The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-11-30

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HoE. G. B. FARwELL, of Chicago,
was severely hurt by falling into the cellar
Of anew building the other day.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
IN the Grassy Island colliery, near
Scranton, Penn, the other day, the roof OF
hamher caved in shortly after a blast, pre-
cipitsting hundreds Of tons Of rock upon
three miners, two OF whom were terribly
manglod.
A PASSENGER train on the Houston &
Texas Central went down an embankmeni
near Bryan, the other night, and was com
pletely wrecked. No one was seriously
hurt. Frank Hurley, engineer on Clnein-
natl, Georgetown & Portsmouth train. was
seriously injured by a similar accident near
California, Ohio. A brakeman was killed
aud several passengers were slightly hurt
by collision on the Pacific road, near Dav-
isviIle, Cal, on the same day.
CLAUD LISTER, young Englishman,
who had been discharged by farmer near
Niagara Falls, fatally wounded a young son
OF his employer and then nearly killed him
self, his reason being that his love for the
lad created a desire TO be always in his com
pany.
II. q. SCuLTHoRPE, one of the wealth.
TEST men In Port Hope, Ontario, was crushed
10 death while attempting to remove an
obstruction in front of his elevator the other
day
VIM. a. RUSSELL, a storekeeper at
Iteisters' own, Md, was shot dead by a
burglar at noon on the 2ist.
j. w. BURTON was shot and killed By
w. AsITharpe, his brOther-in law, at som
erville, Tenn, the other night. The trouble
grew out OF a misunderstanding about fam
lily matters, Burton having publicly de-
nounced Tharpe and threatened to kill him.
Thnrpe, who Is President OF the Somerville
College, armed himself with a shotgun, aud
happening 70 meet his brother-ln law IN a
Billiard saloon, discharged, both barrels into
bis heua and face. Burton had been in
trouble for killing one man and cutting an
other, aud BIS best friends considered him
rather dangerous. --rtr
FANNIE CRETGHToN, who had served
aterm. Of Eve years for killing her husband
was fataliy shot by an unknOwn person near
Iiehopolis, OHIO, onthe 2Ist.
JoHN Jo1CE and Timothy Callahan
were crushed 70 death by a block OF granite
in ghsRogors quarry, near Q1incy, Mass. on
tho 21st. eAt a
A sArroR named Burma, hailing from
BuffiIo, ~. Ys, was found pinned 10 the
tr'lek.by q ear-wheel, /, In Toledo, Ohio, the
other morning. He died while an arm was
being amputatsd. He had been drinking,
ana probably, y,ventto sleep on the rail-.
SYEvRsFER BOHR and Ransom Willis
moi horrible fate lnthesiraw- board works
at ElkharsE Iud.s the ether day. A rotten
boardprgCfpitated them into a vat OF boiling
puip, and when taken cut she flesh dropped
from their bones. George Bridsnstein and
Patriok MciSenna were fatally scaIded by
the bursting Of lard vat in a rendering
house near bridgeport, Ohios on the same
day. 1890
Tue engine and i've cars of q freight
train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg &
Potomac Railroad went over an embAnk-
ment near Hamilton, Va, on the 2lst, and
was wrecked. james Young, engineer, was
Killed.
An Hic0s Texas, on the 2lst, Mich olas
O'Brien was killed by bis brother -in-law,
Frank Hyles. Mrs. O'Brien alleged cruel
troairnoht on the. part, OF her husband ana
ledto her br0ther's house for protection.
Her husband followed and was shot dead.
A NIoHT express on the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati a. 81. Louis road was thrown
down an embankment by traIa-wreckers,
near Union Station, Ohio, Nov. -. The
passengers escaped with slight bruises.
-Four train men were badly hurt.
The steamship Wearmouth, from
Quebec to London, went to pieces on one OF
the Magdalen Islands aud sixteen seamen
were lost.
WM. X. LEwIs was fatally injured by
the explosion Of can Of powder in his faith
or's store at Troy, n. Y, on the 2lst. The
place was completely wrecked
HARVEY BAUGH, young brakeman,
was cut to pieces by a train at Bellaire, Ohio,
Nov. p.
FoUR men charged with completely in
the murder Of the Joyce family, in Ireland,
pleaded guilty and asked mercy from the
court, but were sentenced to death.
THE drug house of Gilbert Brothers
& Co, in Baltimore, Nd, was DESTROYED
by fire the other day. James Shaw, the
porter, was fatally burned, Eve iremen
were severely injured by falling timbers,
and party Of girls at work on the third
floor were rescued while the stairway was In
flames.
FIFTEEN Spanish soldiers were in
lured by an explosion Of powder at the bar
racks in Madrid the other day. The build
ing was demolished.
THE body of Newton Ashton, aged
"a. was found in the woods near Martins
Ferry, Ohio, Nov. %, with a bullet-hole In
the temple. A young lady to whom he was
engaged had just given him back his ring,
and as he had threatened to take his life
unless she married him, a verdict OF suicide
was rendered.
Two negroes were cremated at the
sloss furnace in Birmingham, Ala, Nov. p.
They were cleaning the stack, and beeom
ing oyerpowered by gas fell into the mass Of
ore