The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16
THE NEWS.


costing seventeen millions.-A company
with million dollars capital has been or
ganizsd in San Francisco to distil surplus
wines into brandy terrible epidemic Of
bloody fux prevails N Warsaw, Ill.,, fifteen
deaths from the disease having occurred in q
few days.-J. II. johnson, charged with
forgery Of notes for 10000 crowns on Nor
wegian banks, was arrested i'm Nebraska and
will be taken back to Norway.-A propo-
sition has been made by syndicate Of for
eign capitalists to opurchase all tho Fall River
cotton manufactures, this being but step
toward securing control of tho cotton indus
try OF the United States Am explosion
that was supposed to he an attempt to blow
up the Victoria bridge at Montreal. Canada,
wrecked On express chr OH the'Grand Trunk
Railway and killed the messenger
prospects In the lower Virginia Valley arc
encouraging. Sprcckels has given
ortlars- to his manager in Philad, lphia to
double the capacity Of his already mammoth
refinery in that city.-A hai'storm in Lan-
caster county, Pa, did considerable damage
to the tobacco plants-Lightning struck
the rm-house of Edna Drownell, near
Troy, New York, aTd killed his ton year-old
daughter. Richard Winlock, q surveyor,
OF Schuylkill caunty, Pa.. was shot from
ambush and instantly killed at Buckhaunon.
w. Va.-Michael Fitzpa' rick, an electric
light lineman, survived n serious shock in
New York city. by tho capsizng OF a
sailboat on Ham Pond, Woburn, Moss.
Misses Jessie Croucher and Eta Olive Parr
were drowned.--Frederick Wrcckcr has
disappeared from York, Pa. He is accused
of forgery. y.--In a collision on the Virginia
Midland Railroad, near Charlottesville, Va,
Fireman F. A. Cox was killed, and Engineer
Charles Davis seriously hurt.-Frauk Mar
tin fell into a vat Of boiling grease at Kan
sas CITY. and was boiled to death.
Horatio Frazer's two chifdran wara dra"',-
ed by no At capsiztng at Providence, X. l.
--Leading publishers deny that n school
book trust has been formed.-A thief grab
bod a handful of diamonds, valued at $l5, ,OOo,
In n Kansas City jswelry store aud escaped.
Two young women Of Philadelphia have
fallen heirs to an estate Of s4o0,OO In Eng-
land--Two cases of giant powder exploded
at niue near Marquette, Mich, aad Two
men ana three boys were killed.-The Ute
| InGians are again off their reservation and
creating havoc in the western part Of Colo
rado.---Charles NJ. Hull, editor of the Boil
var county, Miss, Democrat, was killed by
L. A. Weissinger, lawyer.-Crops wero
seriously injured in Illinois by frost.
story comes from San Francisco about the
pardoning OF q convict by President Har-
rison. through the interce; sion OF Mrs Hur-
rson, the prisoner being an old soldier, who
In poem described Gen. IIarrson's bravery.
H z. Bushnell & Co.'S grain elevator. at
S,delL. Ill. was burned, toxethsr with many
thousands Of bushels OF corn. Loss S25, 900
fully insured. d.---Nebraska cat:lemen are
agitated ovor new and fatal disease that Ia
playing hovoc with cattle. fired
l.. b. Beerbower's pottery at Elizabeth, N. j..
causing loss OF SIS 900, on which there Is ar
insurance of $4,000. .--Chnrles KemmeI
and Henry Arnott were drowned In Braxtor
county, Va, while attempting to cross a
swollen stream.--A young German mother
- In Woonsocket, s. OAK, committed suicid,
bsssSnse she thought hor four days-old hab,
was desd:>.>All the bridges and wooder
stairways in Watkins, Glen' N. Y. have beer
destroyed by a storm. "A passenger pGssen ana
freight train colliied on tho New y Q. otk \ a'''
New England Railroad near New Britain,CC
and the locomotives and several cars were
demolished. Several trainmen were injured
-Fire destroyed nearly every manufactur
ing industry in Ripley, o. Loss 5000 O.
During the past week there were I3l busi
ness failures in the United Stntes and 10 IL
Canada &c. .orge Siler killed the Rev. Sau
Sharpe at Lebanon, Ky. Both wero colored
and Sharpe had been living with Silers sis
ter. claiming she was his wife.
lightning struck tho stables of the EIch
mond, Va. city railway, and sixty mules
seven cars and the buildings were consumed
FOREST fires in Montana continue 10 d,
great tdamage-John Williams cook on Gu,
steamship Wellington. was arrested on ar
riVal at San Francisco, charged with SNUG
Cling five hundred boxes Of opium --Harr,
Lee and Sadie Tay lor were arrested ut Peo
ria, ILL.,, charged with causing the death o
John kowalk nnd Hannah Shearer, whose
bodies were recently found in Lake Michigan
Abraham Finkbone. aged twenty-si,
years, committed suicide by hanging himsel
In Jail at Reading Pa. where he was confined
on the charge Of 81 t ing fire to lumber works
"A national monument in honor Of tn
Pilgrim fathers was unveiled at Plymouth
and Congressman Breckenridge delivered al
address on the establishment in America o.
frce religious inst tutons. "A combinat tiol
has teen formed for controlling the manu-
facture and sale Of artificial ice In the Sout IN
Marion Newman. who is in tho Wash
ington jail, chargad with defrauding an I'm
surance company, hos fallen heir to half
million dollars.-A cargo Of unripe banana
n NJ
Observation-Disclosures Ryan, while In a de
mented condition, jumped from window o
an express train on tho Pennsylvania Rail
road and was seriously ipJured.--Florid
fruit dealers met in New York city an,
formed a combine Tho steamer St. Law
renee ran on a rock Off Hog island in tn
Canadian channel and is total wreck
Two passenger trains collided on the Rich
mond and Fredericksburg Railroad at Law
| ton, near Alexandria, Va. and an enpinee