Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-02-03
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday. Jan. 20.

the Paris exposition.
Jeremiah .ioach was given 90 years
for killing his wife ut Jersey City.
Captain sam Cole and a party of
hunters were fined $50 each for vio-
lation Of game laws at Atlantic City.
The steamer Pennsylvania, which
leaves San Francisco for Manila Jan
%. will carry yl.350,00 to pay the SOL
diers
Henry A. Eazen. chief forecaster
in the weather bureau at Washington,
died from injuries received by a fall
from his bicycle.
Thursdny, Jun. -.
Samuel p Meyers was hanged at
Somerset. Pa. yesterday. for killing
Michael Karney and John Lenhart.
Judge Orrin ~ Carter, of Chicago,
announces his candidacy for the Re-
publican nomination for governor of
Illinois
Citizens Of Washington presented to
Commander Richard Wainwright, OF
the cruiser Gloucester, a sword of hon
or and a silver service.
BY an explosion of powder at Sum
mersville. Pa, Patrick COsgrif and
Elmer Howard, quarrymen, were ter
ribly mangled Howard died.
Republican senators selected the fol-
lowing senate officers Secretary. Hon.
Charles Bennett, of New York; SER
geant-at-arms Hon. ID. NJ. Ransdell In
diana; chaplain. Rev. w IL. Milburn.
The national house, by a vote OF 268
TO so. excluded Roberts. the Mennonite.
A hill introduced in the national
house proposes to abolish the war
stamp act.
10 Feng Lob, the Chinese ambassa-
dor to England, has been converted TO
Christianity.
Dowager Duchess of Schleswig-I 1ol-
stein. mother of the German empress,
/ died in Dresden from pleurisy.
4 Lowell tobacco firm sues the gov
eminent to recover duty paid on to-
Lacco imported from Porto Rico.
Germany's naval bill was adopted
by the bundesrath yesterday. 1t car
ries an annual expenditure Of ll,OOO,-
600 marks for 16 years.
Commissioner Peck refuses to per-
nit the exhibition of a $4,000 golden
statue of Anna Held. the actress, in the
American section of the Paris exposi-
ton.
Saturday,, jan. -.
Trenton children carry boiled water
TO school for drinking Passaic water
being declared dangerous to health.
Most Of the French papers hail with
keen satisfaction the announcement
that the British have abandoned Spior
Kop.
It is stated in Kansas City that Web
ster Davis. assistant secretary of the
interior. is McKinleys choice for vic'
president.
The transport Pennsylvania left SaI
Francisco with 81 100000 in gold coli
and considerable sum in treasur.
notes to pay soldiers in the Philippines
An unarmed mob Of several hundre
men took Convic; Reynolds. who muir
dered Captain W c. Rooney. in tn
penitentiary. from the prison at Canol
City. Colo. and lynched him.
Monday. Jan. 20.
Our export trade to China and Japal
has more than doubled in the past tw
years.
Texas Populists declare that Brya
would accept a Populist nominatio
for president.
: Rev. DR.. Parkhurst. Of New Yorl
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hours or Sunday.
In the first nine months Of last yea
$4,000 persons in the German emplr
engaged in strikes. Ia
l Fred Lind, Victor Fredz1, !t.ees
, Walter Grazesky. miners cod life
by falling timber at Henley Dnf
The late John Ruskin had give
away fortunes. and he lived on 50
day the last few years of mis- life.
, French elections resulted in a pra'
, teal defeat for Nationalists, only thrt
/ out of 30 senators being elected. Man
d. generals were candidates. but on
+ MERCER and Lambert were elected.
\ Tuesday. Jan. 30.
- The shah of Persia is very i'll ar
s his physicians fear that he may not r
e cover
r The Spanish steamer Vale has foui
dered Off The Spanish coast, - of Il
S crew being drowned.
President Mckinley yesterday r
ceivcd con ordinations on the 57th a
u niversafy of his birth.
i Judge Nohsaat, Of the federal cou
in Chicaoo. yesterday rendered a d
l. cigion decl2rino The Illinois anti-tru
q law unconstitutional.
{ A Victoria (B c. dispatch says I
y Australian bri~antine Ethel was scr
y tied and sunk by her crew, who IN
n tinted ard killed the captain, mate al
r. four sailors.