The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-23
THE NEWS.

S1., was destroyed by fire. Loss 800, 600
-George Christian was convicted of mur-
der aud sentenced to prison for life, at Hun
TIN ton, w. Va. He set fire to tho Jail in
which he and Frank Brown were confined,
aud Brown was burned to death.-Walter
Mck"y fell from three story window Of
his residence, Washington, and was instantly
killed.-kobert Snyder, a saloon keeper Of
Eldorado, Kansas, shot lis wife and mother.
in-law.--A mother and her daughter were
outraged and murdered In Mcdowell county,
w. Va.-An express train on the Rock
Island Railroad collided with freight train,
and one trainm,n was killed and several in
jured. -George H Hammond g. Co. s large
packing house at Hsmmond, Iud., WAS de-
stroyed by fire. Loss $500, ,OO0 0-Prepara-
tons eIea. .hhsti0nfsdefate veterans at the m et-
lug OF the Army Of the Cumb 'rland at Chat
tanooga, Teun., September l9.-William
Souiermann, brick manufacturer o: Has
t!ngs, Minn., has discovered gold in the sand
used for making bricks in his yard.
A Hagcr, a deputy Uuitei States marshal,
was shot from ambush and fatally wounded
in Wyoming county, w. Va.-Patrick Cal
houn, general counsel for the West Point
Terminal road, and j. d. Williamson, presi-
don't of the Chattanooga, Rome aud Carroll
ton road, fought duel at Hoke's Bluff, on
the Coosa river Ga, I'm which Calhoun
wounded Williamsoh.-Mrs. n. Freeman
and her twelve ye,r- old daughter were killed
by lightning at Piter City, ILL.,, but ssven-
babo in tho mothers arm was
unhurt Tho night express for Niaghra
Fol. I,o 4
burg Railroad, ran into Rochester train,
near Forest Lawn, N. V, telescopng four
cars, killing one person and iujuring eight
others. A dozen old men caim that they
have been rejuvenated and feel young again
Dy the Drvwn-o1 qu,r>a Nfo- cffxIr trelttnont,
with which the Indianapolis physicians are
experimenting John Proctor, who inur-
dered Wade Purcell, Mt Mount Vernon, KY,
attempted to kill Editor w. r. Cross, OF the
Signal, at Mount Vernon, for do
nounciDg him in tho paper. Pur-
kcr was assassinatcd near Hickory, N c.
Asher Haggerty struck Edward BoEgett on
the jugular vein. killing him instantly, a.
Freehold, N. J.-lIeavy losses of mail mat
ter belonging to merchants of Reading, Pa.
are being investigated by the postal authori-
ties. Charles Sweeny, a Frcnchman at
Turner's Falls, Mass, shot his wife and then
attempted suicide. Dependency due to i'll
health was the cause.
Thomas #. Plunkctt, former president of
the Hartford Silk Manufacturing Company,
and who disappeared defaulter year ngo
and was subsequently, reported daad III MaS-
leo, Is now declared to be living In afilnsnce
tho city If
intendsnt OF an electric railway. at Steuben'
vile, O. received and survived the full shock
CT : anine-hundrcd- Thousands
Of Chinese arc smuggling their way into the
United States by way Of Mexico.--Dr. Rob
ert Longfelow, of tho Cincinnati College OF
Medicine and Surgery made interesting, and
it is claimed, scccessful periments with the
Brown-Sequafd elixir Of life-William
Gauen was killed and Mark ChriStman fatal
Iy injured by tho caboose cor in which they
were asleep, at South Bethlehem, Pa. being
struck by locomotive and dcmolished.-
Eleven one-armed switchmon on the Chicago
and North western Railroad are OH strike for
an advance in wages.-Collapse of the
Prosser motor scheme has caused tho failure
of Colonel j. Hans Davidson, of St Paul,
Mimi, with liabilities Of $l0J, J,OOO.-Police-
man Fryer, of Chicago was shot and killed
in a street Sht.-Coonel James Curry,
u. s. A., retired, died suddenly at Fort Mon
ro,.-George Duncan Bryson was hanged
at Boulder, Montana, for tbs murder OF An
ME Lindstrom. There were 1Gi business
failures In the United States and 81 in Cana
da tho past week. The coal miners at Ala
bama are organ zing to fight the convict la
Dor system.-Waltcr Creus, a fifteen-year-
old boy, Of Jacksonville, Fla, was whirled
around q shaft in saw mill and nearly torn
limb from limb,-Henry Schmits twelve
year-old daughter while running from tho
house to the barn, at Lacrosse, Wis, was
struck by ligbtning.-Astriel Brothers,
milliners, OF Lancaster, Pa, have failed for
$50, by tho breaking OF ON air-brake
in passenger train rounding curve on the
Pittsburg and Western Railroad, the cars
turned over and many OF the passengers were
injured. prisoners in the Jail at
Lumber ton, Robeson county, N. c., knocked
the Jail )rs down and escaped. Hungarian
coke workers, at Morewood, Pa not under.
standing that the strike had been settled, pro-
ceeded to destroy property and attack the
bosses - BY a natural gas asexplosion III Pitts
burg two persons were instantly killed and
fifteen injured. Kusel, treasurer,
OF the village Of Numesta Lake, Mimi, has
disappeared taking with him 800 Of the
towns money.
Philip Dougherty, an engineer at Bechtels
vile, Pa. was caught I'm a belting and drawn
through two rollers, crushing his body into
pulp.-The Union National Bank Of Will
mington, Del, has refused TO cash the city
check for $l2O, 900, thus taking tn, city''
funds out Of that bank, tho question involv
ing an act Of the last legislature, about thc
legality Of which there is doubt.-By th'
recent election in Salt Lake City the gentilei
will control the municipal govornment- -
In quarrel among farmers at Princeton
| KY, John Hutchins shot and fatally wounded
George and Albert Lewis, brothers "A
young daughter of r. n. Boshier, OF Elk
hart Ind, has been tho victim of remarka
BILE case Of suspended animation.-Severa
prisoners escaped from Jail at Iaporte, Ind.
by tunneling under the wall. esti
mated average corn yield Of Illinois will b
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