The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-02-08

BALLOON which was ascending at
Madrid, Spain, a few DAYS ago, was crushed
by collision with a house-top, and the
aeronaut lost his life.
JAMES +. Brown, store-keeper of the
Philadelphia (Pa) Aims house, and a con-
federate OF Phipps, was the other day con-
yicted OF forgery.
DIR. FRANK PEARCE was arrested at
Worcester, Mass, the other day, on a charge
OF manslaughter in causing the death Of a
patient by malpractice.
Two prize fights have been fought in
Pennsylvania lately, and one Of the COM
batants in each was reported dying.
DURING an entertainment at Brook
Iyn, n. T., few days ago, a creaking beam
caused panic, and many persons were Sc
riously bruised in rushing to the doors.
AT Adrian, Mich, the other day,
number Of men were carrying a large ladle
Of molten iron from one building to another,
when the handle broke, dropping the hot
metal on the snow, causing an explosion
that scattered the hot iron IN every direc-
tion. Several men were badly burned, two
Of them fatally.
Property of the value of 100000
was destroyed by fire at Philadelphia, Pa,
"A few days ago.
THE managers of the Philadelphia
0a.) olympic Hall were the other day fined
$50 each for allowing an eighty -year-old child
to sing in public.
Oh the charge of arranging prize
fight, r. X. Fox and W. F. Harding were
arrested by the police in New York City the
other day and held to bail.
A DISASTROUS snow-slide occurred
four miles above Crested Butte, Colo, on
the 3lst. The slide started on the side of
the mountain above the Howard F. Smith
coal mine and swept down the mountain,
carrying the mine boarding. house, with its
thirty occupants. and ali the conpany's ex-
peu~iye machinery to the bottom OF the
rulch. Six men were killed and fifteen
wounded, many of them seriously. The dav
before passenger train when within six
miles OF Crested Butte had divided, the en-
gine goiny.ahead to clear he track OF snow.
When few miles from where it hadleft the
coaches the engine was struck by a slide
and buried under twenty feet of snow.
Two MeXiCans living near SOCorrO,
n NJ, loved the same girl. In order to
settle their claims they locked themselves in
a room the other night and fought duel
with axes. One chopped his rival in a hOr-
body, while he was himself terribly cut up,
and was arrested besides.
A SECOND outbreak of the cOnvicts
employed at the Naval works, off Cork
Harbor, Ireland, was reported a few days
ago.
TIE farmhouse of A. ID. IIage, near
Dassel, Mimi, was burned the other night,
and four children perished in the flames.
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were nearly frozen to death in the storm
before they could reach the house Of a
ueighbor.
IN Philadelphia, Pa, the other day,
Catherine Bernesou, ANNOYED by children
playing in front Of her house, fatally shot
Maggie Carlette, one of a group OF children
passing.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred in
fire works factory at Amecameca, Mex, the
other day, followed by flying rockets and
bombs. The proprietor and fyemembers OF
his family were burned TO death, and sew
eral others were badly injured.
A FIRE at the Inman line dock, in
New York, on the 1st inst, destroyed all the
buildings on the pier and damaged several
ships and their cargoes. Loss estimated at
81 100000.
CHARLES COBB, who shot and killed
Sheriff Schenneman, of Cowley County, Hans, |
a few days ago, and afterward confessed to
having killed a constable in Jefferson Coun-
~, was taken from the Jail at Winfield on the
LIST, by a mob OF masked men, and hanged
from the railroad bridge.
AT Kingsville, Ont, the other night
masked burglars cleaned out Smart's Bank
and The Post Office.
HENRY A. Bowen was indicted bv
the Grand Jury at Washington the other day,
on a charge Of corruptly endeavoring to in
nucnCe a juror (Dickson) in the star-route
eases, it was said upon evidence given by
Dickson.
SOME medical students at Montreal,
Cana, could not he frightened into giving
up bodies stolen from a cemetery, but the
other day accepted SO for their trouble in
restoring two corp>es to anxious relatives.
NEAR Wilkesbarre, Pa, the other
day, man and his son were found in bed
starved to death, and his wife and two
children were dying OF starvation.
ISAAC IL. VINCENT, State Treasurer
of Alabama. left Montgomery the other
night, sending back a statement that he was
short in his accounts and was going to New
York to obtain funds which he had loaned
II was afterward learned that he lost heavi-
y in cotton futures, and his Gefalcation
would probably amount TO S25o000.
MISCELLAN NEoUS.
THE number of entries made under I
he forestry laws in the Sta,es and Terrific
rics OF the Mississippi Valley for 1882 were !
Il, ,I57, embracing 265,GjS, ,9l9 acres. Since /
he passage OF the timber culture act OF 1873 I
he number of filing, were 93,246, covering /
.3, ,637, l46 acres. One-third Of these filings /
lad, however, been abandoned or cancelled, |
v vhich leaves about 9 100000 Of acres under |
he timber act.
SEVERAL carloads of dressed beef /
md dressed sheep were shipped from Miles |
-ity, Mont, the other day in refrigerating /
'ars. A STOCK company had been organized /
here which would in the spring 60 into the |
business on large scale. 1t was claimed /
hat this way Of. shipping meat was more /
profitable to stock men than shipping on the !
loof.
j. H. HOWARD filed in the Office of .
he Surveyor General of Arizona tho other /
lay claim for four leagues OF land, en- /
,racing the entire CITY OF Tucson and part (
II the P4pajo Reservation.
THE Court of Claims, in session 'at .
v Yashiugton, II. c., the other day, rendered .
Judgment for So, $50 in favor OF the eXecrors .
u James Green for the use Of the Mansion .
House. at AleNandrja, Va, during the war.
The death of Bernard Doran, at the .
uge OF one hundred aud ten
ears. occurred in New York City a few
lays ago. It was said his father lived TO Le
mo hundred and four years old.
A rLACAED was posted in st. Peters
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