The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-07-27
cR1,aEs AND cAsuALTIEs.


D. J. NoRwooD attempted to cane T.
J. Polk in the Courthouse at Floyd. La,
July II. Polk resisted the attack and both
men pulled out pistols at the same mo-
ment. Several shots were exchanged in
quick succession. Polk was fatally shot,
dying in few minutes. Norwood was Sc
riOusly II not fatally wounded. There had
been bad blood between the men for some
time, growing out Of a lawsuit.
FATHER SCHNEIDER, of Pittsb rgh,
Pa, has renounced Catholicism and Joined
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
THREE burglars attempted to enter a
house in Kalamazoo, Mich, the other night,
where officers were expecting them. There
was scrimmage in the dark, and George
Stephenson received a fatal wound in the
spine. The other crooks escaped.
AT Mandan, Dakota, the other day,
on trestle work sixty feet high, fight oc-
CURED between William Watson, OF Sagi-
nav, and Peter p. Stuart, of Dali Prairie,
Mich, which ended inslloth going over 70
death.
AT La Fayette, Ind, the other night,
Harry stoy, . years old, who has led a
checkered life, told his sweetheart he was
tired of life, gave her his coat to hold, placed
himself across the track, and was cut to
pieces by an engine.
DURING sudden squaH on Lake
Chautauqua, N. Y, on the 18th, rowboat
containing DR.. A. p. King and wife, OF
London, o.; Prof. Leland, OF st. Louis; and
a young lady from London, was capsized.
Prof. Leland and the young lady reached
shore, but DIR. and Mrs. King, who had been
married less than year, were drowned.
JOSEPH CURNANE, aged 20, deaf
mute who has been trying to starve himself
TO death at the county inGrmary, Wapako-
meta Ohio, for some weeks, succeeded on
the Itch. 81 - fF
FIVE cars were derailed and four pas
sengers fatally injured near Charlottetown,
hPrince Edward Island, July II. Collector
Real, of Boston, was wounded. An axle
broke. l>4#tfL Lt#.E Htrt8l4f
MRS. HUFFMAN, wife of a farmer
near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, lost her life
the other day in attempting TO save that of
a little daughter who had fallen into a els
tern. --.ss..., ....
AT Morrillton, Ark, on the 18th, in a
7 quarrel between a boy named Page and a
-colored youth named Greenlaw, the latter
stabbed the former over the heart with a
penl<nife, causing instant death.
WHILE Everett Decker was taking q
lady home from church, at Pomeroy, Ohio,
recently, jealous rival named Wills, 13
years of age, struck him on the head with an
AK, in6icting fatal wound.
| A DISPATCH from Houghton, Mich,
1 says a boat containing three women and
( four men capsized on Portage River, July
/ IS, and George Lacrosse and wife and Mrs.
| Joseph Banchett were drowned. Indians
! saved the others.
/ ROBERT BROWN, Is years old, killed
4 himself at Topeka, Kans., the other day,
because he could not agree with his step
I father.
AT Socorro, N. NJ, on the 18th, John
Mullens, clerk at the Windsor Hotel, was
shot by colored porter. A woman was
the cause.
THOMAS MOORE, of New Albany,
Ind, was killed by lightning during a re-
cent storm.
d. G. OPEBO, a Venezuelan of good
family, placed himself In front of a mirror
at his boarding house in New York on the
10Th, put pistol into his mouth, and blew
out his brains. A farewell missive ended
with: "In order not to incur further charges
of meanness am going to kill myself, and
by that act will show my own opinion of my
! unworthiness. -