The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-19
LATER NEWS.

"A. q. SPALDNG, OF Chicago, and his party
Of sbaseban players who left San Francisco
lastsfall arrived in New York city after
world.
ISAAC RICH g. Co., the Oldest fish house In
Boston, are financially embarrassed. Their
are placed at 10000 The firm
was part owner.of the steamer Haytien Re-
public which was seized at lIayti The |
troubles atiHayt are said to have had much I
10 do withithe FIRMS trouble.
DowNs;& FINCH, shirt manufacturers Of |
New York city, with large factories at James
burg, Bordentown and Hightstown, N. j., |
the leading firm in the business
in the United States, have failed for $500, 600 |
AT Frankfort Ind, William Pray shot and
killed his'wife, and then shot himself through
the head, .inficting mortal wound.
AT revival meeting at Calhoun, KY,
w. White, Sheriff Of the county, confessed
that thirteen years ago he stole $1,000 from
the county. He made restitution at once.
CoMMoDoRE BENHAM has taken command
of the navy yard at Mare Island, Cal.
THOMAS WASHINGTON, fourteen years Old
was put Off an engine near Charleston, w.
Va. He returned and struck Engineer
Spriggles on the head with pump handle,
knocking him down, and then beat him to
death.
THE President has appointed Joel B. Err
hardt Collector at the Port OF New York.
Colonel Erhardt was the Republican candi-
date for Mayor of New York last November,
and is a prominent party leader in the Me-
tropolis.
CORNELIUS VAN CorT was appointed Post
master of the city Of New York by the
President. Mr. Van Cott is State Senator,
and like Colonel Erhardt has been for years
n Republican leader in New York city poll
tics.
A PARCEL post convention between the
United States and the Leeward Islands, has
been signed by Postmaster-GeneralW Wana
maker.
SCHUYLER DURYEE has been appointed
chief clerk Of the Patent Office. He is forty
two years Of age and was born in New Jer-
sey.
THE Secretary Of the Navy has formally
accepted the gunboat Yorktown.
THE oOOO tusks of ivory, which the Afri-
can. explorers Stanley and Emin Bey are re-
ported to have with them, are valued at
$500, o,OOe.
A NEPHEW Of Guzman Blanco, ex-President
of Venezuela, who committed forgery to the
amount of s2S,0O0, has been arrested in
Mexico while trying to escape to the United
States.
A NEW Peruvian Ministry has been formed,
with Pedro Alejandrino de Solar as Premier.
EN-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND has returned
to New York city from his trip to Cuba and
Florida and resumed tho practice of law
A RECEPTION was given to Secretary
Tracy by the Brooklyn Club in Brooklyn.
ORDERS were issued for the entire Pennsyl-
vania division of the National Guard to go
to New York and participate In The cere-
monies incident to the centennial of WASH
ington's Inauguration.
THE extensive ax, shovel and saw factories
Of Hubbard & Co., at Pittsburg, Penn, were
totally destroyed by fire. The loss will be
fully s5OO,OO
l. BILL MORAN, the Terror of Flat Tom n
after most desperate fight One offi6srg .aEes w.
fatally injured.
MARI FRANCIS, colored man who was
hanged at Lebanon, KY, on March 80, was
not killed, and was resuscitated by his friends
He is now at large.
RICH deposits OF gold have been discovered
at Bear Paw Mountain, Montana.
The cashier of bank in Anoka, Mimi,
has disappeared with s1OO, 900.
A NEW Chinese Minister has been appointed
to Washington. His name is Tsn Kook Yam,
lie is man of scholarly attainments and
holds high rank as member of the Imperial
Academy Of Pckin.
THE President and Mrs. Harrison enter
tanned Governor and Mrs. Alger, of Michigan,
and the First Assistant Postmaster General
and Mrs Clarkson at dinner at the White
House.
ASSISTANT SERGEANT-AT-ARMs JAMES
CHRISTIE, of the United States Senate, has
just died OF pneumonia. He had been a
Senate employe for twenty-five years
SECRETARY WINDOW ordered the dismissal
of Captain Herbert Beecher, q son of Henry
Ward Beecher, from the Government ser
vice. In 1885 Cleveland appointed him Col
lector Of Customs at Fort Townsend. Washing
Coh ietIlooTy.
THE President made the following appoin,
ments: Eben E. Rand, of Maine to be An
praiser of Merchandise in the District of
Portland and Falmouth, Me-; George O..
Sturgiss of West Virginia, to be Attorney of
the United States for the District of West
Virginia, and Hugh B. Lindsay, of Tennes.
see, to be United States District ATTORNEY for
the Eastern District of Tennessee.
COLONEL Fl. L. SWORDS, formerly Ser.
geant-at-Arms to the Republican National
Committee, has been appointed Inspector of
Furniture in the Treasury Department.
THE Dowager Duchess of Cambridge, aunt
of Queen Victoria, Is dead, aged ninety-two.
I-,aStuiuaEtnS or houses nave peou ,uesry.,...,
by fire at Surat, India. The loss Is placed
at 100000.
CONSIDERABLE distress prevails along the
Panama Canal. There are still over 5000 per-
sons on the line Of the works who are in a
destitute condition Some deaths from
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