The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-22
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LATER NEWS.

EA-SENAToR SIMON CAMERON ,.,.,
nus ninetieth birthday at his boms 49, %' s'e'
risburg, Penn. ''e near Har
IHE british schooner Glean.,
boothbay, Me-, by United So. '',1ea AT
ior non-entry. The fine is s15oc.
Ihs Bufford's Sons Lithogranb;, c,u.
Pany, OF Boston, has suspended nor,,.
Liabilities. 100000 payment
| SHOCKS of earthquake vere fs,t ..
points In Pennsylvania, Delawar, M.rn,""
and New Jersey. -""fyiand
hLklNHAUs s. SIMoNsoN,s ,,
tro nouse IN Louisville, KY, WAS d.s.
"o'eu oy hre, causing loss OF s4ss ooo
EMANUEL GAsK1Ns. -o.,----------
banged Rt SHANsoN and her brother-in-
J,oob Hanson, OF Brunswick, Num-
- 80, ,,;,I.d bv William Noting, neighoor
with whom Hanson had been dr'hknk
MraAAM GrssNEn. C ElassmassI; S',.. eli, %nr him
and then committed suicide at Fostoria,
Ohio.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER has
purchased the elegant Washington residence
which has been until recently tho home OF
Hon. w. c. Whitney. The price paid was
$4,000.
THERE was a net decrease Of S4,S1S, ,796 in
the circulation during February, and net
increase Of SATISFIES in the money and
bullion in the Treasury.
THE British man. .of-war Sultan has been
wrecked on the Island Of Comino, in tho
Mediterranean. The captain and crew were
saved.
BLACK diphtheria is epidemic in Cranberry
Township, Vcnango County, and Gallitzir,
Penn. The schools arc closed and public
meetings forbidden. Since November 100
people, out Of population of 1000, havo
died In Gallitzin.
A BLIzzAnD almost as severe as the men,
| orable one Of last year, has ragged through.
out the Berkshire Hills in Massachusetts,.
THREE men wero killed in n coal mino at
Yatesville, Penn, by an explosion Of gas.
JOSEPH REssELL killed his wife at Au.
burn, N. ", and then committed suicide
Mrs. THOMAS LOVE, of Fredericksburg,
Va, was accidentally killed by her husband
while he was cleaning revolver. He wee
| arrested.
NEARLY $;0,O0O,000 was appropriated by
and improvement Of public buildings. Bills
calling for $42,6 900 were introduced in tho
| House alone during the fret session.
CONGRESSMAN TowNsHEND, for many
years Representative from tile Eighteenth
Illinois (Shawneetown) district, died few
DAYS ngo in Washington Of pneumonia, coil
Congress He was born in Prince Georges
County, Nd, April 80, 1S4o
SEcEETAIY WINDOW has appointed George
c. Tichsnor, Of Illinois, to DO Assistant Score
tary of tho Treasury.
A PASSENGER train on tho Trnnscaspian
Railway, in Russia, was thrown from tho
track in n tunnel, owing to tho removal of
rails by train wreckers. Tie result Of the
derailment was frightful, tho killed and in
jured numbering fifty.
KING MENELEH, of Shoa. has formally de-.
clared war against King John, of Abyssinia.
TIE greatest flood that hos been known in
the west of England for generation has
just prevailed.
A FEARFUL storm ragged in tho south Of
Russia for three days. Railway traffic in
Austria was stopped.
THE British and American consulatc1 at
Chin -Kiang, treaty port of China, wore
sacked by riotous natives.
EMPEROR DONG KAHN, Of AMMAN, has
been assassinated BEN Lanha, son OF Duo
Due, ten years old, was proclaimed Emperor
by tho French resident, and the next day
was crowned.