The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-03-16

in aid Of refugees arriving here. a liberal
sum was contributed at the meeting.
The latest contribution TO Jesse
James literature is discovery by the police
OF Kansas City, Mo-, that George Shepherd,
the ex-guerriIa and bank rObber. who
claimed 10 have shot the notorious outlaw
at Joplin, just after the Glendale train rob-
berry Of 1879, had proved a traitor through
all that trouble. Shepherd knew the James
boys well, and offered to go among them
and lead them into an ambush where they
were to be killed or captured. His offer
was accepted, and for several weeks he
wrote letters to the detectives, and at last
a special train over the Fort Scott Rail-
way carried posse of men to Ga
lena, where a bank was to be rob-
bed. The day previous to the talked
OF robbery, Shepherd went tearing into
Galena on horseback, claiming to have killed
jesse James, saying the gang became sus-
picious of him. He was himself shot clear
through the left leg below the knee, and
said two members Of the band followed him
a mile aud Cummings hit him. The report
was believed, and Shepherd was the hero Of
the day; but he has admitted that the whole
thing was a scheme to obtain the large re-
ward offered for Jesse, dead or alive, which
was TO be divided between them. In order
to square himself with the officers, Shepherd
had TO be slightly wounded, and he deliber-
ately held out his leg and allowed Jesse
James TO shoot a hole through it. The plan
to get the reward failed, and Shepherd, who
has been hanging about Kansas City ever
since the reported shooting, says he would
no more shoot Jesse James than he would
his own brother.
The furniture factory of Cooley g.
Morrison, Connersville, Ind, burned on the
7th Loss, 100000.
SOME time ago the entire family of
Geo. Cass, consisting Of father, mother and
eight children, residing near TampicO, How
ard County, Ind, were suddenly taken sick,
and the symptoms indicated arsenical poi
son. The other day the smallest child died,
and the Coroner was summoned 10 hold an
inquest over the body. There are only slight
chances for any Of the family to recover. A
chemical analysis OF the well of water on the
Cass place and the dead child's stomach will
be made.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, was startled by
a report that resembled the shock Of an
earthquake, on the 9th, and the fact that
many buildings in the northern part of the
town were visibly shaken gave rise to the
belief that something of the kind had occur
red. 1t was caused by an explosion at gas
house in the suburbs. The news spread
like wildfre, and thousands of people
flocked 10 the scene. A large brick build
ing, in which the machinery stood, was rid
died and torn as il dozen batteries of ar
tAlery had bombarded it. No one was seri-
ously hurt.
THE American Powder Company's
works ut Sudbury, Mass, blow up, March
Sth. Frank Wilson was seriously injured
THE Prussian Chamber of Deputies
has voted an appropriation to establish le-
cation at the Vatican.
THE Austrian troops in Dalmatia have
an epidemic of smallpox more fatal than
fighting.
THE bill to exclude atheists from both
houses of the English Parliament has had its
first reading in the House of Lords.
THE City of Mexico has been visited
by storm which demolished a market and
killed several people.
ABOUT a thousand strikers paraded
the streets of Omaha, Neb., March Sth, with
banners and music, and then proceeded to
the B. & NJ. track, where seventy-five i'm
ported laborers were grading, under strong
guard of special police. A rush was made
and the laborers and police driven from the
grounds. A good deal of clubbing was done,
but no one was seriously injured
TROoPs have been dispatched from
Poplar Creek Agency to rescue from their
Indian captors Sheriff Healy and his depu-
ties, Of Choteau County, Montana.
A TRAIN went through trestlewOrk
on the Knoxville & Ohio Railway, March
7th. Eight men were injured.
MAYOR KING, of Philadelphia, Pa,
having become convinced that several mem
bers of the detective force are no better than
the thieves whom they pursue, is maturing
plans for a different system of catching
criminals.
By the will of Miss Sarah Burr, of
New York, nearly S3,000,OO0 will be distrib-
uted among the benevolent and religious
societies of that city.