The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-09-13
THE NEWS.

Race troubles caused serious riotin9 IN
small towns in louisiana and Mississippi,
and several colored persons were shot =
During fire In Spring City, Pa. the wall Of
warehouse fell in, killing one man and in
JurinS others William T.. Denniny tho
defaulting assistant postmaster at Brown
V'i'e' Ind, has conf, ssed TO having lost his
money ut cards.-Jay Gould and C. p.
huntington are forming a combination to
OBTAIN control OF oil the South western lines
AN excursion and stock train collided
near Vermont. A conductor and p,ssenoor
were killed and Others injured--Th. c,ni-
tai STOCK OF the Commercial Cable Company
mas been Increased from six to ten millions.
-heimund Holzhay, the lone highwayman
who terrorized Northern Wisconsin, has been
saptured.-Owing to the large pspsio,
payments. The public debt has Increased dur-
ing the month OF August. Tie Cramn
Brcs., OF Philadelphia, have notified the Sec
retary OF tho Navy that the cruiser Pbilod.I
phia Will be launched on the 7th instant
inc superintendent Of the Census has nm.
pointed DIR. Charles A. Asbburner and John
II. Jones special agents to collect the statis-
Hcs for coal for the eleventh census. Jor,o.
Z. Frank has also been appointed to co,,ec,
iron and steel statistics, and James A. Rlod.
kett' Oh i'ilnois, to collect statistics Of educa
uon'-mr. VIM. Iiler was killed at Mar.
ansburg by train, while asleep on the .rock
Tho Wholesale jobbng house of Wbeeler
blodgett q Co., in Boston, wes partly de.
Hroyed by fire. "A fire ct the Cincinnati
Hamilton and Dayton elevator caused a los,
Of $4,000
Henry A. Sage & Co.'S harness factory re
' Easton' Pa, was destroyed by fire. LOS
10000 fever is raginy ;n Johns
o"". mere being twenty five patients down
-, s"e oisease In the Red Cross hospitals.
-Ihe safe in the postoffico at Cornwall. N
H. was blown open and $500 in stamps stolen.
- ne female cplla5e nj GfNarcb br on, -; .. Its
Prettiest pupils. The United States steamer
hush captured another British sealing
schooner In Behring Sea.-Two sisters
mrs Dooson, aged sixty five, aud Mrs Den.
nett' aged seventy, while returning in buggy
70 their home, outside of Milwaukee, were
struck by railroad train and killed. d.--Tbe
business portion OF the histo ic village OF
oacketts Harbor, N. Y, was DESTROYED by
nre. Loss $4o,OO0.-Whitajl Tatum & Co.,
green glass manufacturers of MIllville, N.
v. have accedei to the demands of the work.
men.-A pair Of swindlers, representing
themselves as agents of the Standard Oil
Company, successfully work innocent people
In the towns along the Ohio river near Wheel
ing.-Rev. DIR. Yost, chancellor of the
University OF Florida, presented to Heidel-
ourg college, at Tiftin, Ohio, a museum of
curiosltits vnluei at SG0, 0,OOO-Judse Nc
Conneil. OF Chicago, has decided that all the
defendants in the Cronin trial must be tried
eogether, with the exception OF Woodruff
sss yHe49 81 eSslshla.ed 1hs sSb
tion endorsing Commissioner Tanners pen-
sion policy caused lively discussion In the
Grand Army E .mpment, resulting in the
adoption OF a substitute resolution expressing
confidence in his integrity, and uniting with
him In request for an investigation of his
Administrations w. Newbaker, a
politician of Sataria. Miss, was assassinated
by unknown parties while entering his house.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has offer
ed reward of 81, 900 for the arrest Of any
robber attacking a stage carrying the mails
wounded by Joseph Taylor, near Onancock,
Va, In quarrel growing out of the white
cap pranks Of last spring The Supreme
Council American Legion 0: Honor, in ses-
sion at Chicago, elected Enoch s. Brown, OF
New York, supreme conman Ter, and G. G.
tting, D. d., of Baltimore, supreme chap
lain. i roy A. Trues1ale hns been ar
rested In New York, for emb,zzling $4,000
from the New York, Pennsylvania and Oaio
Railroad Company monument to the
Confederate deal was unveiled at Manassas.
ALFRED Brood, formerly treasurer of the
Steele Packing and Provision Company, of
Grand Rapids, Mich. has been arrested OIL
charge Of embezzling $lO,O0o.-A colored
man was robbed by tramps and thrown from
train on the Norfolk and Western Railroad,
near Liberty, Va.-In the Grand Army
naval engagement on the lake at Milwaukee,
two sailors of United States revenue cutter
and several other persons were badly IL Jured
by the explosion Of canons and mortars.-
Sarah Althea Hill Terry was arraigned In q
San Francisco court on the charge of con-
tempt In obstructinga Unit d States marshal
in the performance Of his duty.-Two
freight trains on the Buffalo, New York and
| Pennsylvania Railroad collided near Brad
ford, Pa, and fifteen cars were wrecked aud
| Engineer j. B. Comstock killed.-George
E. Satchwell, editor Of temperanc, paper
published In WATERFOWL, N. Y, was assaulted
| by a asaloon-keeper. Turner, colored
who killed Charles Walker in Fayette county
w. Va, was taken from Jail by mob ol
thraa hmm rod oud lvpchad -Wuo Wolba,
and Jack Spainard were hanged at For
Smith, Ark, for murder.