The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-23

all women or girls, the other day, and they
abandoned the works and stopped Ga, 900
spindIes.
AT a largely attended meeting called
by the Trades Assembly of San Francisco,
Cal, March "A, resolutions were adopted
sympathizing with the strikers at Omaha
and condemning in strong terms the action
OF the civil authorities in invoking military
aid; also extending sympathy to the lead
ers Of the strike who were arrested.
A WHOLESALE. discharge of passenger
and freight conductors on the Union Pacific
Railroad commenced at Omaha, March 10,
and there is reason to belive that as many
as 100 will be laid off,
THE Chicago & Kansas City Air Line
Railroad Company, with a capital Of So
100000. has been incorporated at Spring
field, ILL.,, by Elias Morris and others.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FIVE workmen in the employ of the
Iron City Bridge Works started to cross the
Ohio River in a skiff at McKeesport, Alle-
2heny County, Pa, March 18th. just before
they reached the opposite shore the boat
capsized and two of the men, Shields and
Murphy, were drowned. The other three
managed to swim ashore, although in
greatly exhausted condition.
AT Grant Station, near Cincinnati, a
few days ago, Isaac Hendrick fatally shot his
wife. The couple had been separated for
some time, and Hendrick left a train as it
was passing the house at which his wife was
stopping, entered her room, and fired three
shots, the first missing her. The woman threw
her arms around his neck, and he shot her
once in the head and once in the breast. He
remained with her until death, which oc-
CURED two or three hours after the shoot
| ing. The murderer was arrested.
TIE steam towboat Etna exploded
her boilers, March 10, in the Great Kanawha,
three miles above Point Pleasant, w, Va.
/ Dune Anderson, of Pomeroy, cOlored fire.
man, was killed; Capt. Henderson and sew
eral others were severely injured. The
steamer took fire and burned to the waters
| edge.
| HENRY HEALY, a carpenter employed
at the Homestead (Pa.) Steel Works, who
was set upon and beaten by the strikers
| while on his way to work, died on the. 18th
! from the injuries received.
DALLAS, Texas was thrown into a
fever of excitement, March IA, by the an
nouncement that ex-AIavor j. NJ. Thurmond
had been shot and killed, in the County
| Court, by Robert e. Cowart, a prominent
! lawyer. Deceased was politician and law
/ yer whol has lived in nearly all the Western
/ States. Cowart is a prominent young law
/ yer, a native Of Atlanta, Georgia. Deceased
was elected Mayor OF Dallas three years ago,
but was removed from office, Cowart TAX
! ing a prominent part against him. Since
! then the most cordial hatred has existed be-
| tween them. When they met in the County
| Court, Thurmond accused COwart of SLAM
dering his family. Cowart denied it. They
both drew pistols simultaneously. Cowart
| fred, his bullet taking effect little above
| Thurmond's right eye, killing him instantly.
| Thurmond was very unpopular, and most
of the prominent lawyers have volunteered
to defend Cowart.
JOHN VAN DYKE, a prominet farmer,
living near Ionia, Mich, died the other day
after a short illness. Before dying he said
he had been poisoned. Foul play is sus-
| pected. The family relations of the de-
ceased are said to have been unpleasant for
some time.
A BOILER in the shoe factory of A. 7.
Goodwin, at Lynn, Mass, exploded on the
18th with horrible results. The cause is not
| known. The building, which was Of wood,
6Ox3O, three stories high, was blown to
atoms, and the engineer, John B. Moore,
was almost instantly killed. Several other
persons were reported killed. The firemen
on their arrival commenced an examination
of the debris, for the purpose of recovering
! the bodies of the dead and rescuing the in
! tured. A portion of the boiler, weighing a
| ton was thrown quarter Of a mile distant,
! and drove itself into the front doorway of a
private house. Glass in the immediate vi
| cinity was generally broken. Another piece
| of the boiler went flying through a covered
walk across court leading from the street
to the scene of the catastrophe. The body
of the engineer was horribly mangled and
bruised. He had charge of the boiler
for quito a number OF years, and was
! looked upon as a fiTst-class man. Had
the accident happened half an hour later the
loss Of life must have been terrible. Fifty
people were employed in the building above
the boiler, but fortunately they had not ar
rived when the explosion occurred.
PATRICK MCCOFFIN, an insane citi-
zen Waterbury, VT, recently killed his wife
and mother in-law with an AK and hid theiI
bodies in the cellar.
ALBERT WALKER was lifting a heavy
bucketful OF ore at the Health lift Lode,
near Leadvilie, Colo, March 18th, when the
handle of the windass slipped from bis
! grasped, and whirling around picked him
off his feet and hurled him into the shaft.
Nearly every bone in his body was broken
by the fall, and some men at the foot of the
shaft narrowly escaped being struck by the
falling trunk.
AT St Joseph, Mo, on the 10th, five
boys were buried alive in a cave made by
their own hands to serve the purposes Of a
club house. They were attending school in
the vicinity, and had been excavatiug fol
some months, penetrating a hillside and
scooping out chamber six feet high and
about six by eight in dimension. Jack Mont
gomery, aged IA; Ran Montgomery, aged
s; Nick Kell, aged Is; Allen Rhodes, aged
Il; Mike Garrish, aged Il, repaired to the
cave for their usual frolic after school hours
when some seventeen feet of earth fell upoT
them, crushing and smothering them Il
death. The alarm was given, a number o.
citizens soon collected, and the lifeless bod.
les OF the five boys were recovered.
MISCELLANEOUS.
GUITEAU is still of the opinion that
the argument for new trial before the court
in banc will result favorably. He is Overrun
with visitors, and be importunes most OF
them to buy his picture and autograph. He
has saved considerable money, which is tc
go to the best legal talent in the country for
defending him. He is represented by his
| guards as being very docile and with an ex-
treme regard for neatness in his person
| 'sfor,' he says, ''the ladies like me tc
look we'll" His sole aim now seems to be
to make money TO pay his lawyers to get him
/ out of trouble, and he is continually con-
triving new schemes for the purpose. He
imagines that his book, ''The Truth, A" will
be in great demand at 50 per copy, and he
devotes considerable time TO preparing ,
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