The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-12-20
THE NEWS


portion Of child's sbrain.--The large flour.
ing mill Of Saxton s. Thompson at Troy, N.
u, was burned, together with 81, 900 bushels
OF wheat and 1000 barrels OF nour. Los,
S25J,00J; insurance $lC0, ,OO0 Memorial
services in honor Of Jefferson Davis were
held in the churches Of New Orleans and
other Southern cites.--Rev. F. S. De Hoos,
a noted Methodist minister, died at Avon
dale, Ohio Secretary August Schotten-
berg, OF tn. Milwaukee School Board. com
mitted suicide, irregularities in his accounts
having been discovered. -Casper Ciisby,
Of st. Louis, who had been forbidden by John
Anson to pay court to his daughter. shot and
morally wounded Anson and the young girl,
and then committed suicide. Tho United
States squadron Of evolution sailed from Bos-
ton for Lisbon Two col I is preachers at
Augusta, Ey.S,s fought in Sp<s5prrrtt over
which one should preach the funeral sermon
over a dead woman.--In collision between
freight trains at Durango, Iowa, Conductor
J. Berry and Fireman John Hickey were in
stantly killed, aud ten carloads Of freight
were scattered along the tracks. Several
trainmen were injured in the wreck Cf an
express train on the Lake Shore and Mich
gan Southern r Rilroad, near Chesterton, Ind.
Henry S. Friezs, LII. D., professor OF Latin
and literature in the University of Michigan,
is deai.-The Hudson River w oolen Mills,
at Newburgh, N. Y, were burned. Loss.
S6),0O0.-A thief snatch d John c. Patter-
sons cash box containing 81 900 worth OF Sc
curities, in the Delaware Bank at Whining
ton, and escaped. --Pendleton the murderer
OF hi. father-in-law, Colonel Goodwin, near
Fredericksburg, Va, was sentenced to twelve
years in the penitentiary.-The twenty fifth
anniversary of the ownership Of the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger by Mr.. George w.
Childs, and the twenty-fifth anniversary of
it's dictatorship by William V. McK"an as
editor-in-chief, was pleasantly commemor-
ated in o reunion of the Ledger steff.-
George Early, colored, OF Franklin county,
Va, confessed to the burning of twenty four
buildings at Rocky Mount. because Malone
was not allowed to speak in the public ware
house, and was sentenced to death.-In a
fire on the piers of the National Steamship
line, New York city, four workmen perished
and a numbr were seriously burned-Rt.
Rev. John Tuigg, Catholic bishop Of Pitts
burg, Is sdead.-Passcngers arriving in New
York by steamer from Maranham, Brazil
tell Of a bloody riot 10 that town following
the declaration of the new government in
which two soldiers and six rioters were killed
and many wounded. Melancthoh Nj.
Williams, aged ninety-two years, the oldest
living graduate Of Princeton College, died
at his hcme, in Cambridge, N. Y.
Fire in Russrlps clothing store, BROOKLYN,
New York, destroyed 49, worth of mer-
So auss ssrm
Mrs John ". Slapbur@ 'ep: ~ tjass5sssi, us.
while suffering from temporary )16tal frou-
Die, drowned herself and babe "a d entire
family is reported to have mysssfl l6asly dis
appeared from Yeilville. Ark Owen
Sound, Ont, William Kennedy mistook Hi
ram Lymburner for deer, and shooting him
IN the back, killed him Instantly.
quarrel in New York, Antoinette Fevult,
was shot and killed by Amanda Boauto,
another Italian woman.-F.re in Shell
Lake, Wis. destroy el over one-half OF tho
business portion of the town.-E.la C..
"hi'e was taken from Chicago to E!mira, N.
Y, where sheis wanted on the ch lrse Of or
gery.-James Baker, Of Pittsburg, mu-
iatto, committed suicide in Chicago. Quo
man WIS seriously and another fatally in
Jured by the explosion of INK OF acid in
Long Island City, l.. -Four mon were
Killed on tho track at Wilkesbarre, FL, by a
freight train.-ETorts are being made to
secure settlement Of the glassblowers'
strike. Th" manufacturers, however, are
firmly against any concession. An open
spi @ ID
mo Railroad, near Greensburg Pas result
ing in the serious injury of the trainmen.
Mr. Ralph Beaumont, chairman of the
natioral legislative committee of the Knights
of Labor, says that the knights and farmers
Will no. consolidate just now, but cooperate.
1.-Two boys were precipitated down coal
shaft in Wheeling, w. Va, and instantly
Killed. Tho Rev. S. II. Brewer, presiding
elder Of the Louisville Conference OF the NJ.
r. Church South, is dead --United States
Deputy Maish j. p. Willis and Pierce Nor
gan, a moonshner whom he attempted to
arrest, w,re killed by .ch other.--John
Theodore Wild, alias Greenwood, was banged
In Brooklyn, N ", for the murder of Ly-
man S. Weeks.-Flora Seymour, the three
year.od daughter Of Albert w. Seymour ac-
cidentaly fatally shot Willie Pollard, her
four-year-oId playmate. e.-Th, Federation
OF the knights of Labor and the Farmers
and Laborers' Union has been formed.
Miss Anna Sisherm has leen arrested at Buff
falo, N. Y. charged with numbering her
habe.-There were two hundred and sew.
epty-one business failures in the UniteI
States and forty one in Canada the past week.
Charles Johnson, colored, was hanged at
GSdsden. Ala, for the murd of policeman
Kenney. E. Blair, n student of Washing
ton end Lee University, ut Lexington, Va. ;,
was shot in the leg while hunting -Thomas
Hotchkiss was killed at a rolling mill in
Trenton, Nj, by being pierced by red hot
rod. Secretary Noble was given recc p.
tion by the Merchants Exchange of st. Louis.
"A bill was, introduced 10 the NIrg MIA
State Assembly to prevent the sale OF Cnica-
go dressed beef.-Nathaniel Niles, Jr, ex-
president Of the Tradesmen's ltional Bank
of New Orleans, was indicted for allowing
one of his houses to be used for disorLer:y