The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-26
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


DIR. J. C. SALE, of Paint Greek, w.
va, went to sleep on the track the other
night and was killed by a freight train. He
was a graduate OF Redwood College, and
stood high in his profession.
CONSTABLE KNAPP, of New Albany,
Ind, arrested Samuel Rankin, OF Louisville,
Ky, the other night, for insulting ladies on
tie street. On the way to jail Rankin
freed himself and fired bullet into the
officers abdomen, inhiciing a serious
wound.
VIM. SUABE, a gardener living near
Cincinnati, fatally shot his son on the nth
aud then cut his own throat.
+. b. TAYLOR was assassinated while
sitting AT his window, in Houston, Texas,
on the 10th. F ~
THOMAS HAMMOND was shot dead by
John Grogan in New York grog shop on
The 10TH Grogan had caused the arrest of
Hammond a few days before, for assault
aud battery, and Hammond had unwisely
threatened to Kill him.
A CHILD of Thomas Golf, of Louis
vile, Ky, was killed by the discharge Of a
revolver Knocked off shelf by cat the
other day.
JOHN WooDs, Sheriff of Hitchcock
County, Neb., and f. b. Kelly, Deputy
Sheriff of Kearney County, were killed by
n party OF horse thieves at Minden the other
night. The thieves were surprised at the
supper table, and when ordered to throw
MP their hands and surrender they res
ponded with a volley, rushed for their
horses, and made their escape, firing right
and left as they dashed through the main
street.
A NORTHERN NarrOw-gauge train be-
came unmanageable on a steep grade in Gin
ciunati on the 18th and dashed into some
empty cars at the Court-street depot, badly
wrecking them. Engineer Soldurham was
seriously hurt 81
MKs. sc. ROBERTSON, an estimable
lady Of Corning, N. Y, who had suffered
terribly from rheumatism, hobbled out on
the bridge over the Chemung River the
other night aud threw herself into the
water.
A FARMER named Turner was fatally
injured by runaway horses, in fremont,
Ohio, on the 18th.
ARTHUR PolsE, aged 1S, of Vevay,
Ind, fell from a wharf. boat the other night
and was drowned.
GEORGE HORNE, brakeman, was
killed while coupling cars at Leuox, Iowa,
on the 18th. His head was crushed between
the bumpers. 4 ..-..-..- -
j. III. RUHL, general manager for
Kaufman & Runge, Galveston, Texas, took
a dose Of poison The other day. Tic had been
speculating N *'futures," and when called
upon for a statement OF the affairs OF the
firm, found himself unable to cover heavy
losses. Dissipntion and domestic troubles
made life burden to VIM. McCTeery, Of
Wooster, Ohio, and he took strychnine.
deiphia, Wilmington & Baltimore road,
killed himself at Philadelphia on the same
day.
AT Hoboken, n. j., on the nth, Po-
liceman Kerrigan was probably fatally beat
en- with hisroVyR- club by a boatman named
Finch, whom 1e had arrested.
THOMAS .SsDI.AoK, an inoffensive BO-
hemian, was Killed by VIM. Swab, saloon
keeper, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the other
night. The murder vas wholly unpro-
vOked.
ANTON WECKEMEYER and the broth.
ers Joshua and Samuel shipley got into a
fight while working on a scaffold at The third
story OF a house,in, Baltimore, Nd, the
other day. The scaffold gave way and All
three fell TO the pavement. weckemcyer
died soon after and the others are in criti-
cal condition.
JACOB ZINlS, of Cincinnati, suffered
from rheumatism until death seemed pref
cradle, so he sent bullet through his brair
on The 19th.
HARRY JAMES, aged 22, employed on
the steamer Coahoma, committed suicide Al
Memphis, Tenn., the other day, shooling
himself in the head, Domestic trouble was
the cause
A TRAIN en- the Albany q Susque-
hanna Road broke through a bridge above
Otego' N Y =, the other day, and the loco
motive and three coal cars were preeipftafed
into the river. Fireman stapleton was
killed, md Engineer Ryndes and Brakeman
Bursteed seriously injured.
A DISPATCH from Halifax. N. s nm
the 18th says; "After the adtournn,ent q,
the Supreme Court at Paddock. q. r -
day, Joseph B, Mcdonald, barrister Of