The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-12-13
THE NEWS.


vile, Pa, exploded. blowing q bridge to
atoms aud killing George Peaoock, the iire-
man.-By terrible explosion of nitro.
glycerne, three men were killed and several
buildings destroyed near Oil City, Pa.-
While tho collector Of the Commercial
National Bank Of Cleveland, Ohio, was
counting 81, 500 In the general Office of the
Garmau- American Bank of that city, thief
spatched $4,000 and escaped.-Fire at Al
bapy, N. Y, destroyed Jacob Leonard &;
Sous pap!r house, the Albany CIsket Com.
paDy'S works and o;her buildings, aggregat.
ing loss Of S75. .O0l-The coal operators
Of the MonongaheIa Valley are talking of
closing down the mines indc cfuitely. The
steamer Idaho, from Victoria, B. c., ran on
tae rocks near there, took fire and was de-
stroyed. Loss $4,000 The shortage Of
the latssA.s RJ Woodsopr-eity- eollsctof. OF
" lsssamounts.to Gas, 900 - Tho
crossing OF two electric light wires in Chica-
go set fire to q large building. -Guiseppe
de Lucca, an Isalian, who is believed to bo
the murderer OF Milo aaire Edward Cum
ningham, at Milton, Mass, was arrested in
Boston. The Oh Colony Steamboat train
collided with a switch locomotive at Proyi-
dence, II. l. Engineer George Burnham was
killed, and the other engineer and both fire
men badly injured. Harris, aged
thirty-six years, was killed by an electric
shock in New York city.-Johu Hartnett
OF Philadelphia, was horsewhippsd by his
wife for staying out all night. BY the
burning OF the Tribune building at Minneapo
lis, Minn., number of lives were lost, owing
to u lack of firecscapas.--C S. King. nm
editor, OF Ogden, Utah, was shot by ex.
United States Deputy Marshal Exum, for
publishing an article rejecting upon the lat
ter's wife.
At the poor farm in Merrmac county, N.
b., woman named Bennett seized and car
ried Sarah Wool, adslcAte- woman. to tho
bath:tub aud drow!bdi ia.kr = Ono of tho
mills of the Hnrtfo lera rpet Company, at
Tbomps 'nville, CT, '{e furnei. Loss s5).-
OO0.- Tue knot in tho {rc>se slipp d in hang
ing w. ii. Harvey, eewifo murderer, at
Cue 'ph, Ont, and the Esn died frieghtful
dca;h.--Heavy snowl Storms in the W,st
-Rev. Bosgiss, of s 3ppanioah. Iowa, OBJ
tained verdict Of s.. %5u in q suit for SLAM
der against Banker Red, Of the same place.
-. z. Mckinney, a prominent crimi sssia
lnwyer of -MitwauRee, was way laid aud ter
ribly beaten by unknown parties w. f.
Sarteile, performer in a dime museum at
worcester, Mast, was shot dead while per-
forming u trick with rilc.--Five business
build ngs at Keyport, N. j., were destroyed
by fire, causing an aggregate loss of SG5 00O.
Three aldermen and four detectives, of
rittsburg, Pa, were convicted and sentenced
farm or fI,
ing brides TO settle illegal liquor cases.
Find & Co., Novice ePankerS, who recent
ly closed on the MSS5f having failed, has
ben arrested.-5Jodney ri. Curtis. of
Binghamton, N. W (on his wedding tour died
in carriage in Ftirmount Park, Ihiadcl-
phia. j. c. GilI'Iand, cashier of Cltiz MS
Stat, Bank at Sslden. rs. was arrested
charged with forging mortgages. -Four
children were kilieh by a powder explosion
near Elliot:sville, VI Va.-J. Dot son, of
Osgood, Ind, who had been ill-trcating his
wife, was killed by "A. Bishop, his father in
aw.-B p. Grovcnpr, oil kiverton Nd
took an overdose OF laudsuum, and narrowly
escaped death. .-GsorLe Dill, q farmer OF
Caroline county, Nd, serving five years
sentence in the Delawari penitentiary for at
tempted murder, escIped. The annual
meeting of the America hn Folk Lore Society
OF the Middle States WAS held in Philadel-
phia.-William See sy Hopkins was con
victed Of murder in the first degree et Bell,-
fonte, Pa, for the murder of his wife and
mother rin-law.-There was 2l0 business
failures in tie United States and 50 in Cana.
da the past week.--Fire at Burnside Beech,
Florida, destroyed the Burnside House, the
Palmetto Hotel and beach pavilion
Amanda Brown, of Richmond, Va, threw
red pepper into the eyes OF Annie Pollard
her rival in love, and nearly blinded her,
Judge r. Is. Trippe, Of Atlanta, Ga, com
mitted suicide.
In his message 10 the Legislature Cover
nor Richardson, OF South Carolina reco M.
sneDds q repeal of the Civil Rights law
Sheriff Gill, of Virginia. bought the gnllowi
intended for Simon Walker ut auction on
speculation .-Furbee e. Johnson woolen
mill, in Manington, w. Va, was destroyed
by fire. john Mccarthy, the convict who
assaulted Philip LaCoste, the murderer, at the
state prison in Providence, r. l., has hangel
Himself. john Wallace Jones, the ab-
scondn8 assistant passenger agent OF tho
Missouri tactic Railway Company at st.
Loiis, was arrested in Toronto. An iudict-
ment las beer found, Ag,!s.rs14 Charles Hall
of Chicago, for ise jng fraudulent ware
house receipts. Colts Firearms Com
pany, of Hartford will manufacture the
Driggs-Sctroeier rapid firing gun.-Grau
| vile X. Young, assistant postmaster al
Rugby, Tenn, has been arrested on charge
OF riilng letters passing through his Office
Mrs. Watkins, of Parsons, Pa, obtaine.
SA5CO from a saloon keeper, who had soit
her husband liquor, and while under the in
! hJnnce OF it he was klled.-The bark Ger
mania was wrt cked at Long Branch, Cap
tan Windborst and eight sIilors wer,
drowned. Only four of the crew was saved
John William Brown and William S
Henderson, two colored postal clerks il
Charlotte, N. c., have been arrested for riff
ing letters. The barge Benefactor, from
Philadelphia for Now Lonion, Ct, wa
sunk of Seabright, N. D., and four men are
thought to be lost.