The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-05-09
THE Nfws

The NEWS 81
The Rochester Wheel Works, at Rochester !
N. Y, were damaged s2aOoob by fire, and three
I fireman were injured by falling from ladder.
Several horse thieves were whipped and
pilloried at Georgetown, Del.--Mad dogs
have been biting cattle and causing great ex-
citement in the neighborhood of Lewiston, Ill.
The Misses Minnie and Gertie Pierce were
killed at Lima, Ohio, by being thrown out of
carriage against stone wall.-An insane
woman at Dubuque, Ia attempted to burn her
home and murdered her children.-A canoe
containing twelve lumbermen, while crossing
the rapids on the Otter river, near Calumet,
Mich, was capsized and two of the men
drowned.--Edward Greenwald, Southern
theatrical manager, committed suicide in New
York.--Grassa and forest fires in New, Hamp-
shire did considerable. damaged. .t-Herman
rtppsy g wealthy tchse S 3
.ofcards. Sinliick, of Boston, is
under arrest the charge of seeking a con.
| spiracy to murder her husband.--The An
| glo-American Gas Lighting Company has been
organized with capital Of over $4,000, 900,
and is the biggest thing in the syndicate line
yet attempted.-A capital of $2o, ,000,0 900 will
be provided for the construction of the South
Pennsylvania Railroad, under the reorganiza-
tlon plan.-Non-union carpenters in Chi
oago, who are not residents of Illinois, coming
from other states, have appealed to the United
States authorities for protection.--Richard
| Croker, the Tammany leader, and Mayor Grant,
of New York, were shown up in bad light in
the testimony of the formers brother in-law
before the Senate Investigating Committee.
large silk mill in the Lehigh Valley, Pa,
operatcdby a New York firm was destroyed
by fire and four persons killed and twelve in.
jured.--A farmer named Morrison, of Shell
burne, Ont, drowned his three children in
barrel of rain water, and then attempted to
drown himself in crcek.-During fire in
Perry & Green's picture factory, Chicago,
crowded sidewalk gave way, and several boys
were hurt.-For three days continuous rains
have fallen all over Texas, bridges have been
swept away and the low lands fiooded.-The
| Whskey Trust has finally secured possession
Of the St Paul distillery.--DavidS Sullivan,
of Dayton, Wis, aged seventy-six years, was
burned to death while engaged in burning
grass and brush off field on his farm.--G.
+. Churchill managing partner of the firm of
| Clifford & Churchill dealers in art works, Chi
| cago, has been missing for some time and is
believe to be in Canada. Clifford says he is out
about $S.00O.-Fire in the Office of DR.. Kean,
under Kuhn's Hotel Chicago, caused panic
among the guests.--Cook Bros large boiler
at Flint, Mich, exploded, scalding Fred Cook
to death and seriously injuring several others
BY the burning of their home at Belleville
Ont, Jane Arthurs was burned to death, and
| harh hno ohan b,,. al ,ho Al L.
and arms.--Fire in the Sheltep Comb Com.
pnny-s ~ nd ,srri.
age.-Tive hundred men in the employ of
the Southwest Virginia Improvement Com.
pany, at Pocahontas nave struck against a re.
duction in wages, and the mines have been
shut down.-The cedar works at Elizabeth,
City, N. c., were burned. Loss $1,000
Tramps beat farmer of Franklin county, Pa,
because his wife refused to cook meal for
them-Thos. Bishop, aged seventy years, of
| Petersburg, Va, was convicted of murder in
the second degree for beating his wife to death,
and was sentenced to six years in prison.
The Mississippi overflow is very disastrous in
the Fointe Coupee parish, hundreds of fami
lies being homeless--Eight hundred miners
went on strike at Scottdale, Pa, and nearly one
thousand coke ovens are closed.
Samuel Allen, of Neilsville, Wis, who be-
came cnamorcd of the wife of q neighboring
farmer, poisoned him. tried to kill his own wife,
was arrested, and escaped from Jail by the aid
of his mistress, has been finally captured in
shington.--Frederick Kimball, teller of
the Peoples Savings Bank, Worcester, Mass,
robbed the concern ofS53 900, and S., 900 reward
is offered for his capture-Lizzie Meyers, of
| from nf
arsenic in Troy hotel.-Moses Hartz's barn,
near Lancaster, Pa, was burned, and thirteen
cows pcrishcd.--Danicl Rcittman, aged thirty
five years while drunk, attempted to murder
the wife't 10 whom he had been married but a
year, at their home in Altoona, Pa, and then
committed suicidc.-Durng the past week
there were l79 business failures in the United
States and 80 in Canada.-Thc public school
at IIartby, Del, closed, owing to an epidemic
of scarlet fevcr.--Jamcs Fallon, a pugilist
received a blow on the side of the head in q
sct-to with John Murray, in Boston, which
caused fatal alysis.-The Circuit Court
Of Roanoke Va, has ordered the sale of the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad to satisfy claims
against the company.--Iiarrison Wagner
aged cighy-nine years, started from McCon
nellsvillc, Ohio, to wheel a wheeibarrow tc
Baltimore and return, proposing to make tht
trip i'm twenty days.-While +. +. Fisher, o
Mobile county, Ala, was driving along a roat
a negro jumped into the rear of the wagon ant
slashcd Fishers throat with razor.-Depu
ty Sheriff Davis, of Newark, New Jersey, i
missing, and reported to he an embezzler-
John c. Graham twenty-five years old, a clerl
Of the Pennsylvania Company for insuranc,
on lives and granting annuities has been ar
rested in Philadelphia charged with embez
element.
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