The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-10-11
THE NEWS,


Of the Mountain Meadow massacre.-Mich-
igan capitalists will construct canal from !
Grand Rapids to Holland, that state, to cost |
2'OJO,OOO.-Judge John T. Nixon, OF the |
United States District Court for the District |
Of New Jersey, died at Stockbrdge, Mass. |
- \n investigation OF the condition OF the
families OF the Illinois striking miners shows !
that hundreds of children are suff ,ring from
hunger. Two groat English syndc ites,
with an aggregate capital of S50,0JO,OJO,
have about completed the investment Of this
lirse SUN in American lreweries and grain
elevators.--Captaiu w. II. Jones, general ,
manager OF the L lgar Thomson S;col Works,
who was burned by the explosion OF molten
metal, dioI Saturday yniSht.-J Jseph Lem
ber was waylaid, robbed and nurd rcd in a
woods, near Wilkesbarre, Pa.---By tho ex.
p'os.on OF boiler in quarry, i'm York
county, Pa, Lemuel Barnes was fatally in
| jIrsd an his wife killed. A passenger
| train on the Baltimore All Phlla ielphia Rail
| road colldel with a locomotive near Will
mingtol, DBL, and Fir, IN L lward Lyle, OF
| Newark, killed. .-Hans Jespsr son, a Nor
mon, has been arrested in Salt Lake City
charged with poIygamy, one of his plural
wives having confessed how they were mar
ried without a license. se.-Lieutennnt Colonel
Sidney ID. Waters was held for the action Of
tho grand jury, at Spokane Falls, ON charge
Of stealing sup plies from the relief committee
OF the sufferers toy the August fire.-iiarry
Flamm, the young teller OF the Marine
National Bauk, OF Pittsourg, convicted of
embezzling S35,UO). was sentenced to five
| years in prson.-Mrs Frances L. Willard
| president Of the National Women's Christian
| temperance Union, celebrated the fittieth an.
| niversary OF her birth.--T.re DESTROYED
100000 worth Of property at Butte, Mon
tana.-George OR, a dissipated tailor,
shot his wife and then committed suicide in
Jersey C.tY.-Tne coroner'S jury in tue
| Quebec disaster gave q verdict charging
gross and culpable negiisenc on tho part OF
the Dominion officials.
w. b. Layton, aged seventy n sc years, Of
Dupont, Ohio, blew out the gas in his room
at the Lester House, in Huntingdon, Pr.,
aud was found dead the next morning.
Governor Loo has respitcd for two weeks tho
negro Walker, who wns to bavo been execu.
ted at Chesterfield Court house, Virginia.
William 8. Moore's large graneries and
8. s.ables on his farm, near Laurel, Dal., were
|
iuceudiary John T.. Blaine, a prom
nent Chicago physician, was arrested on
charge OF performing criminal operation
: w tis.ed.es Mrs s-1sssia- IL JRarker-
aiicb.-The steamer providence, of the Old
Colony Line, was In collision with schooner
of Schuyler's light, twenty-five miles from
New York, and was badly damaged. d.-John
Fl. Quinn, who murdered his wife at Alton,
Pa, committed suicide by bangiug himself
In JaiL--Reimund Holzhay, notoriously
known as Back Bart, the stage robber, es-
capped from Jail at Bessemer, Mich.-There
were i65 business failures IN the United
States and % in Canada the last week.
Mrs. Della Preston shot canal boatman on
boat near Schenectady, N. ", who tried
to force his way into her cabin while she
was taking a bath, saw mills o. tho
Ohio falls car works, at Jefferson, Ind,
were destroyed by fire. Total loss S35, 900.
FOREST fires in California are destroy ing
miles of fine timber and sweeping away viii
lagos and farm houses. es.-James Cosgrove,
! OF Chicago, called William j. Collins a liar,
when the latter drew a revolver and shot
! .Coszrove dead-Mrs. VIM. Conroy, Of
died. iIor obidfen aatai viii Ra6spiRs ,5 and
the same cause. Twenty-Five stores were
burned out In Cresco, Iowa. Loss $4,000
, q. 8. Bliss & Co. syrup refinery, in Kansas
+ City, No., was burned. Loss $50, 900; insu.
r,nce $50 0cO.- A three -year-old boy, with
} mania for playing with fire, set fire to his
{ baby sisters clothing in indianapolis, and
! she wns burned to death.
: Emmons Blaine, the second son OF the Hon.
, James g. Blaine, was married Sept. &c, at
kfchfeld Springs, N. Y, to Miss Anita Nc
: Cormick, grand daughter of the late Cyrus
McCormick, a Chicago millionaire, and the
inventor OF the famous reaping machines
, that bears his name.-The Scott elevated
railway to be constructed in st. Louis, 10 to
Dc built with Holland capital, loan OF
> $oooO0oO for the project having been effect
ell through the firm Of Ladenberg. Thalman
q Co., OF New York. representing a syndi-
, cate OF Holland capitalists. Har-
deld, OF New York, was arrested in Rich
inond, Va, charged with bigamy.
Cnarles Il. H.intz was arrested in Philadei-
phia charged with performing q criminal
operation on Eliza Kraus, a nineteen year
old German girl-General Sherman was
reelected president Of the Society Of the
Army OF the Tennessee, and the meeting at
CINCINNATI closed with a grand BANQUET.
Snow storms in the northern part of
Wisconsin. ST. Louis brewers have
refused sl5. 900 for their property offered
by the English syndicate. Tho sheriff of
Reading, Pa, levied on the farm OF VaIen-
tine g. KivGer, whose failure was caused Ly
his being bondsman for Isaac Eckert, tax
collector. who defauted, skipping with IS 600
taxes.-Chicago ladies have formed So
ciety for the prosecution Of the gambling
house proprietors of that city.-In q quar-.
rel between b. +. Curtis, merchant, and
John Wallace, q mail carrier. at Cairo, ILL.,.
over the removal OF Commissioner Tanner.
Wallace was fatally wounded.-Jaccb
Schneider, son of John L. schreiber, one
OF the commissioners OF Lie high county, Pa,
shot and killed his uncle, Franklin j.
abeoil ils>s.- -