The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-12
LATER, NEWS.


Club to contest next fall for the possession
of the Ameriaa's cup has been issued by the
Earl of DunraVen. The ,Earltsuggeststthat
the contests be sthree,out Of five races and
the day Of theJ first race SSeptembori 5Oth.
His boat is the ValkyrIe.
AN engineand three coachest fell through
bridgenear. Queen City, Mo-. John Arthur,
engineer, and Luther Chamberlain, fireman,
were killed.
ADEPUrYeUNrrED SrArEsiMARsHAn was
killed by n bahdof Kentucky outlaws.
JED TwIrCLEhL, colored, was hung /at
Chatham, Va. ,ifor assault!upon nine.year-
old girl.
TWENTY stores'and seTeral dwelllngsswere
burned in Ashton, ILL.,, Loss, SG0,000-
Z. w. BLAToHFoRDsI six-story ibuildins,
filled with intiammable' materials. burned
In Chicago, c;rusing'a loss of S330,O00.
THE President has appointed 1.-The 4thres
Commissioners who are to treat with the
Cherokee Indians for their share Of theaOkla
homa lands Tho gentlemen named !aroJ
Otis Humphrey, Of Illinois; Alfred NJ. Will
son, of Arkansas;an Ex-Governor George D.
Robinson, of Massachusetts.
THE United States Senate has appointed
Messrs. Sherman, Dawes, Cullom, ALLISON,
Hampton, Eusts, Colquitt and Ing nils as q
committee to represent their body At the
Washington Centennial celebrations in Now
York
A WIDESPREAD plot to kill theI Car has
been discovered and many arrests made In
Russia.
EULoGIEs on the late John Bright were
pronounced In til, House of Commons by
MIR. Gladstone, Mr.. Smith, Lord Harrington,
Justin Mccarthy and Mr., Chamberlain
THE French Cabinet has unanimously re
solved to prosecute General Boulanger for
urc,triotic agitation -.-----
t..E standard Oil Company has pur.
chased tho entire Crofton oil ileldin Pennsyl-
Vana.
FLAMES among the oil tanks at Long Island
City, N. Y, destroyed property worth $780,
200 and burned one workman to crisp.
TOBIAS SAMMs, a colorei man. about thir-
ty-five years old, was murdered in Now York
city by his brother Reuben, twenty-five
yoarS old, with whom he had quarreled.
TIE violent wind and snow storm from The
northwest, rendering the atmosphere as
dense as a London fog, caused five collisions
OFF New York harbor, in which four vessels
were wrecked, one life lost and manyjmore
jeopardized.
QUEEN VICTORIA cabled message Of
sympathy to President Harrison for the loss
of lifo aboard our warshirs in Samoa and the
President sent an appropriate reply.
nf kI, I,,ka L.
important order directing that heads ,of
bureaus and other officers of the department
will not call for designations except by di-
rection of the Secretary.
THE widow Of General Stonewall jackson,
to whom was rendered the Office of postmfs.
trcss of Lexington, Va, has declined to ac-
cept the same.
TERRIBLE prairie fires were raging near
Cavour, Dakota.
FIVE companies Of troops were In Okls-
homa clearing out the invaders
A DESTRUCTIVE wind storm prevailed in
Southern Ohio. Two men were drowned by
the capsizing of small boat near Lawrence
burg, Ohio.
BoTH houses ofthe Wisconsin Legislature
hi'o paSSci uuOpliuS Uuo AuSUTdllau
systom of voting.
Two miners, Hermann Manti and Petor
Jacobson. wCse instantly killed by tho OK.
plosion of dynamite cartridge, which thoy
struck in drilling, in the Copper Falls mine
at lIoushton, Mich.
TnE Belgian mail packet Comtesse dc
Flanders was sunk i'm collision in tho English
Channel Fourteen lives were lost end the
mails were lost with the vessel.
TIE annual boat race between crews re-
presenting Cambridge and Oxford Univer-
stics was rowed OH the Thames, London,
over the usual course, four miles and two fur
longs Cambridge won by three lengths
THE funeral of John Bright took place.
lie was buried in the old Quakcrs' buryn9
ground at Rochdalo, England.
LEGirIME has sent a peace commission OF
threa to Cape Haytian by tho steamer Delta.
The commission is empowered to confer with
llyppolite about establishing some basis of
relationship OH which The war can be de-
sIo col ntr