The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-19
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.


NOAH SPKNeLER,s well know n contraeto,
and builder of Bethlehem, Penn, comrnitted
suicide Excessive drinking drove him %
the commission of the deed
Ex-PREsIDRNr CLxvELANp has been sp
pointed, by a New York snprsme cSost Soss
mate and Assessment in the matter or the
High Bridge Park.
JUDGE ALExANpER McCuE. Assistant
Treasurer OF the United States, died OF
paralysis at his home In brooklyn he was
sixty-two years old On the day bsiore bis
death President Harrison nominated Ellis "a.
Roberts TO succsed him as head OF the Sub
Treasury in New York.
THE St. David, q full rugged ship, reached
phiiatielphia from Hsvre, with the steward
in irons. q hopeless lunatic; the first mate
down with acute bronchitis, the second mate
n victim of rheumatic fever, aud q seaman
also suffering from a complication OF dis
eases.
HOWARD r SWIFT, agent OF the Mutual
Life Insurance Company at Hartford, Conn,
recently committed suicide in that city.
Financial embarrassment was the cause.
A BIG land slide occurred in Pittsburg,
completely covering the tracks OF the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad.
THIEVES broke into the old State house at
New Haven, Conn.,, and entering the rooms
of the New Haven Historical Society carried
away the sword of Admiral Foote, held by
the Society as a relic. 1t is presentation
sword studded with jewels and precious
stones valued at $4,000.
THE change i'm the offices OF tho Treasurer
and Assistant Treasurer OF New York will
uecsssitate count of all the moneys and
securities in both oiiices, aud will take at
least four weeks to accomplish.
a mILK TRUST has been formed at Pitts
burg The Trust will handle all the milk,
some thirty thousand gallons, which is
brought to Pittsburg daily.
ADAM MAUI was found drowned in a
spring OH his farm, near West Sand Lake,
n. Y. He was siSty-five years old, and Is
believed to have committed suicide.
BOOTH, the great American tragediap, was
stricken with incipieut paralysis during his
appearance in "Othello," ;" at Rochester, n. ",
and the performance had to go on without
him. All his dates for tue season have been
Cancelled.
in no choice by the people on the general
ticket, and the General Assembly will be
called upon to elect State officers.
EDWARD DIErz, of Pittsburg, Penn, killed
one of his children, young girl threo years
of age, and then committed suicide by cutting
his throat. The deed was the outcome of q
quarrel between Dietz and his wife.
THE PENNSYLVANIA Legislature will adjourn
on May 8.
ALLARD 81 Sons, n large Parisian firm
dealing in antiques, nrt furniture, rare tapes
tries, paintings and bric-a-brac, having !
branch establishments III New YORK Guy
have been detected in smuggling viei,atiu ION
by which they have defrau6cd tho United
States OF several hundred thousand dollars
Their scheme was to conSgn to their Nov
York house cabinet furniture i'll which wcr
concealed costly articles which they sold t
the VanderbitS and Astors.
THE complete vote of Rhode Island give
Ladd Republican, 1859; Davis, Democrat
2l, $50; Richardson, Prohibition 1871; Chncc
Law Enforcement, 3435 Davis lacks DIS o
an election but has plurality of 430S. Thi
throws the election into the Gcncral Assem-
bly,. There will be twenty-one Republican
and eleven Democrats in til" Senate, wit
four still to be elected In the House of RI
preSentativeS there are twenty three Rcpub
cans and thrty-scven Democrats with twrlv
yet to he elected. The only candidate clccte
to State Office was Slocum DCmocratl Al
torncyGeneral.
GEORGE w. WARD, Assistant PoStmasb
of Elmra, n. y, has disappeared, ard $50
in Government funds is missing.