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

SoSse -"eo'So' SNhege, Enuauelphia, per-
formed wonderful operation, removing
portion OF a cbiid's brain.--The large -four.
ing mill OF Saxton s. Thompson at Troy, N.
T., was burned, together with IS, 900 bushels
OF wheat and 1908 barrels OF -FOUR Los,
s25o.O0J; insurance $lC0,OOO Memorial
services in honor of Jefferson Davis were
held in the churches of New Orleans and
other Southern cit;es.---Rev. F. s.. De Hoos
noted Methodist minister, died at Avon
dale, Ohio. Secretary August Schotten-
berg, OF ths Milwauk:o % School Board, com
mittsd 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 aud the young girl.
and then committed suicide. The United
States squadron OF evolution sailed from Bos-
ton for Lisbon Two eoII fBx xpreachers at
Augusta, Ey.. fought. In pisS5prsrst over
which one should preach the funeral sermon
over a dead woman.--In n 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 tho Lake Shore and Mich
gan Southern r iroad near Chesterton, Ind.
Henry s. Fries, LII. D., professor OF Latin
and literature in the University Of Michigan,
is dcad.-The Hudson River w oolen Mills,
at Newburgh, N. Y, were burned. Loss,
S6o,0O0.-A thief snatch d John c.. Patter-
sons cash box containing 81, 900 worth of Sc
curties, in the Delaware Bank at Whining.
ton, and escaped.--Pendleton the murderer
OF his father-in-law, Colonel Goodwin, near
fredericksburg Va, was sentenced to twelve
years in the pententiary.- y.--The twenty fifth
anniversary OF the ownership of the Phila.
delphia Public Ledger by Mr.. George W.
Childs, and the twenty-ffth anniversary of
its dictatorship by William v. McK~an as
editor-in-chief, was pleasantly commemor-
ated in O reunion Of the Ledger steff T.
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 numb'r IT were seriously burned-Rt.
Rev. John Tuigg, Catholic bishop Of Pitts.
burg, is sdead.-Passcnger arriving in New
York by steamer from Marauham, Brazl,
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. Rev. Melancthoh Nj.
Williams, aged ninety-two years, the oldest
living graduate OF Princeton College, died
at his hcme, in Cambridge, N. Y.
Fire in Russrips clothing store. BROOKLYN.
= New York, destroyed ss1, 600 worth Of mer-
y se sossm ssEmi
Mrs sJohSW ". SIapbuf& zen fsaakzysr6. l,,f;
while suffering from temporql &! & e
BE, drowned herself and babe d sntire
family is reported to have N myssef ss:y dis.
appeared from Yeilville, Ark.-zIn o wen
Sound, Ont, William Kennedy mistook Hi
ram Lymburner for deer, and shooting hin,
IN the back, killed him Instantly y.-During
quarrel in New York, Antoinette FevuIta
was shot and killed by Amanda Boauto,
another Italian woman. Fire in Snell
Lake, Wis, destroy ell over one e-holf OF the
business portion Of the town.-E.la C..
white was taken from Chicago to E!mira, N.
T., where she Is wanted on the ch irse 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 a tink OF acid in
Long Island City, L. -Four men were
Killed on the track at Wilkesbarre. Pa, by
freight train. Efforts are being made to
secure settlement Of the glassLlowers
strike. The manufacturers, however, are
hrmly against any concession. An open
switch Caused collision on the Pennsylva-
nia Railroad, near Greensburg, Pas result
ing in the serious injury of the strainmen.
MIR. Ralph Beaumont, chairman of the
national legislative committee of the Knights
OF Labor, says that the knigh hts and farmers
Will no. consolidate just now, but cooperate.
1.-Two boys were precipitated down coal
shaft In Wheeling, w. Va, and instantly
Killed. The Rev. S. r. Brewer, presiding
elder OF the Louisville Conference Of the NJ.
E Church South, is dead Omitted States
Deputy Maj sh i j. p Willis and Pierce Nor
gan, moonshiner whom he attempted to
arrest, w>re killed by e:ch other.--John
Theodore Wild, alias Greenwood, was hanged
In Brooklyn, N. Y, for ths murder of Ly-
man 3. Weeks-Flora Seymour, the three
year-old daughter Of Albert W. Seymour, ac-
cidentally fatally shot Willie Pollard, ber
four-year-oid playmate. TIL, Federation
OF the Knights of Labor aud the Farmers
and Laborers' Union has been formed.
Miss Anna Sisherm has been arrested at Buff
faio, N. Y. charged with numbering her
habe.---There were two hundred and sew.
enty-one business failures In the Unite !
States and forty onein Canada the past week.
CHARLES johnson, colored, was hanged at
Gadsden. Ala, for the murd r Of policeman
Kenney. --E. Blair, q student of Washing
ton and Lee University, at Lexington, Va. =,
was shot in the leg while hunting Thomas
Hotchkiss was killed at rolling mill in
Trenton, w., by being pierced by red hot
rod. Secretary Noble was given recc p.
ton by the Merchants Exchange of ST. Louis.
"A bill was introduced in the virg MIA
State Assembly to prevent the sale OF Cnica-
60 dressed beef. .---NathanieI Niles, Jr., ex-
president Of the Tradesmen's National Bank
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