The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-03

A FEW days ago, at West Baden
Springs, near Paoli, Ind, a man named
Marley murdered one Archer in q most
cowardly and brutal manner. The murder
er was aided to escape by a friend named
Bundy, with whom he lived. A mob cap
ured Bundy, hanged him to a tree, and
then threw his body in ths river.
WIN. BUEL and Robert Fleming were
killed by lightning in a field near Industry,
Kans., on the 22d.
HENRY HUDSON, aged Y, was killed
by a train while walking home from a camp
meeting near Indianapolis the other night.
AT Lapeer, Mich, the other night,
Elizabeth Smith. aged "A. administered
strychnine to a little grandson and then took
a fatal dose herself.
ROBERT JEFFRIEs, farmer, was
seized with apoplexy while walking in the
street OF New London, Mo-, on the oath, and
fell to the ground, breaking his neck and
producing instant death.
MRS. KELSEY, wife of farmer living
near KokOmO, Ind, made a rope out OF
some yarn and hanged herself to beam In
the smoke house. Her mother died in like
manner some years-agO.
+. G. PoTTs, of Sewers, Potts & Co..,
book publishers, Philadelphia, Pa, took his
life with a revolver the other day. His bus
iness relations were OF the best and the firm
rated high.
TIE mangled remains of six negroes
were found the other morning on the Mobile
& Ohio track, near De Soto, Miss. They had
recently been paid, and one colored man has
been arrested on charge Of having killed and
robbed the party.
MARY STEARNs, 16 years old, has
been arrested at Waynesburg, Pa, for poi
sOning her step-mother, with whom she
could not agree.
A DISPATCH from Muscogee, 1. T.,
says the Greek Nation has been excited by
the killing OF a Light-HOrse captain named
Scott by party OF loyalists, or Sandsmon,
who made the attack to rescue one of their
number held as a prisoner. Capt. Scott was
shot, and treated in the most shocking man
ner, while one OF his men, who interfered,
was fatally wounded. Chief Chicota called
for volunteers to keep the peace, but the
Sandsmen were de~perate and the citizens
feared bloody encounter.
G. II. WENBERGER, residing near
Grand Rapids, Mich, fell from window on
the fourth floor Of a hotel in Washington,
the other day. and was so seriously injured
that he lived but six hours.
CHARLES MOsBY, a convict in the
Chester en- Penitentiary, committed sui
eide on the 26th by eating the sulphur from
a number OF matches.
AT Augusta, Ky, July 25th, Ivan w.
Bowman, a prominent stock dealer, shot
and instantly killed Marshal Lane. Bowman
escaped.
o. II. GREGG, local editor of the Law
renee (Kans.) Tribune, was drowned at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 25th.
THE steamer Fanchon, running in the
Atchafalaya trade i'm place of the il-fated
Wilson, exploded fiue at New Orleans on
the 26th. She had about twenty-fv per-
sons on board, mnaY Of whom were drown
ed.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, the other
day, worthless tramp named John Cog
gins killed his wife, with whom he had not
been living for several years, because she
would not surrender a little money she had
succeeded in scraping together.
VIM. j. CLARK, a cripple, and John
Prindell, a crank, were locked in cell to-
gether in Chicago. Prindell took of Clark's
wooden leg and beat him to death with it
the other night.
MARTIN BECKETT, colored, was
lynched at Hampton, S. c., the other night,
for assaulting young white girl.