The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-11-22
THE NEWS.

'a'u' "ciS u'StToyeu Dy IRE loss SlJU,UOU.
Tho loier OF the tug Comet at Buffalo,
N. Y. exploded, wrecking the boat and in
jurins, two Of the crew. Fire destroyed
the Masonic block at Monte zum,, N. Y. loss
$1,000. An English syndicate is negotia-
ting for the purchase OF the mailing plant
of George ii. Bul'en g. Co., tho largest in
Chicago, and which turns out $50 900 bush
els OF malt yearly. .--Frapk o. Paul, of
Providence, II. , n freight train brakeman,
has been awarded &, ,00o against the Provi
deDce and Worcester Railroad for being
thrown from train by defective brakebar
and losing lee. Six inchos OF snow COW
ers tho Texas handle.----Ralroad me,,
are now considering pians for an organiza-
tion to DO known Ne Peoples Trans--
portation Comp agvrstown is again
Il 'odsd and tho TEMPORARY bridge across the
Conemaush has beeu washed away.-An
n fog on tn, E,st river, New York, tue Uni
ted States mar-of-var Chicago collided with
Ioat OF freight cars, hut the Chicago was
net damaged. ---Charles Page, ;el s,v-
enty eight years. and his ng.d wife w.re
found murdered in their homo i'm Clinch
county, G,.-E'mer Labadie, French
man, of Franklin, Mass, on trial for rape
upon his own daughter, committel suicide
in the courtroom. the bre liking of a
brake on a cable-c r in Kansas City, a COLI.
sion occurred, and a grip,nan and several
passengers were injured. - The annual re-
port of the marine and fishery exchange of
Gloucester shows that fourteen vesselIot tho
fishing n .ct AMI seventy lives were lost dur
ing til, Year. Henry Brink. wife of
the wcalthjest farmer in Brown county. Kan.
was shot ard killed by Frank Zoludick, an
emp!oyc on tho farm John w, Wilks. n
contractor OF Newark, N, j.. died suddenly
OF pneumonia and his wife, robust woman,
expired an hour later from the shock.
James d. Hopkins. OF Norfolk, va, ncci.
n'nl'y shot and killed himself whilo gun
hihs.--Ihcre were two hundred and twenty
"'aht business failures In tho United States
anu thirty-ninc in Canada the past week.--
owen anderson, n eightcen.yea old negro,
was lyi cael i'm L.esburg, Va, for OUTRAGE
upon whitc girl seventeen years of age.-
several work ngmen were injured hy the
railing OF a scaffold on thenter i'm course of
construction on Blsckwell's Island, N. "
Ihe sxt, nth annual sess on OF the National
"oman's Christiin Temperance Union began
IN Chicago AMI Miss Francis Willard, the
president, in her adde's denounced trusts
ana combines aud corruption In politics.
ltichard Philbin, a massage operator in New
York city, was arrested, charged with rob.
bing William II. Nixon a Ch. cage merchant,
ploy as butler.--Sallie gftarbacE, a SER
want In hotel near Ia,., .iuT;et;
n smooth.iron at james Riichey, a drummer,
and cracked his 1.-THE revised figures
in the Iowa election give Boies, Democrat,
for governor, 4,19J plurality.
s'eet ard snowstorms in New Mexico have
been the death Of thousands Of cattle
Katie Donovan, seven years old, was pushed
into LoEtir. by h,r plnymates at Lawrence,
Mass, and died from her rjuries.
children were burned to d .aih b in fire that
d stroyed Samuel w. Dunbar's farm build
ings near Manchester, N. H.--Colonel VII.
liam Cassius Goodloe, member of the
National Republican Committee, stable
and kiIlei Colonel A. NJ. Swop. at Lexing
ton, Ky. Goodoe was shot and fatally
wounded.-In q CO lision etwsen freight
and gravel trains near Kittannins, Pa, three
III, n were kill d.-Thc Standard Oil Com
rany has bt uSht out several more oil com.
panies in fennsy lvania '-St. Patrick's
CtLo.ic Church at Utica, N. ", was de-
strnyed by flre.---Tne litiSati, n against Il O
CreLit Mobi;ier OF America was finally end.
ed hy the settlement of rennsy.vauiu's claim
for tuxes.-Fire did $50 900 damage to W.
G. Reynolds g. Co.'S buggy works at Colum.
bus, O.-Several persons were killed at
R..., h,,. I. G.,lk
DR.. 7, j. Walker, physician, threatening
the life of Henry Miller, n wealthy citiz III OF
Ro kbri ige county, for insulting tho for
me.'S wife. Pig Vauu was hanged at
Sunmerville, Ga, for the murder Of Worth
White.
J. l.. Pordemorc, a prominent citiz,n Of
Scotio, Neb., was SHOT and killod by Calvin
Madison, who was j."loas OF his victim.--
ihe Norwegian Pow Company in Dubuque,
L., was destroyed by fire.-Fire d. dtstroyed
block OF buildings in Petersburg, Va,
Lieut.. Crich;on, OF tn, poll % force, was
Killed by falling wall The Loss is esti-
mated mt S75O.0O0, Tho Mormons IN Salt
Lake City are schemiug to o:3ain control o.
tho schools in Salt Lake City.---The Sns
preme Court Of Now York has affirmed the
decision OF Judge Barrett in the case of the
North River Sugar Rsfining Company, and
the company must be dissolved. The rec.
tory OF st. Mn-y's Roman Catholic Church,
in Plainsfi,ld, N. j., was considerably dam,
aged by fire.-Albcrt Marea, Of Savannah,
Ga, cut his wi;es throat from ear to ear.
He was j'alous.-nig Vaun, condemned
murder in Rome, Georgia, attempted SUI
eide. Miss Kate Drexel, of Philad |.
phia, has taken tho white veil Of the novi-
tiate at the convent OF tho Sisters OF Mercy,
In Pittsburg The scntencS Of Simol
Walker, the negro boy Of Chester q Id county
Virginia, has been committed to twtnty
years impr;sonment.---IS l.. Brasc!man,
was arrested In Washington on the charge
Of attempting to vote illegally.---Tho body
OF Captain G. Marcus Schoonmaker, vino
lost his life in the hurricane at Samoa, was
inferred in the family plot Mt Wiltwycs
Cemetery, Kingston, N. Y.---Ex Secretary
of State Thomas +. BayarJ. and Miss Ma, y
Willing clymer were married at the resi-.