Peninsula Enterprise, January 6, 1894
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : SeasideWatermen -- Personal injuryInfrastructure -- Commercial - Commercial constructionTransportation -- Railroad - Steamboats
Chincoteague.
Large shipments of oysters are being made daily now from this place. On last Monday 628 barrels were sent to market.
Gross Whealton, an industrious and very worthy young man, 21 years of age, was drowned in our channel on the first day of January. He was knocked overboard by a boom and before assistance could be given him by his companion John Tindle, in handing him an oar under the deck of the boat, he sank out of sight and has not been seen since. He was unmarried but has a large and influential family connection and the distressing accident has cast a gloom over the entire community.
Mr. Archie Jones, who left here about a year ago for Philadelphia, contracted while here last week to have a large storehouse built, which he will occupy as soon as completed and open out therein a stock of general merchandise. Chincoteague is to be his home for the future.
The steamer [illegible] at this time is making [illegible] daily to Franklin City, leaving here at 4:42 a.m. and 12:15 and 2:30 p.m.
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Infrastructure -- Commercial - BanksTourists and sportsmen -- Other recreation - Fraternal ordersTransportation -- Water - Freight
Onancock.
Onancock National Bank is a fact. The following directors were chosen at a meeting held in the Town Hall on Wednesday, December 27th: John P. L. Hopkins, F. T. Boggs, J. T. Finney, F. D. Parkes, H. F. Powell, C. P. Finney, A. G. Kelly, J. R. Hickman, W. R. Lewis, R. L. Hopkins, T. J. Powell, H. B. Wilcox. On Thursday, 28th, the directors met and elected John P. L. Hopkins, Onancock, president; Frank T. Boggs, Boggs Wharf, vice-president; E. A. Herbst, Baltimore, Md., cashier; W. J. Doughty, Onancock, book-keeper. Committees were appointed to look after a site for building, &c.
A large lodge of the order of Heptasophs has been organized at this place by Mr. John W. Duncan.
Steamer Pocomoke made her regular trips to Baltimore during Xmas week. Many sweets and oysters are going to market from this point.
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Sea -- Shellfish - Oystering : BaysideSea -- Shellfish - Oystering : Law enforcement
"Edward Marshall, one of the crew of the oyster bugeye Little Willie, was shot and killed yesterday evening by some unknown men on board of canoes from Syke's Island. Captain Cox, of the Little Willie, was suspected of dredging in Pocomoke Sound, in Virginia waters, but was attacked in Maryland waters on his way home. Captain Cox and his crew of three men took refuge in the boat's cabin, when the shots began to fly. Marshall crept out to the rudder and a ball pierced his lung. He was pulled into the cabin dead. The bullet perforated the sails and cut the dredge lines. Captain Cox finally returned the fire from a protected position and drove off the attacking party without further accident. Another account states that the attacking party was the Virginia oyster police."
The above statement of a newspaper correspondent at Crisfield is grossly inaccurate. Authentic advices received at this office are to the effect that Cox, who is a non-resident, not only has been dredging oysters in Pocomoke Sound on the Virginia side for the last two years, but as late as last Saturday, was engaged in taking oysters in Shell Rock in Virginia, and because of this and other open violations of our oyster laws, two canoes with five men in each left Syke's Island on last Saturday, to arrest him. On reaching Crisfield, they were told not only that they could not arrest him, but he commenced firing upon them at once from an unexposed place in his boat in which he concealed himself. Our citizens in self defence naturally returned the shots and if they resulted in the killing of a man on Cox's boat, as is stated, Cox is responsible for the same and no one else. The citizens of Sykes were exercising a lawful right in attempting to arrest Cox for violating our laws. Cox in commencing the fight which led to the killing of one of his crew is the murderer and no one else is to blame for the result.