Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-10
GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS,


scarce in North Carolina this year that
he expects to see many mills forced to
shut down for lack of it.
Richmond, March 6.-John Wester-
welt, his wife and 6-year-old daughter
were burned to death in the destruction
by fire of their home on Chaffine bluff.
six or seven miles from Richmond.
early in the morning. A 12-year-old
son was the only member of the family
that escaped. Mr.. Westervelt was orig
inally from New Jersey. where he has
father and brother still living.
Fredericksburg, Va, March AT a
called meeting of the city council today
Messrs. M. G. Willis, John T. Knight
and Z. d. Cole, committee, reported
that after a conference with General
Horatio c. King May rs and 26 had
been selected as the dates for the meet
ing of the Army of the Potomac in this
city, and Mayor Rowe appointed a
committee of Is, five councilmen and
ten citizens, on arrangements and en-
tertainment.
Memphis, March 6.-H. A. Stephen
son, travelling representative of the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat, was shot
and seriously wounded yesterday af-
ternoon in the rotunda of the Pea
body hotel by Frank Williamson, a
deputy sheriff of Crittenden county,
Ark. The injured man was taken to
st. Joseph hospital Stephenson had a
difficulty with NJ E. Brey, an old Mem
phis citizen, and Williamson interfered
in the melee. Williamson was arrested.
Bluefield, w. Va, March 1.-Joseph
Clean, a farmer living near here, kill
ed his daughter and her lover and then
cut his own throat Tuesday night.
Clean had forbidden Albert Marsh to
call on his daughter. On returning
home he found Marsh in the parlor
with his daughter. He ordered Marsh
to leave, and upon refusal took shot
gun and fred at him. Ellen Clean
sprang in front of her lover and re-
ceived the charge in her throat, dying
instantly. The second shot killed
Marsh. Clean then killed himself.
Raleigh, March IA novel case was
argued in the supreme court here yes
terday. An engineer on the Atlantic
Coast line, who was discharged, sues
for reinstatement and also fer dam
ages, setting forth that he was ap-
pointed during good behavior, and
hence, under the decision Of the court
in the noted case of Hoke VS.. Hender-
son, to the effect that there is property
in office, is entitled to hold his posi-
ton during good behavior. 1t is the
first application Of the decision to a
case in civil life.
Newport News, Va, March 4.-The
decision in the case Of Hobbs VS.. Caffee
yesterday in favor Of the defendant
ends a unique case. Some time ago
Holly Hobbs, a we'll known Pythian of
Hinton, w. Va, was killed in the yards
of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway in
this city. The body was embalmed by
j. H. Caffee & Son, and shipped to
West Virginia. According to the COM
plant set forth in the bill of the plain
tiff, the body was improperly embalm-
ed and decompOsed before it reached
the home of his mother, who was
thereby damaged to the extent of
$4,000 by failure to look upon the feat
ures of her son.
Releigh, March &c. w. Battle,
negro, postmaster at Battleboro, was
arrested yesterday and lodged in Jail
at Halifax, charged with embezzle-
ment of money order funds Jan. Is.
He took $780, He also failed to de-
post postoffice funds. A white man
named Stokes succeeds him. The white
Republicans are thoroughly Disguised
with negro postmasters in the Second
district. They say the negro congress
man, George White, secured their APP
pointment. So far five of these negro
postmasters have come to grief, all in
the same way. The others are Hargett
of Rocky Mount, Pittman Of Tillery,
Baker of Lewiston and Young Of Rose
meath.
Norfolk, Va, March 5.-George w.
T. Miller, a baker, who works at New
port News, and his wife were assault
ed by burglar while asleep at their
home in Brambleton, suburb of this
city, and so seriously injured that it is
feared one or both of them may die.
The burglars entrance awakened Mil
ler's 12-year-old son, who slept in the
same room, but was too frightened to
make an cutlery. When the burglar,
who, according to the boy, was negro,
discovered the boy was awake, he
sprang at the sleeping parents and
beat them with club until they were
and he concluded they were
dead. He then totI all the money in
the house and escaped.
London, KY, March s. Willard
Hughes was killed and Henry Blevins
and others were injured Saturday
night at a dance at Smallwood's re-
sort near East Bornstadt, a mining
town. During the dance Leonard
Hamp Gragg and others
Willard Hughes on account
of an old grudge. During the fusil-
lade Hughes head was shot off and
Blevins and others were hit with stray
shots. The shooting ended the dane
ing. Smallwood then went to sleep in
the room with his victims body. At
ter the coroner's inquest yesterday
Leonard Smallwood and Hamp Gragg
were arrested as principals. Edward
father of Leonard, and his
daughter, Lizzie, were arrested as ac-
completes.
No Time For Mediation Yet.
Rome, March Elm the chamber Of
deputies, replying to several deputies
who suggested that the time had ar
rived for mediation in South Africa,
the minister of foreign affairs, Mar
quis Visccnti Venosta. declared he
shared such sentiments, but thought
action in the desired sense could only
be exercised when circumstances rem
dered it opportune and likely to be
successful, and he thought that mo-
ment had not yet arrived.
Consul Hay Having No Trouble.
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