Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-01-27
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday,, Jan. IT.

| Tea states senator from iowa.
There are G22 Cubans and 1O5 Amerl-
cans in Cuba's postal service.
The national senate ratified the Sa-
moan treaty without division.
President Logan, of the New York
Bar association, advocates limitation
Of inheritances to S10000,000.
The senate committee on interoceanic
canals agreed unanimously to report
a bill for the construction of the Mica
ragua canal.
At Frankfort, Ky, IN a feud began
during the Spanish W, ex-Congress-
nan David G. Colson killed Lieuten-
ant Eihebert Scott, Charles Julian and
Luther Demaree, the latter two acct
dentaily.
Thursday, Jan. Is.
Kentucky legislature elected ]. G.
S. Blackburn United States senator.
Chicagos big drainage canal has
been opened, md st. Louis brings suit
to prevent sewage entering Desplaines
river.
The senate confirmed Robert NJ. Nc
Wade, of Philadelphia, for consul to
Hong Kong. succeeding DR.. Edwin S.
BedlOe.
Captain Sigsbee has been formally
detached from the command of the
Texas and assigned to the head Of the
naval intelligence bureau.
The Virginia house of delegates
passed the Jim Grow" car bill,
measure requiring separate cars for
whites and blacks on railways.
Mrs. NJ. j. Patterson. the only child
Of Andrew Johnson, is critically i'll at
her home in Greenville. Tenn. and at
expected to live. She is over so.
Friday, Jan. 10.
Bcquests made to priests for saying
masses for the repose of the soul are
liable to a legacy tax.
Masked robbers murdered a bartender
in a Leadville. Colo. saloon. because
he would not throw up his hands.
Tidal waves, higher than have been
known for long time, have swept
the coast of Chile. doing considerable
damage.
In a New York storage warehouse
five men fell $40 feet with an elevator.
Michael Mclean and Patrick Ledely,
young men, were killed.
The Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mex
leo. say they will not modest Ameri-
cans in that state since they appreci-
ate the Indians struggle for independ-
ence.
saturday, Jan. 20.
Canon Henry Twells, well known
writer of hymns, is dead in London
Plans are under way for the con-
struction of 300 miles of trolley lines
in Hawaii.
The bUEOnic plague was introduced
into Honolulu by means OF merchan-
disc from the Orient.
John Mitchell and w. c. Pierce were
reelected president and secretary
treasurer of the Mine Workers union. !
Martin Bergen, catcher of the Bos-
ton baseball club, while insane, killed !
his wife, two children and himself at (
Brookline, Mass.
A baby born in Baltimore last Mcr
day, the coroner's jury says, was burn
ed and strangled to death The moth J
er, Mary Borderley, will be arraigned. !
The John w. Gates the first 500
loot steamer built on the great lakes,
was launched at he yards Of the Amer
can Ship Building company, at Lo-
'ain, o.
Monday. Jan. %.
Richard D. Blackmore, the English |
Novelist, died at Teeddinston, England
aged IS.
Lorenzo Borgomast and Baptista
2odeschi, stone cutters, were asphyxi-
tied in New 4ork, having gone to bed
intoxicated.
Rev Charles ~ Sheldon, author of
I'm His Steps" will run the Topeka
H%n) Capital as a Christian daily
apeN the week beginning March u.
ChaMes L. Foote. formerly post
aster And city treasurer of Fall
liver. MaNe.. who is alleged to have
nbezzled 10000 four years ago, was
rested at Ni.casc.
Mrs. annie \Ii!aworth Smith, widow
the fcuuder\ e. the Century COM
my. died in New York, eeed 7S
hen r girl OF N she sent the first
legram from Washington to BaIti-
ore
\ sunday cght between Italians in
New Ycik tencmeIA district resulted
the dea,h of Antchio AID Caspar
ollctti ard David SllyAtoro. Vinccazo
)lleti and l1-ycar-cM Ma Fra.k, the
ie2ed mu:derers. are in MI.
'Tncsf!n,. Jan. III.
Eleven men were entcriLeN AID one
He'd by the caving in Of Aunnel in
)s Angeles.
1t is reported in Copenhag en- that
e Danish West Indies ere to Ne final
ceded to the United States.
The Chinese government has\ ac- I
liesced IN french demands foA ter
tory at Ewang Chan Wan bay AFTER
10 more Chinese defeats.
The British royal commission ap- {
tinted to inquire into the cause OFF '
ilway accidents recommends the {
use of automatic couplings\
Though living in poverty alone,
rs. Margaret Harold, who was burn n I
to death in Philadelphia on Satur- {
", had amasscd considerable for c
ne.
The United States government is
reatened with a grave situation in
lba unless it speedily replaces the
iltsry by civil government in the r
and. v
ENroniDrnirifcb Priests VIII. -
L. L |
Father ChlniqUy, the famous eX- n
mmunica,ed priest who died IN Mon d
cal last year. WIS fled in the Kan t.