The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-05-09
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The Rochestar Wheel Works, at Rochester
N. y. ,.wsre damaged 2aoooby fire, and three
fireman were injured by falling from a ladder.
Several horse thieves were whipped and \
pilloried at Georgetown, Del. Mad dogs
have been biting cattle and causing great ex-
element in the neighborhood of Lewiston, III.
The Misses Minnie and Gertie Pierce were
killed at Linn, Ohio, by being thrown out .of 4
a carriage against stone walL-An insane
woman at Dubuque, Ia, attempted toburn 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. .-Edwardy yurecnwald. a. Southern
theatrical manager, committed suicide in New
York .-S1 Grass and forest fires in New Hamp-
shire did, considerable damaged. Hernan
ItpHessx wcnlthx tohcE7 s.skassl 49,
ofcards llss' e.smi;SE, q Boston 4
under arrest o the charge Of secking con-.
spiracy to murder her husband. The An.
glo-American Gas Lighting Company has been
organized with a capital of over $50, 1000,
and is the biggest thing in the syndicate line
yet attempted.--A capital Of $40 0O0, 900 will
be provided for the construction of the South
Pennsylvania Railroad, under the reorganiza.
tion plan.-Non.union carpenters in Chi.
oago, who are not residents of Illinois, coming
from other states, haveappealedt to the United
States authorities for rotection.--Richard
Croker, the Tammany leader and Mayor Grant,
of New York, were shown up in a bad light in
the testimony Of the formers brother-in.law
before the Senate Investigating Committee.
large silk mill in the Lehigh Valley, Pa,
operated.by 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 a
barrel Of rain water, and then attempted to
drown himself in acrcek.-During a fire in
Perry & Green's picture factory, Chicago, a
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 1ooded.--The
Whiskey 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 Ss.0O0.-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 oftheir home at Belleyille,
Ont, Jane Arthurs was burned to death, and
her husband seriously burned about the head
and arms.--Fire in the Sheltcn Comb Com.
-nnns,i--.i ss-s1.Sns S.sssssetr -a-.rs-
age.Five hundred men in the employ of
.he Southwest Virginia Improvement COM
pany, at Pocahontas, have struck against 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 a 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 hiswife to death,
and was sentenced to six years in prison.
The Mississippi overflow ia 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 Neilsyille, Wis, who be.
came enamored of the wife of 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
Washington. Frederick Kimball, teller Of
the Peoples Savings Bank, Worcester, Mass,
robbed the concern off 900, and $S, 600 reward
is offered for his capturc.--Lizze Meyers, of
Boston, was found dead from an overdose Of
arsenicin q Troy hotel. Moses Hartz's barn,
near Lancaster, Pa, was burned, and thirteen
cows sperished.---Danie Reittman, aged thirty.
five years, while drunk, attempted to murder
the wife to whom he had been married but
year, at their home in Altoona, Pa, and then
committed suicide.--During the past week
there were 179 business failures in the United
States and 80 in Canada. - The public school
at Hartby, Del, closed, owing to an epidemic
of scarlet fever.--James Fallon, a pugilist,
received blow on the side of the head in a
set-to with John Murray, in Boston, which
caused fatal paralysis.--The Circuit Court
| of Roanoke, va, has ordered the sale of the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad to satisfy claims
| against the company.---H Harrison Wagner,
aged eighty-nine years, started from Mccon.
nellsyilie, Ohio, TO wheel whSeibafrow TO
Baltimore and return, proposing to make the
trip in twenty days.----While f. +. Fisher, OF
Mobile county, Ala, was driving along road
negro jumped into The rear of the wagon and
slashed Fishers throat with razor.--D -Depu.
ty Sheriff Davis, of Newark, New Jersey, ID
missing, and reported to be an embezzler.
John G. Graham, twenty-five years ole, a clerk
Of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance
>on lives and granting annuities, has been ar.
rested in Philadelphia charged with embez-
element.