The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-11-29
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Cleveland, O.-About 11:3O this P.
N. a trapese performer at Wild's
Opera house in this city, named Harry
Meynard, formerly of Syracuse, n. Y,
was shot and instantly killed by
n sporting woman named Minnie Fish,
who is now in custody. She claimed
that the murder was accidental.
The. horse disease israpidly disappear
ing in Philadelphia, aud most of the
street cars have resumed their regular
trips A steam road wagon from the
Navy Yard made its appearance on
Chestnut street, Saturday, drawing a
truck load of cotton bales, and created
a sensation,
The General Missionary Committee
of the Methodist Episcopal Church re-
port their receipts of the past year at
S651, ,056; disbursements, S590,647; in
crease of collections over those of 1871,
about $4,000. The pecuniary basis for
the MISSIONARY work for 1873 was made
at $S0O,000. One hundred and thirty
six thousar dollars was voted for for
eign missions, and $4,000 for domes-
tic
TitusYille, Pa.-The residence of
John Watson, mile from the city,
was recently entered, Immediately af-
ter dark, by five masded men, who,
after binding each member of the fam
lily, compelled Mr.. Watson to open his
safe, to which he was likewise bound
and the robbers make good their es-
cape. the unfortunate ones were not
liberated until midnight.
Pittsburg-The last of the street rail-
way lines, the Pittsburg and Ormsby,
has succumbed to the pressure caused
by the horse influenza. The Citizens
Passenger Railway, the only road suf-
ficiently level, is running a combined
dummy engine and car.
At meeting of the st. Louis Board
of Trade, on Tuesday, a resolution was
adopted asking the City Council to
place the Fire Department on a more
efficient footing by increasing the num-
ber of engines, the amount of hose, ETC.,
and also to consider the expediency of
prohibiting the construction of Man
sard roofs in the business part of the
city.
An active crusade has been COM
menced against the ''wretched man.
sard roofs" to which the extent of the
Boston fire has been so largely attrib-
uted Boston herself has taDood them
in rebuilding the burnt district, and will
tear down others already in place. New
York has made the same order as to
future buildings.
The loss of life by the disaster to the
barge Forrest City, in Erie, on Thurs
day last, was five persons-the Cap
tain, three men, and a female cook
being all who were on board. She
broke loose from the propeller Burling-
ton during the gale, and went to pieces.
She was on her way from Bay City for
Buffalo, loaded with lumber.
New York-At a secret meeting of
the Board of Fire Underwriters, a reso
luton was adopted making the rates of
insurance conform to those of 1870,
which are understood to be an advance
on the present rates of from 10 to Is
BCA CNAANs NAlSsAl lCo w LAOONGNt u 10OS-
merchant, has been arrested in this
city, charged with obtaining, in 1870,
$4,000 worth of liquors from Cum
mings q Co., Courtland street, by false
representations.
General Shaeffer, of the New York
Fire Department, concludes, from an
inspection of the burned district in
Boston, that the great fire was in con-
sequence of the delay of the firemen
in reaching the scene, the narrowness
of the streets, which made it impossi-
BILE to work efficiently, and the great
heat, which in the open spaces pre-
vented the firemen approaching the
burning buildings. He agrees with
with Chief Engineer Damrell, of the
Boston Fire Department, that the de-
struction of buildings by gun-powder
rather tends to spread fire than 9th.
erwise.