The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-05
LATER NEWS

thE Olty nun hb boNctp 1N.s H., was Uo-
stroyed by fire. Several nearby buildings
were also damaged Loss' nearly 100000
ROBERT CRAVEN. Of PhiIs delphia. the
| Secretary and Treasurer oflthes Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore 2sailroad Com:
| pany, has stolen over $40. 900 sandfied.
Two Mexican raiders whotcrossed the DO,
der into Texas with objects ofNrobbery were
killed by American officers Three Of tl +,
latter were wounded.
in the burning of the Standard Bagging
Factory at st. Louis
DAN WARD, sixteen7ye old, .shot and
killed Ed. Burke, two years his Junior, at
Birmingham. Ala Burke asked Ward for
cigarette and the latter replied he had
none. Burke called his friend a liar, when
Ward shot him.
SECRETARY TRACY has ordered the
steamer Thetis to proceed to sSitka, Alaska
THE President has issuedra proclamation
forbidding the killing of any otter, mink,
marten, sable or fur seal, or other fur-besr-
ing animal in Alaska.s Penalties fixed for its
violation are for each offence 5000 to $1,000
fine and not more than,sx ths'imprison-
'hSHot VI DOS's 'NcSSolo ~Wlll D6 con-
fscated.
So far this year there have been fifteen
duels and sixteen suicides at Monte Carlo,
tho great Italian gambling resort
IT is estimated that tho losses due Ito the
collapse Of the French copper ring amount
to sSo,oO0,00o.
A WHITE book on Samoa has been issued
lf,,. prfn -olr
acts and utterances of Consul. Knappe, the
German Consul at Samoa.
The Government has taken steps to pre.
vent the Introduction into Mexico of Ameri-
can lard, owing to tho official announcement
that it is detrimental to health.
COUNT PETER SCHUvAJoFF. the distin-
guished Russian diplomat and General died
ut st. Petersburg, aged sxty-one.
EX-PRIvATE SECRETARY DAN LAMONT has
been chosen President OF the Houston, West
Street and Pavona Ferry Railroad Com
pany OF New York city by the unanimous
vote OF tho directors.
EMILY SCHENcKIE was Albert Lindstrom's
sweetheart four years ago in Sweden. She
refused to marry him after he paid her pas
sage here, and in Worcester, Mass, no shot
her, injuring her fatally, and then killed
himself.
Ex-UNITED STATES SENATOR JOHN SCOTT,
President and ono Of the receivers of tho
Allegheny Valley Railroad Company, died
at PittsburG Of pneumonia, in his sixty ninth
year. He was identified with a large number
Of financial and industrial institutions in
pIttsburg, and was one of tGe orginators Of
the Edgar Thomas Steel Company.
THE mill of the Chicago Lumber Company
at Denver, Col. was burned. Loss, SIS, ,O0O
GOLDBERG BROTHERS, of Miwaukce,
Wis, dealers in laces, have failed for Sll0,-
600.
THE President has signed the proclamation
opening Oklahoma to settlement May l is
set as the date for opening the Territory.
JUDGE CHANDLER, of Independence, Mo-,
has accepted the place of First Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
SECRETARY WINDOW has appointed James
ii. Windrm, of Philadelphia. Supervising
Architect OF the Treasury, vice Will A.
Freret, resigned by request.
THE town Of Pinsk in Russia has been do
stroyed by fire. Six persons were burned to
death.
A FRENCH torpedo boat has foundered Off
Cherbourg in a hurricane. Her captain and
fourteen OF her crew were drowned
Co MINISTER HEEMsKEnK has been appointed
Regent Of Holland.
ENGLAND has demanded Of Morocco $3.50
900 indemnity for the massacre and lpillago
at the Mackenzie factory at Cape JUDY in
1883.
CHOLERA has broken out at Zamboanga,
in tho Philippine Islands. There have been
five hundred deaths so far.
TIE barracks in tho citadel at Halifax,
Nova Scotia, were burned, and tho city was
endangered for time by the proximity OF
the fire to the powder magazine.
AN expedition of GOO0 Mahdists proceeded
in steamers and barges against Emin Pasha.
Emin defeated the dervishes near Bohr, kill
ing most of them and capturing their
steamers and much ammunition.
THERE have lately been sixty sudden
deaths in a hospital at Florence, Italy, all
proceeded by intestinal disturbance. Some
newspapers attribute deaths to bad foo