Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-05-05

Morgantown, W. Va, May LEILA
Campbell, spinster, 80 years old, tea
flatirons about her neck before leaplng
head first into the we'll at her home.
She had been a teacher Ill the public
schools and became morose over the
death of a very dear friend. Her Sis
ter discovered her bonnet near the well
and gave the alarm.
Louisville, April 26.-W. F. Critics,
]. ]. O'Neil and Robert Locke were
sentenced to three years each In the
Nashville pentientiary and fined 500
by Judge Evans, in the federal court
Yesterday, for conspiracy to prevent
negro voters from exercising their
rights of suffrage at the election In
this city last November.
Montgomery, Ala, April 26.-At the
Democratic state convention yesterday
]. NJ. Sanford of Lee, Charles 4. Wal
Ter of Hale, Jesse F. Stallings of But
Ter and Charles Nj. Shelley OF Jefferson
were placed in nomination for COVER
nor. The first ballot resulted: Sam
ford. ZIG; Waller, 9612 Stallings.
1O2%; Shelley, SO. Before the result
of the third ballot was announced all
candidates except Sanford were with
drawn, and his nomination was made
unanimous.
Atlanta. Ca, April 26.-Thomas j.
Hunter. formerly auditor of the At
lanta and West Point Railroad COM
pany, was found guilty of embezzle-
ment in the superior court yesterday
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
five years. 1t was charged against
Hunter that he had Incorporated
500 600 When the shortage was dis
covered Hunter was out OF the city.
He was later arrested in Morocco and
returned here. Hunter was once a
prominent club man and society leader.
London. Ky, May lit isstated that
the White Howard feud of Clay county
has terminated by agreement. The
factions have made friends and have
decided not to prosecute in the several
murder charges against the Bakers,
and that faction will not appear against
lanes Howard. accused of the murder
of George Baker, and the indictment
is to be dismissed. James Howard is
one of the men charged with the muir
, der of William Goebel at Frankfort.
Many men have been killed in the feud.
Richmond. Va. April 25.-Mecklcr-
burg county narrowly escaped having
lynching Yesterday. A negro nar'ed
Steven Baptist was arrested by Con-
stable Talley charged with the murder
on Sunday of Peter Jones, and Talley
was ordered by the county judge to
take him 10 Petersburg for safe keep
ing. On the way to the depot mob
demanded the prisoner, but Talley
held the crowd at bay at the point OF
pistol, declaring that he would defend
Baptist to the last extremity. His
determination awed the mob.
Atlanta, Ca, April 30.-The Main
ed Veterans Battalion" Confederate
veterans organization, is being form
ed in this state for the purpose Of at
tending the reunion of the United Con-
federate veterans of Louisville. One
Of the qualifications for membership is
that the applicant for enlistment must
have lost either an arm, leg, hand
| or an eye in the Confederate service.
| The battalion will be composed Of los
veterans and all expenses will be de-
frayed by fund which is now being
raised by public subscription.
Richmond, April 2S.-The Massanut-
ten bank, at Strasburg, Shenandoah
county, was robbed about l o'clock in
The morning and some $4,000 secured
by the burglars. An entrance into the
bank building was effected with a
skeleton key. The vault was forced
with levers and the safe wrecked by
means of tro-glycerine. There were
eight men in the gang, most OF whom
stood guard in various sections Of the
town. They fired number of pistol
shots to draw attention from the bank.
Several persons who looked out Of
their windows we're ordered to with
draw on threat Of being shot. After
the robbery the gang boarded a hand
car and went to Riverton, where all
trace of them was lost.