The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-09-07
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

THE recent killing of Colonel L. w.
r. Blair, atCamden, $. c., by Captain j
L. Halle, has been followed by the suicide
of the ColonePs daughter. Blair's father
took his own life when a member of Con-
gress, and his grandfather was hanged for
murder.
Two negroes, named Savage and
James, who had been convicted Of the muir
der OF Frank Patterson at Madison, Fla,
were granted new trial by the Supreme
Court. AS they were being conveyed from
Tallahassee to Jasper, large body OF white
citizens rushed into the cars and riddled the
bodies of the prisoners with bullets.
AT Chicago, on the 2Sth, Richard
Wilson, a Scotchman, aged "a, seriously
wounded bis wife and then turned the re-
volver upon himself with fatal effect. Jeal-
ousy.
GEN. G. j. POWERS, a well-known
lawyer OF Rochester, N. y, was fatally in
iured by fall the other day.
FELIPE CHAvEs, wealthy stockman
OF Valencia CouptY, N. M. was murdered
for money the other day, and his body was
placed on the track to be mangled.
THERE was a tragedy in a courtroom
at Knoxville, Tenn, the other day. Gen. J.
II. Mabry and his son James A. appeared
against Moses and ID. G. Lusby, father and
son, and during the hearing the latter made
some disturbance, whereupon two shots
were fred by one OF the Mabrys and Moses
Lusby fell dead and his son was mortaly
wounded. There had been a coolness be-
tween the two families for some time, due to
the shooting OF VIM. Mabry by D. c. Lusby
last Christmas.
JAMES REILLY murdered his brother
in-law, Robert Desmond, in Long Island
City, N. Y, Aug. % Both had been drink
ing, but 1t Ia said the quarrel arose from the
fact that Desmond had been beating his
wife.
BOY named Edward Forbes fell
into stream near his home, in Bolton
County, Ind, Aug, 2s,and when his mother
petulantly said he ought to have remained
in the water he got revolver and sho
himself through che heart.
HUGH BURNS, an Indianapolis police
man, attempted to quelI disturbance in a
saloon the other night and was shot dead by
J. j. Jater, Kentucky young man. The
murderer narrowly escaped lynching, and
was finally jailed after stubborn resist
ancc.
AT SummeTville, Ga, Aug. %, Mrs.
Francis Fuller, the deserted wife OF James
Fuller, murdered one child and attempted
TO kill another by cutting its throat. She
was arrested.
MR.. j. Helm and his son were seri-
ously injured by an explosion Of gas at
Baltimore, Md, The other night They
were looking for a leaby pipe, and took a
light into the cellar.
In attempting to board moving
train, the other day. William W. Elliott
President OF the Highland Foundry Com
parry, Of Boston, Mass, was instantly
killed.
Two boys, named Lyman Bears and
Samuel Reynolds, quarreled in boat near
Peru, Ind, Aug. 81. Both fell overheard
and were drowned.
DIR. ISAAC B. CLAYTON, charged with
killing Freeman Lester and acquitted, was
assassinated near Goodman, Miss, Aug. 50.
His body was riddl6d with buckshot.
sHEEP-HERDER named Thompson,
who recently became insane, literally tore
ut the eyes OF an aged lady named Reby,
a her house, eighteen miles from Austin,
Texas, the other dav.
ELIZA HOARD was mangled to death
oy train at Lexington, Ind, Aug. so.
MIKE POWERS, railroad watchman
At Louisville, Ky, had some trouble with
ave tramps the other day. His body was
lound soon after, with bullet-hol in his
head.
GEORGE ROGERS, aged so. killed his
wife and then committed suicide bv sboot. =.
ng' at Haverhill, Mass, Aug. 80.