The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-06-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


ten persons were confined on a charge of
murder.
ROBERT WRIGHT, the Michigan wrest-
Ter, was fatally shot in Bay City, the other
day, in a quarrel
AT Schuylerville, n. Y, the other day
Nicholas Vanderburgh descended into q we'll
to rescue a laborer overcome by gas. Van
derburgh was suffocated. His wife went TO
his assistance and she also perished.
THE extra guard upon the Parliament
buildings at Ottawa, Ont, has been discon-
tinued.
THE widow of Walter Davis, the man
whom Congressman Phil B. Thompson, Jr..
killed at Harrodsburg, KY, recently, has
published letter which was found in her
husbands pocket after he had been killed,
in which, addressing Thompson, he assured
him there was no basis for the charges
against Mrs. Thompson and himself.
Davis, his widow says, assured her none of
the ThOmpsons believed the allegations to
be true.
AT Cedar Hill, in Jefferson County,
No., Hiram Sullens shot Emil Deruntz and
Miss Martha Mcdaniel the other afternoon
and then emptied the contents of a double
barrelIed shotgun in his own body. Miss
Mcdaniel may survive. Jealousy was the
inspiring cause.
ARGUMENT on the Scott liquor law is
to be heard by the Ohio Supreme Court,
June 7.
A BRrrtsH war sloop has sailed for
Madagascar.
THE Suez Company has agreed with
the English Government as to the terms of
making the second canal.
Form Nom bnT-c IF ho RlocLv
Society, Xeres, Spain, charged with the
murder of publican, have been sentenced
to death.
THE English stockholders of the
Mexican Central Railroad accuse the EIexi-
can Government ofviolating subsidy agree
ments.
The American bark Stonewall Jack
son was wrecked on the English coast
few days ago. The crew were saved.
Up to the 29th ult., the internal reve-
nue. receipts of the Government for the
current fiscal year had been S134, 400, 900. 1t
was estimated that by the 1st of June they
would reach nearly 81 100000 in excess of
the receipts for the corresponding eleven
months last year.
THREE railroad laborers were killed
by a landslide at Conshohocken, Pa, a few
days ago.
EX-ALDERMAN JOHN GEIGER and wife
were drowned during a Fain-storm the other
night near Cincinnati. They attempted to
drive under a railroad culvert through
which a swollen stream was running.
CAPITAL punishment has been re-
stored in Zurich, Switzerland.
THE English Colonial Secretary re-
fuses to allow the annexation of New
Guinea by Queensland.
Fort SMITH, Ark, was visited by
a terrific storm on the 29th. hotel was
unroofed, fences were blown down and con-
siderable damage caused in the suburbs.
A PREACHER named Byerd was tarred
and feathered in Franklin, Neb., few days
ago for whipping his daughter.
AT a base ball match at Waterbury,
Conn, the other day the grand stand was
crowded. 1t gave way, and Otto Castrap
was seriously injured and several other
persons were slightly hurt.
THE most disastrous fire that ever
visited Lynchburg, Va, broke out in that
place on the Both ult. 1t was got under
control after raging two hours and de-
stroying property to the amount of over
three hundred thousand dollars, including
the Daily FjrgiBjaR Office. Five men were
buried under falling walls and instantly
killed.
~ The steamboat Jack Gumbert, plying
between McKeesport and Elizabeth, Pa,
struck rock on the river, four miles from
McKeespOTt, the other morning, and sank
in a few minutes. About a dozen passen-
gers were on board at the time, but all were
rescued.
REV. FATHER De BLIECK, one of the
best known Jesuit educators in this coun-
try, died the other day at Chicago, Ill, of
cancer.
THE tide of Chinese migration has
turned from California to British Columbia
in earnest. Hordes of the Mongols are go
ing there.
THERE is reported so great falling
off in the contributions of Peters pence
that an appeal will be issued on behalf of
the Pope.
AN explosion occurred in the gas
works at Fort Wayne, Ind, the other day
and John NJ. Wort, for twenty years fore
man of the works, was probably fatally in
jured. A teamster was also severely hurt
and the building was blown to atoms.
The Neosho Valley Press Association
was in session at Chanute, Kans., on the
Both ult.
THE yacht Skylight capsized in the
harbor at Boston, Mass, the other afternoon
and six persons were drowned.
The centenary of the organization of
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Mary
land was celebrated few days ago at Bal
timore.
A FUND is being collected by French
Canadians of Montreal for the benefit of
the widow of De Lorimer, who was hanged
in 1887 for participating in the rebellion of
that year.
A TEACHER in a Catholic parochial
school at Cleveland has been charged with
having beaten one of the pupils so severely,
a year ago. that he will be cripple for life.
FRANCE disclaims any intention of an
nexing Tonquin, the projected expedition
being undertaken merely for the purpose
of upholding treaty rights.
THE Pennsylvania State Convention
of the Prohibition Home Protection party,
in session at Pittsburg, Pa, has nominated
Ira E. Howard for State Treasurer and John
r.. Fordham for Auditor General. The Con-
vention adopted a platform favoring the
principles enunciated in the platform of
the National Prohibition Home Protection
party.
JAMES FLETCHER, of Iowa, has been
appointed United States Consul to Genoa,