The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-09-13
THE NEWS.

Race troubles caused serious rioting In
small towns in Louisiana and Mississippi
and several colored persons were shot
During fire In Spring City, Ia, The wall OF
a warehouse fell in, killing one man and in
JurinS others William +. Denniup. the
defaulting assistant postmaster at Brown
vile, Ind, has conf, ssed TO having lost his
money ut cards.-Jay Gould and &. r.
Huntington are forming a combination to
obtain control OF oil the South western lines
AN excursion and stock train collided
near Vermont a conductor and passenger
were killed and others injured capi-
tai stock Of the Commercial Cable COMPANY
has been increased from six to ten millions
-Reimund Holzhay, the lone highwayman
who terrorized Northern Wisconsin, has been
saptured.-Owing to the large pension
payments, the public debt has Increased dur
Ing the month OF August. Tie Cramp
Brcs., OF Philadelphia, have notified the Sec.
retary OF tho Navy that the cruiser Philad,I
phia will be launched on the 7th instant.
The Superintendent of the Census bas M
pointed DIR. Charles A. Ashburner and John
H. Jones special agents to collect the statis.
IL
Z. Frank has also bsen appointed to collect
iron and steel statistics, and James A. Blod.
zett, Of Illinois, to collect statistics OF educ,.
tion.-Mr. VIM. Ziler was killed at Mar
ansburg 10y train, while asleep on the track
Tho wholesale jobbing house OF Wheeler
Blodgett & Co., in Boston, was partly de-
'troyed by fire A fire at the Cincinnati
Hamilton and Dayton elevator caused a loss
Of $4,000
Henry A. Sage & Co. s harness factory rt
Easton' Pa, was destroyed by fire. Loss
SSo'ooo-Typhoid fever is raging in Johns
Town. 'here being twenty five patients down
with the disease in the Red Cross bosnito,s
The safe In the postoffico at Cornwall, N.
H. was blown open and $500 In stamps stolen.
-lhe female cpllasa nj jfiaNar- br or; .. It's
prettiest pupils The United States steamer
hlsh caPturei another British sealiny
schooner In Bebring Sea.--Two sisters
Mrs Dobson. nGed sixty Ave, aud Mrs. Dem
nett, aged seventy while returning IN Il buggy
TO their home, outside OF Milwaukee, were
STRUCK by railroad train and killed d--The
business portion OF the histo 10 village of
Sacketts Hnrbor, N. ", was destroyed by
hre Loss 81, 200. 0.--WhitaIl Tatum & Co.,
green glass manufacturers of Millville, N.
y. have accedei to the demands Of tho work
men.-A pair Of swindlers, representing
themselves as agents of the Standard Oil
Company, successfully work innocent people
In the towns along the Ohio river near Wheel
ing.-Rev. DIR. Yost, chancellor of the
University OF Florida, presented to Heidel-
burg College, ut Tiflln. Ohio museum of
curiositiIs- -valuef at SGU,UOO-Judge Nc
Conneii, OF Chicago, has decided that all the
defendants In the Cronin trial must be tried
together, with the exception Of Woodruff
tieth hSP9 81 Gs Asa Ssh
tion endorsing Commissioner Tanners pom
sion policy caused lively discussion In the
Grand Army E o.mpment, resulting in the
adoption Of substitute resolution expressing
confidence in his integrity, and uniting with
him In request for an investigation of his
administration.-Jam w. Newbaker, a
politician of Sataria. Miss. was assassInated
by unknown parties while entering his house.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has offer
ed a reward of 81 900 for the arrest ot any
robber attacking a stage carrying the mails.
--Robert Ewell was shot aud seriously
wounded by Joseph Taylor, near Onancock,
Va In quarrel growing out of the white
cap pranks OF last spring Tho Supreme
Council American Legion o. Honor, in ses-
| sion at Chicago, elected Encch S. Brown, OF
New York, supreme comman Ter, and G. g.
b tting, d. d., Of Baltimore, supreme chap
lain Il roy A. Trues lale hns been ar-
rested In New York, for emb szzling $4,000
from the New York, Pennsylvania and Oaio
Railroad Company monument to the
Confederate deal was unveiled ut Manassas
ALFRED Brood, formerly treasurer OF the
Steele Packing and Provision Company, of
Grand Rapids, Mich. has been arrested OIL a
charge Of embezzling $lO,O0J.-A colored
man was robbed by tramps and thrown from
a train on the Norfolk and Western Railroad,
near Liberty, Va.-In the Grand Army
naval engagement on the lake at Milwaukee,
and several other persons were badly Injured
by the explosion OF canons and mortars.-
Sarah Althea Hill Terry was arraigned In a
San Francisco court on the charge OF con
tempt I'm obstructing Unit d States marshal
in the performance Of his duty.-TwC
freight trains on the Buffalo, New York ant
Pennsylvania Railroad collided near Brad
ford, Pa, and fifteen cars were wrecked anc
Engineer j. B. Comstock killei.-Georg
E. Satchwell, editor OF a temperanc, pap"
publishedi In Watertown, N. ", was ASSAULTS
by saloon keeper. John Turner, colored
who killed Charles Walker in Fayette county
w. Va, was taken from jail by a mob o
three hundred and lynched. Wake
and Jack Spainard were hanged at For
Smith, Ark. for murder.