The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-01-24
stst1ss Politics and the Current News Of the Day.
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The Glasgow iron market Is again excited.
The strike among the coliiers in Belgium
is spreading.
The steamship Britannia sunk a brigantine
on the Irish sea.
Tho famous Church of st. Michael at AK
la-Chapelle has been buracd.
Tho broken cable i'm the middle OF tn, At
lantic ocean has been repaired.
Tho porters employed by the Dublin,
Wicklow and Wexford Railway Co. have
struck.
A new customs tariff is being prepared by
the Russian fiuancs ministry. 1t VIII take
effect July |.
Russia and the Vatican are now on good
terms. The Pops has appointed number OF
bishops for that country.
The theatre at Zurich, Swi'z rland, took
fi'e during a performance and Was burned,
but the audience escaped.
Prince Charles William Philip. head OF the
House of Auerspers, dead at Prague from
inf ANN alton OF tho lungs.
# -a..it
with distinguished honors.
Mr.. DAvitt in speech at Dublin expressed
his want OF sympathy with the proposed gov
! ernmcat endowment OF universities.
The French government will enforce tho
legal penalty against three hundred priests
convicted OF Interfering with elections
King Humbert was thrown from his horse
while returning from n hunting trip AMI was
bruised, but rcmounted ana rode home.
An Austrian newspaper Gains TO have in.
formation showing that DIR. Peters aud mem.
bcrS of his,x JlorinS party in Africa are alive
Twenty.six boys were surocatcd in tn,
pauper's school mt Forest Gate, Eng. Tho
Du'lIin.. took fire Il ON an overheated stove.
Prince Bismarck received 600 tel grams OF
New Year ncratulotions from different
pirts OF Germany aud from foreign coun-
tries
a number Of conspirators who it is sliL
were inpl Gated in plot to kill the Car
were captured ia the Imperial palace In st.
The Ter, pr: "a Xallmags and wife,
ex.les recently ma553cfed In Siberia we're
fired upon while resisting the destr uction of
their printing presses
The Inman Line steamship City OF Paris
made the run from New York TO y Ieenstow ii
| in 5 days ~ hours and 90 minutes her high.
est daily run being 475 miles.
Mr.. Parnell is anxious to have Captain
O'Shea'S divorce suit brought to trial as soon
as posSibls in order that he may have an op-
portunity to defend himself.
| The United States squadron arrived at Tan.
| gers and exchanged salutes, hut did not com
| municate with tho city, as there are Oh the
ships altogether As cases OF ihnlenzi.
! Tho shopkeep,rs of tho Caarleroi district
of Belgium refuse to give the striking miners
! further credit, consC uueutly many persons
urc starving and Il trrai riot Is threatened.
At a consistory the Popo referred to the
restoration OF temporal power AS necessary
TO the Independence and liberty of the Pop ,
! in the exercise of his mission, and declared
| he did not claim the restoration from human
Many members of the committee OF the
! Society or Artists at Paris will resign their
positions in order to force re elections Oh the
question OF the justice of the awards made
lor exhibits in tue art department OF the re.
| cent exhibition.
The London Star says tho marriage bc.
tween Miss Gweudoline Caldwell, who pre-.
, sented the American Catholic University
! with $500, 900, and Prince Murit has been ar
rtngcd, the prince being w ling to acc pit
allowance the lady may grant him.
"A defective stove in the palace of the King
of Relgium ut Laeken, u subui of B ussels
set fire To the building, and before the Il ,mes
could b. subducd tue palace was dosLroye
! with oil the royal art collection. Princess
Ciementine, the kiug'S diusht +, had mar
row escape from being burned to death. Her
| governess was suir- Gated. The mo iey los:
on the building and its contents will bs I'M
mens., while the art treasures destroyed cIn.
not be replaced.