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

i, LATER, NEWS.
A cHALnENaE to ,the .Newf York Yacht
Club to contsst; next fall, for the possession
OF the Americas cup has been ISSUED by yrthe
Earl of Dunra~en. The Earl tsuggeststthat
the contests be sthree.out Of five races and
the day Of the} first race dSeptemberf 5Oth.
His boat is the Vall1yrie.
AN enginea and three coachesj fell through
o bridgenear. Queen City, Mo-. John Arthur,
engineer, and Luther Chamberlain, fireman,
were killed.
A DEpUrYsUNrrED SrArEsiMARsHAn was
killed by bahdof Kentucky outlaws ;,
JED TwIrcHrnL. colored, was hung /at
Chatham, Va ,ifor assault!upon a nine.year-
old girl
TWENTY storesaand several dwellingsSwere
burned in Ashton, Ill, ;Loss, s6o.000~
E. w. BLAroHFoRD'si six-story jbuilding,
filed with inflammablei materials. burned
In Chicago, cuusing'a loss Of SsSopoo.
THE President has appointed 1.-The &three
Commissioners. who are to treat with the
Cherokee Indians for their share of theaOkla
homa lands. The gentlemen named iareJ
Otis Humphrey, Of Illinois; Alfred NJ. tWsl-
son, of Arkansas ;and dex-Governori George D.
Robinson, of Massachusetts.
TIE United States Senate has appointed
Messrs Sherman, Dawes, Cullom, ALLISON,
Hampton, Eustis, Colquitt and Ing nils as q
committee to represent their bodyS at the
Washington Centennial celebrationt in New
York.
A WIDESPREAD plotito kill theSC Gar has
been discovered and many arrests made In
Russia
EULoGIEs on the late John Bright were
pronounced IN th, House Of Commons by
Mr.. Gladstone, Mr.. Smith Lord Harrington,
Justin Mccarthy and Mr., Chamberlain.
THE French Cabinet has unanimously Fre-
solved to prosecute General Bonlaneer for
unC,triotic agitation.
I-.E Standard Oil Company has pur.
chased tho entire Crofton oil fieldin Psnnsyl-
vania.
FLAMES among the oil tanks at Long Island
City, N. Y, destroyed property worth $780,
600 and burned one workman to q crisp
TOBIAS SAMMs, colorsd man, about thir.
ty.five years old, was murdered In Now York
city by his brother Reuben, twenty-five
years old, with whom he had quarreled. i
THE violent wind and snow storm from tho
northwest, rendering the atmosphere, as
dense as LONDON fog, caused five collisions
of 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 life aboard our warships in Samoa and the
President sent an appropriate reply.
THE Secretary Of the Interior has issued an
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 postmis.
tress Of Lexington, Va, has declined to ac-
cept the same.
TERRIBIE prairie fires were raging near
Cavour, Dakota. &
FIVE companies Of troops were IN Okla-
homa clearing out the invaders.
A DESTRUCTIVE wind storm prevailed In
Southern Ohio. Two men were drowned by
the capsizing of a small boat near Lawrence
burg, Ohio.
BOTH houses OF the Wisconsin Legislature
have passed bill adopting the Australian
system Of voting.
Two miners, Hermann ManH and Peter
Jacobson. wors instantly killed by tho ex-
plosion OF dynamite cartridge, which they
struck in drilling, in the Copper Falls mine
at Houghton, Mich.
The Belgian mail packet Comtesse de
Flanders was sunk in collision in the English
Channel Fonrtasn lives were lest ;.ad ts.s
mails were lost with the vessel.
THE annual boat race between crews re.
presenting Cambridge and Oxford Unfyer-
stiles was rowed on the Thames, London,
over the usual course, four miles and two for
longs. Cambridge won by three lengths.
The funeral of John Bright took place
He was buried in the old Quakers' buryine
ground at Rochdale, England.
LEGiTME has sent peace commission Of
three to Cape Haytian by tho steamer Delta.
The commission Is empowered to confer with
Hyppolite about establishing some basis of
relationship on which the war can be de,
clared of.