The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-05
LATER NEWS,

THE City Hall at Dover, N.s M, was de-
stroyed by fra Several nearby buildings
were also damaged. Lossi nearly 100000.
ROBERT CRAVEN. of PhiIsdslphia, the
Secretary sad Tseasr-e- cnthe} philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore aailroad Com.
pany, has stolen over SIC, 900 Sand.ied.
Two Mexican raiders whotcrossed tho bon
der into Texas with objects ofSrobbery were
killed by American ,officersL Three Of tt
latter were wounded.
A GIRL named Ada Iebrecht lost her II, !.
in the burning Off the Standard Bagging
Factory at st. Louis.
DAN WARD, sixteenSyears sold, .shot and
killed Ed. Burke, two years his Junior. at
Birmingham. Ala Burke, asked Ward for
a cigarette and the latter replied he had
none Burke called his S,friend, iiar, when
Ward shot him.
SECRETARY TRACY has: ordered the
steamer Thetis to proceed tosSitka, Alaska
THE President has issuedva proclamation
forbidding the killing of any otter, mink.
marten, sable or fur seal, or other fur-bear-
ing animal in Alaska.s Penalties fixed for its
violation are for each,offence 5000 to 81, 900
fine and not more than, six months 'imprison-
ment, or both. and the, vessels will be con-
fiscated.
So far this year there have been fifteen
duels and sixteen suicides at Monte Carlo,
the great italian gamblingresort
IT is estimated that tho losses dueI the
collapse of the French copper ring amount
to sSoO0o.00o.
A wHITE book on Samoa has been Issued
at Berlin; Prince Bismarck repudiates the
acts and utterances of Consul. Knappe, the
German Consul at Samoa.
THE Government ihas taken steps TO pre.
vent the introduction into Mexico of Ameri.
can lard, owing to the official announcement
that it Is detrimental to health.
Count PETER ScHUvALoFF, the distjn-
guished Russian 'diplomat. and General, died
at St Petersburg, aged sixty-one.
Ex-PRIvArE SECRETARY DAN LAMONT has
been chosen President Of the Houston West
Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad Com
pany of New York city by the unanimous
vote OF tho directors.
EMILY ScHENcKLE was Albert Lindstrom's
sweetheart four years ago in Sweden. She
refused to marry him after he paid her pas
sage here and in Worcester, Mass he shot
her, injuring her fatally, and then killed
himself.
EX-UNrTED STATES SENATOR JOHN SCOTT
President and ono Of the recsivers of the
Allegheny Valley Railroad Company, died
at Pittsburg of pneumonia, in his sixty ninth
year. He was identified with a large number
Of financial and industrial institutions in
PIttsburg, and was one of the originators OF
the Edgar Thomas Steel Company.
THE mill of the Chicago Lumber Company
at Denver. Col. was burned. Loss, SIS, ,O0O.
GOLDBERG BROTHERS, of Milwaukee,
Wis. dealers in laces, have failed for $1lO,-
600.
The President has signed the proclamation
opening Oklahoma to settlement. May 1 is
set as the date for opening the Territory.
JUDGE CHANDLER, of Independence, Mo-,
mas accepted tho place of First Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
SECRETARY WINDOW has appointed James
II. Windrim, of Philadelphia. Supervising
Architect OF the Treasury, vice Will A,
Freret. resigned by request.
THE town of Pinsk in Russia has been do
stroyed by fire. Six persons were burned to
death.
A FRENCH torpedo boat has foundered Off
Cherbourg in a hurricane. Her captain and
fourteen Of her crew were drowned.
MINISTER HEEMsKEnK has been appointed
Regent Of Holland.
ENGLAND has demanded Of Morocco $780,
900 indemnity for the massacre and Ipilage
at tho Mackenzie factory at Cape JUDY in
1888.
CHOLERA has broken out at Zamboanga,
in the Philippine Islands. There have been
five hundred deaths 50 far
TIE barracks in tho citadel at Halifax,
Nova Scotia, were burned, and tho city was
endangered for a time by tho proximity OF
the fire to the powder magazine.
AN expedition of COCO Mahdists proceeded
in steamers and bargss against Emin Pasha.
Emin defeated the dervishes near Bohr, kill.
ing most Of them and capturing their
steamers and much ammunition
THERE have lately been sixty sudden
deaths in hospital at Florence. Italy, all
proceeded by intestinal disturbance. Some
newspapers attribute 4 deaths to bad fool,
oCher cholcre.