The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-16
THE NEWS.

st. Louis is TO have an elevated railroad
costing seventeen millions.-A company
with a million dollars capital has been Or
ganizsd In San Francisco To distil surplus
wines into brandy.-A terrible epidemic Of
bloody fiux prevails m Warsaw, Ill.,, fifteen
deaths from the disease having occurred in a
few days.-J. ii. johnson, charged with
forgery OF notes for 49, 900 crowns on Nor
wegian banks, was arrested i'm Nebraska and
will be taken back to Norway propo.
sition has been made by syndicate OF for
eign capitalists topurcbnse all the Fall River
cotton manufactures this being but II step
toward securing control OF tho cotton indus
try OF the United States. Am explosion
that was supposed to he an attempt to blow
up the Victoria bridge at Montreal. Canada,
wrecked an express car OH the Grand Trunk
Railway and killed the messenger.
prospects in the lower Virginia Valley aro
encouraging. CLAUS Sprcckels has given
orders to his manager In Philad, lphia TO
double the capacity Of his already mammoth
refinery In that city.--A hai'storm I'm Lan-
caster county, Pa, did considerable damage
to the tobacco plants. s.-Lightning struck
the farm house of E.ina Browncl, near
Troy, New York, and killed his ton-year- old
daugh Richard Winlock, n surveyor,
or Schuylkill caunty, Pa, was shot from
ambush and instantly killed at Buckhaunon,
W. Va.-Michacl Fitzpa' rick, an electric
light Iineman, survived serious shock in
New York city. by tho carsizng OF
snilboat on Ham Pond, Woburn, Mnss.
Misses Jessie Croucher and Eta Olive Parr
disappeared from York, Pa. He is accused
of forgery.-In collision on the Virginia
Midland Railroad, near Charlottesviilc Va,
Fireman f. a. Cox was killed, and Engineer
Charles Davis seriously hurt. Frank Mar
tin fell into a vat Of boiling grease at Kan
sas CITY. and was boiled to death.
Horatio Frazer's two childran wora dro"',-
ed by n ho 1t cups:ztng ut Providence, Is 1.
Lending publishers deny that school,
book trust has been formed. IA thief grab
bod handful of diamonds, valued nt Sl3,oo',
In n Kansas City j,welry store aud escaped.
Two young women of Philadelphia havo
fallen heirs to an estate of S4N,O)J in Eug-
land--Two cases Of giant powder exploded
at q niue near Marquette, Mich, "ad Two
men ana three boys were killed.----The Ute
InGians are again off their reservation and
creating havoc i'm the western part Of Colo
RADIO ---Charlcs NJ. Hull editor of the Boil
var county, Miss, Democrat. was killed by
l. A. WeisSinger, Il Iawyer.---Crops wcro
seriously injured In Illinois by frost.---A
story comes from San Francisco about the
pardoning OF a convict by President Har-
rison. through the interce, sion OF Mrs. Hnr-
rison, the prisoner being an old soldier, who
in poem described Gen. IIarr:sous bravery.
II. Y. Bushnell & Co.'S grain elevator, ut
Sideil. Ill. WAS burned, tozether with many
thousands OF bushels OF corn. Loss 900;
| fully insured --- Nebraska cat:lcnen arc
agi ated ovor new and fatal disease that Is
playing hovoc with cattle.---Lightuiug fired
| l.. B. Besrbower's pottery at Eliz ,beth, N. j.,
causing a loss Of s25. 900, on which there Is an
insurance of $l0,OO0 --Chnrles k"mmer
and Henry ArncGt were drowned In Braxton
county, Va, while attempting to cross n
swollen streap.----A young German mother
! in Woonsocket, s. OAK, committed suicide
because she thought hor four -days-old habe
was dead. ALL the bridges and wooden
stairways in Watkins Glen, N ", have been
destroyed by II storm. "A passenger ana
a freight train colli'ied on tho New 0Tk ana
New Fngland Railroad near New Britain, ct 4,
nnd the locomotives and several cars were
demolished. Several trHinncn were injured.
Fire destroyed nearly every manutactur-
ing industry in Ripley, o. Loss S2N,0 d..
| During the past week there were l9l hii--
ness failures in tho United STATES and /? In
Canada. orgc Siler killed the Rev. sam
Sharpe at Lebanon, Ky. Both wero c"l"red.
and Sharpe had been living with Siler's sls-
| ter. claiming she was his wife.
lightning struck tho stables OF the Rich
mond, Va, city railway, and sixty mules,
seven cars and tho buildings were consumed
| Forest fires i'm Montana continue 10 do
great damage-John Williams, cook on che
steamship Wellington. was arrested on ar
rival at San Francisco, charged with SNUG
CLING five hundred boxes Of opium. Harry
Leo and Sadie Tay lor were arrested at Peo-
ria, H., charged with causing the death OF
John kowalk nnI Hannah Shcarer, whose
bodies were recently found in Lake Michigan.
| Abraham Finkbono. aged twenty. K
years. committed suicide by hanging himself
in Jail at Reading Pa. where he was confined
on tho charge OF g. t ing fire to lumber works.
"A national monument in honor OF the
| WIS uHNeIicu
and Congressman Breckenridge delivered an
address OH the establishment In America OF
FREQ religious inst tutions. "A combination
has teen formed for controlling tho manu-
facturc and sale of artificial ico in tho South
| Marion Newman, who is in tho WASH
ington Jail, chargad with dcfraudng an in
surance company, has fallen heir to half q
million dollars.--A cargo OF unripe bananas
was confScatcd by the Now York health de-
partment.-Micbael Ryan, while I'm a de-
mentcd condition, jumped from window OF
an express train OH tho Pennsylvania Rail-
| road and was seriously iDJured.-Florida
| fruit dealers met in New York city and
| formed combine tho steamer ST. Law
renee ran on n rock Off Hog island in tho
| Canadian channel and is a total wreck
| Two passenger trains collidcd on the Rich
mond and fredericksburg Railroad at Law
ton, near AL, xandra, Va, and an engineer
! was kilie ed and several persons hurt t-The