The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-10
CRIMEs 40 CAsUALTTEa.

man B. Eaton, John Jay, Josiah Quincy, and
other distinguished gentlemen participated
in the proceedings.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT Memphis, Tenn, July 81, a col
ored youth named Williams accidentally
killed Mrs. Jennie Graham, a Woodworking
woman who provided for two children.
Williams was showing a companion how to
handle pistol, and the hammer fell just as
Mrs. Graham was in front OF it.
AN attempt was made to assassinate
police magistrate in Fredericton, n, B.,
the other morning. Sergeant Yandyne was
shot in the arm while arresting suspected
person named Lee.
LAKE SHORE freight trains collided
near South Bend, Ind, Aug. 1. Sixty cars
piled up on the engines and were burned.
The engineers were hurled under the de-
bris, but were rescued just before the
flames reached them. Some tramps on the
train stated that seven Of their comrades
were IN the burning mass. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000.
A YOUNG girl named Hall, aged II
years. daughter Of a gunsmth in Warren,
H., shot herself the other afternoon, to re-
lieve herself Of the drudgery OF taking care
Of the family, imposed upon her by the re-
cent death Of her mother. The ball entered
the breast just above the heart, and passed
through the body. The physicians pro-
nounced the wound fatal.
S. Il. PRoCTOR, Assistant Adiutant
General OF the Louisiana Militia, sent bull
let through his brain and dropped dead in
the Office Of his brother-in-law, Gen. G.
It. Beauregard, at New Orleans, Aug. ].
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and the death of his children and loss Of for
tune preyed on him and drove him to a
settled melancholy. During the civil war
he served on Beauregard's staff, and was
a wealthy and prominent man, descended
from leading South Carolina family, his
father having been n Capt ain in the army
in the war Of 1912.
VIM. FRAME, a blind man, was
locked up at Cincinnati the other day for
fatally stabbing an acquaintance who had
started a quarrel with some woman.
A NUMBER of persons perished in the
recent floods in Mason County, Ky. Seven
members OF the Boya family, living on Law
renee Creek, near Maysville, were swept
away, and two colored women occupying a
cabin on Limestone Creek were whirled in
to the Ohio.
AMELIA Cook, aged "a, daughter of
Shreveport OLa.) merchant, died sudden
" the other day from the effects OF too much
morphine.
ROBERT Rock was killed and John
McLester was seriously injured by the ex-
plosion OF boiler at GospOrt, Ind, Aug. l..
f. b. WHEELER and Walter Preston,
prominent young attorneys at Seymour,
Texas, quarreled about the ownership of a
book the other day. Pistols were resorted
to and Preston was killed.
In free fight at Mckinney, Texas,
the other night, one negro was shot dead and
two others were wounded. A Cherokee
half-breed named Joe led the shooters and
managed 10 escape.
JAMES Brown, farmer, was killed
by lightning near Belknap, Iowa, Aug. I.
j. w. CLYDE, the colored route agent
in jail at Charleston, S. c., on a charge OF
robbing the mails, killed himself the other
night.
IN an alteration between Detective
VIM. Walsh aud j. Healy. at New Orleans,
Aug. 1, the former was fatally shot. Healy
says he actod in self-defense.
FOUR circus elephants escaped from
their keepers in Troy, n. ", Aug. ..
the former receiving fatal injuries. Several
other persons were hurt. One OF the ami
mails charged bloom of red hot iron in a
rolling mill.
BISHOP EMBERTON and Richard
Spealxman, who so brutslly assaulted Mrs.
J. b. Garrett, OF Tompklnsville, KY, few
days ago, were lynched by mob, Aug. 1,
while on the way to Glasgow under guard
OF fifteen men.
As a freight train was passing through
Walton, Ky, Aug. 1, John Richly fred two
shots from revolver at the conductor and
two brakemen sitting on the top OF the ca
bOose. One OF the balls struck John Il. Car
son, brakeman. in the head, inflicting q
fatal wound. Richly was arrested.
The engine and mail car of a Union
Pacific train went through burned bridge
spanning Granite Creek, ibetween Glen
Elder and Cawker City, Kans., Aug. 3.
Britton Craft, engineer, and c. McGee, fire.
man, were fatally injured and died soon af-
ter. DIahaffy, express messenger, and
Wentworth and Chamberlain, mail agents,
were hurt, but not dangerously. The pas
senger coaches remained on the track
There Is a curve and cut near the bridge,
and the engineer could not see the fire i'm
J time to stop the train.