The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-07-06


A BOILER explosion near Jackson
Mich, June 26, killed Michael Nugent and
seriously injured six others. Buildings in
the neighborhood were considerably dam
aged.
THERE was prize-fght near Houtz-
dale, Pa, on the morning of the 26th. The
combatants were Thomas Reese and Daniel
Reese. Forty three rounds were fought in
fortY-nine minutes, when Daniels seconds
were obliged to throw up the sponge, their
man being so dreadfully punished that he
was not able to respond to the call of time.
A large crowd of men and boys witnessed
the mill and the local authorities made no
attempt to interfere.
THE committee of experts to whom
seerc 'ary Folger submitted for examination
the bond plate surrendered by Doyle, con-
Yicted in Chicago, have finished their work.
It is understood that the committee makes
two reports, one affirming, the other deny
ing the genuinencss of the plate.
KARL HOFFMAN,, who obtained vast
sums Of money in different parts OF Europe
by representing himself as a nephew of a
former Austrian Minister of Finance, has
been convicted at Vienna and sentenced to
seven years. Imprisonment at hard labor.
An order has been granted at Toronto,
Cana, for the extradition of William A. Hall,
who, as Assistant Auditor OF Newark, N. j.,
robbed The treasury of S35, 900.
THREE American forgers, said to be
from Chicago, secured at Ottawa, Ontario,
a draft for S2O making lithograph cOun-
terfeit for $4,000, which was. deposited in the
Merchants Bank at Montreal, against which
they checked out $4,000. BY a similar pro-
cess 1890 was obtained at the Banque Ma
tionale, but the suspicion aroused prevented
the payment of anything further on a forged
draft for $2,9S5. Detectives are at work on
the case.
THE Chicago cable railway has killed
eight persons in FIVE months.
THE Crescents of New Orleans took
the first prize at the Louisville military
competition. The Chickasws Of Memphis
were second and Porter Rifles third.
THE Long Branch express on the New
Jersey Central ran off bridge near Little
Silver, June %, killing several and badly
injuring large number Of passengers. EX-
President Grant was rescued from the
smoking-car unhurt. The track spread just
as the engine ran upon the bridge, and the
train ran for fully 800 feet before the cars
went over into the water. Three rear cars
had their trucks torn off by the strong beams
of the bridge. The badly wounded were
taken to farm houses near the scene of the
accident, where they were promptly attend
ed by physicians.
THE House Committee on Indian At
fairs instructed Deering of Iowa, June %, to
report for passage Mr.. Pettigrew's bill to
provide for making an agreement with the
Sioux Indians for a cession of part of their
great reservation in Dakota to the United
States. MIR. Deering's report sets forth
that the reservation extends across the CEN
ter of the proposed State OF Dakota, from
the 43d degree Of latitude on the soGtE le
the 46th degree on the north, being over 220
miles in length from north to south and
from 160 to $50 miles in width from east TO
west, having an area of over $4,000 square
miles, and containing over 21,00O,O00 acres
of land, being larger than the States OF
South Carolina, Indiana and West Virginia,
respectively, and but trife smaller than
either Kentucky, Ohio, Louisiana or Maine.
This enormous reservation embraces
nearly onehalf the proposed State.
The settlements of the Territory within
the proposed State are in the extreme
eastern and western portions of it. About
%, 900 inhabitants occupy the great min
ing and agricultural region known as the
Black Hills settlement, and the other settle
ments, entirely isolating them from the civ
ilized world, cutting them off from railroad
facilities, which can only be supplied by
opening the reservation for settlement and
occupation. The portion OF the Territory
lying east of the reservation is already occu :
pied by $50, 900 Inhabitants, and rapidly
augmenting, who have brought into culti-
vaIion nearly 100000 acres of land, or
ganized into districts, townships and coun-
ties, literally dotted with cities and villages,
with /, 100 miles Of railroad in active oper-
alton, penetrating to the very borders of the
Wilderness embraced in the reservation.
The reservation is occupied by $4,000 In-
dians, 5000 males over is, the remainder
being women and children. They have un-
der cultivation less than 5000 acres of this
vast tract.