The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-26
XX.---NEW SERIES.
THE NEWS,

FREQ McMasters, stenographer, found 1,
the New York Postoffice S3o,315, which h
returned to the owner-All the men n,
the Trans Ohio Division OF the t3altimor
and Ohio have, with exceptions, accepted tb
new insurance system. the four
teen-year-old daughter Of James Williams
put rough-on-rats in her parents tea an,
nearly Killed them.-Ministers Grant an,
Porter sailed from New York for Bremen
Smallpox is spreading at Nanticoke
Pa---The street-car strike in Minneapolis
is as far from settlement as ever. Trouble il
apprehended.- Edward +. Little. of Gas,
county, Michigan, a veteran OF the war o
1917, celebrated his one. .hundredth. ~ ,aiay,
"A. w. .Edens, Boston real estate agent
was arrested on the charge of uttering forged
deeds OF land in Florida. France
Carmichael, charged with poisoning her
husband I'm Hiilsdsle, Mich, was acouitta5
- Patrick McAtaDney switchman em.
'pioyed by the Pennsylvania Railroad G ,m-
pany, lost his life while saving that of a ten
year-old'boy. Gould, speculator
in oil, committed suicide in New York
The ferryboat New Brunswick, plying be-
tween New York and Jersey City, was dc.
stroyed by fire.-James Fields, of Butler.
Pa, was shot and killed by his wife
The Great American Tea Company, in Ne
braska City, Neb., is in the hands of the
sheriff.--Governor Francis, of Missouri.
hes respited John Matthews and Wm. Meker,
the bald knobbers, sentenced to be hung
Francis Ebbs, tho colored mistress of the
late James NJ. Roman, Of Louisville has been
awarded her lovers property. chal-
lenge cup offered by General Payne, for an
international yacht race, has been accepted.
William Ryan, the notorious Missouri
rain robber and associate of Jesse
James. has been released from the Mis-
souri, peni'entiary after serving eleven
years s-Thomas Doninguez, q Spaniard,
nearly cut his wifes head off with a razor,
and then cut his own throat at their home
in Buffalo, N. Y.-H. ii. Angel, Of Oak
Park, suburb or Chicago. committed
suicide Ellsworth White, an insane youth
shot and fatally wounded Mrs j. Kellogg as
she was coming out of his mothers house, at
N. VI The church trial of
Hev. Nj. f.. Bush on charges Of immoral con-
duct at Lowville, N. ", resulted in q YER
dict OF guilty, and the clergyman was ex-
PEELED from the Methodist ministry
Laura GRAMS, n seventeen year. old girl of
binghamton. N. Y, was deceived by biga-
mist and made the victim Of a mock mar
riage.-The Beet Sugar Company was in
corporated Mt San Francisco, with a capital
Of five millions, the Spreckles holding half
The stock.-The Grand Comlnandery of
America Of the Ancient and Ilustrious
knights OF Malta held its fifth annual con-
vocation in Philadelphia. A strike is i'm
ninent in the Western Pennsylvania coaI
regions. .-Ex-Governor John s. Pillsbury,
of Minnesota, has given tho Minnesota State
University Sl5O, O,OOO.-John w. Childs &
Co.'S tobacco factory at Lynchburg, Va,
burned. A bill permitting the sale Of
pools at exhibitions or fairs or driving park
was defeated by the Pennsyl-
vania House of Delegates.
The Amalgamated Association OF Iron and
Steel Workers will seek to have the mills
closed down in two months during the sum-
mer. A natural gas we'll was struck near
Belle Vernon Pa, which yields forty-million
feet day.-The railroad coal miners in
the Pittsburg district have accepted the re-
dnrtion Of two and a-half cents per ton in
wages. Captain r. c.. Jones OF the
schooner Arthur OF Mobile from Bay Islands,
reports that Rev Henry Hohson, his wife
md young girf were murdered by Joseph
Burcs ut Ruatan. james Cunningham &
Co., hardware dealers, of Mobile, Ala,
made an assignment salt has been
discovered in Kansas. The Minnesota
legislature passed bill prohibiting tho sale
OF Chicago and Kansas dressed beef in that
Bill and his three thousand
boomers aro on borders OF the promised
land-Ok'ahoma .--ficneral Charles X.
q. aham, cX-survcyor and cx-naval officer Of
the port OF New York, died ut Lakewood,
N. j., o! pn'ur onin. The pilot boat Enoch
Turley, OF Ph ialclphia, has been given up
for lost, with the five pilots and tho six sea-
men on board.
The Everest exploring party started from
Winnipeg for tho Arctic circle. David
Lindsey, aged sixty years, OF Bridgewater,
Michigan, fatally shot his son. Both were OF
intemperate h ,bts a freight train was
wrecked near Bellcville, ILL.,, by the track
sinking into the ground under the weight OF
the train. -Ignatz Rainitz, the swindler.
who was captured abroad, was brought back
to New York.-T. +. Lockwood, q capi-
talist Of Minneapolis, committed suicide. -
The coal-handlers on tho docks at Cleveland,
o., are on a strike-Charles +. Hatch,
president of the Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Pacific Railroad Company, committed sui
eide in his Office in Minneapolis. The Con-
shohocken Worstei Company, Of Phila-
delphia, made an assignment. A number
of buildings have been destroyed by forest
fires in Patrick county, Va.-Hon. Caleb
Boggedd, a noted West Virginia lawyer, is
dead.-A passenger train struck farm
wagon near Youngstown, o., completely de-
moshng it and instantly killing Mrs. David
Cramer, one of the occupants.