Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-01-06
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
wedn esday, Dee. ~.

wedn esdny, Dec. 27.
Professor Elliott Coues, noted orni-
biologist and scientist, died in Balti-
more aged o..
There is talk of Fenian invasion
of Canada, but British Ambassador
Paunoefote is not worrying about 1t.
While his death. watch slept, Wal
Ter Cotton. a negro murderer who was
% be hanged Dec. u, escaped from jail
at Norfolk. Va.
Captain Richardson, of the British
steamer Noramore. brings word to
Norfolk of the wreck of an unknown
bark in mid-ocean. drowning 10 men,
after heroic attempts to rescue them.
Thursday, Dec. 2s.
Or Thomas O'Callaghan, a Jersey
City physician, dropped dead at the
bedside of a patient.
A blizzard was raging in the Klon-
dixie on Dec. %, when the steamer
Resale sailed for Port Townsend.
Congressman Hepburn, of Iowa. will
push his bill for the construction OF the
Nicaragua canal by the government.
The proposed combine Of British Co
lumbia salmon canneries has fallen
through. 1t is now proposed to form
a score of smaller combines.
A strange Christmas gift was receiv~
ed by Robert McBee. of Knoxville,
Teul.. in the shape of $4,000 in notes
which had been stolen from him over
two years ago.
Friday, Dec. 20.
Governor Tannep of Illinois, an
nounces that he is not a candidate for
denomination.
There is a strong probability that
both Arizona and New Mexico will BIO
admitted to statehood.
Right Hon. Harry Escombe, EXPIRE
mier of Natal, dropped dead in the
street in Durham.
Hawaiian sugar planters welcome
American annexation, but not the in
fiux of American labor, because it is
too costly.
II is believed that the convention Of
United Mine Workers Of America, at
indianapolis Jan. Is. will demand
higher wages.
The bodies of the Names dead.
brought from Havana, were inferred
with impressive ceremonies at Airing
ton cemetery. Washington.
Saturday, Dee. 80.
Rev. Sylvester Malone, Il leading
priest of Brooklyn, died yesterday
aged 70.
Lewis E. Goldsmith, fugitive assist
xf no Wy
bank. surrendered in New York yes
terday.
Bradstreet's review for the year de-
clares 1899 a record breaker in bust
ness. and predicts another prosperous
year.
Two masked robbers tried to hold w
a street car in Seattle. Wash. One rob
Der was killed, the other escaped. \
passenger was wounded
Thomas MacKeller, Phi. D., senio.
member of the American Type Found
ers company (MacKellar, Smiths &
Jordan), died in Philadelphia, aged 81
Monday, Jan. 1.
Peruvians are urging the appoint
ment of an ambassador to Washington
Cars of American pattern have bee
adopted for Paris underground cleo
trio road.
The bodies of General Lawton and
Major Logan are homeward bound
from Manila.
Emperor Francis Joseph has appoint
ed Prince Henry of Prussia an admiral
! in the Austrian navy.
Two thousand new policemen will be
required to keep crooks in control at
Paris during the exposition.
4 Prof Henry Crosby Emery succeeds
President Hadley as professor of 20
ltical economy at Yale callege.
/ It is believed the government was
robbed of $4,000 to $500 daily by
the recent customs fraS a, Y Havana
The seizure of the Cen Alo6t t axe
Bundesrath by the British .,s..I
Magicienne in Delagoa bay !" 3n-
PEELED Germany In demand an speSa'
ton. vi
Tuesday, Jaa- 2.
The Republicans of the st2l fef are
considering the advisability ot7feor.
ganizing the senate offices.
In a prize fight at New York yes
terday "Kid" Mccoy knocked out Peter
Maher in the fifth round.
The Norwegian steamer To'densk-
iold went ashore near Rockawa. L. |.
but came off without assistance.
The earthquake in lower California
en- Christmas d. caused geysers tC
spurt with redoVbled force.
The New Year reception given by
Emperor William and the empress a
Berlin was me gnifcelt affair. Uni
ted States Ambassador White was
placed behind the Spanish ambassa
dor in the procession.