The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-10-11
THE NEWS,


Of the Mountain Meadow massacre. Mich
igan capitalists will Construct u canal from
Graud Rapids to Holland, that state, to cost
S2,OJO,OOO. Judge John T. Nixon, of the
Uuited States District Court for tho District
Of New jersey, died at Stockbridse. Mass.
- IN investigation OF the condition OF the
families OF tho Illinois striking miners shows
that hundreds Of children are sufF ring from
hunger Two groat English syndic,teS,
with an aggregate capital OF S5o,0U,OOO,
have about completed tho investment Of this
lirse sum in American treweries and grain
Acknowledgment w. Il. Jones, general
manager OF the L lgar Thomson S,ccl Works.
who was burned by the explosion OF molten
metal, dici Saturday night. t.-JJseph Lem
ber was waylaid, robbed and murd rod in n
WOO Is, near Wilkesbarre, Pa.---By tho ex-
p os on Of q boiler in u CURRY, i'm York
county, Pa, Lemuel Barnes was fatally in
jured ON his WIFE killed.---A passenger
train ON the Baltimore All PhIla ielphia Rail
road collideI with a LOCOMOTIVES near VIII
mington, Dsl., and Fir, nan L lward Lyle OF
Newark, killed. JespeI son, a Nor
mon, has been arrested in Salt Lake City
charged with poIygamy, one Of his plural
wives having confessed how they were mar
red without license. sc.--Licutenunt Colonel
| Sidney ID. Waters WAS held for the action OF
tho grand jury. at Spokane Falls, on a charge
Of stealing sup plies from tho relief committee
| Of the suffs 10y the August ilre.-iiarry
Flamn, the young teller OF tho Marine
| National Bank, OF Pitts1urg. convicted of
| embezzling $500, was sentenced to five
| years in prison. n.-Mrs. Frances T. Willard
president OF tho National Women's Christian
| temperance Union, celebrated the n fittieth an.
| niversary OF her birth.-T.re destroyed
| Sl,00O,OO worth OF property at Butte, Mon
tana.-George OR, u dIsspated tailor,
shot his wife nnd then committed suicide in
Jersey C.tY.-rno coroner'S jury in tho
Quebec disaster gave verdict charging
gross and culpable ncgli sence on tho part OF
the Dominion officials.
w. b. Layton, hged seventy five years, OF
| Dupont, Ohio, blew out tho gas in his room
at the Lester House, in huntingdon, Pc,
and was found dead the next morning. ---.-
Governor Loo has respitcd for two weeks tho
negro Walker, who wns to havo been cXccu-
ted ut Chesterfield -6ourt-house, Virginia
William s. Moorc's hrGe granerirs and
stables OH his farm, near Laurel, D,l., wero
destroyed by fire, the supposed act of an
incendiary. DR. John l.. Blaine, promi
nent Chicago physician, was arrested on a
charge OF performing criminal operation
w, rrrrear-ss rs---IssSia IL -1aarker---l.-a,
alich.-The steamer providence, of the Old
Colony Line, was in collision with schooner
Off Schuylers light, twenty-five miles from
New York, and was badly damaged john
H. Quinn, who murdered his wife at Alton,
Pa, committed suicide by hangius himself
in jail Reimund IIolzhay, notoriously
known as Back Bart, the stage robber. cs-
capped from Jail at Bessemer, Mich.-Tfero
were l65 business failures in the Uf,ted
States and 27 in Canada the last week.
Mrs. Della Preston shot q canal boatman on
boat near Schenectady, N. Y, who tried
to force his way into her cabin while she
was taking bath, The saw mills % tho
Ohio Falls car works, at Jefferson, Ind.
were destroyed by fire. Total loss So 900.
Forest fires in California are destroy ing
miles of fine timber and sweeping away vii,
lagos and farm houses. flames Cosgrove,
OF Chicago, called William j. Collins liar
when the latter drew revolver and shot
.Cosgrove dead.-Mrs. VIM. Conroy, OF
died. Her cbiIdfen &tsfew ewlasff 5AahSpR, ,fJ% Rnd
the same cause. Twenty 1.-TWO stores were
burned out i'm Cresco, Iowa. Loss 81, 900.
q. s. Bliss & Co.'s syrup refinery, in Kansas
City, No., wns burned. Loss So, 900; insu
r,nce $50, ,00O.- A three .yoar-old boy, with
n mania for playing with fire, set fire to his
bahy sisters clothing in indianapolis, and
she was burned to death.
Emmons Blaine, the second son or the Hon.
James g. Blaine, was married Sept. &c, al
kichfleld Springs, N. ", to Miss Anita Me-
Cormfck, grand daughter OF tho late Cyrus
Mccormick, a Chicago millionaire, and the
inventor Of the famous reaping machines
that bears his name.-The Scott elevated
hallway to be constructed in st. Louis, IL to
Do built with Holland capital q loan of
so'oooooO for the project having been effect
Ell through the firm OF Ladcnberg. Thalman
d Co., of New York, representing u syndi-
cate OF Holland capitalists. Har-
Held, OF New York, was arrested i'm Rich
mcnd, Va, charged with bigamy DIR.
Churles f. IL !intZ was arrested in Philadei-
phia charged with performing a criminal
operation on Eliza Kraus, a nineteen yoar-
old German girl Sherman was
reelected president OF the Society of the
Army OF the Tennessee, and tho meeting at
CINCINNATI closed with a grand bauqu t.
SHOW storms in the northern part of
Wisconsin. The st. Louis brewers have
refused Sl5OOo,OoO for their property offered
by tho English syndicate Tho sheriff of
Reading, Pa., leyied on the farm OF VaIen-
tine 3. kieRtr, hose failure was caused by
his being bondsman for Isaac Eckert, n Tux
collector, who dcfaulted, skipping with So 600
taxes. s.-Chicago ladies havo formed a so
cicty for the prosecution Of the gambling
house proprietors Of that city.-In quar-
rel between Is. F. Curtis, a merchant, and
John Wallace, a mail carrier. at Cairo, ILL.,,
over tho removal Of Commissioner Tanner,
Wallace was fatally woundcd.-Jaccb
Schreiber, son of John l.. Schreiber, ono
Of the commissioners of Ii high county, Pa,
shot aud killed his uncle, Franklin j.
Schreiber, at Moorebead, Mnn.-The