The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-05-04

| They then knocked in the jail door, took out
I p. NJ. Garrett, and banged him to a tree ten
feet from the jail, placing a piacard on his
body: ''This is greeting to the Jennings
County jury" Garrett had been acquitted Of
completely in the assassination OF Mr.. Wal
7 ton, and after acquittal had been arrested on
another charge.
THE wife of Charles Nettle, brake
man on the Michigan Central, living in De-
troit, Mich, was found in bed, April "a,
with bullet in her brain, which entered at
the left eye. She had lived apart from her
husband for some time and was intimate
with one Jas. Brown, VINO has been arrested
pending examination.
IL. s. WOODS, prominent young
man Of Pittsburg, Pa, while laboring under
fit Of despondeucy, on the oath, committed
suicide by shooting himself three times in
the breast and once in the head.
An elevated derrick in Chicago fell
from the track to the ground the other morn
ing, carrying down three men-Isaae New
ton, Fred Wells and Jacob Andrews, and
boy Of II years, Willie Robinson, with it.
The boy was killed Instantly. Newton had
both legs and an arm broken, and died
shortly afterward. The others escaped
with some bruises.
n OlACbOWng OsS ApAAA At3 W IL
liam Stull, a discharged laborer, fired six
bullets into the head of his employers wife,
claiming that she had caused his dismissal.
Escaping to the woods, he was pursued by
Sheriff's posse, but refused to surrender
and fatally shot himself in the head.
AT Wheeling, w. Va, on the oath,
three children named Kindleberger got hold
Of some poke root given to their parents by
mistake for bois dare, and ate of it freely.
One boy died and the other two were not
expected to recover.
THE bridge across the Los Angeles,
on the Texas Mexican Railway, 12O miles
from Corpus Christi, burned a few nights
since, intercepting traffic both ways. A
special train was dispatched from Corpus
Christi 10 free the train from Laredo for the
purpose of making transfer Of passengers
and mails. On the return of the special,
when within twenty miles of Corpus Christi,
near Banquete, the locomotive jumped the
track, seriously wounding Engineer Parsons
and the fireman.
Gus ROSENBERG, a Louisville (KY.)
policeman, shot and killed A. 7. Fielder,
with whom he had quarrel growing out of
a previous arrest. After a few words
Fielder struck Rosenberg, who then at
tempted TO arrest him. Fielder broke
away, ran into his house, and the officer
started for help. He had gone but a short
distance when he discovered Fielder at his
heels with a hatchet. The officer ran into
the middle OF the street, followed by his as
sailant, and then turned and fired two
shots, one Of which passed through Fielder's
head, killing him instantly. Fielder, before
the war, was n prominent river man. He
owned the steamer Diana, and had other
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was shot in the head, the effects of which
caused partial loss Of reason. He from this
cause began wild speculations, and soon lost
all his property. Rosenberg gave himself
up, and was admitted to bail.
j. ID. ROGER, of Rome, Ashtabula
County, Ohio. committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the heart with a pistol,
April 24. Financial troubles are assigned as
the cause for the act.
CALsEA, Secretary to Gen. Pacheco,
Mexican Minister of Public Works, was
shot and instantly killed by Gen. Alvarar-
do, of the Mexican army, the other day.
Alvarardo is under arrest and will be tried
by court-martial Calsea was very popular,
and achieved great fame for bravery during
the war in Mexico.
AUSTIN WOODS lost his life by inter
fering in a quarrel between man and his
wife, in Liberty, Va, the other day. Mr..
and Mrs. John Hendricks were at variance,
and Just as the peace maker appeared the
Iate husband was about to knock his wife
down. Woods rushed in to save her, where
upon the woman turned upon him, saying
t was no business Of his, and that they
could settle their own quarrels, and Hen
driclss picked up an AK and crushed in his
skull, infictiug q wound from which he died
in a few minutes. The murderer was ar
rested.
CHESTER COUNTY, Pa, has been much
excited by a tragedy near Haysville. On
the oath, Mrs. j. ID. Andrews, whose hus-
band has manifested tendency to insanity
for some time, was felled 10 the floor by a
terrific blow on the head, dealt with roll
ing-pin in the hands of the msdman, who
had been left unguarded for a moment in an
adjoining room. She fell to the floor in
sensible, while the attendant, returning just
at this moment, secured Andrews and sum-
moned medical aid. There was no hope,
however, and Mrs. Andrews died without
recovering consciousness. She was about
so years of age. Prof. Andrews, who is
about 90 years old, accumulated large for
tune by his wonderful skill as a mathema-
tician. He is known as the Lightning
Calculator and it is supposed that his
peculiar mental exercise was the prime
cause of his malady.
A DISPATCH from Atlanta, Ca, saws
two carloads of convicts stopped at a water
station on the Cherokee Road, on the 25th.
The convicts were chained together, and
number of them, thinking that they were
expected to get off, stepped to the ground,
while the others remained on the cars which
moved on, dragging the men on the ground
several hundred feet by their chains, beat
ing their bodies against the cross ties and
iron. Six were terribly injured and are not
expected to live. The management is loudly
censured for inhumanity in not unchaining
the unfortunates.
AN express train on the Cincinnati
Southern, going fifteen miles per hour, was
derailed by a misplaced switch at Lexing-
ton, Ohio, April 2G. David Drscoll, the en-
gineer, was killed and the fireman slightly
scalded.
AN engine and one car went through
a trestlework near Carbon Hill, Ohio, April
%. The engineer, VIM. Dowland, and fire.
man, Charles Dowland, his son, were killed
instantly. James lille, brakeman, was bad
ly scalded and had leg broken.
AT Lake City, Colo, on the 27th,
hundred masked men overpowered the
guard and took from Jail George Belts and
Jim Brown, charged with the murder of
Sheriff Campbell, and strung them up to
bridge in the lower part OF the town. Both
men died game, Belts asking for a chew OF
tobacco just before the rope was placed
around his neck.
NELLIE TRENT, little girl living in
St. Joseph, Mo-, was accidentally pushed
out of a window by some playmates, April
%, and was fatally injured.
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