The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-02-23

The recent explosions in the Rhondda
Valley mine in Wales caused the loss of six
lives.
PETER GREENwALT, of Bloomington,
III !, who amassed fortune in contracts on
the Pehitentiary and Normal School build
ihgs, killed himself with a revolver the
other day, on account OF domestic difficult
ties.
FIVE white men were recently killed
by Indians near San Carlos Reservation,
Arizona.
WILBUR TowsEY, aged IL, son of
Benj Towsey, Of indianapolis, was fatally
wounded in the bowels by the accidental
discharge of gun the other day.
CHARLES BOWERS, a German black
smith, Fred Douglass, a cook, and a sub
contractor of the Sunset Railway. named
Allen Murdock, were murdered for money
while asleep near Lampasas, Texas, few
nights ago. All three were shot in the back
OF the head.
A FoUR-YEAR-oLD son of Geo. Dit
mars, farmer residing near Turney, Clin-
ton County, Mo-, met horrible fate on the
14tb. The little fellow fell from the seat of
a cOrn-cutter, and before the team could
be stopped the end of one of the blades en-
tered his skull. He also sustained several
other cuts and bruises. Death ensued al
most instantly.
AT OsNABURGH, Stark County, o.,
Feb. IA, telegraph operator named Leon
ard Murphy was killed by a blow in the
chest from a companion, Daniel Rice, with
whom he was boxing.
JOHN MUNDAY died at Rogers Hotel,
ST. Paul, Mimi, Feb. 14th, from an over
dose of hydrate Of chlOral administered by
himself. He was until recently an orderly
at Gen. Terry's headquarters, but was dis
charged from that position on account Of ex-
cessiye drinking.
TIE fall of a scaffelding at Carrolton
Market, New Orleans, Feb. IA, killed two
workmen, named Zebeck and Keelmegg.
A NEGRO named Smeal, living on Dill
lard's plantation, Guerney County, Ca,
was visited by mob, the other night, who
whipped him until he acssS owledged horse
stealing and then hanged him to a tree.
REVENUE officers raided an Illicit dis
tillery near Franklin, Macon County, N. c.,
on the 18th, making two arrests. Jesse
Estes and Noah Wilson were left TO guard
the still, while Ray and Birch marched the
prisoners to Jail. During the night Estes
was killed by a bullet from the woods, and
Wilson managed to escape by crawling
through the bushes on his hands and knees.
A RECENT dispatch from Akron, o.,
reports collision on the Valley Railway,
resulting in the death of brakeman named
John johnson and serious injuries to three
other persons.
JOHN LANAHAN, a farmer of Sibiey,
Iowa, was murdered a few nights ago while
standing on his own hearthstOne. Maggie,
his oldest daughter, has not only confessed
that she did the shooting, but duplicates
her mother, her sister Anna, and the latter's
lover, a young man named Birch. The girl
testified that it had been agreed between
them some time ago to ''put the old man
out of the way'' at the earliest opportunity.
Birch furnished the pistol, and when her
father came home from a farmers club meet
ing and was about to sit down she stepped
up behind him and fired, killing him in
stantly. She then arranged the body so as
to make it appear that some one had shot
him through the window, while Anna went
out and broke the glass. Maggie says Birch
wanted to marry Anna and her father re-
fused. He also did not provide well for
them. Birch at one time lived with the
family, and was driven from the house by
Lanahan, who suspected him of criminal in
timacy with his wife and daughter.
JACOB GEssERT, lately Superintend-
ent OF Police at Cincinnati, killed himself
with a revolver, leaving a wife and nine
children.