The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-13

Pa, April ID, a number Of persons sought
shelter in a shed behind which large wafer
tank had been erected. The tank rested on
a heavy stone wall, and was also supported
by girders of heavy timbers, but the force OF
the wind was so great that the girders were
twisted off, and the entire mass fell on the
shed, crushing the people under it, and
completely burying them in the debris.
George ShelthOrB, aged 45, and his daugh-
ter Rosa, aged 3, were crushed or smothered
to death; Mrs. Shclthorn was terribly man
gled, and will probably die, and Charles
ShelthOru, aged "a, WAS badly injured. John
Cruise, aged 1S, was also kHled, his head
being mashed to a pulp. George r. Full,
owner Of the farm, was severely hurt about
the head and had three ribs broken. Fred
r. Neill and several others escaped with
few slight injuries. The storm ragged furi-
ously in other sections, barns were blown
down, fences were leyeled, and fruit trees
greatly damaged.
NEAR Kenton, Ohio, on the Sd, son
of Thomas Williamson, 8 years old, fell
from a hay NOW upon pitchfork standing
points upward ana was seriously injured.
The prong ran entirely through the lower
part OF his body. The little fellow may re-
cover. A 17-year -old boy, named Krabihl,
committed suicide by hanging in his fathers
barn, not far from the scene of the accident,
on the same day. He was rigid in death
when discovered. No cause can be imagined
for the rash act, as all his relations at home
seem to have been pleasant.
w. r. LONG, alias Charles Gimson, a
tramp charged with stealing horse and as
sau1ing a girl three years old, was taken
from Jail at Kokomo, Ind, April 4th, by a
party OF disguised men who strung him up
on bridge. lie denied his crime to the
last. The only request he made was that
he be allowed to sing a song, which was
granted He sang, "See that My Graves
Kept Green" After finishing he said he
hoped he would meet his father and mother
in heaven. He gave his name as Richard
Long and said he resided in Franklin. Ef-
forts were made by w. F. Vail, Rev. NJ.
McCune and others to prevent the mob from
taking the law in their own hands, but they
were greeted with shouts of derision from
the crowd that had gathered.
MRs. SARAH SMITH, nearly so years
old, was killed by Baltimore & Ohio en-
gine, near Wheeling, ". Va, April Sd.
j. II. DAVIS, a carpenter, of Helena,
Ark, was drowned by the capsizing of a
shell boat, April Sd. He was drunk when
the accident occurred. Efforts were made
to save him, but swell from coal boats in
the river carried him under.
A Roy named McGrary was killed by
a freight train at South Bend, Ind, the
other day. He missed his footing while at
tempting to get a ride, and the wheels of
fourteen cars mangled his body in a shock
ing manner.
CHARLES JEWELL, living near Ber-
wick, Warren County, H., was killed by the
accidental discharge of gun which he was
handling, few days ago. He was 3G years
old, a graduate of Monmouth College and
much respected. He leaves wife in very
poor health and five children.
THE murder of Arthur Herbert, an
Irish Justice of the Peace, has been followed
by the stabbing of eleven lambs on his prop
erty. A sister of Thomas Powell O'Connor
has been sent to jail for advising tenants in
Roscommon not to pay rents.
A. r. FRAME, a telegraph operator at
Belpre, Ohio, was killed by Baltimore &
Ohio train, April 3, while walking on the
Parkcrsburg bridge.
AUGUST KoHNE, young German re-
siding in Chicago, killed himself with a bull
let the other day because his love had not
been returned.
CHARLES MCGUIRE shot and instant
ly killed Minnie Lapham, at the residence
of her father, three miles south Of Wame-
go, Pottawatomie County, Kans., the other
day. He then placed the revolver to his
head, fired a ball through his own brain,
and fell unconscious upon the body OF his
victim. Mcclure is described as an edu-
Gated ScotchmSn, well connected, but con-
sidered little eccentric. The young lady,
to whom he had been paying some atten-
tion, was in her seventeenth year.
j. j. LYONS, an editor at Gilmer,
Tex, was assasFinated in his Office the other
day.