Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-04-27
Virginia News.

A letter received from Senator Mar,
tin. now in Rome, says he will speno
another week there, go to Paris anu
then sail April "a for America.
The council of the Episcopal church
of the Diocese Of Virginia VIII meeU
in Warrenton on May 18th, and re-
main in session three days. The pooy
consists of $50 delegates.
The stockholders of the Northern
Neck Agricultural Association, OF
Northumberland county, have decided
70 sell at public auction their far
grounds near Heathsville, in that
county.
In response to petition, signed by
2s1 voters of Charlottesville, asking
for special local option election,
Judge Morris, of the Corporation
Cont. Friday ordered such an cleo
tion to be held June 4.
Rev. ]. w. Baker, OF the virginia
Methodist Conference, died suddenly
last week at Allen, Nd, aged AZ
wears. He leaves widow and three
children. Death was due to erysipeias
Rev. MIR. Baker was born in Madison
county, Va.
Peanut dealers of Norfolk, the
greatest peanut market in the worid
nave been in a panic, as the result o
| the shortage of stock. Prices nave
scared. The stock on hand is th'
smallest of a dozen years. A shor
crop and heavy demand are RESPONSE
BILE for the scarcity.
For several nights what are belieVe'
Ito have been earthquake shocks hav
lbeen felt in various towns of the lowe
Shenandoah Valley. At Middletown
Strasburg and Mount Jackson person
who had not gone to bed felt article
of furniture rocking and experience
the sickening feeling which accom-
panies the trembling of the earti
about midnight.
It was definitely announced MOI
day by @. P. Cardwell that his orothel
lW. d. Cardwen, member OF III
House of Delegates from HanoVe
county and Speaker OF the House
will not be a candidate for reelection
II II is stated, in this connection, thu
Sneaker Cardwell's business interes
in Norfolk are making constantly II
creasing demands upon mis- time an
= attendance.
The Exposition Station of the No
= folk Postoffice is doing a big busine
2 these days. During the first tweni
! DAYS of the existence of the Expos
= ltion station $4,000 pieces OF ma
we're handled and over S., 900 worth
stamps. ETC., were sold, and 1t is u
Intention of the department to
crease the force of clerks from mite,
+ men to twenty-five, when Is D
: second increase that has been ma
IIatelv. However the authorities sta
hat all Exposition mail will be han
Il led in the best manner.
=, The most exciting contest ,
- Bristors history terminated Mond
il when the city voted to abol
" saloons, the vote being 539 TO 8
8 This means that twelve saloons "
J he closed on May l, to be followed
~ the closing of thirteen saloons IN
4 tennessee section, and fifty on \
ne vember /. The campaign, when v
,eI fuU of excitement from the sta
reached its climax when four thousa
men. women and children paraded
IS streets preceded by the Bristol M
a tary band.
!! The Court of Appeal granted
er of error in the case OF the Comm
I'D wealth against the Southern KallV
nv which is an appeal from an order
~ the State Corporation Commission
IN certain cases involving an alleged
TO fraction of the demurrage and
ID service rules. The railroad was cha
tinl el with failure to furnish M. Nj. [
ofl shall. of Rapidan, with certain CT
VI said to have been properly orde
)us nv him and also with refusal to
the or acknowledge liability for den
IF RAGE PENALTIES. The commission
posed a fine of $50 for the viola'
of rule l.
Thousands of Richmond sch'
ia, children Thursday of last week un
in in the work of transferring the ID.
co. statue from the Atlantic Coast /
~ depot to its site. The statue was inclt
an in a box weighed 1000 pounds. II
ses ouired the aid of thousands OF L
the hands to move the gigantic mass
c+S Franklin street to the monun
station. The rope attached to
SO wagon was 700 feet long, or ne
DIS three souares in length. There
he, ample room for the 5000 childre
I've catch hold and pull. Hundreds OF
li- tie girls in pretty little white fr'
pom and waving small Confederate II
e 1t interspersed among as many .
ing formed a most imposing sight