The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26
THE NEWS.

storehouse Roperty, causing losses aggrs-
eating $4,000. Rosenberg,
| aged forty-fSe years, at Somcrville, Mass,
murdered NJ ). Catherine Smith, with whom
he had boe,I living, aud lrer fourteen-year-
old son, and also shot and seriously Injured
the womanS two other children, completing
the terrible tragedy by leaping from win
dow himself and dying. Frequent earth
quake shocks have been felt about Obispo
county, Cal.-C. l.. Gillespie, late door
keeper OF the Nebraska Senate. is under
arrest in Pittsburg, charged by his wife
with grand larceny. prisoners
were suifocated In u fire that destroyed the
Jail ailatJacksonville. Oregon. Joseph Web
ber. a prominent citizen Of Chicago, COM
mitted suicide de>-Frank ii. Tiernan, u Chi
-.--- .suors In bad luck, killed hjmsalf =r.--sA.
letter ys-essssss =S-~TrTs S5as the stsamer
Ropel. from ayaiIsaraisoS WAS wrecked at
Castro aud eleven Of her crew lost. Tho
Otis Iron and Steel Works, at Cleveland,
Ohio, have been sold to Euglish capitalists
for 81 SOC. 600. ALFRED Greene, an insane
Sweds in the Michigan State Asylum,
stabbed James T. jackson to the heart with
a abutcher rknife.-George DeWeight fatally
stabbed a man named Meaney in the Michi-
gan State House OF Correction, In mistake
for Charles Stanley, another inmate, with
whom he had quarreled-C. b. Fulton
and Miss Mary Ault, were instantly killed
by cart in which they were riding b,ing
struck by a train near Bsllaire, Ohio
Levi Ehrhart, young mau, was killed on
the Northern Central Railroad near York.
Pa. john DAILY and Andrew McGregor
were killed, and several other men injured
by dam breaking at Pittsburg.-The
tanks OF the Consolidated Oil Company, at
st. Joseph, Mo-, were struck by lightning
and destroyed. Loss $4,000 Thomas
jefferson, colored. was hanged at Memphis,
Tenn. for the murder of William Raeland.
Charles Blackmar, Of East Saginaw, MIch,
Shile drunk shot his mother, aud grandson
OF the woman then shot the drunkard.-
Fire destroyed the business section Of Car.
son, Iowa. Loss Sc, 900, insurance SOS, 900.
-Ehorts are being made to settle the Ill-
nois miners strike by arbitration.-J.
HoEe Winfield, son of the Episcopal bishop
OF California, was fatally shot at Benca,
Cai.. by j. K. Crooks i'm q quarrel over a
newspaper article. An attempt was made
TO blow up the Salvation Army barracks in
ianapolis.-August Belz, of Appleton,
Wis, put to flight a dozen whitecaps who
had come to fog bim.-A shortage Of S2l,-
QUO has been found In the accounts of OK.
County Treasurer T. w. Colo, Of Marshall,
lL-Rev. Il. +. Flemen, alias John Geldell
was arrested in Pittsburg, charged with a
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"a. murder committed stsamer sa Enterprise mas
arrived AZ tsas:.sss .ss.s.::::S.toin.-Mary :: Arnold
was fined $3.50 In New York court for
jewelry from Franoe.--Michaei
Rooney, under ten years sentence at Dan
nemara state prison. N. ". for n,ans!aughteT
committed suicide by hanging.-Henry
Blake and Michael Frawiey, while drunk at
Susquehanna, Pa, fell into tho river and
received fatal njuries.-Albert Oriaroski,
a young German, committed suicide in New
York city by first shooting and then hang
ing himsslf.-By the wreck of freight
train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near
Pittsburg, three persons were killed, a mum.
ber injured and thirteen cars demolished.
in a Chicago court room threatening to kill
Judge Grinnell.-Emil Plettig and August
John, OF Chicago, i'll attempting to run II
dam at Kilbourn City, Wis, i'll II rowboat.
were drowned by the boat capsizing.-The
new census of Buffalo, N. Y, just completed
shows q population Of S2.O27.
During fire in the American Provision
Company's warehouse, Chicago, six firemen
were overcome by smoke, two Of them
fatally.-A storm near Albuquerque, New
Mexico, twisted railroad rails out of shape,
washed bridges away. and did general do
struction----Ex-Co Congressman Edmund Rice,
Of Minnesota, Is sdead.-William Fisher, of
East Saginaw, Mich, was bitten OH the
thumb by man with whom he had been
from which he died. mayor Of Gin
cinnati has ordered that tho Sunday laws
prohibiting the sole Of soda water and ice
cream be enforced. William Sharkey, ar
rested at Toledo, Ohio, for murder, con-
fesses that he killed Coleman Dupeo, an old
hermit and then set fire to his hut in the
hope that all evidences Of the crime would
be reduced TO ashes. .-George Whitmore,
of Rochester, N. Y, has complained to tho
pohSo thdO no Nuo VI Sl,Oto NY tuO
girl he was about to marry.-William
Wellington, colored, was hanged at Char
lotte, N. c., for tho murder OF Policeman John
Pierce. -Lightning struck cottage In
Chester county, Pa, and killed u co!ored
child. Other damage was done by lightning
In that section.-The grand lodge Of Bon
evolent and Protective Order of Elks con-
ciuded its annual session i'm New York, and
adjourned, to meet next year at Cleveland,
Oho-The Southern Yellow Pine Lumber
Association met at Montgomery, Ala, and
considered freight ratcs.-Sisht earth
quake shocks at Charleston, s. c. "A cir
cular has boon issued to Grand Army depart
ments all over the country to resent the ac-
tion of tho railroads In not giving the Gus
tomary rate Of one cent per mile to the
national encampment to bs held at Milwau.
kec, by no. attending in numbers, only the
regular delegates going.