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

| - ~ ''"' NSot'oyeu ny HTe Loss EIU,UUO.
-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
and Brown was burned TO deatb.-Walter
Mck"y fell from three story window OF
his residence, Washington, and was instantly
kiiled-Robert Snyder, a saloon -keeper of
Eldorado, Kansas, shot bis wife and mother.
in-iaw.-A mother and her daughter yyere
outraged and murdered In Mcdowell county.
| w. Va.-An express train on the Rock
Island Railroad collided with freight train.
and one trainmln was killed and several IN :.
Jured. d.--9eorge H. Hammond s. Co. s large
packing mouse at Hsmmond, Iud., was de-
stroyed by hre Loss $780, OO--Prepara-
lions 2Eea veterans at the m .et-
| Ing or the Army OF the Cumb .rIand at Chat.
tanoogn, Teun., September 19.-william
Sou'iermann, a brick manufacturer c: Has,
tings, Minn., has discovered gold In the sand
used for making bricks In his yard.
A Hager, deputy Unitei 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 and Carroll
ton road, fought duel at Hoke's Bluff, on
she Coosa river, Ga., in which Calhoun
wounded williamson Mrs. N. Freeman
and her twelve yenr- old daughter wer. killed
by lightning at Pifer City, ILL.,, but s.ven-
months-old babo in tho mothers arm was
unhurt.-The night express for Niaghra
Falls, OH tho Rome, Watertown aud Ozdens-
burg ltailroad, ran into Rochester train,
near Forest Lawn, N. Y, telescoping four
cars, killing one person and iujuring eight
others "A dozen old men claim that thev
have been rejuvenated md feel young again
Dy Tne browu-o> quNrI Hfo citxir troattnvnt.
with which the indianapolis physicians nre
experimenting. john Proctor, who mur-
dered Wade Purcell, Mt Mount Vernon, Ky.
attempted to kill Editor w. r. Cross, of the
Mountain Signal, at Mount Vernon, for do.
nouncing him in the paper. -Robert Pur-
ker was assassinatcd near Hickory, N. c.
Asher Haggerty struck Edward BoEgett on
the jugular vein, killing him instantly, q;
Freehold, N. J.-IIeavy lossos 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 tn IN
attempted suicide. Dependency due to ILL.,
health vas the cause.
Thomas f. Piunkctt, former president of
the Hartford Silk Manufacturing Company,
and who disappeared defaulter year ngo
and was subsequently reported dead in Mex
leo, Is now declared to be living in afllusuce
Ia the city Of Mexico,T-A,,G G.. Davids, super
intends16 OF an electric railway. at Steu6en-
vile, o. received and survived the full shock
OF a ani1e-hundred-v volt Thousands
or Chinese arc smuggling Jneir way into the
United States by way Of Mexico.--Dr Rob
ert Longfellow, Of tho Cincinnati College Of
Medicine and Surgery, made interesting, and
it is claimed, scccessful experiments with the
Brown-Sequafd elixir of life.-William
Ganen was killed and Mark Christman fatal
Iy injured by the caboose car in which they
we're asleep, at South Bethlehem, Pa. being
struck by locomotive and demolished.-
Eleven one-armed switchmon on the Chicago
and Northwestern 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 $lOJ, 900. .-Police-
man Fryer, Of Chicago, was shot and killed
| in street sht.-Colonel James Curry,
u. s. A., retired, died suddenly at Fort Mon
ros.-George Duncan Bryson was hanged
at Boulder, Montana, for ths murder Of An
ME Lindstrom.-There were 164 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
bor system.-Walter Creus, a fifteen-year-
old boy, Of Jacksonville, Fla, was whirled
around shaft In a saw mill and nearly torn
limb from limit, b,-Henry Schmit's twelve
year-old daughter while running from tho
house to the barn, at Lacrosse. Wis. =, was
struck by lightning. g.-Astriel Brothers,
milliners, Of Lancaster, Pa, have failed for
$5O.OO0.-By the breaking OF ON air-brake
In . passenger train rounding a curve on the
| Pittsburg and Western Railroad, tho cars
turned over and many Of the passengers were
| njured.-Several prisoners in the Jail at
Lumber ton, Robson county, N. c., knocked
the Jail ors down and escaped. Hungarian
coke workers, at Morewood, Pa not under
| standing that the strike had been settled, pro-
oeeded to destroy property and attack tho
bosses by q natural gas xplosion III Pitts
| burg two persons were instantly killed and
nfteen injured. Kusel, treasurer,
| OF the village OF Numesta Lake, MIMI, has
disappeared taking with him $1,000 Of the
| towns money.
| Philip Dougherty, an engineer at Bechtels.
Vile, Pa. was caught In a betting and drawn
through two rollers, crushing his body into
puip.-The Union National Bank of Will
mingtou, Del, has refused to cash the c.ty's
check for $l20, thus taking tho city's
funds out Of that bank, tho question involv.
Ing an act Of the last legislature, about the
legality Of which there is doubt.-By the
recent election in Salt Lake City the gentle,
will control the municipal government -
In quarrel among farmers at Princeton
ky.,John Hutchins shot and fatally wounded
George and Albert Lewis, brothers "A
young daughter Of r. II. Boshiler. OF Elk.
hart, Ind, has been the victim Of remarka.
BILE case Of suspended animation.
prisoners cscaPod from Jail at Iaporte, Ind.
by tunneling under the wall. esti
fald - L.