The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-04-18

'he iumes OF burning pepper-The body OF
Joseph Jacobs, son of wealthy citizen of
Hamilton, Ohio, was found in the reservoir at
that tplace.-Despondency caused by power.
ty, led f. A. Culver, of Denver, Col, to take
half a bottle of morphine, and then blew out
his brains.--Conductor Gardner j. Tucker,
ofa freight train ON the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Railroad, had a des,erate On.
counter with tramps at Lima, Ohb, in which
he was fatally wounded--Fouf trainmen
were buried i'm landslide thst West Shor,
freight train ran into near 3. louisville, N.
Twelve women andcbfldren were wash.
ed off raft in the Mississippi food at Boyou
Falaya.-Delegates ysrfesentiag the Broth.
@sThoSd Or LSsomotIssS2 y engineers, s-: ::
Y, and adopted a scheme Of feAaratiof-of all
the organizations of trainmen ID the United
States.-Moore a Sinnott, of Philadelphia
have entered suit against a large number o.
brewing firms for money advanced to aid tn,
campaign against the probibitary amendment,
last year.--The strike at Oliver Bros nu
and holt works. Pittsburg which affected OH,
thousand men, has been settled by the mer
withdrawing their demand for the discharge
of one workman and the reinstatement o:
another.--A horse backed wagon contain
Ing two boys over prepipice fifty feet high
Mt Greensburg, Pa, and Samuel Dornlan wa,
killed and Mark Steele internally injured
Twelve election officers were arrested IN
Jersey City rs result of the legislatures in
vestigation of the ballot-box fraud-JohL
o'1iara and Martin Fahey, aged about seven
teen years, were shot by negro in quarre
between whites and blacks in Pittshurg.-
By the breaking of the levee at Catfish Point
on the Mississippi, near Greenville, Miss.
that town was sinundated,o1 ,oj MAJ Marcus c. Stearns
one of Chcago's weaItieSNsSs. - Ems, committed
suicide.-A young Indian named Eagle
Horse shot and instantly killed Frank f.,
Lewis, school teacher, at Pine Ridge Agency
Nebraska, and then committed suicidc.-
Forty buildings in the village of Theresa, neal
Watertown, n. Y, were destroyed by fire.
Loss $50 000.-John b. Price, formerly
book keeper for Hall & Willis, wholesale hard.
ware dealers, of Kansas City, has disappeared
Shortage about S6,COO.--By the burning Of
u tavern at Greenville Junction, Maine, many
of the boarders narrowly escaped.-Gcorge
+. Noonan, his wife and daughts, of Englc.
wood, Chicago, are seriously i'll from the cf.
fects of poison, and d servant is suspected of
the crime.-1n the sixtieth annual confer.
cnce of the Mormons at Salt Lake City, Prcsi-
den. W0Ja.aT siated tnat there would be no
more revelations.-Rev. John Dpugherty
Wood, a Methodist minister, was arrested at
Olcan, N. W, IN a o.iErgs Ji~,ngsny. The
powder works at Rochester, MY, blew up.
killing two men.-The Chicap Gas Trust
| hoe hoon brnG nm opl ha rl.,a. ~ E.
chises sold to new company orgdhized under
the law of New Jersey.
There were 1s9 business failures in the
United States and seventeen in Canada the
past wcek.--Fire at Trenton, N. j.. did $75,-
600 damage.-Mrs. Anna House, an aged
woman was crushed to death by railroad
train, near Littleton, n. C.--Ata meeting Of
the stockholders of the Chicago Worlds Fair
! AsSociation,there was lively fight over prop
ostion to increase the number of directors to
scventy-fve.-A shutdown of the coke fur
naccs in the Scottsdale region is threatened.
The sheriff of Atlantic county, n. j., has
in the last few days, sold TWO hundred farms,
tosatisfy mortgages which hadbeen forcclosed
and forty families are homeless. The graves
of five hundred dead Chnas,ep.ia, NeY York
cemeteries were decorated with beautiful pa
per wives and paper blouscs, which were
burned on the sod in the belief that in the
! celestial home they were changed to real
wives and silken garmcnts--Ahrim Os.
bourne, aged scventy-two years, a retired
! manufacturer, residing near Chester, Pa, was
killed while walking on the railroad track.
Harris A. Smiler who killed his wife in
New York city, il now appears, has two other
living wives from when he was never
legally scparatcd.-F. w. Chivos, we'll.
known merchant in New York. was shot on
hisway home to Mount Vernon, hi residence,
in the suburbs of the cty.-Two boys aged
respectfully twelve and fourteen 7cnrs, have
been arrested in Chicago, charged With trying
To wreck a railroad train and will throwing
stones through the windows Of passenger cars
M. r. Alexander, of Temecuh, Col, has
committed suicide.-The Buckield House,
owned by John NJ. Tobin, at Buci field, Me-,
was destroyed by fire.-Two thieves robbed
NJ. j. Mitchells jowelrx store al D.css,er, Col,
ofs',2oo worth ofjeweIry,; 5Antd& Knight,
president of the Hunt :ps. aiS Jysl Ten
Mountain Coal Com IIsnedon a saSaenly m at It
his residence in Philaaalpdfiiit Phila dfii sse, sixty.six
ycars.---Mrs. Carrie Young, aged frty years,
was burned to death in her home i'm Patterson
\. DIR. Theodore Dedolph's license to
practice medicine in Minnesota has been re.
vok"d on the charge of striking patient who
was just recovering from the effects of an op.
Grafton, and injuring his eyesight.--A fast
express tain on the Wabash Railroad was
wrecked near 81. Charles, Mo-, and number
of persons injurcd.-Bcnjamin f. Hailer,
grand master Mason of Tennessee, died at his
residence in Memphis Captain w. l..
Couch, leader If the Oklahoma boomers, was
shot in the leg hy J. G. Adams, in a quarrel
over clainI near Oklahoma City.-David
s. Battcn, aged seventy -four, a past grand
commander of the Knights Templar Of New
Jersey, hanged himself at Newark.