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

ma Canal schemes, died at Newton. Mass
-Lizzle Lind, OF Kansas City, Mo-, afte
aquarrel with her husband, saturated be
''o'hing with coal oil, applied match. an.
was burned to odeath.--Wind and lightniub,
nave been playing havoc in Indiana, Illinois
ana Iowa. Heavy rains have caused th,
upper Rcd River. Ark, to food Van Burer
county, and emo man lost his wife and sever
chiidren.-A two-story wooden tenement
In Boston fell; two persons were killed and
several injured. The Johns town physi
clans now estimate that t. siioussp-, sSeop,s
tswcfe lost IL the hoodss Casf{Sss= ---a>zfs, nc,
or the dofunct Farmers and Machan. II psant
ot fittsburs, was sentenced TO six years ir
the ePenitentiary for embezzlemaIat Mich
oias Foley, Of Elgin, Neb., who murdered
Mrs. Pomeroy Clark, was taken from tho
sheriff and lyncleI.--Kate lRynbock, OF
st. Paul, MINI, poured gasoline into the
tank OF lighted gasoline stove being used
by herself aud Kate Rynsozo while ironing
at hotel in that city, and both girls were
fatally burned.-Tho twos hundred and
fifteenth anniversary Of the establishment of
tho iirst public school in the United States
was celebrated at Dorchester, Mass. BEN
1amin Morgan, q farmer of Antrim town
ship, Franklin county, Pa, was struck by
rghtning and instantly killed while plowinn
on Ills farm.--four blocks Of frame build
ings>i In the town OF Vancouver, w. T., wero
destroyed by fro. Losses $4,000. Ed.
ward Robertson has been appointed COM
missioner oflabor statistics I'm West Virginia.
"hiam Honn, farmer OF Shenandoah
county shot his wife and committed suicide.
III. q. Salvant and G. j. Le Breton, mid
sdie-aged men, were arrested in New Orleans
for fighting duel in the city park
Whilo temporarily insane, Mrs. o. b. Beck
ham, OF Sterling, Kansas, killed her child
and committed suicide.-Two young men
and two young women in a rowboat on tho
Schuylkill wero swept over the Fairmount
dam and all wore drowned. new insect
is doing serious damage to the growing
wheat in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana.
Frank Pilington, book-keeper for A. II.
Sifaeth, furniture dealer OF Newark, N. j.,
has disappeared with e., 1000 of bis employers
money.
Elisha Packer, aged seventy years, nophev
% the late Judge Asa Packer, of Pennsyl-
vania, died suddenly In New York city.-
a passenger train on the Pan Handle Road
was wrecked near Steubenville, Ohio, and
TWO persons instantly killed and eight in
aured. d.-The remains Of John Sener, the
hrst Governor Of Tennessee, which rested in
Aiaoama for seyenty-four years, were yes-
terday reinterred In Knoxville Prince
aPn Colleaa conferred he aegsss- IA ..
F<f67 7etf E3sff fiSOR cnt q 10 aray.
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ing od the Bsilss ~ - ~ kihsir ans
.. II - ID 6 z6 ware
drowned. Nv. A. Collier, OF Akton, Chill
ton county. Aln.. shot and killsd bis son-in-
law, Philip Grohan. .--Three hundred dele
gates to the Worlds Sunday school Con-
ventiOn, to be hold In London, called from
New York. Tho freight buildings of tho
New York Central Railroad at Buffalo,
were burned. A second attempt was mado
on the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan
road near Wabash, Ind, to wreck q train.
Tho Michigan legislature has passed
local option bill. The Chicago. Milwaukee
and st. Poul Railroad Crmpany 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
ments.-.Martin Burke alias Delaney has
been indicted rs one OF the conspirators in
the murder OF DIR. Cre-ia, ---.-rz sssSSgs-y
-u-saAsi,ira Ieajslatssrs-Vm. K. CsSss slp. !
was declared elected United States senator
The Amalgamated A Association of Iron
and Stecl Workers has admitted the bolt
makers. buildings were burned
at Nashville, Ark. Loss. S2O, O00.--Hardy
Hamilton was hanged at Rome, Ca, for the
murder of Chinaman. Captain Stevens,
OF the Allen line steamer Peruvian. died on
the voyage from Baltimore to Queenstown.
The storage sued OF the Delaware River
Chemical Works in Philadelphia was de.
stroyed by flre-Alex. Rivers, his son, and
Louis Seward were drowned while fishing
near Quebec.--Two Choctaw Indians were
murdered uear Fort Smith, Ark.-Frank
Bear was stabbed to the heart by Augustus
Park In Chatham, Ont.---.Charlotte Allen,
~>-~ ".>~~'' Va AsiSuniu ". ftneu, living hSdT
Washington, Ind. has confessed to the MUIR
dor OF her husband.----A5 boy named Sny-
der was murdered ip Indianapolis by fout
companions..---Mr. and Mrs John l,cayitt,
OF Lincoln, Neb., have been Arrested 5n tho
charge Of numbering their two daughters.
in IAngton, Ont, boy named Davis,
aged fourteen, shot and killed John Roarer,
aged twelve. Three hundred and forty
hve Mormon proseiytes wers landed at Cas-
tie Garden. ALVIN Park, OF New London.
CT, murdered a fourteen. year old girl named
Littlefield. ---Nettie Colburn, aged thirteen,
OF Efxhart. Ind, committed suicide because
sho was neshy. .---Andrew Grimes, the color
ed murderer OF John Martin, was hanged at
Mays Landing, N. J. MIR. 3Josaph Chiles.
OF fredericksburg, Va. attempted to kill
himseif with an axe. Tho State OF Rhode
Island has repealed the prohibition amend
ment carried three years ago.
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