The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-05-18

Wiley Bullock, Joe coiey, Joe BIabry and
Richard DevereuX The stakeholder leaped
from the window and rushed down the
street, his pursuers keeping up sharp fire
on him from their reviewers, until he fell to
the ground from loss Of blood, when he was
mercilessly butchered with a bowie knife in
the hands Of Williams.
JOSEPH HICKMAN, aged %, of Elder
willie. Pa, rode into The Ohio River, oppo-
site steubenville, on the Sth, and horse and
rider were drowced.
PROF. DARE, the tight-rope per-
former, was fatally injured while giving an
open-air performance at Flushing, Long
Island, on the 8th, the rope breaking.
Mrs. MARY KONG, aged IS, living in
Boston, Mass, was recently deserted by her
husband. and trouble worked upon her
nlnd to such an extent that her reason fnal-
ly gave way. She had four children
Z Emil, II years; Mary, 10; Alfred, 10, and
August, 5-and 10 seemed 10 her that death
would be the best thing for all Of
them. on the 9th she armed herself with
knife and entered the room where the chill
dren were sleeping. She first attacked Au-
gust, whose throat she cut from ear to ear.
The maniac next assaulted Mary, whose
throat she cut in three places, probably IA
tally. The girl ran screaming out Of the
apartment into the rooms opposite, Occu-
pied by other persons. The screams of the
girl were supplemented by the shrieks
OF Mrs. Konig, and the widest excite
mcnt prevailed, though none OF the neigh
bors dared enter the rooms. Meantime,
Mrs. KONG stabbed Alfred in dozen places
in the left arm, and then assailed Emil, who
Bo
ceived a wound ia his left arm, ,at the elbow.
When the police arrived they found Mrs.
Konig sitting on the floor in pool OF blood,
having cut a severe cash in her leg and made
attempts to open arteries in both wrists. She
appeared very composed and expressed her
self well satisfied with the slaughter she
thought she had completed. The officers
took her to the station, where her wounds
were dressed.
G.. II. HUDSON, owner of a saw-mill
at La Grange. Ind, met with a fatal acci-
dent on the 9Th. A board caught in the
teeth Of a large circular saw, which was
running very rapidly, and was thrown with
terrible force, striking Hudson in the stom-
ach.
JOHN KEMP, q molder at the Novelty
Ironworls, Dubuque, Iowa, was horribly
burned on the 9th, a stream Of molten metal
falling on his head and shoulders. He will
probably die
FRANK b. A1TEs, aged so, a promi-
nent ship-owner OF Bangor, Me-, shot and
killed his wife in a New York boarding
house, on the 9th, and then killed himself.
Al TRAIN on the Fort Wayne, Muncie
e Chicago Road was derailed near Meta
mora, Ind, on the 10th. The express car
and one passenger coach went down forty
feet and were badly wrecked. Milton, the
express messenger, was fatally injured, and
a number Of others were seriously hurt.
Two young girls, daughters of John
Larn, OF Hatfield, Mimi, were drowned by
the capsizing Of a boat in which they were
crossing Rock River, May IL.
MISS MAY GORMAN, of Cleveland, o.,
a passenger on the Harvey, while the vessel
was off Sturgeon Bay, Wis, on the 10th,
committed suicide by shooting herself with
a revolver.
MAJOR HENRY HADDOCK, of Pitt
County, N. c., created a disturbance at the
residence Of his brother William, the other
night, and was ordered to leave. William
had to eject his brother, and there was a
< fight outside. Tom Haddock, IA years old,
saw that his father was getting the worst Of
| it and killed the Major with shotgun. The
boy then coolly put the weapon down, and,
| raising his father from the ground, said: "I
wasn't agoing to stand by and see you beat,
father, il he was my uncle. -
1 JOSEPH MENINGER, a prominent
/ German architect of Sabetha, Kan, commit
ted suicide the other day by shooting him
/ self twice in the head with a revolver. lie
had lived apart from his wife for some
time. The act was deliberate, as he made
a will the day before, with a proviso that
his wife should not participate in the prop
/ erty. placing it in trust for his four chill
dren.