Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-02-04
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
wednesday,, Jan. aS.

Wednesday,, Jan. 2S.
RussIa's czar has invited the pope to
pend q representative to the disar1na-
ment conference.
A Madrid dispatch says the liberation
Of Spanish prisoners in the Philippines
has already begun.
Walter Watts, aged IT, and Mary Sin
clair, Is, were droVj.sd while skating on
the Hudson near New Windsor, NJ Y. g
Agoncillo, the Filipino agent in Wash
lngton, makes another fruitless appeal
for recognition of Philippines republic.
The conference between operatorsand
miners In Pittsburg ended in an agree
n1ent en- the wage scale and an eight
hour day.
W. M. Stewart was.re-elected United
States senator from Nevada, and the
Texas legislature elected Ex-Governor
Culberson to succeed Senator Milln. 4
Thursday, Jan. 90.
American women In Havana are PREF
pairing to observe Feb. Is as Maine
memorial day.
The Delaware senatorial deadlock
continues, Republicans being unable to
agree on candidate.
Austrian physicians experiment on
charity patients by inoculating them
with contagious, diseases.
M. DEnnery. the noted French play
wright, author Of 1.-THE Two Orphans"
and "a Celebrated Case" died In Paris.
The death of H. w. Williams. jus
tice of Pennsylvania supreme court,
insures the election Of g. Democrat to
succeed him.
H. T. Sloan, the New York society
leader. who Is separated from his wife,
will fight for the possession Of his two
young daughters.
Revenue. Commissioner N. B. Scott
was elected United States senator from
West Virginia There will be con-
test, however, as he did not receive q
majority vote Of the legislature.
Friday, Jan. 81.
The senate has agreed to vote on the
peace treaty on Feb. 6. at p m.
The Spanish cortes will soon assem-
Bile. regardless Of our senate's action on
the peace treaty.
The Montana senate ousted Senator
Whiteside, who was unable TO prove his
charges of attempted bribery.
The Nebraska legislature passed q
resolution opposing the seating IN con-
Eress of Roberts, the Utah polygamist.
Students of the Virginia Military in
stitute, recently expelled for rotous
conduct, are to be reinstated. with
heavy penalties.
A. H. Garland. 6S years old, attorney
general in Cleveland's first cabinet,
dropped dead while arguing case be-
fore the United States supreme court
In Washington.
After asserting in the national senate
that the south was right in the war be-
! tween the states Senator Butler, OF
North Carolina, withdrew his amend
! ment to pension ex-Confed crate SOL
diers.
Saturday, Jan. 80.
Many Copper river gold seekers have
frozen to death In the Valdez glacier.
Reports OF lawless acts In Santiago
de Cuba province are greatly e1ag-
gerated. The province Is entirely
! peaceful.
For the Pan-Americen exposition, to
be held at Buffalo. s1,00O,000 have been
[ secured within Ave days by popular
subscription.
John Morley, who WAS twice secre-
tary for ireland under Gladstone, has
received $4,000 for biography OF the
great premier.
Mrs. Robert Williams. who before
her marriage to AdJutant General Will
Jams was the widow Of Stephen A.
| Douglas, died In Washington.
A resolution In the national house
proposes a gold medal and the thanks
OF congress to Miss Margaret Astor
Chanler for her devotion.to the soldiers.
Eleven shipwrecked sailors Of the
ship Manbare were captured by can
nibals OF New Guinea, and all were
J devoured. Another man OF the party
| escaped.
Monday, Jan. 80.
Lieutenant Governor Goblin. of Penn
syIyan,a, has been honorably dischRrg-
ed from the volunteer army.
Mrs. Mary Mcintyre. wealthy 60
year-old widow OF Pana, Ills, was muir
dered with aniax and her home robbed
| The army's winter hospital at Sa-
yannah will be occupied within three
weeks, though all of the As buildings
will not then be completed.
At Apex, Colo. the house Of w. H.
Rudolph was swept away by an ava
| lanche. Mrs. Rudolph and her two
young children were killed.
In a speech at Newcastle. England.
Right Hon. Walter Long. president OF
the board Of agriculture, boldly spoke
Of an Anglo-American alliance.
Governor Mc3fillin, of Tennessee. We
toed a bill authorizing Memphis to is-
que bonds for park purposes. with in
terest payable In gold He says 1t dis