The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-19
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

NoAg SPENeLEK,a a well known contracto,
and builder Of Bethlehem, Penn, committed
suicide. Excessive drinking drove him to
the commission Of the deed.
Ex-PRKsIDENr CLEVELAND has been ap
pointed, by a New York Supreme Court
mate and Assessment in the matter OF the
High Bridge Park.
JUDGE ALEXANDER McCUE, Assistant
Treasurer Of the United States, disd OF
sixty-two years old. On the day before his
death President Harrison nominated Ellis II.
Roberts to succsed him as head of the Sub
Treasury in New York.
The ST. David, full rugged ship, reached
Philadelphia from Havre, with the steward
in irons. q hopeless lunatic; the first mate
down with acute bronchitis, the second mate
a victim of rheumatic fever, aud a seaman
also suffering from q complication Of dis
eases.
HOWARD R SWIFT, agent Of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company at Hartford, Conn,
recently committed suicide in that city.
Financial embarrassment was the cause.
A BIG land slide occurred In Pittsburg,
completely covering the tracks OF the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad.
THIEVES broke into the old State house at
New Haven Conn.,, and entering tho rooms
away the sword of Admiral Foote held by
the Society as a relic. 1t is u presentation
sword studded with jewels and precious
stones valued at 5000.
THE change in the offices OF the Treasurer
and Assistant Treasurer OF New York will
uecessitate a count of all the moneys and
securities in both Offices, aud will take at
least four weeks to accomplish. ------
~ mIEE TRUST has been formed at Pitts
burg. The Trust will handle all the milk,
some thirty thousand gallons which is
brought to Pittsburg daily.
ADAM MAUI was found drowned in a
.pring ON his farm, near West Sand Lake,
n. Y. He was sixty years old, and is
believed to have committed suicide.
BOOTH, the great American tragedian, was
stricken with incipient paralysis during his
appearance in "Othello," ut Rochester, N. ",
and the performance had to go on without
him. All his dates for the season have been
Cancelled.
THE Rhode Island State election resulted
ticket, and the General Assembly win be
called upon to elect State officers.
EDWARD DIErz of Pittsburg, Penn, killet
one of his children, young girl three year
of age, and then committed suicide by cutting
his throat. The deed was the outcome of ,
quarrel between Dietz and his wife.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature will ad jour-
on Mayo
ALLARD g. Sons, large Partisan firm
dealing in antiques art furniture, rare tapes
tries, paintings and bric-a-brac, having
branch establishment in New York city
have been detected in smuggling operation
by which they haya defrerded tho Unitet
States OF several hundred thousand dollars
Their scheme was to consign to their New
York house cabinet furniture, in which wer
concealed costly articles, which they sold t
the Vanderbilts and Astors.
THE complete vote of Rhode Island give
Ladd, Republican, 1882; Davis, Democrat
2l,350; Richardson, Prohibition, 1911; Chace
Law Enforcement 3435. Davis lacks 54S o
an election, but has a plurality of 439S. Thi
throws the election into the General Assem-
bly,. There will be twenty -one Republican
and eleven Democrats in the Senate, wit
four still to be elected. In tho House of Re
preSentatives there are twenty three Republ
cans and thirty-seven Democrats, with twclv
yet to he elected The only candidate electe
to State Office was Slocum (Democratl Al
torney-General.
GEORGE w. WARD, Assistant Postmaste
Of Elmira, n. Y, has disappeared, and $50
in Government funds is missing.