Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-01-13
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


A coal famine is closing industrial
establishments about Harrisburg.
The strike of miners in Walker
county, Ala, ended in compromise.
Colonel \. l.. Mcintyre, ex-congress-
man from Georgia, died at Thomas
Vile, Ga.
Ex-Governor Bradley is the choice
Of Kentucky's Republican legislators
for United States senator.
The grand jury at Concord. N. H.,
refused to indict Senator Galinger for
alleged violation Of civil service laws.
Kentucky's Democratic legislators
nominated j. {. S. Blackburn for Uni
ted States senator, insuring his cleo
ton.
Thursday, Jan. 4.
British steamer Borghere foundered
off Cape Finisterre, and 20 were
drowned.
The death is announced in Rome OF
Count de Benomar. Spanish ambas-
sadaS. to Italy
A powder explosion near Lake Lin
den, Mich. blew two men and four
HORSES " tlOHS.
Tennessee's Democratic legislators
selected Governor McLaurin for the
long term for senator.
Fourteen soldiers made insane by
service in the Philippines have been
sent to the asylum at Washington
Extraordinary precautions have been
taken to prevent the spread of bubonic
plague in Hawaii Transports will not
stop there.
Friday, Jan. 8.
Our Philippines army, now 62.5O0,
will soon reach $4,000
Chinese routed French forces near
Wang Caun. killing 80 Frenchmen.
Mssissiupi's Democratic Legislators
chose United States Senator w. V.
Sullivan Tor the short term.
St Louis officials will enter legal pro-
test against Chicago's alleged pollution
of the Mississippi by the drainage ca
nal
The steamer Queen Adelaide brings
news to Victoria, b. c., that the steam
er Rio Maru foundered off Omai Cape.
She struck a submerged rock.
The Philadelphia grand jury re-
turned true bills of indictment against
Deputy Coroner Salter and eight cleo
ton officers. charging them with ballot
frauds.
Saturday, jan. o.
The Lawton relief fund amounts to
$45.72l.
DR.. w. A. Hammand formerly sur
geon general of the army, died in
One man was killed and two others
fatally injured by breaking chain in
the Homestead pa steel works.
Two women were burned to death in
4 fire early this morning in a New
York tenement on East Ninety
street.
Pietro Puize stabbed Frank Segila to
death last night in New York saloon,
as the result Of quarrel over gam
Of cards.
Steel works in Chicago killed three
workmen: Joseph Middle, Joseph Sock
and Ignatz Granak.
The American exhibit at the Paris
exposition will be several times larger
than Great Britain's and as large as
Russia's and Germany's combined
Monday. jan. =.
A new cotton mill, with a capital OF
5000 600, is to be located at Honea
Path, S. c..
The clothing of Mrs Catharine Rip
pard, of Wilkesbarre. caught fire from
4 stove, and she was burned to death |
In a quarrel over the ownership -
knife, Willie Daggs, years oldo not
lis 12-year-old sister Lena dali user
Evansville, Ills. awh
Near Uniontown, Pa, the home u
William Scott was destroyed by fire 7
and his three Sons, aged - to 1G, burn
I'd to death.
The tru2iees of the estate of the late I
Cornelius Vanderbilt have paid 10 Yale j
:ollece the 100000 bequest left to that |
institution.
James Grey. nurse in a Philadelphia /
lO~Dital. accidentally hathed Henry |
smith. a patient. with carbolic acid |
instead of tircture Of larkspur. Smith
lied, fatally burned.
Tuesday, jan. ..
fhe Sunday closing crusade in Chi
ago is h?ving its effect.
Alfred T.. Burr, editor of the Hart
ord Comm Times, is dead
Miss Johanna Lynch was burned to
ictth in New York apartment house
ire.
Tie Virginia Coal, Coke and Iron
is to start new coke furnaces
n Virginia.
The bonds purchased under the offer
If the secretary Of the treasury Of Nov.
5, 1899. amounted 70 Sl9,300,65O.
General Greedy, chief signal officer of
he army is improving from the in
uries Inflicted Sunday night by a
runken man.
c. NJ Nelson, a Swedish farmer of
learney, Neb., was murdered by his
on, who buried the dismembered
Orpse in a barn.
] VIC members of the Chicago Saliva
ion Army were badly injured in a
and-to-hen I'D fight with two men who
ad disturbed their meeting.