The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-05
THE NEWS,


hos been connected with many OF the Papa
ma Canal schemes, diod at Newton, Mass
-Lizzle Lind, OF Kansa, City, Mo, afte,
aquarrei with her husbaHd, saturated heI
clothing with coal oil. applied match, and
was burned TO odeath.-Wind and Lightning
have been playing havoc in Indiana, Illinois
and Iowa.-Heavy rains have caused the
upper Rcd River, Ark, to flood Van Buren,
county, and ono man lost his wife and seven
chiidren.-A two-story wooden tenement
In Boston fell; two persons were killed. and
several injured. The Johnst town phyei-
cians now estimate that to- thoussr-' eofsfc
wcro fost III fhe Hoods. s.2Gasft.5 :--.aeiis. 4iii.
OF the dcfunct Farmers and Mechars ~ pan u,s
or fittsours, was sentenced to six years in
tho Penitentiary for embezzlemdnt Mich
olas Foley, OF Elgin. Neb., who murdered
Mrs eomeroy Clark, was taken from tho
sherif and lynchel.--Katet tRynbock, Of
st. Paul, Mimi, poured gasoline into tho
tank of a lighted gasoline stove being used
by herself aud Kate Rynsozo while ironing
at a hotel I'm that city, and both girls were
fatally burned.-Tho two hundred and
fifteenth anniversary of the establishment Of
tho first public school in the United States
was celebrated at Dorchester, Mass -Ben-
Jamin Morgan, farmer of Antrim town
ship, Franklin county, Pa, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed while plowing
on Ills farm. blocks Of frame build
ings In tho town Of Vancouver, w. T., wero
destroyed by fro. Losses $4,000. Ed.
ward Robertson has been appointed com.
missioner OF labor statistics In West Virginia.
william Honn, farmer OF Shenandoah
county shot his wife and committed suicid,.
III. s. Salvant and c. J. Le Breton, mid
sdle-aSed men, were arrested in New Orleans
Tor lighting duel in tho city park
While temporarily insane, Mrs. o. b. Beck
ham, OF Sterling, Kansas, killed her child
and committed suicide.-Two young men
and two young women I'm a rowboat on the
Schuylkill wero swept over the Fairmount
dam and all were drowned. new insect
is doing serious damage to the growing
wheat in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana.-
Frank Pilington, book-keeper for A. f..
Sifaeth, furniture dealer OF Newark, N. j..
has disappeared with $1,000 of his employers
mo ney.
Elisha Packer, aged sovonty years, nephev
" the late Judge Asa Packer, OF Pennsyl-
Vania, died suddenly In New York city,
q passenger train on the Pan Handle Road
was wrecked near Steubenville, Ohio, and
TWO persons instantly killed and eight in
lured. Tho remains of John Soner. the
hrst Governor OF Tennessee, which rested i'm
Aiaoama for seventy-four years, were yes
serday reinterred In Knoxville -Princ,,-
son College conferred the degE las,I,,L ID.
1uRon Presidont Harrison ans. 10 GRAY.
!. . - a-,bey as,lu
iaasy Campbell, oT fntEh1& Ess a4af row
ing on tho Delaware 9XAllei d their
fittle boat 70 dritt with the ~ 4; odt were
unable 10 row book. II >sSfpx tq board a
schooner that came to theft aysi5k kaucs. tho
young woman fell overboald and war
drowned. Wa A. Collier, ofGlahton, Chill
ton county. Ala, shot and killed his son-in-
law, Philip Grohan.-Three hundred dele
gates to the Worlds Sunday School Con-
vention, to be hold in London, sailed from
New York.--The freight buildings of tho
New York Central Railroad at Buffalo,
wero burned. second attempt was mado
on tho Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan
road near Wabash, Ind, to wreck a train.
Tho Michigan legislature has passed
and st. Pnul Railroad Company has made
to the United States Trust Company OF New
York mortgage for one hundred and fifty
millions for the purpose OF taking up all
other Indebtedness Of the road at a lower
rate OF interest nnd to lay additional double
tracks and make other necessary Improve
Burke alias Delaney has
been indicted rs one Of the conspirators in
the murder Of Dr. Cro"in - ~ NJ.
u"",pri,ira Icpislat're WIN. f. Ci<Se sIp. J.
was declared elected United States senator"
The Amalgamated a ssociation of Iron
and Steel Workers has admitted the bolt
at Nashville, Ark. Loss. $4,000 0OO--Hardy
Hamilton was hanged at Rome, Ga, for the
murder of n Chinaman. Captain Stevens,
OF the Allen line steamer Peruvian. died ou
The voyage from Baltimore to Queenstown.
The storage sucd or the Delaware River
Chemical Works I'm Philadelphia was dc.
stroyed by fire. e.--Alex. Rivers, his son, and
Louis Seward were drowned whle fishing
near Quebec. Two Choctaw Indians were
murdered near Fort Smith, Ark-Frank
bear was stabbed to the heart by Augustus
fark In Chatham, Ont.--Charlotte Allen,
the widow Of Richard o. Allen, living near
Washington, Ind, has confessed to tho muir
dor OF her husband. "A boy named Sny-
der was murdered in indianapolis by four
companions. and Mrs. John I.eayitt,
OF Lincoln, Neb., have been arrested IN tho
charge OF numbering their two daughters
In Langton, Ont, a boy named Davis
aged fourteen, shot and killed John Rohrer,
aged twelve. Three hundred and forty.
five Mormon proselytes were landed at Cas-
tie Garden. Alvin P,rk, of Now London,
Ct, murdered II fourteen. year old girl namcI
Lttlefeld. --Ne,tie Colbnrn, aged thirteen,
OF EfShart, Ind. committed suicide because
sho wns ileshy.-Andrcw Grimes, the color
ell murderer OF John Martin, was hanged at
May's Landing, N. J.--Mr. Jos ,ph Ciiiles
OF Fredericksburg, Va. attempted to kill
himself with an axe. Tho State of Ithodo
Island has repealed the prohibition amend
ment carried three years ngo.
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