The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
INTENSE excitement has been created
at Putnam, Connecticut, by the arrest of &.
F. Willis, trial justice and deputy United
States marshal, on charge OF burning a block
OF stores to defraud the insurance eompa-
nies. The detectives developed the fact that
the accused has for years been connected
with a gang of banll-thieves in Boston, and
caused a bogus robbery to be committed by
them to show the judges completely, forcing
from him a confession that almost from his
cradle ne had been an incendiary and a
thief.
FIFTY deaths have recently occurred
from diphtheria in Pittsylvania County, Vir-
ginia, whole families having perished, and
more than one hundred persons are now i'll
with the disease.
| THERE was an effort to draw the
color line in the Jail at Dubuque, Iowa, the
| other day. Two negro roustabOuts had
stolensf345 from a woman sick with ague on
! the steamer Mary Morton, and were i'm
prisOned. Several Irishmen in the Jail gave
them a welcome with chair-rounds and ta-
ble-legs, and it required all the force in the
| courthouse to quell the riot.
THE railroad celebration at Louisville,
| KY, on the 18th filled the streets with
/
! The Fire and Police Department and mill
| tary display was the grandest ever wit
| messed. The parade was over ten miles in
length, three hours passing a given point
A RISE in the James River has de-
stroyed crops and damaged mill and rail-
road property. Five hundred feet of tres
| tie used in extending the dam across the
river at Lynchburg was swept away, carry
ing five workmen with it, who, after riding
six miles, managed to swim ashore. The
| Richmond & Allegheny Railroad bridges
| across I've River were washed away.
THE California Iron Company smelt-
ing works at Auburn, CAL, were totally
destroyd by ire the other afternoon. The
loss is very heavy.
A CYCLONE caused much trouble al
Atlantic City, n, j., Sept. Il. A number
Of buildings were damaged and fences were
scattered far and wide.
THE steamer Peninah, recently stolen
from United States officers at Bismarck,
Oak, and run down the river, has been re-
captured.
WHILE Owen McSorley, of Staten
Island, n. Y, was out driving, Sept. IL
some strangers called at his residence and
informed the serving man the coach had
been broken down. The man hurried to the
assistance of his employer, and during his
absence the house was robbed OF $4,000 in
bonds.
THERE was 1925, 900 fire in Crock
EFT, Texas, on the 18th.
A YOUNG man named Dickens i
awaiting trial in Memphis on the charge o
having stolen cattle, sheep and hogs from
the farmers Of Shelby County, Tenn. Dick
ems friends have made several armed de-
monstrations in his favor. Dickens ha
threatened the life OF the prosecuting wit
ness, one John Hall.
AN attempt was made to rob a trair
on the NJ, X. and T. Railroad, near Vinita
Indian Territory, the other night. COnduc
tor Warner was shot through the cheek, anC
hurt from falling from the platform, bu
he robbers were driven off.
THE latest sensation in Paris is thu
. attempted suicide of a Russian actress
named Feyghine, in the rooms OF the Due
de Morny.
THE Crescent Mills and Elevator a
Denver, Colo, burned on the 18th. Loss,
SI25, 900.
t AT the international convention o
fire chiefs, at Cincinnati, Capt. Shaw, o
London, severely criticised the heavy ma
chinery used in the American departments
A UNITED STATES registered $1,000
bond was stolen from the Office Of the Regis
ter OF the United States Treasury some day
ago. The secret service force have thus IA
failed to recover the bond or discover tn
thief.
THE Richmond (Virginia) Banking
and Insurance Company suspended bust
ness the other morning, with liabilities re-
ported at S6p7, 200. Charles Z. Whitlocl
has been appointed trustee. The amount o
deposits is $500, 900, one-half of which be
longs to the State of Virginia. John B. Da
Wis, President Of the defunct concern, wa
also at the head OF the Planters NatiOna
Bank, which fact caused run during th
forenoon on the latter institution. Dayi
resigned the presidency OF the Planters
Bank and Charles Z. Whitlock was elected
bis successor