The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-06-22

NJ. J. Clovis, of Griswold, Iowa, was
mortaIly wounded in the street at Council
Bluffs, the other day, and robbed of 81, 700.
He was found near the depot with his skull
fractured.
JOHN MOORE, peddler from Omaha,
was lured into room on Clark street, Chi
cago, by a colored woman, the other eve-
ming, and robbed Of $2,32O, the savings
eighteen years.
/. Mr.. BOCHMAN, a brewer, has pre-
sented to the italian colony of New York
the house and grounds on Staten Island oc-
cupIed by Garibaldi as a candle factory.
HEAVY storms impeded railway travel
and interrupted telegraphic Communication
through Southern Indiana and Ohio on the
14th.
A HEAVY rainfall flooded the streets
Of Indianapolis, Ind, June IA. Next morn
ing a number of people were standing on
platform spanning Pogue's Run, just east
Of the Union Depot, looking at the angry
flood, when the structure suddenly gave
way, and the entire number were precipi-
tated intothe swift current, fifteen feet deep.
Below this point there is a bridge, and the
stream runs under the depot, emerging on
the south side through stone culverts.
Cyrus Bartlett, a workman, Immediately
jumped into the flood and rescued two
girls, and at least fifteen others were saved
before being swept under the bridge. Sew
eral others passed through the culYerts and
were drawn out, but others were swept by
to certain death. The bodies of Katie Gill
derman, George f. Scoville, A. X. Saunders,
Edward Tilford, and George W. Smith
were recovered. 1t is supposed that at
least ten persons were drowned. The dam
age to property is estimated at $3.50, 900. A
cabin occupied by railroad labOrers, near
Winchester, KY, was swept away by a
swollen stream on the same day, and ten or
eleven lives were lost.
WEEDEN and Maloney fought forty
one rounds in seventy minutes near Smiths
Ferry, Pa, June 10. Weeden had every
thing his own way, but was overawed by
roughs and agreed to call it a draw. Ma
loney was badly punished.
FREDERICK VOss, aged 8, who was
run over by Third avenue car in New
York City, is to receive $40, 600 for the loss
of a leg.
THERE is the widest alarm at Bridge
water, Dakota, over the outbreak of six
cases Of smallpox. A pest-house has been
ordered erected one mile outside the town,
trains are not allowed to stop, and the viii
lage of Salem has established a quarantine.
A TRAIN on the Louisville, New Alba
ny & Cincinnati road rolled down an en-
bankment near Bedford, Ind, June 10, and
a number of passengers were injured. The
engineer was making up lost time at the rate
Of sixty miles an hour.
The Brookfeld (Mo.) bank robbers
have been sentenced to twenty-iv years.
Imprisonment.
THE Society of the Army of the Poto-
mac convened in Detroit, Mich, on the 18th.
General A. A. Humphrey was elected Pres
ident, and Washington was chosen as the
next place OF meeting. Music Hall was elab-
orately decorated for the evening reception.
The especial objects of interest were Grant,
Sheridan, Sickles, and ex-President Hayes.
The steamship Pera, which sailed
from Montreal May 81, with two hundred
head Of cattle, struck an iceberg and found
cred off Cape Race. Thirty of the crew
were picked up by the steamship Lake
Manitoba, but # is feared that ten lives
have been lost.
The German Parliment, after lively
discussion, in which Bismarck spoke for two
hours, rejected the tobacco monopoly bill.
T. T. BAKER, who has been on trial
at Lancaster, O., for embezzling $4,000
while County Treasurer, has fed the town,
forfeiting S4, 600 bail.
THE French and British ambassadors
at COnstantinOple, supported by other dip
lOmats, urge the immediate assembling Of
the conference upon Egyptian affairs. Glad
stone announced in the House of Commons
that all the powers are heartily co-Operat-
ing with England, ana that the Sultan is in
complete harmony. Four steamers leaving
Alexandria carried full loads of Europeans,
and it is stated that many heavy capitalists
are calmly arranging to leave. The British
Consul General desires all British subjects
to depart, but hesitates to produce panic
by official request. The bodies Of an Eng
lish officer and two seamen, killed in the
riot, were buried at sea, to avoid an out
break on shore.