The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-13

a TRAIN on the Little Miami Railroad
was thrown from the track three miles west
of Xenia, Ohio, April 8. Livingston, the
engineer; John Croft, fireman, and Lon
Manigan, brakeman, were injured.
THE bill Of exceptions in the Guiteau
case will fill two quarto volumes of one
thousand pages each, and will be presented
to the court April "A, the first day Of the
next term Of the Criminal Court OF the Dis
trict of Columbia.
FIRE at Hopkinton, Mass, April 4,
destroyed thirteen dwellings, the Congre-
gational Church, the town hall, hotel, and
the large boot and shoe factory OF Bridges &
Co. This factory was the main-stay OF the
town, giving employment to some 450 hands
in the shop, and to many outside, some 600
in all. From 5000 to G, 900 cases of finished
goods were stored in their rooms, and the
loss of the firm will be something like $780,
600 on stock and finished work, while the
building and machinery cost about $50, 900;
insurance about $3.50, 900. Total loss $3.50, =
600. The fire was incendary, and it is
thought powder was exploded in the base
ment Of the building, where the flames were
first discovered.
A DISPATCH from Tucson, Ariz., says
Gov. Tfitie has caused the organization of a
posse of thirty men, under command OF a
deputy United States Marshal, to protect
life and property. He has telegraphed the
President the fun state of affairs and asked
for an appropriation from Congress of $3.50,
900 to defray expenses of roofing ruffianism
out of the Territory. He also asks Congress
for power to suspend county officials for six
months. Fifty Cinnamon, en- route to work
for a contractor on the road grade in the
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ordered back. They refused, and the white
men opened fire with revolvers, causing
them to retreat. The white men are de-
termined to allow no chinese labor on the
grade.
| HIN. BLOODGOOD, editor of the Sand
wich Oil. } Free Press, had four ribs broken
and received other serious injuries, April A.,
| by being caught in a shaft which conveys
| power into his printing Office.
The Mississippi is now open for its
whole navigable length.
THE Standard Oil Company's refinery
in Pittsburgh, Pa, was fired by an explo.
sion of chrysaline, April 4, and damaged to
the extent Of 1925, 600.
SOME months ago a package contain
| ing $4,000 was lost at Grayling, Mich, while
in charge of the express company. A few
| days ago u. ID. Price, poor railroad labor
er, bought house and branched out in
other directions so as to excite suspicion.
| Detectives visited the house and found I'M
| der a capboard almest $4,000. Upon being
/ confronted with these facts Price owned up
and said he noticed the package accidentally
drop while being transferred at the station.
He kicked it under the platform aud after
ward secured it. He says he burned nine
! 500 bills, for fear they might lead to his de-
lection.
THE President will not act in the case
of Sergeant Mason until the Supreme Court
decides on the legality of the sentence. The
| Secretary of War sustains the Judge Advo-
cate General in pronouncing invalid the
| proceedings Of the court-martial.
JOHN BAELIs has been jailed at St.
Louis because he was only two inches
/ shorter than old man Bender, the Labette
! County (Kans.l fend.
RICE COUNTY, Kansas, was swept by
a cyclone the other day. Moving north from
| Raymond, it Frustrated telegraph poles and
unroofed barns and dwellings. Jehn Will
sons house was blown down, killing Mrs,
| Wilson and so injuring Mrs. Parker, who
was staying there, that there are no hopes
for her recovery. In the town of Chase
twenty buildings were demolished and cars
were blown from the track. Mn Read, a
hotel keeper, was killed, his wife was fatally
/ injured, and other lives were lost. The wind
was accompanied with a veritable water
spout, pouring deluge in places and draw
ing up everything loose in other spots. Al
the farm of E. B. Lawrence the wind sucked
all the water out of the wells. The cloud
was funnel-shaped, whirling and twisting
with fearful velocity.
AN express messenger on a Fort
Wayne train recently heard strange noises
from a large box billed to Philadelphia.
When he pried off the top, out stepped an
old man named Jerry McAuley, who had
been shipped from Chicago in the most
economical manner. The express matter re-
mains in the hands of the officials at Del
| phOs, O.