Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-10
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday, Feb. as.

Laborers in San Juan, Puerto Rico,
are on strike for AN increase In wages.
from three to five cents an hour.
Suit has been brought against Frick
Coke company directors. charging them
with working in the interest Of the
Carnegie Steel company.
Bishop j. M. Thoburn, missionary
bishop in India, is suffering from
nervous exhaustion, due to overwork.
He will be forced to take long rest.
Swedish mail steamer Rex stranded
off Ruegen Island, Germany, and five
stewardesses were drowned in attempt
ing to leave the vessel.
Thursday, March 1.
The national senate passed the bill
providing a territorial form of gov
eminent for Hawaii.
The Ohio house defeated a woman
suffrage dill by 40 nays to 81 yeas. 1t
required SO votes to adopt.
The Democrats in the Kentucky leg
islature passed the bill offering $780,
900 reward for Goebel's murderer.
Three children of Edward Friedner,
aged IS months to years, we're suf-
located In New York tenement fire.
Joseph Clean, a farmer near Blue
field, w. Va, objected to his daugh-
ter's sutton, Albert Marsh. He killed
Marsh, his daughter and himself.
Lon Curry, one of the robbers who
secured over $4,000 by holding up
train at Wilcox, Wyo., last June. was
killed while resisting arrest at Dod-
son, Mo.
Friday, March 2.
Cecil Leslie, connected with Brook
lyn's Franklin syndicate, was captured
in Cleveland.
A bill to repeal New York's common
law marriage statute has been report
ed in the legislature,
Laurence Rummell, Is months old.
pulled a lighted lamp on himself in his
Newark IN. j. home and was burned
to death.
George w. Watts, IS years old, SEN
fenced at Baltimore to years i'm
prisonment for larceny, tried suicide
by hanging.
The bodies of SO soldiers who died in
Cuba since the end of the Spanish war
were buried with military honors at
Arlington cemetery yesterday.
Prof Arthur c. McGiffert, of Union
Theological seminary, is to join the
Congregational church, thus averting
heresy trial by the Presbyterian gen.
eral assembly.
Saturday, March 3.
Membership Of the Methodist church
es is less than two years ago.
Texas yesterday celebrated the 64th
anniversary of Texas independence.
Near Wake, Va, boiler explosion
killed George Steurer and seriously in
;ured his two sons.
In a quarrel over a match w. L.
Adkins killed Edward Brooks, fellow
clerk in an Atlanta store.
A snowstorm which started Wednes-
day noon in Buffalo continued with
out cessation until last evening.
Lee Slower, late colonel of the First
South Dakota regiment has announced
himself as a Republican candidate for
the United States senate.
The Guy V. Henry committee, at
New York. proposes to raise fund for
the generals widow to put her beyond
possible want.
Monday, March 3.
Archbishop John Hennessy, OF the
Catholic diocese of Dubuque, Ia, died
yesterday. aged rs.
Fire in cheap lodging house in the
New York, resulted in seven
deaths and serious injuries to two
others.
President David Star Jordan, Of Le-
land Stanford university, predicts the
downfall of Great Britain in the COM
ing century.
Rev. Daniel ]. Hauer, the oldest |
Lutheran clergyman in the United |
States. celebrated his Gath birthday an
niversary Saturday at Hanover. Pa.
Warrants have been issued for sew
eral men and boys at Mount Carmel
Pa, who are charged with Ill treating |
12-year-old John Fabo, until he be-
came craZed.
The British consular inquiry at San |
Francisco has found Chief Engineer |
of the transport Manuense,
guilty of negligence and drunkenness |
and fined him $3.50.
H. f. Seibert, who was mourned as
one of the victims of the Johnstown,
Pa. food of 1889, returned to his old |
home, at Wilke5barre, Saturday, after
an absence of IS years. He has been
in Australia.
Tuesday, March 9.
General Joseph Wheeler and daugh
ter have arrived at San Francisco
rom Manila.
Martin Gallagher died in New York
hospital, the seventh killed by the
Bowery lodging house fire.
Proposed increases in British taxes
makes the income tax virtually bear
half of the extra taxation.
The Knights of the Royal Arch, in
Guiding all engaged in the liquor bust
ness, has so, 900 members, and is grow
ng.
Henry Ohlrogges and his brother
Richard were asphyxiated by gas in
heir New York home. Henry is dead