The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-07-19
THE NEWS,

staDDcu DIS Whe as sne was COPING OUT vi u
New York dive.-The LawA,n Manufao-
turing Compauy's works, at Rd&bury, Mass,
were burned. Lo 8 slS.OOJ; iSsured. d.--Isaac
Valentine, an importer of diamonds, New
York city made an assig Hmeut.-A freight
train on the Fennsyfvania Railroad was
wrecked at Locust Prove, near Lancaster
Pa, and twelve cars d,railed. The Indiana
miners refuse to ySld, and the operators
will introduce machinery to do the work.
Black rot will cSuse total failure Of the
grape crop in the Mississippi Valley. Six
men were thrown Ito tho winter by tho up.
setting OF their boss on the Mississippi river,
near Savannah, Ilt and Thomas Rogers,
Edward Howard fd Patrick Finn were
drowned. Eggers. st. Louis
Brewer, committees Suicide. e.-In a collision
between n passeng5 and a freight train on
the New York, Pd Rlyania and Ohio Rail-
road, near, JamestoWnSN. ", one sugineer
and n hauress--rvs-- Ses5 Killed and one
passenger hurt.--Louis Cherier, cashier Of
the bank at Houghton. Wis. has disappeared
with about $50, 900. Twelve attempts have
been mado to burn the town OF Danl ury, +,
Conn.,, the last one, causing considerable
damage. Duane, aged fifteen years
was shot and killed by James Allen, n night
watchman, In Chicago, while trying to es.
capo with stolen cigars. late General
Camrrou's will inclutes number of bequests
to churches and charities The 2,SOO for
mer employees Of tho Reading Iron Works
have been notified that the works will soon
resume, but that none will be rc-employed
who belong to labor organizations or who
indulge in strong drink. In q riot OF strik-
ing street car employees at Duluth, Mimi,
two strikers were killed aud several hurt by
the police, whom they attacked Peter
Corr, prominent young lawyer OF Spotsyl-
vania county, Va, died from injuries by
being kicked by ss'-John N. Railing
Of Shippensburg, Pa, was killed 10y freight
train. IS. X. Horton, n farmer Of Rutledge,
Ca, was fatally shot from ambush. w.
T. Carriers & Co 3 mine slope, near Halle
ton, Pa, was d 2stroycd by fire. Loss S7O,OOO
M. C. Miller, night clerk at the L.ws.
ford, Hotel, Birmingham, Ala, committed
suicide. William Carson, and Captain
w. ii. Lloyd, while fishing Off Wrightsville
Inlet, at Wilmington. N. c., were drowned
by their boat capsizing. .-Burglars rem-
sacked tho Kimbnll House at Albany, N. ",
and secured booty aggregating 1900.
Carrie Frost, aged. eighteen. was burned
to death in the fire that destroyed her home
ut Hopkins, Wis.-Nearly one hundred
persons were made seriously i'll by the ice
cream they ate at a Fourth Of July picnic at
hdair, Iowa. "A steamer on the Red river,
packed with Winnipeg people on Fourth
n .Tsl tnr
driven ashore; a panic prevailed, but all
were saved.-A movement was started in
Chicago for the formation Of an Irish
American republic. The new CONNER
cial Hotel at Lansing, Mich. was burned,
and many Of the guests barely escaped with
their lives. Loss $4,000. "A collision on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road
resulted in the fatal injury Of Express
Agent Blackburn and the serious injury Of
several others. Frank Hoyt, paying teller
OF the First National Bank of Hobolten, was
arrested on the charge Of embezzlement.-
The Ofman brewery. in Cleveland, Ohio,
was damaged $50, 900 by fire e--In the con-
troversy between tho Chicago Board Of
Trade and the bucket shops, the court de-.
cided that market quotations are public
property Secretary Blaine arrived at
Bar Harbor. Hon. George Fl. Watrous,
ex.prcsident of the New York, New Haven
AMI Hartford Railroad, died suddenly at
Now Hnven,-The Kentucky Republican
State Convention Mt Lexington nominated
David G.. Colson for State treasurer.-
Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest son of Cen
eral Sherman, received the first rites In his
ordination as Jesuit priest in the Cathedral
at Philadelphia, Archbishop Ryan ofIlciat.
ing.-Lung Sing, n Chinaman from Balti-
more, was found murdered at Buffalo, N. Y.
Several prominent local politicians Of
st. Louis have been arrested as result Of
the investigation into alleged election frauds
ut the last election. The Monongahela
river miners will he locked out soon unless
they rccede from their demands of three
cents per bushcl.-A lady and gentleman
and nurse girl and child were killed near
Long Branch by the carriage being struck
by locomotive. by the explosion of a
she'll at Salem, Mass, two children were
killed, and several others injured. The
Is. and o.. cut in rates was discussed at a
meeting OF the Chicago committee of the
Central Traffic Association, and the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad has
given notice that it will meet the ut.---Six
tons of powder exploded at the Dupont
Works, at Wilmington, Del, but no one was
injured. IA story comes from Bishopville.
Sumter county, s. c., that young white
man and his wifc were brutally assaulted by
four negroes.
FIVE Girls DROWNED