo.
New United States minister's: A. II.
Hardy, to Greece; to Persia, w. P.
Lord; to Portugal, ]. NJ. Irwin; to Bel
GUM, Lawrence Townsend.
Lieutenant Gilmore and Is men of
the cruiser Yorktown were captured by
Filipinos on the east coast of Luzon,
P. l., and are still held by the enemy
In sentencing riotous Wheeling CIV.
Va.) strikers to 30 days imprison-
ment and $50 fine Judge Jackson de-
clared public sympathy with strikers
Conceived in anarchy"
Thursday, April 90.
Ex-Congressman Hilborn, of Cali
fornia, died in Washington, aged 65.
Speaker Reed has entered a New
York law firm. and will retire from
congress.
In hurricane which swept the
northeast coast of Queensland, Aus
tralia, over 400 were drowned.
w. NJ. Mcfarland, ex-secretary Of
state. is on trial at Des Moines. Ia,
charged with stealing state funds.
James ?. Taliferro, prominent ex-
Confederate and merchant, was elected
United States senator from Florida.
President Mckinley has been in
vited to Scranton, Pa, on Sept. Ga
Dor day., and has accepted condition
ally.
United States Senator Jones, of Ar
kansas, denies that he will resign the
Craftsmanship of the Democratic ma
tional committee.
Friday, April 21.
Our government officials hope to
avoid further increase in the army.
The Mexican senate adopted the new
extradition treaty with the United
States.
Yale university will send a crew to
row against Annapolis naval cadets on
June 3.
Congressman Hepburn and Hender-
son, of Iowa, are candidates for Speaker
Reeds place.
1t will soon be necessary to resume
the free distribution of food in San
tiago, owing to the general poverty.
The report of the court investigating
charges against officers of the Seventy
first New York regiment declares Lieu
tenant Colonel Smith, Captain Whittle
and Major Austin guilty of cowardice
and incompetence.
Saturday, April o2.
General George w. Davis succeeds
General Henry as military governor of
Porto Rico.
Court Secretary Roonocke was SEN
fenced In Berlin to two years i'm
prisonment for lese majestic.
Edward Edmond (white) and Horace
Scott (colored) fought a duel with
pitchforks in Chicago Scott was killed.
Congressman Cannon and Hopkins
of Illinois, and Hull, of New York, an
nounce their candidates. tor the speak
ership.
Two more skirmishes between our
troops and rebels near Taguig, Philip
pines, fought yesterday, resulted in
two more victories.
The steamer Whitney, of the Morgan
line, was wrecked off Cape Canaveral,
on the Florida coast Mate Phillips
and nine men were drowned.
Andrew Freedman, Croker's business
partner, and Abraham Himmelwright,
of the Roebling company, defiantly re-
fused to answer questions in New
York's investigation.
Monday, April Cd.
DR.. Nicholas Sem is being doomed
for the Republican nomination for
governor of Illinois.
William Burdicks body was blown
to fragments by explodingnitro-glycer-
inc at Bradford, Pa.
The fiscal year 1898 was our banner
export year, the exports reaching ST.
210,291,9 13; imports. s616,O49,054.
A Spanish prisoner recently released
by Filipinos declares the rebels are
we'll supplied with arms and ammuni-
ton.
DR.. B. E. Patton, probably dying at
Terre Haute, Ind, declares he was
poisoned by his wife. He is her fourth
husband
The funeral of Congressman S. T.
Baird, of Louisiana, took place in
Washington yesterday The body was
taken to Bastroy, La.