The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE committees of the Amalgamated
Association Of Iron and Steel Workers and
manufacturers held a consultation at Pitts
bugh, Pa, on the 17th, relative to the new
scale proposed by the former. Several
hours were taken up in discussion without
arriving at an agreement, and the confer
ence was adjourned until the 2Sih inst The
Amalgamated Association insist upon an
advance, and the manufacturers are unani-
nous in their opposition. At Lawrence,
Mass, the strikers not having returned TO
work, the upper mill has been ordered
closed for six months. This throws ,, 500
hands out OF employment. At Cohoes, N.
y, the operatives would not agree to n ten
per cent reduction and the Harmony Mills
magnstes threatened to close.
THE grand jury at St. Joseph, Mo,
having indicted Robert and Charles Ford,
who killed Jesse James, for murder in the
first degree, they were arraigned on the nth
and pleaded guilty. Judge Sherman then
sentenced each to be hanged May 10.
Governor Crittenden Immediately granted
full and unconditional pardon, and the pris
oners were set free. Robert was, however,
soon after arrested on n warrant charging
him with the murder OF Wood Hite, whose
body was recently found in a well on the
Ford farm.
Much excitement has been caused in
Lawrence, Mass, by the disappearance Of
Rev. Daniel :. Healy, pastor Of st. Patrick's
Catholic Church, who had charge OF a large
amount OF money for the building fund.
Reports are circulated affecting the charac-
ter Of Mr. Healy, and it is said his successor
has been appointed.
ANOTHER coIliery explosion, resulting
in the loss of over twenty lives, is reported
in England.
A CORoNER's jury in Baltimore de-
cidcd that the recent explosion, so fatal in
its results, was caused by the incompetency
Of the Boiler Inspector and the negligence
and carelcssness OF the lessee and owner or
the mill.
The furniture house of Z. L. Bassett,
Seymour, Conn, was entered by burglars
on the 18th, who blew open the safe and set
fire to the building, which, together with
Beach's store and the dwelling house Of l..
A. Camp, was destroyed.
Mrs. S. j. GRAY, colored, wife of
Rev. S. J. Gray, OF Lexington, Ky, who,
through her husband, sued the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad Company for refusing
her admittance to the ladies' car on first
class ticket last August and placed damages
at $50 900, has been awarded Il thousand
dollars damages.
MOUNTAIN fires are raging near New
Philadelphia, Pa. The engine house at Sill
yer Creek colliery Is gone and the people
are fighting the flames to save the breaker.
CHARLES NORRIS, the noted forger
and confidence operator who. recently vic
timized number OF persons in Lynn, Mass,
has been arrested. A large crowd gathered
at the depot on his arrival and gave vent to
their Indignation by jeers and Kisses. lie
made no denial OF the charges brought
against him, and owned up to the whole
business. lie successfully forged the names
Of sixty different persons on mortgages and
checks, on all Of which he has raised 5000,
which he spent He raised $500 for
the sufferers by the recent boiler explosion,
and that went with the rest. Morris has had
a checkered career. lie was born in larry
town, n. j., is 81 years of age, and is a son
OF Judge Samuel Morris, OF the Superior
Court OF New York. His father died in 1873,
leaving him several thousand dollars. which
he squandered. In 1874 he was arrested in
New Bedford for obtaining goods under
false pretenses, for which he served a SEN
tence OF two months. In 1879 he was again
arrested for being concerned in diamond
robbery in New York and sentenced to two
years in the Ponitenuary. On account Of his
respectable connections he was psrdoned
after serving only six months.
DURING the Peruvian investigation,
the other day, J. r. Shipherd testified that
he approached Walker Blaine as an attorney
in order TO learn the workings Of his fathers
mind in regard to the cOmpanY's shemes.
Representative Deuster, after stating that
Shipherd had evaded every question OF
weight, moved that he be dismissed, but it
was resolved TO set him aside for few days.
ADVICEs from Siberia are to the eff
feet that the steamer Rodgers, which went
in search Of the survivors Of the Jeanette,
has been burned and sunk, and that Lieu
tenant Berry and his officers and crew,
numbering thirty-six, are near Cape
Serdge.
AFTER session of nine hours, the
Canadian House Of Commons passed a bill
legaIizing the amalgamation OF the tele-
graph system under the charter Of the Great