River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16
Relieved of a Bullet by a Cough.
From The Philadeiphia Press.


Gen. William J. Bolton of Norristown,
Pennsylvania, was relieved of a Con-
federate bullet in his neck, which had
been source of pain for IL years
past. While Colonel of the Fifty-first
Regim ent of Pennsylvania Veteran Vol
unteers, and awaiting orders on Il
mound at the time of the famous mine
explosion at Petersburg, july 80. 1864,
a Confederate canister shell exploded
near him, and small bullet entered
his lower right jaw at the very point
where he had received bullet wound at
the battle of Antietam. DIR. VIM. Sher-
lock, the regiments skilled surgeon,
probed for the bullet, but was unsuc-
cessful. Several weeks later DIR. Sher-
lock made 40 distinct incisions, with the
hope of extracting the Confederate
lead, but without success. Since then
Gen. Bolton felt pain and oppression in
his neck, especially during damp wealth
and he felt some sharp object cutting
its way toward his throat-pieces of
his shattered jawbone, ne thought.
Yesterday, while waiting on a customer
in his store, he had occasion to stoOp,
and was Immediately taken with 81 fit
of coughing. Placing his hand instinct
lively over his mouth something drop
ped into his hand. He found it to be
the painful little ball OF Confederate
cast-iron. 1t was covered with rust,
weighed 273 grains troy, and its surface
was covered with sharp ridges.
THE Colombian Senate has rejected
the protocol concerning the Panama
Canal, said to have been signed by the
representatives ofthe United States and
of Columbia at New York, and all class
es Of people in Colombia are said to be
we'll pleased at the Senate's action,
while the United States representative,
MIR. Deichman, who drew up the proto-
| col, ID represented as being quite fur
ious over the rejection. The principal
points of the protocol are that United
States wa. vessels and military conveys
may in times of peace or of war pass
through the isthmus, but the war ships
and military conveys of other ma
tons shall not be allowed to pass at any
time except by permission ofthe United
States and Colombia. The United
States is to have liberty to construct
forts, arsenals, coaling stations, and
naval storehouses along the isthmus,
these not to be occupied except by a
small force in times of peace. In time
of war, however, the United States is to
have full military occupation of the
isthmus. No changes to be made in
the rules and regulations affecting the
canal except by the consent ofthe Unit
ed States. The adoption of this proto-
col would give the United States almost
absolute control of the canal.
IRELAND is in a state rapidly approach
ing instruction. Evictions are desper-
ately resisted wherever attempted. The
people seem to have no dread of the
law. or of the laws instruments, the pO
lice and soldiery. Yesterday the riot
ing which was commenced the day be
fore in Clonmel, and which resulted il
two policemen and a soldier being
MORALLY wounded, and in several sol
diers and civilians being badly injured
was renewed At an eviction riot II
Clare County three policemen were
killed. The gunboat Goshawk was sem
with an evicting party to the island;
off the coast of Donegal; the inhabitants
attacked the small boats of the Cos
hawk and captured and destroyed
them, whereupon the Goshawk open
ed fire on the people. In Kilkenny thu
hotel owners and carriage owners re
fused to accommodate the police il
any way, and the police inspector wen
around threatening them with fine anC
imprisonment in consequence. Arrest
continue to be made under the Coercion
act. and the English Tory journals urg'
the suppression of public meetings IL
Ireland for six months Mr.. Forster th'
Irish Secretary, continues as fidgetty
vaciliating, and incapable as usual: |
eyictions are persisted in there vii o.
wholesale carnage in the island.
The reasons given by track repairer
for tagging trains are sometimes anus
ing. An Erie engineer was told recent
ly, upon being tagged, that "De tract
videns oud, und de track videns in; d
holds is out und de spikes IS oud, unt
you got to go slow on dat section"