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

the 'nmes OF burning pepper.-The body OF
Joseph Jacobs, son of wealthy citizen of
Hamilton, Ohio, was found in the reservoir at
that place.-Despondency, caused by power.
ty, led f. A. Culver, of Denver, ca, to take
half a bottle of morphine, and thet blew ont
ms brains--Conducto Gardner y. Tucker,
ofa freight train on the Pittsburg, Fbrt Wayne
and Chicago Railroad, had ded dperate en-.
counter with ytramps at Lima, Ohb, in which
he was fatally wounded.---Fouh trainmep
were buried in landslide thata West Shor,
freight train ran into near st. louisville, n.
Twelve women and fldren were wash.
ed off raft in the Mississippi flood at Boyou
falaya,--Delegates yspTesentipg the Broth
.erhood or LoSomofivsA Engineers w.
rfss-.'sssf :; q. a M EfHaira NJ
T., and adopted scheme Of lea aasufion-of all
the organizations of trainmen III the United
States.-Moore a Snnott, of PHILADELPHIA
have entered suit against large number o.,
brewing firms for money advanced to aid tn,
campaign against the probibitary amendment,
last year.-The strike at Oliver Bros nm
and bolt works, Pttsburg, which affected ont
thousand men, has been settled by the mer
withdrawing their demand for the discharg,
OF one workman and the reinstatement o.
another-A horse backed wagon contain
ing two boys over a prepipice fifty feet high
Mt Greensburg, Pa, and Samuel Dorman wa,
killed and Mark Steele internally injured
Twelve election officers were arrested iy
Jersey City AS a result of the legislatures i'm,
vestigntion of the ballot box fraad.---JohI
o'Hara and Martin Fahey, aged about seven
teen years, were shot by a negro in quarre
between whites and blacks in Pittsburg.-
BY the breaking of the levee at Catfish Point
on the Mississippi, near Greenyille. Miss.
that town was inundated. =, Marcus C. .Stearns
one of Chicago's wealtc$SuSss9 s9efs, comnnittct
suicide.-A young Indian named Eagle
Horse shot and instantly killed Frank +.
Lewis, school teacher, at Pine Ridge Agency
Nebraska, and then committed suicidc.--
Forty buildings in the village of Theresa neai
Watertown, N. Y, were destroyed by fire.
Loss Sl50,OO0.-John b. Price, formerly
book.kecper for Hall & Willis, wholesale hard.
ware dealers, of Kansas City, has disappeared.
Shortage about $6.COO-By the burning Of
tavern at Greenville Junction, Maine, many
of the boarders narrowly escaped. George
f.. Noonan his wife and daughtf, Of Engie.
wood, Chicago, are seriously i'll from the ef.
fects of poison and servant is suspected Of
the crme.-1n the sixtieth annual confer.
ence of the Mormons at Salt Lake City, Presi-
dent Woodruff stated that there would be no
more revelations.-Rev. John Dpugberty
Wood, a Methodist minister, was arrested at
Dlean,- N.Y., -ossafss "a >aas ;ay.----T Tho
powder works at Rochester, MY, blew up,
killing two men.-The Chicato Gas Trust
has been broken up and the piafts and fran.
chises sold to new company orglhized under
the law of New Jersey.
There were 1s9 business failures in the
United States and seventeen Ii Canada the
past week.-Fire at Trenton, N. j., did $75,-
600 damage. AnnA Hotse, an aged
woman was crushed to death by a railroad
train, near Littleton, N. CT 1t meeting of
the stockholders ofthe Chicago Worlds Fair
Association, there was livsly fight over prop,
osition to increase the n,afhber of directors to
seventy-fve.-A shutdown of the coke fur
naces in the Scottsdale r{gion is threatened.
The sheriff of Atlantf county, N. j., has
in the last few days, sold kvo hundred farms,
to satisfy mortgages whichhadheen foreclosed,
and forty families are homl less. The graves
Of five hundred dead Chinaaep-ia. New York
cemeteries were decorated with 'bsssiiful pa
per wives and paper hloHsos, which were
burned on the sod in the belief that in the
celestial home they were changed to real
wives and silken garments.-AAtrimO Os
bourne, aged seventy-two years, v retired
manufacturer, residing near Chester, Pa, was
killed while walking on the railroad track
Harris A. Smiler, who killed hb wife in
New York city, 1t now appears, haftwo other
living wives, from whom he twas never
legally separated.-F. w. ChivSs, a well.
known merchant in New York, yas shot on
his way home to Mount Vernon, ht residence
in the suburbs of the city.--Tw4 boys aged
respectfully twelve and fourteen Pears, have
been arrested in Chicago, charged kith trying
to wreck railroad train and wild throwing
stones through the windows Of pal tenger cars
M. II. Alexander, of Temecuk, Col, has
committed suicide.--The Buck4 4eld House
owned by John NJ. Tobin, at Bu& field, Me.
was destroyed by fre-Two TIN res robbed
M. j. MiiHhsll,s Is jsSslry store at p1ser, Col.
of$5,2oo worth ofjewelry:A, :, AptI Knight
president of the Hunt, As Top
Mountain Coal CONF 1sooh a s,f8nenly al
his residence in Philadei paiht srel sixty.six
years.--Mrs. Carrie Young aged frty years
was burned TO death In her home inf Patterson
N. J.-Dr. Theodore Dedolph's license tc
practice medicine in Minnesota has been re.
voked on the charge of striking D patient who
was just recovering from the effectsof an op
eration, and injuring his eyesight.-A fas,
express tain on the Wabash Railroad wa,
wrecked near ST. Charles, Mo-, and number
of persons injured.-=B Benjamin II. Hailer
grand master Mason Of fTenns>see, died at hi,
residence in Memphis. Captain w. L
Couch, leader cfthe Oklahoma boomers, wa.
shot In the leg by j. c. Adams, In a quarre
over ciain5 near Oklahoma City.-David
s. Batten, aged seventy-four, = past grant
commander ofthe Knights Templar Of New
Jersey, hanged himself at Newark.