The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-09
DIXIE NEWS.
The Sunny South Cleaned and Epito-
mi8eds
All the News and Occurrences Printed
Hero 10 Condensed From.

Vice Col. Anthony, resigned, Capt.
Armield, of Statesville, was Thursday,
at charlotte, elected colonel of the 4th
regiment of North Carolioa.
II. A. Bolton, of Mullins, s. c., was
in Whining ton, N. c., last week search
ing for his wife and two children who
ran away from home.
Albert Gould Glover has been arrested
in Philadelphia charged with obtaining
2,600 on fraudulent prcten es from the
Asheville, N. c., Kaolin Company.
At Fayetteville, N. "Wednesday
.morping Gre entirely destroyed eight
stores, the loss being SIC, 700, about one
half covered by insurance
Bob Maynard, well-known horse
jockey, committed suicide at Columbus,
Ga, BY shooting himself.
Citizcns hanged two men to tele-
graph pole at Benton, Bossicr parish,
La. Magee and Carmichael we're their
names. Magee shot and killed Mrs.
Ellie Lingle, aud Carmichael was acces.
sorry.
The new College Hotel at Florence,
Ala was burned to the ground. Moth
ing saved but the trunks Of few guests
The recent rise in cotton has, it is said,
put fortunes into tho pockets of several
Char eston, 8. c., men. One buy or is re-
ported as having made 800, 900, another
$4O, 900, while several are $4,000 better
of than they were at the beginning of the
season.
AT Charleston, S. c., Napoleon La.
vile was sentenced for the third time 10
han0n6 fha &c
this city, Feb. Is, 1890.
The following are new enterprises for
the past week:
The peoples Slaughter House & Re-
frigerating Co, will build ap So, ,OOG
plant at New Orl, ans, La
The Osceola Sugar &c, of Kissimmee
City, Fla, to erect sugar mills, ETC.,
capital stock 81, 100000
The Sumter Is Co. Water Co., capital
stock $65. COO
The Palmetto Fur Co, of Columbia,
s. G.
$50 900 cotton mill company at Con.
A $16O. 900 cotton mill com,any at
Aiken, 8. Z.
Jackson, Tenn capital stock $25, 900,
ufacture fibrDus goods at Ch rlcstun, S.
c., capital stock t50,03O
The Fulton Brick Co., of Richmond.
Va, to make brick and tile, capital stock
100000.
The Ashland Coal & coke Co. of Nc.
Dowell, w. Va. capital stock $4,000 0.
The ,ckson (Teln y Woolen Mills,
capital stock $50, 900.
Another cotton mill is being organized
at Concord, N. G.
A negro boy who was subject to fits
fell into we'll while drawing water near
Princeton, Johnston county, N. c., was
drowned.
1t swclled up, no doubt. A Peters.
burg, Va, dispatch says William Tucker
died i'll Sussex county from overfee ding.
The evening before he ate one gallon OF
vents IN hash, half gallon of coffee and
crackers mixed together. and half gal
lon o! water aud crackers, pound Of dry
sugar and lot of pork and bread.
Gov Holt Of North Carolina made re-
QUESTION on the Governor of Sou'h Caro-
lima for Hoke Secrest, the notorious wife
murderer. Gov. Tillman Informs him
that b. E. Gray, alias TIokc Sccrest, is
Jul JAN nj CI'aitunDu I, HIS ollcncc Dang
very aggravated assault, and that his
two-years term of Imprisonment will ex-
pire in November, 1894, at which time
North Carolina can have him.
There are rumors a. Coal Creek, Tenn
that the outside miners arc again organic.
ing and will give serious trouble if the
convicts are not sent away bcfora Judge
Tnrney, the newly elected governor,
enters into office The miners think that
if the convicts are not there. when the
governor assumes control of State affairs
they will not be sent back again. The
labor contract fur convicts has four years
to run yet, and Captain Anderson, in
charge of State troops now at Coal Creek,
is determined to.suppress any attempted
outbreak.