The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-30
s SOUTHERN ITEMS:
INTERESTING NEWS COMPLIED
FROM MANY SOURCES.

big business boom.
Typhoid fever is still pr, valent at Mason
town, Monongalia county, w. Va.
A site has been selected ct Buena viste,
Rockbridge county, Va, ON which to erect o
2O0ton iron furnace.
Samuel Rosser. a colored man, died In
Campbell county, Va. at the age Of one hun
dred and fifteen years.
Burglars went through the safe OF the
Kanawha Paper Mills at Charlestown, w.
Va, and secured $40.
-Lightning struck a flock Of sheep be-
Longing TO Columbus Hardman, in Roane
county, w. Va, and killed four OF the finest.
Reports from the growing crop of to-
bacco In Danvill', Va, are most tencouragipg,
and there Is now every pr omiso OF aDe bright
tobacco. a -.
-E6oris are being made for the erection
of :. eSb. 600. hotel in WINSTON, N. c., md q
considerable sum has already Seen pledged
to the scheme.
At general meeting Of the stockholders
Of the Bank Of Ronceverte, w. Va, resolu-
tions were passed authorizing its conversion
into a national bank.
w. X. Dennis, a prominent citizen of
Campbell, Va, lost his .Ite whiie attempting
to swim from his mill which had been flooded
by the high water.
"A great revival Of religion has leen In
progress f0T several weeks past, at Lumber
ton, N. c., and, so far, over ono hundred
persons have been converted.
Articles of Incorporation for the Acm,
Wood Fibre company, with a stock OF $780,
QUO in 800 shares, have been fled in tho
superior court Of Dare county, N. c,
-Tbe State Farmers Alliance Of A ALBANIA
has consolidated with the Farmers Wheel.
Both orders have united against the jute
bagging trust and will fSht Il to death.
B. f. Annentrout. bricklayer, w,s
caught tetween the bumpers of Il eight cars
at Luray, Va, and SO badly crushed that
death was almost instantaneous.
One Of tn, boilers in the kitche of the
Eloreotine Hotel at Huntington, w. Va, ex-
piudo issN -s~..t, Iaaly-.s.iAlss, .h----rv.--
sons, one fatally. and doing other damage
"A company of Northern men, with $780,
OO0 capital, has begun work on the finders
Flat sulphur mines in Louisa county. Va. A
large force Of hands will soon be employed.
The passenger traffic on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad Is larger than has ever
been known before. Eight trains a day are
all 50 crowded that it Is difficult to obtain a
seat.
"A big summer hotel will be built at Three
Forks, upshur county, w. Va, and will be
In operation mex t season. 1t will be connected
with Buck hannon by a narrow gauge rail-
road, twent, five miles long.
Work on the Norfolk & Carolina rail-
road, from Tarboro to Norfolk, is progressing
as rapidly as the high waters will permit
1t is exp.cte that the road will be open for
traffic late in the coming fall.
The Baltimore and Ohio Company have
concluded to do away with their present
electric light machinery at Grafton, w. Va,
and put in a larger and more powerful plant.
capable Of lighting the entire town.
Point Pleasant. w. Va, bas been asked
to purchase an interest in the electric light
plant at that place to help pull it out OF a
hole. The town is liable to 60 without light
unless this is DONE
= Will Harper, n ten-year-old son Of w. H.
Harper, merchant at Island Branch, w. Va.
while examining a pistol. was accidentally
shot, the bullet passing throu b his body at
the left OF the navel.
The colored Are ffend, C.ffee, who de-
+. c. Clarke and four Of his family, has been
indicted for murder Dy the grand jury of
Princess Anne, Va, and sent on to the Sep.
tember term for trial.
"A barn filled with forage and farming
ute' ss. belonging to Mr.. Joe Pitman, near
was fired by an incendiary and totally de-
stroyed. No Insurance..
"A dead whale, sixty feet in length, came
ashore near Kitty Hawk, Va. The monster
was cut up by the people Of the neighborhood.
and large quantity Of oil extracted from
the carcass. The bone saved was also valu.
able.
Blackstone, Va, while sheltering themselves
under a COW shed. The shed was struck IN
Ave different places, but no marks were found
on the victims.
Charles Camden, died at Lexington, Va,
of a cancer, which In one year literally ate
Ing IN the legs The case resisted the treat.
ment OF the most eminent surgeons
THE recent thunder storms have been
wonderfully fatal in fleet in North Carolina.
At Catawba station, Miss Ada Reed and Mr..
Jams Frollinger, were killed, and at Lentz.
Mr.. Rainey had two horses killed and his
barn, wagon and farming implements burned
Bellew and wife, charged with the
murder Of their hve-year- old child, at Ashe-
vile, N. c., eight years ago, and the secIe
tion Of its remans-which have just been
d scovered-under the hearth in his sitting
room, have been delivered to the autl orities
of this .tate by the Tennessee, ofticiala
Fire destroyed G.. l.. Barkers livery
stables and some adjoining property at Rome,
tf1. he stallion Captain Sam Morgan, per-
ished in the flames. He was valued at $5, 600.
Total les, $25, coo.
The olice Of Greensboro, N. C.. arrested
negro man who confessed that he had been
stealing from the Richmond g. Danville Rail-
road company Tor the past three years.
About $50 pounds Of brass and other articles
were found in his possession. -
The number OF cotton mills now In the
south as compared with 1880 has been dou-
Died, while the spndles and looms has more
than trebled, the tendency being to build
mills OF greater capacity than formerly.
At lelst thirty five oil wells are down or
are drilling, in the Monongahela county field,
on the West Virginia side OF the state line.
and some Of the wells are big producers, one
going $50 barrels per day. Many other holes
.iH shortly be drilled. About $50 men are
employed in drilling.
Alex. McCutcheon, who lived near
Austed, Favette county, w. Va, while en-
gagged in sliding logs down mountain side,
was caught between two logs and so badly
crushed that he died in less than ON hour
after the accident.
Miss Mary Reed, residing on Spring
creek, in Writ county, w. Va, was bitten on
the ankle by poisonous snake, supposed to
be copperhead. The limb in. .mediately COM
menced to swell, and before medical aid
could be summoned the young woman died.
Two years ago valice was stolen from
b. 81 0. passenger car at Grafton, w. Va,
while its owner, Joseph Kellar. was eating
his supper. The railroad detectives have pu-
sued the matter ever since, and succeeded Ia
recovering the valise and arresting five men
for the theft.