The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-09-20
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ule, prOuninebt lawyer Oh EhEapSn SiGy, =,
N. c., i ed OF typhoid fever. er.--Christophe
Gatz and wife, while Gro sing the truck Of
the Ohio River Railroad at Mounlsvil.e w.
Va, were hit by an express train and in-
stantly killed.-During tho past week ono
Thousand puldlers i'll the several iron works
i'm the Schuylkill Va ley have had their wage
raised. .-.-Leua Hertz"g, aged seventeen
years, leaped from New York ferry boat
and fought desperately with James Kelly,
who, in trying to savo her, had to bca, her
into submission. p !ople w,r. serious
ly poisoned by eating cheese at the village of
Bettsville, Ohio.-At n temperance bIrbe-
cue In Levy county, Fla, a quarrel oc Cured
between j. A. Williams and Wright B. EaIis.
in which tho latter, was killed. An Italian
Ess RsESaE I'd n .&s#aba pas Sar S tie way By
a secret sooiety--Georgs Bush, a negro,
sArrs.-a --tss. ossrssv, was takeu- from fat,
at Columbia, Mo-, aud hanged. York
county, s. c., w. b. Boyi shot his wifi, and
then killed himself. f.-S,eve Brodie Tho
bridge jumper, went over Niagara Falls In a
rubber 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 her
home recovered. "A mob attacked IN,
shsrifs officers in Butler county, Kansas. I'm
an attempt to lynch Robert Snyder, who had
murdered bis mother -in-law, an the priso-
nor was shot during the fght-German in
the Wost are agitating the question of a
NATIONAL German. American holiday, to be
celebrated annually by German Americans
all over the country
The Republicans Of the State Of Washing
ton held the.r first convention. and after
adopting platform. nominated E. P. Ferry
Tor GJverpor. and John L. Wilson for n....--
-arasa-~---r rich strike has beon 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 accijently shot and kill
cd his friend, Horace II. Stratton. while deer
hunting in the wilds Of Sullivan county. N.
Y.--Manuel Congdon killed Thomas Sso.
cum In West ESetor. II. I. during quarr,'
over some chickens In P.ttsburg, WIN
Smith, co!ored cook, killed his wife and
then attempted suicide. Jealousy wns the
cause. H p. Ferry, lineman, WINS killed
in Buffalo by an electric light wire while a
work. a it Of jealousy, Sherman Cass
well, living In ~ Montpeller, Vt, shot away the
jaw OF George Gould, who had married tho
woman Casswell loved. --Mrs. Blanche 10y.
wife Of Chinese laundryman. In Chicago,
has applied for n divorce.-Henry Vein
-United States Mihiiifster iiiifst to 70 d MssxFsSi hst}H
hns notified the State Department that the
Mexican government purpose to put 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 employees in that Office
will strike unless their pay is raised. 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 tho International Meteorological
Congress to be held In Paris The Pneu
matte Gun aud Power Company, OF Wash.
| ton, has proposed to build pneumatic car
riage for s4S, ,OJ0.-It hns been decided to
elect ex-senator Platt to fill the vacancy
caused by tho death of Ex-Governor Brown
as president OF the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company. More trouble is ex.
pected at Sewall, w. Va.-There Is a great
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advancing. john johnson, Swedish car
pefitef; living In Chicago, hacked his wife to
death. His mind is unhinged.
The race troubles at Greenwood Miss. have
terminated Four colored men were killel il
the shootin: on Sunday.-L. =. Brooks
banking office, at Creston, Iowa, closed, anf
Brooks and his cashier have been arrested
II. l.. Clauson, q real estate broker. wa
found murdered at Wichita, Kansis.-
Max jacobsen, a clever European sharp,wa
arrested in Chicago charged with extensive
en,bezzlement on the Fidelity and Casualt!
Company, of that city. The money was los
In betting on horse races. Two ch'ldreh
David Gray, while playing with matches II
a barn at Blue Springs, Neb.. set fire to II
and were burned to death. The postofhc
at Moline, ill., was robbed OF s2, l0J worth q
postage stamps. The towns OF ouuour
and Wayland. Mass celebrated the t"ohut
dred and fi.t;eth anniversary OF the incorp'
ration Of Old Sudbury, one OF the most IA
cieut of Massachusetts, towns, having bes
settled in 1888, receiving its name IN ioo'
Sudbury was the nineteenth town In IN
Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the sScon
situa ted beyond the flow OF the tide
millionaire packers, Armour ana swift,
nored the subToc IA to appear before the Del
atorial Committee investigating tho dresse
beef trade in Chicago.
A twelve yoar. old son Of John A. Sickle
OF Purgi,tsville, w. Va, Was accidental
killed while handling pistol DIR. Dav
, Tilton Brown. retired farmer, hanged hir
self in his barn, near Batavia. lL-T
roof of the casting house at tue Stewart Ir'
Company's works, Sharon, Pa, fell in,
tally injurny Austin Moreford, seriously
turing several Others. II train on t
, pennsylvania Railroad, near Elizioethtov
NJ J. struck and killed two boys who We
driving across the track in wagon. -
wreck on the New York, Pennsylvania a
8 Ohio Railroad at Youngstown, Ohio, sevel
, passengers were injured. d.--IAs4t frost
Missouri and Kansas Wednesday night. =
, Washington billiard, a farmer near Beth
= a l., lI.~xfk k.,.