The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-07-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

after which she took the knife from him
and drove him of.
WILLIAM II. SEAMAN, thought to be
insane, of Thragg's Neck, Westchester
County, N. Y, killed his sister and himself
the other night.
MCGEOCH, the Chicago Cll.) provis-
ion dealer who failed recently, has offered
TO pay his creditors fifty cents on the dol
lar. All creditors must accept, and all
suits, attachments, etc, be withdrawn, or
the proposition is void. The unsecured
liabilities of the firm were placed at Sl,344,-
9I1.21.
The public debt was reduced $18,-
O9S,2O1 during June.
AN appeal has been made by the
Bartholdi statue committee to the people of
the nation for funds for pedestal.
Two children were killed and some
twenty wounded in panic which occurred
during temperance fete at Sheffield, Eng,
the other day. There were thousands of
children on the grounds and number of
them climbed upon a dray, when the horse
became frightened and ran away, causing
the panic.
THE Brooks Locomotive-works at
Dunkirk, New York, which have been kept
running night and day for three years,
have recently discharged $50 workmen be-
cause of a decrease in orders.
JOHN MARTIN, Mayor of Maysville,
| Colo, used four bullets in killing Dick Ba-
ker for shooting into several buildings the
other day.
On the Western Indiana track at
Forty-frst street, Chicago, H., the other
evening, a Wabash train crushed a stock
yards street-car into fragments. Twelve
persons were seriously injured, three or
more of them fatally.
A FLEET of fifty-six boats left Bay
City, Mich, the other afternoon, carrying
23,OO0,0OO feet Of lumber for eastern ports.
THREE deaths from malignant diph-
liberia occurred in the family of James Nor
| rison, at Muscatine, Iowa, the other day,
with two more children PROSTATE. Two
children of John New, at Elkhart, Indiana,
died from the same cause, and five others
and their mother were fatally i'll.
AN express and a way train collided
near the tunnel in Hartford, Conn, on the
1st. Mrs. George D. Parks, of New York,
had a jaw broken, and Mrs. Martin, of Tar
ifviile, was injured in the ribs. An engi-
! neer and two brakemen were also hurt, and
both engines were wrecked.
AGNES L. WYNNE, aged nineteen
years, was probably fatally shot by her
eighteen-year-old husband at Brooklyn, N.
Y, few days ago. They were married
eighteen months ago and had one child
three months old.
JOHN H. DREW, employed in a fur
house in Boston, Mass, has confessed hav-
ing stolen and secreted $4,000 worth of
furs within the past six weeks. The prop
erty was recovered.
CAPTAIN /. NJ. COLE, one of the Su-
pervisors of Vicksburg, Miss, was found
murdered in the suburbs of that city few
days ago.
a NEGRO named Martin Jones was
hanged by mob near S1ipwith, Miss, OF
the Sd. 1t was claimed he confessed the
murder of Mrs. Christian Ambacher, whose
dead body was found ten feet from hel
back door with her skull fractured.
THE Pennsylvania Senate has passed
a resolution asking Congress to make th'
, trade dollar legal tender.
EIGHT THOUSAND English iron-wOrker
were on strike against reduction o
: wages in South Staffordshire and Eas
Worcestershire on the 4th.
For the twenty-fOur hours ended a
eight O'Clock on the 4th, there were one hun
, dred and twenty-five deaths from choleri
at Damietta, and forty-three at other point
in Egypt.
! HENRY WICKEs, a gray-haired law
yer Of Albany, N. Y, has been discovere,
to be an embezzler to the extent of $4,000
/ His client, Mrs. Catherine Van Rensselaer,
n was the loser.
i: THE graduating cadets of the Virgins
: Military Institute received their diploma
o from President Arthur in New York on tn
5 4th.
AwAGoN in which were Henry Krack
= and his family-six persons-was struc
by a train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton
u Dayton Railroad, near Cincinnati, o., tn
= other night, and the entire family wa
= instantly killed.
; A NUMBER of people were injured b.
the explosion of the boilers of the steame
Susquehanna, at the Wlkesbarre PA
) wharf the other day. Nobody was killed
e but the boat was demolished.
Ie The arbitrator to whom the trades
Ie tribunal referred the question of miners
'e wages at Pittsburgh, Pa, has fixed tn
y price at three and quarter cents bushe
r. RABBI SCHULZ, of Dallas, Tex
whose character had been under investig'
=, tion, was the other day declared not guilt
:, of charges preferred against him.
- JAMES +. JONES has been electe
! to Congress from the First Alabama Di
to trict.
A. HANLoN, the oarsman, won anothe
Is victory on the 4th, at Lowell, Mass.
ONE of the most remarkable suicide
=; on record was that of Hunter Jameson
=, Skipwith, Miss, a few days ago. +
- placed the muzzle of a gun against h
~ head and compelled his little child to pu
- the trigger.
OVER hundred wild Pawnee Ind
:, ans INDUCED in a dance of death at Bill
Creek, 1. T., the other night. 1t was b
ball and broke up in row in which tv
n Indians were killed.
ed CUsrER's last battlefield is to
on marked by a granite monument. The sha
al has been shipped from Montello, Wis,
al its final destination.
THE Georgia Legislature convene
OF and organized at Atlanta on the 4th. T.
x officers were all present.
&c On a steep railway grade at HuddeT
field, Eng, the other day, defective bra
&c caused q coach to capsize, by which tv
- persons were killed outright and thir
- more or less injured.
~ FRANK GUM, a carpenter, died of su
Ar. stroke in indianapolis, Ind, on the
ON Several men were prostrated in the ire
en- mills at Pittsburgh, Pa, and two perso