The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-03-21
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A"GffE--s Hall eve
Fire in Detfo lgstroyetscfray & Bafr,,s
furniture factory :Ssrfdil & Hunts chair
manusactory. tS Srafroll.Cisar Works and
the Os,ler Printing Hous,. Aggregate loss
$25o,Ooo.--oA Follows Hall at Brming-
ham, Ala, anSother kuidings were burned,
the Old Feliors losing all their records aud
eegalia. --Towland Leach, New York
commercial raveler, was murdered in Chi.
ago-Ai Graham, former Auditor of
Warren county, Ohio, was sentenced to
eighteen years in prison and to pay a fine of
Sl26, ,42s forsmbt zzing SG3. 900 Of the county's
funds. the ma ician, in his do.
cepitation act, inflicted cash upon his wife,s
throat by aslip Of the sword. Hundred
of prairie schooners arc moving on to the
Cherokes strip. Spotted fever or malip.
nant meningitis 10 epidemic In Summer
county, Tenn.-tThe discovery of several
soft coal veins irSthsnoi. hborhood OF Cham
berlaiu. South Dab Sta,k causing much ex.
eitement inssh4x Sc ions sa-.rraa. Trihitsri., -
Church at ~
Loss, 80, 800. IA dts5 = e. |< 81 q !
State, troops pursued q bas5, ,sof reneeade
Apacbes on the Salt river, Arizona, md I'm
a fight with them, tsilled two tanu captured
three.-In Tquarrel abouta family scar.
dal George S. Turner, wealthy mill owner
of Valley Falls, S. e., shot and killed bis
brother-in-law. Edward Finger j. p.
Mitcbellwas blown into pieces by a nitro.
glycerine explosion In Franklin, Pa.-Fire
OF Joliet. H., destroyed block Of buildings
owned by J. e. Bush. Loss $50, ,OOo-Prof.
Eiwin d. Bangs. aged seventy-four years, a
faa ot
burg, Iu.-E'ght persons were injured in
runaway sleighing accident IN Baldwin,
visa big mass meeting was held in
Topeka, Kas, in the interest of abolishing
the prohibition law, which was declared to
ho q failure.-The funeral Of Hon. George
II. pendleton, who died in Germany, took
place In Cincinnati Anchor line
steamship Caledonia, at New York from the
Mediterranean. reports fiuding the aban-
brig Progress, OF GrinsSai, in mid.
ocean an | fired tho wreck, the crew had pre-
viously been taken off and landed at st.
Johns.
A scheme has been discovered In Michigan
Tor the secret importation Of Chinese. a num-
Der OF them who had been smuggled in being
captured by government officers. dis
pute over increasing the salary OF Rev. Mr..
Williams. pastor OF the Englewood First
Presbyterian Church. Of Chicago, caused an
exciting scene in the church The board
OF managers Of the Ohio Penitentiary has
recommended E. l.. Harper, the notorious
bank wrecker, for pardon, he having four
years more to serve.-E w. Planes screen
door factory 81 Bs!TideFr, ILL.,, was destroyed
ty fire. Loss, $25 0o0.-Burglars broke into
the 1,welry store OF RobsrtJ. Dunning, Kan.
sas CITY, and under the glare OF an electric
light broke open the safe ami got away with
$4,000 worth OF diamonds and other Jewels.
"A bill is bcT Sse, MASSACHUSETTS, legis-
lature to compsf FetaI q u abe tax commits.
sioner by foreign corporatio ons doing business
in that state. Such returns win cover hun
dreds Of million of dollars which now escape
taxation - rhe snow and sleet storm did
not effect the main peach growing district Of
the Delaware peninsula. w. H. Farnum,
assistant secretary Of the Northwestern Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company at Milwauk 20,
WIS. committed suicide.--Chicdso friends
of United States Minister Lhsoln express
the opinion that, in view of tha, death of his
Ton, he will resign tho office antreturn home.
Nils. Joseph Kubus, Of Greensburg, Pa. +,
prompted by 1salou,ly, shot and seriously
wounded her husband. John Gibney, his
wife and their seventeen-year-o OLD servant girl
were found nearly suffocatei by gas in their
home in Philadelphia. The Belgian Steam
ship De Ruyter, OF the White Gross Line,
from Ant serp, went ashore on the rocks
near ScituatA Mass.-rhree children of
william Robinson, ,ef Perry Sound. Oat. :,
were burnsd 1psaeeAr Ar-N-WiliiaD Buokueii,
the Philadelphia philanthropist, died of apo
plexy. aged seventy nine years. He had given
hundreds OF thousands of dollars to B ,ptist
Church and educational purposes. Rev.
c. ement NJ. Butler, d. ID. a for mer chaplain of
the United States Senate. diei in German
town. Pa, agei eighty yesAs The strike
OF the mill han Is at Nashua, N H., has been
s tiled Ezra l.. Stevens, for thirty years
chief clerk OF tho Interior Department at
Washington and lae OF the most prominent
Free Masons in the United States, died at
Asbury Park, N. J.-N. A. Watts. while
oiling machinery in q mine at Joplin. Mo
was caught in q set OF rollers aud crushed to
deatb.-Miss Ross Ryan. aged twenty years,
of WilkesOarre, Pa, committed suicide be-
cause ridiculed by some Of her companions
for leaving a convent because Of ill.bealtb
Samuel Holey and his family at Plain
fiild, N. j., were nearly asphy yxiated by the
fumes of charcoal.-Michael Toney, aged
twenty four years, was stabbed AMI almost
instantlal. sss. biz brother, Dominiok
Toney, .pnia--The works OF tho
Pacific Rubber Company, at Elizabeth, N
j., were burned. Loss $4,000. Frank p.
Rhea. OF Harrisburg, baggage master on
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, was
arrested at Allentown by postal inspector
for robbing the mails. Dscoy letters were
| found on him.
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