The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-26
FHE NEWS.

rTe nc La,caster, Ia, destroyed Valuable
storehouse Foperty, causing losses aggrs-
eating 100000. .--Augustu Rosenberg,
aged forty-fse years, at Somcrville, Mass,
murdered MI Catherine Smith, with whom
no had boe,I living, aud lisr fourteen-year-
old son, and also shot and seriously Injured
the womant two other children, completing
the terrible tragedy i'y leaping from win
dow himself and dying. Frequent earth
quake shscks have been felt about Obispo
county, Cal.-C. l.. Gillespie, late door
keeper OF the Nebraska Senate, is under
arrest in Pittsburg, charged by his wife
with grand larceny.--Thrss prisoners
were suifocated In u fire that destroyed the
Jail iiatJacksonville. Oregon. Joseph Web
Der. a prominent citizen Of Chicago, COM
mitted suicide Frank H. Herman, a Chi
-s..- spors In bad luck, kpted hirnaaie..ssssA!
etsesEssstp-lSS5i - SSs The sSsamSf
Ropei. ff6m xaifaki 81 WAS wrecked at
Castro aud eleven of lsek crew lost. The
Otis Iron and Steel Works, at Cleveland.
Ohio, have been sold to English capitalists
for "a SOC, ,OO0.. Alfred Greene, an insane
Swede in the Michigan State Asylum,
stabbed James T. jackson to tho heart with
abutcher knife. DeWeight fatally
stabbed man named Meaney in the Michi-
gan State House Of Correction, In mistake
for Charles Stanley, another inmate, with
whom he had quarreled. &C. b. Fulton
and Miss Mary Ault, were instantly killed
by n cart in which they were riding b.ing
struck by a train near Bellaire, Ohio
Levi Ehrhart, young mau, was killed on
the Northern Central Railroad near York,
Pa John DAILY aud Andrew McGregor
were killed, and several other men injured
by dam breaking at Pittsburg.-The
tanks OF the Consolidated Oil Company. at
st. Joseph, Mo-, were struck by lightning
and destroyed. Loss $4,000. Thomas
jefferson, colored, was hanged at Memphis,
Tenn. for the murder Of William Raglapd.
Charles Blackmar, Of East Saginaw, Mich,
Shilo drunk shot his mother, aud a grandson
OF the woman then shot the drunkard.-
fire destroyed the business section OF Car.
son, Iowa. Loss $62, 900, insurance $25,OOO.
Efforts are being made to settle the Illi-
no's miners strike by arbitration.-J.
hoge Winfield, son Of the Episcopal bishop
Oh California, was fatally shot at Benics,
Cai.. by j. e. Crooks in q quarrel over q
newspaper article. An attempt was made
20 blow up the Salvation Army barracks in
dianopolis-August Belz, Of Appleton,
Wis, put to flight dozen whitecaps who
had come to flog him. A shortage Of s2l,-
oV has been found In the accounts of OK.
County Treasurer T. w. Cole. Of Marshall,
lH-Rev. e. II. Flemen, alias John Geldell
was arrested in Pittsburg, charged with a
murder So:c:sitted In Sc,... Z, G,,,,.; ,.r.;so ,,s
Z :ss4 y sssss 81; @As.T Arno.;.
was fined $3.50 In New York court for
smuggling jewelry from France
Rooney, under a ten years sentence at Dan
nemara state prison. N. Y. for manslaughter
yommitted suicide by hanging.-Henry
Blake and Michael Frawiey, while drunk at
Susquchanna, Pa, fell into the river and
received fatal injuries.-Albert Orlaroski,
. young German, committed suicide In New
York city by first shooting and then hang
ing himsslf.-By the wreck Of q freigh,
train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near
Pittsburg, three persons were killed, mum.
ber injured nnd thirteen cars demolished.
Dennis Depauw. q crazy man, was found
in Chicago court room threatening to kill
Judge Grinneil. Emil Plettig and August
John, OF Chicago, in attempting to run d
dam at Kilbourn City, Wis.,. In IA rowboat
were drowned by the boat capsixing. The
new census Of Buffalo. N. Y, just completed
shows Q population OF S2.O27.
During a fire in the American Provision
Company's warehouse, Chicago, six firemer
were overcome by smoke, two Of them
stally.-A storm near Albuquerque, New
Mexico, twisted railroad rails out of shape
washed bridges away, and did general de-
Congressman Edmund Rice,
Of Minnesota, Is dead.--William Fisher. OF
East Saginaw, Mich, was bitten OH the
thumb by q man with whom he had beeu
lighting, and the wound caused gangrene.
from which he died. mayor Of Gin.
cinnau has ordered that the Sunday laws
prohibiting the sale OF soda water and ice
cream be enforced. William Sharkey, ar
rested at Toledo, Ohio, for murder, con-
fesses that he killed Coleman Dupeo, an old
hermit, and then set fire to his hut, in the
hope that all evidences Of the crime would
be reduced to ashes. Whitmore,
Of Rochester, N. Y, has complained to tae
police that he was robbed Of $l,O75 by the
girl he was about to marry. William
Weddington, colored, was hanged at Char
lotte, N. c., for the murder OF Policeman Johr
Pierce. e.-Lightning struck cottage II
Chester county, Pe., and killed coloret
child. Other damage was done by lightning
In that section. Tho grand lodge Of Ban
evolent and Protective Order of Elks con
ciuded It's annual session in New York, an,
adjourned. to meet next year at Cleveland
Ohlo.-The Southern Yellow Pine Lumbe
Association met at Montgomery, Ala, an,
coiisideIsd freight Tates.-Siishs sarti
quake shocks at Charleston, 8. c. A cir
cular has been issued to Grand Army depart
ments all over the country to resent the aS
tion OF the railroads In not giving the Gu,
tomary rate OF one cent pcr mile to th
national encampment TO be held at Milwau
keo. by no. attending In numbers, only tn
regular delegates going.