The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-09-20
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stantly killed a. Attaut e Crty.-C L. d.
die, prominent lawyer OF Elizabeth Cit IL,
N. c., dei OF typhoid fever.
Gatz and wife, while Gro sing tue truck Of
the Ohio River Railroad at Moun.IsviI.e, w,
Va, were hit by an express train, nnd in
stantly ykilled.-During thu plst week one
thousand puldlers i'll the several iron works
In the Schuylkill Va ley have bad their way, 8
raised. .--Lena Hertzog, aged seventeen
| years, leaped from Now York ferrybo,t
and fought desperately with james Kelly.
| who, in trying to save her, had to bca, her
into submission. p !ople w.r. sorious.
| ly poisoned by eating cheese at the village of
| Bettsville, Ohio.-At a tcmpsraurs b,rba-
cue In Levy county, Fla, a quarrel oc Cured
between j. A. Williams and Wright B. Eijis.
in which tho latter, was killed An Italian
RSE8iEsa s sMs%arka pHs rSkas ~ tie Wa1
q secret society.-George Bush, a negro
shrrx.s -tss.- ousr.ge, was takeu from I'M,
at Columbia. Nc, and hanged. y,rL
| county .. u, w. b. BoyI shot his wifi. and
then killed himself.-Seve Brodio rho
orloge jumper, went over Niagara Falls in n
ruooer SUIT and came out alive, but badly
shaken up.-Sylvestero Morales, a notori
OUT California outlaw, has been captured
and young girl whom he abducted from he,
nome recovered. "A mob attacked IN,
sherihs officers in Butler county, Kansas. in
an attempt to lynch Robert Snyder, who had
murdered bis mother law. AMI the nr;.o-
nor was shot during the fight t-Iermans in
'ne "ost are agitating the question OF a
hitionai German American holiday, to be
CeIahraf tod
all over the country.
Inc Republicans Of the State OF Washing
ton held ther first convention. and after
uuoPt'ng platform, nominated E. p. Ferry
rich Ga sriss SSP "a. SsSn made in tho
Eastern View mine In New Mexico.-A G.
Staley. Of South Bend. Ind. was poisoned
by taking morphine in mistake for quinine.
Henry Fountain acc;dently shot and kill
ed his friend, Horace II. Stratton. while deer
hunting in the wilds OF Sullivan county. N.
4.--Manuel Congdon killed Thomas S!o-
cum In West ESetor. II. l. during a quarr,i
over some. chickers.-1n P.ttsburg, VIM
Smith, co!ored cook, killed his wife and
then attempted suicide. Jealousy was the
cause.--H. p. Ferry, q lineman, wns killed
In Buffalo by an electric light wire while al
work.-In a 1T Of jealousy, Sherman Cass.
well, living In Montpelier, Vt, shot away the
jaw OF George Gould, who had married tho
woman Casswell loved. d.-Mrs. Blanche 10y,
wife of Chinese laundryman. In Chicago,
has applied for a divorce.-Henry Vein
-United States -MihiiistsfT his T"t 70 NfsxNs5 tbRa
has notified the State Department that the
Mexican government purpose to put a tariff
on dressed animals and all animal products,
in retaliation for the duties imposed by the
United States COVE rnment on oxen THE
postmaster at Spokane Falls has notified the
Department that the emp oyes in that Office
will strike unless their pay is raised. d.-Sec-
retary Tracy has designated Lieut.. Adam
Ward, naval attache to the United States
legation at Paris, TO repr sent the Navy De.
partment at the International Meteorological
Congress to be held In Paris Tho Pneu.
matte Gun and Power Company, Of Wash.
ton, has proposed to build a pneumatic car
riage for s4S, ,Oo0. 1t hos been decided to
elect ex-senator Platt to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Ex-Governor Brown
as president Of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company.-More trouble is ex-
pscted at Sewall, w. Va.-There Is great
demand for coke, and the price is gradually
advancing. John johnson, q Swedish car
pehter, living In Chicago, hacked his wife TO
death. His mind is unhinged.
The race troubles at Greenwood Miss. havo
terminated. Four colored men were klleI in
| the shooting on Sunday.-L. 8. Brooks
banking Office, at Creston, Iowa, closed, and
| Brooks and his cashier have been arrested.
-. L. Clauson, a real estate broker, was
found murdered at Wichita, Kansas
Max Jacobsen, a clever European sharp, was
arrested in Chicago charged with extensive
ernbezzlement on the Fidelity aud Casualty
Company, of that city. The money was lost
In betting on horse races.-Two children OF
David Gray, while playing with matches In
barn at Blue Springs, Neb., set fire to it,
and were burned to death. The postoffice
at Moline, Ill. was robbed OF q, 100 worth OF
postage stamps-The towns OF Sudbury
and Wayland. Mass. celebrated the two hun
dred and fittieth anniversary OF the incorpo'
ration Of Old Sudbury, one OF the most -an
cient of Massachusetts, towns, having been
settled in 1853, receiving its name In io59.
Sudbury was the nineteenth town III the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the second
situated beyond the flow Of the tide. The
millionaire packers, Armour and Swift, ig-
nored the subrcc IA to appear before the Sen
atorial Committee investigating the dressed
beef trade in Chicago.
A twelve yoar- old son Of John A. Stickler
of Purgit ttsville, w. Va, was accidental,
killed while handling pstol. DIR. Davi,
Tilton Brown, a retired farmer, hanged him
self in his barn, near Batavia, IL-Th
roof Of the casting house at tue Stewart Iro
Company's works, Sharon, Pd., fell in, ia
tally injuriny Austin Moreford, seriously In
turing several others.-A train on tn
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, near Eliz ibethtowl
N. J. struck and killed two boys who wcr
driving across the track in a wagon. i
a wreck on the New York, Pennsylvania an
Ohio Railroad at Youngstown, Ohio, sever,
passengers were injured. frost
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