Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-07-08
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS.

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or Mayllower, plying between plymouth
! and Windsor, caisizcd and sunk be-
( tween Roanoke and Cashir rivers last
evening. Tic crew and all passengers
were saved except IN infant. who went
down with the steamer. 1t is sup
posed that the boat was overloaded.
Petersburg. Va. June S0.-As the re-
suit of insomnia, melancholla ana
nervous proStration, Hon. Charles f.
| Collier. OF this city. shot himself
through the heGd yesterday, dying ln-
stant!y. He was Il lawyer by profess
sion. an cX-member of the Confederate
congress. served several terms in the
! legislature, and had been elected
mayor of this city six times, but was
/ defeated by Hon. John NJ. Peasants
last spring by about six votes. He
was also president at one time of the
Southern Railroad company. He was
- years old.
Louisville, June 29.-The Demo-
cratic state convention adjourned last
night after nominating the following
ticket: For governor. William Goebel;
lieutenant governor, j. G. w. Beck
ham: secretary of state. Boeck Hill:
attorney general. Judge II. q. Breck-
inridge: auditor. Gus Coulter; treas
urer. Judge S. w Haeger; commits
sioncr of agriculture. l. b. Nall: conl-
missioner of public instruction, II. V.
McChesney. The ticket is complete
victory for Goebel. who came here
with less than one-fourth CT the dele
gates instructed for him.
Wilmington. ~ c.. June 2S.-Thc
steamship George w. Clyde, Captain
Robinson. OF the New York Clyde line.
arrived at this port yesterday with
| Captain \. d. Ingram and crew OF the
steamship Pawnee on board. the Clyde
having picked them up from small
boats very soon after they abandoned
the Pawnec. leaving her wrapped in
flames. The fire was discovered about
midnight. and had gained such head
way that efforts to check the flames
were futile. The vessel WAS burned to
the waters edge and sunk. her valu-
able cargo being a total loss.
Lexington. Ky, June SO.-Advices
from London. Clay county. are that the
adult male members of the Baker fam
! cent attempt TO kill Beverley Baker.
| Dee Baker remains in London with
Mrs. Chris Jackson his sister Andy
j Baker and Joe Bowling are heavily
! armed indoors ut Bowling's home i'll
/ Clay county for the present. They do
not venture out in daylight. Andy
Howard, just returned from the army.
4 passed through London with big
! store OF guns and ammunition He
was met at London by several of thu
! Howard faction.
Birmingham. Ala, July 1.-After a
| conference OF ten days the coal miners
OF Alabama and the operators came To
| an agreement last evening in regard
I to the scale of wages to he paid dur
ing the coming year. Both sides made
some concessions. The minimum rate
| 10 be paid is IS cents with iron selling
at IS and under. and the maximum rate
is 80 cents with iron at $11 and over.
| The day laborers in the mines get an
! advance OF 10, u and 10 per cent. vary
! ing according to advances received sew
! eral months ago The idea is to give
| them % cent increase altogether over
/ the wages they were receiving year
ago.
Raleigh. n. c.. June 27.-Preston
! Oglesby. aged II years. died at Wild
/ wood. Carteret county, OF hydrophobia.
! The story OF dogs wild rush through
! the village 10 weeks ago is horrible
+, in its train of results. The dog Bit a
horse. hog and OK These died within
three weeks. The horse was bitten
through the nose. and chickens which
ate out OF tho Same trough had spasmS
and died A chicken owned by negroes
was killed by The a3s The family ig
norantly saved .tc chicken by cook
ing It, and the entire family died from
eating it, Young Oglesby was bitten
or the face. TIE wound had healed
au, the boy was thought to be out Of
Ginger
Athens. Tex. June 30.-Walter Wiki
inson. Joe Wilkinson, Polk Weeks.
William Brooks. John Greenhaw. Ar
thur Greenhaw, W. E. Johnson. Will
lam Gadds. John Stevens and Samuel
Hall were yesterday remanded to jail
without bail charged with having muir
dered James, John and George Hum
pnreys by taking them from their
homes and hanging them. The pris-
oners will institute habeas corpus pro-
ceedings The case is the most cele-
brated in Texas criminal history. and
the state has sent an assistant dis
trict attorney to aid in prosecuting the
| lynchers Three of the men have con-
fessed and others have pleaded to be
permitted to do so.
Charlotte, y. c., June 27.-On Sun
day night white man named Par
sons, whose home was at Lenoir, n.
c., was run over by Southern rail
way train, 20 miles north OF here. He
was brought to Charlotte and lived
about 80 minutes after reaching here.
His body was entirely severed just be-
low the waist. ard while lying on Il
stretcher talking TO a physician the
unfortunate man saw the lower half of
his body removed to another part of
the room. and commented upon it. He
| told his name and talked very ration
ally, and in few minutes said to the
doctors that he had only few min
uites mere to live and asked that he
be given something to stop the pain.
The doctor administered an opiate,
and Parsons became quiet. and died in
few minutes. Parsons was about Il
years of age, and was beating his way
on the train when killed.
Richmond, June 29.-Mrs. Lizzie Ell
lis, OF Farmville, Va, aged II years,
killed her 16-months-old child by Civ
ing it laudanum and then attempted
suicide. When the coroner was called
to view the remains of the child which
was reported as having been found
dead in bed, the mother told most
improbable story. but on being in
formed that she was not believed she
made full confession. She said she
had been deserted by her husband,
that she could not support her child,
and that she had bought the drug in
Farmvilie and come to Richmond with
the deliberate purpose Of killing the
child and herself. She was arrested on
the charge of murder. Her family is
we'll connected. They declare her hus-
band has not deserted her, was COM