The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-30
THE NEWS.

The cruiser Charleston was given n salts
| factory trial In San Francisco Bay. -E'gb
| teen persons were injured in wreck on the
| Burlington and NJ ssouri Railroad, near
| Lincoln, Neb.-rwo Mormon elders were
mobbed near Ellenboro, w. va.-Walter
Asbury, colored, was lynched near Savan-
| nah, Ga for an assault upon a white girl
Owing to the financial embarra.snen
tho Vinonville Mills, located at Montville,
Ct, have shut down, and $50 people are
thrown out Of employment.-Now it Is re.
ported that the English syndicate has pur.
chased all the breweries in Chcago.-Geo
d. Ainsworth, of Portsmouth, Va, was shot
by George NJ. Mcdonald. The one hum
dred aud third anniversary Of the birth OF
David Crockett was celebrated at his birth.
place, in Green county, Tenp.--A number
Of old persons In Cincinnati, Ohio, who tried
the Brown SeuuarI elixir sre suffering tor.
rIbIy. In several cases blooi poisoning has
ensued. One OF the sick men has sued tho
ply sician who experimental on him for
S5 900 damages. 1.-TWO political factions in
Richmond, Texas, known as the Jay birds
and "Woodpeckers," =" had bloody battle, in
which two men were killed and several
wounded. SImuel Crane, scconi baseman
Of tho Metropolitan base ball club, New York
was arrested and locked up on the charge of
running away with the pretty wife OF Scran-
ton fruit dealer-Miss Fannie Iosey, of
Lacrosse, Wis, was robbed OF 81 900 In jew
elry and money on board the steamer Werra
at New York.-Adam Bentel, a German
farmer Of Louisville, Ky, in quarrel with
his wife at the bedside OF their dying son
shot her and then attempted suicide. The
United Union Of Journeymen Tailors con.
cluded their convention I'm Columbus, Ohio
adopting a new constitution which makes
women eligible to membership.
Lightning started prairies fires In Montana
that have extsndsd over thousands OF aeres
"A score of persons were killed by light
ming In a storm that passed. over the Missouri
Vailey.-Ths reported gold discoveries in
Brown county, Ind. have caused Intense ex
citement among the HooSiers. Steamers
arriving in New York report unusually heavy
and stormy weather at S "a for this season OF
the year j. HI. Throp shot and Sc
riously wounde dby w. Ackerman, bis father
in-law. at R1hway, N. j., In II quarrel over
5000 six-year-o daughter OF Jacob
Mann, OF Hicksville, l.. l., died from an
In Covington, KY, q woman struck Harry
Terlan over the head with b,er glass, in.
f.cting fatal injuries. .-Antonoi Breino, an
Italian, died In New York, from stab
wound inf ctsd with paper file at q row at
n christening celebration. Jones, n
trusted employe of E. III. Butler g. Co. pub
fishers OF Philadelphia. has disappeared, and
is reported to be short $4),0N.-WmW West
morean1, coloreI, was hanged at Jackson
" lie, Fla, for wife murder. Frank Wei.
Ter, deputy collector OF internal revenue in
Florida, was shot dead in attempting to ar
rest John Brosswell, an Illicit distiiler in
Holmes county.--In a great race across the
ocean the st amship CI.y Of New York beat
the new steamship Teutonic by thirty-three
minutes, the City of New York's time being
six days and fourteen hours. The labor
troubles in the coke regions will soon be set-
tled.-lIenry R Burbank, of Nebraska,
and Miss Sadie King, of Brooklyn, whose
parents were lost in the Brooklyn Theatre
fire, years age, were married Wednesday in
Greenwood Cemetery, hos de the monument
to the victims Of the In ,atre fire.
j. w. Roder, United States Fourth Artillery,
died at Buffers Insane Asylum, Providence,
r. I-Miss Qua Slla and Carrie Simons
were struck by IA freight train at Muscatine,
Iowa, hurled sixty feet, and the former Sc
riousIy hurt and the latter killed.
A Hager, q deputy United States marshal
was shot from ambush and fatally wounded
in Wyoming county, w. Va.--Patrick Cal
houn, general counsel for the West Point
Terminal road, and j. ID. Williamson, presi-
dent Of the Chattanooga, Rome aud Carroll
ton road. fought duel at Hoke's Bluff, on
the Coosa river, Ga, In which Calhoun
wounded WilliamsGn.-Mrs. N. Freeman
and her twelve year old daughter were killed
by lightning at Pifer City, ILL.,, but seven-
months-old babe in the mothers arm was
unhurt. The night express for Niaghra
Falls, on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens.
burg Railroad, ran into Rochester train,
near Forest Lawn, N. Y, teescoping four
cars, killing one person and injuring eight
others. "A dozen old men claim that they
have been rejuvenated and feel young again
by the Browns guard life elixir treatn"nt,
with which the Indianapolis physicians are
experimenting.
Judge ". l.. Pierce, Of San Diego, Cal :.
was shot and seriously wounded by w. 8.
ClendineD. "A frightful storm swept the
vicinity Of AlbuQu,rque, N. NJ, clou Is o.
sand bliniing unfortunate poles .rians and
lightning striking a number OF buildings.
Tho forest fires in Oregon are sendin,
showers Of blazing fagots floating over tn,
country for miles. Fire did $60,O0J dam
age to the property 72 Warren street, Now
York city, occupied by tn, Gil,s l. tho
graphic Company and Il. p. Bulard. w.
w. Hnines, a book writer in a Covingto,,
KY, pool-room, was shot and fatally wouni-
ed by Taylor Herbert, the turnkey Of a police
station.-The Burton building, I'm Chicago,
recently gutted by fire, collapsed. burying L.
number OF workingmen, two Of whom were
taken out dead. d.-Ex-Judge David s. Terry,
who figured SO prominently in the Sharon
divorce case, was shot and killed by deputy
United States marshal in San Francisco.--
Fire destroyed a wheAe block OF buildings
known as the "L,vills, at Jacksonville, Fla.
DIR. Bayliss, editor Of the Christian Ad-
pocate, Of Cincinnati, died at tho age of As