The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-09-20
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Four OF the largest mills in blackburn,
England, have shut dow, owing to the dull
ness Of trade.
A sexero-sheck- of earthquake was felt
throughout Greece, and serious damage was
done In several towns.
Baron Schimmelpinninck Van Der Oyc,
president of the First Chamber Of the States
General, died at the Hague.
The council of the French Legion OF Honor
sired sired to maintain friendly relations With
Bulgaria.
Albert Nicolet an engraver, has confessed
to the authorship of the anarchist manifesto
recently circulated throughout Switzerland.
He will ls Fied for the offenss at Borne.
The reuainspf. Pascal Di raoli, the famous
Corsican patriot who died In exile near Lon
don in 1907, have been exhumed from st:
Pancras Church bdryins-grounda and shipped
to Corsicu.
The United States corvette Enterprise has
arrived at Plymouth, England, wnere she
will await ,the arrival of the United Statos
steamer Dolphin from Gibraltar, when both
will proceed to Ireland.
The mission sent by the King Of Shoa, an
independent State OF Abyssinia, to the Italian
government was received In the throne. room
at Rome by King Humbsrt with great pomp
and ceremony.
A royal order which has just been issued
at Berlin Sanctions the creation In Jerusalem
| of an evangelical establishment with corpo-
rate rights to preserve existing evangelicai
| institutions, and to add to their number.
TIE jury Of the Paris Exposition has recon-
| mend--l that a gold medal be awarded to the
| University OF Virginia, Cornell University
aud the city OF Boston for educ itional exht-
I bits.
| 1t court circles at st. Petersburg it Is said
| that the Russian governmeLt has discharged
| the debts owed by the Primes OF Montenegro
| to varios Austrian banking firms, amounting
to over 100000 rouyles.
! William O. Brien was sentenced to two
months and James Gilhooly 10 six weeks
| Imprisonment, without hard lator, in Cork
| Qr.Iand) jail for holding national meeting
| which had been proclaimed by Tie Eh5hsh
government.
DISPATCHES have been received at Paris to
the effect that he people OF the New Hebrides
| Islands and forty-two En- ylish residents have
| petitioned the Governor of New Caledonia to
annex the islands.
Two engineer officers have been sent from
Constantinople to Crete to inspect the va
rious Notifications there, with view or
strengthening them against attack III cases OK
future instructions.
The German government Is preparing
bill for submission to the coming session OF the
Reicbstag for credits to augment and reor-
ganizs the army in view OF the continual IN
| crease of the French and Russian arma-
ments.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has signed con.
cession giving to the British East Africa
Company the Lamu Island aud the Benagir
coast-llne from Kipini northward, including
Kismayu, Brawa, Merka, Magadish and
Urut.
The collapse OF tho Magdeburg sugar syn
dicate has seriously affected the sugar refin
cries at Stettin, Prussia, and the Hamburg
/. | authorities have ordered an investigation 10
y discover why the proper OH iais had MOI
}, | controlled the brokers trading.
| MAJ
! a life sentence at Woking prison for poison
. ing her husband. James Maybrick, Liver
II pool broker, is permitted by tho prison au
thoritics to take exes else In the prison yaIu
i Her health is improving, and she s'iii mani
l. tains her cool demeanor and seems TO bo set
q Ting into the routine of prison life.