The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-09
PERsONAL AND GENERAL.

building was damaged Dy wafer 10 SUCH al /
extent that business had to be suspended.
ONE hundred and eighty houses
were destroyed by recent fire which oc-
CURED in the Russian town of SemenOv.
FIRE DESTROYED half of one of the
finest blocks Of business buildings in Min
neapolis, Mimi, the other evening, causing
a loss Of $4,000
AN ex-pOliceman and confederate,
who tried to rob a man a few days ago in
Jersey City, n. J., have been sentenced to
ten years. imprisonment
A FIRE at Tulaire, Cal, the other
night destroyed property of the estimated
value of $4,000; insurance 100000.
A CONVICTED murderer in Pennsyl-
vania had not eaten for five days up to the
Both ult He would starve rather than
hnng.
The stagefrom Helena to Deer Lodge,
Mont, was stopped by road agents few
! days ago, who cleaned out the treasure-box,
mails and passengers.
GLROY, Cal, reported two shocks of
! earthquake there on the 30th ult. Rum
I bling sounds were distinctly heard.
SOME workmen digging gravel in the
vicinity of the Cincinnati Southern Depot
in Cincinnati, o., the other morning dis
covered the body of a young man who was
lost there last February at the time the
food swept away portion of the depot.
MISS NELLIE ARTHUR, daughter of
the President, is taking a trip along the
Atlantic coast on the United States steamer
Dispatch.
AT Bellevue, o., fifty employees of the
Nickel Plate Road burned an editor in
efigy the other day because he had abused
them in print.
LENNIRG, the German-American stu
dent arrested in Switzerland for killing a
| fellow-student in a duel near Wurzburg,
Germany, was released from custody, the
Swiss authorities holding his offense was
not extraditable.
THE management of the Rome, Wa
tertown g. Ogdensburg Railroad has been
severely criticised for the recent accident
which resulted in the death of nineteen
persons.
A POSSE in Arkansas pursuing the
outlaws from Montgomery, Yell and Gar
land Counties came up with the Daniels
brothers in the mountains of Perry County
on the 30th In the fight which ensued,
two of the pursuers were killed and the
desperadoes escaped.
The extensive stables belonging to
the Gordon House at Orangeville, Ont,
were destroyed by fire the other night. The
celebrated trotting horses General Bramish
and Highland, Jr., with several other valu-
able animals, perished; loss, $4,000.
THE Massachusetts Republicans will
hold their State Convention in Boston Sept.
10.
THE telegraph strike exhibited no
new feature on the 31st Tampering with
wires was reported in New York. Business
in st. Louis was still accepted subject to
delay. The strikers remained firm.
DISPATCHES from Hot Springs, Ark,
on the 31st said that the posse which had q
fight with the desperadoes in Perry County
was led into ambuscade by a farmer
! named Coker, and that the survivors of the
I posse had hung Col1er to tree. The posse
was still in pursuit of the outlaws.
t IN an affray at Brooklyn, H., a small
t negro settlement opposite st. Louis, Henry
S Green, the Town Marshal, and Macy Jones
Y a negro, were both fatally shot.
THE customs receipts for the pas
month were 81 100000 greater than for July
of last year.
= GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS delivered
- the annual address before the Civil-servic
. Reform Association, in session at Newport
:, r. l., on the 1st,
. In consequence of losses of rem
=. through the operations of the land act, Iris
>, landlords have asked the Government t
"a adopt measures for relief.
y Four HUNDRED labOrers on the Pitts
n burgh, McKeesport s. Youghiogheny Rail
road, in course of construction, struck o
the 1st againsta reduction Of wages of fror
3 fifteen to twenty-five cents day. Abou
st 900 were still working, but it was though
4 they would strike also.
IS In a prize fight, near Chicago, Ill
% the other day, one of the contestants
N named O'Connor, had his arm broken.
"a THE Louisville, KY, Expositio
" opened on the 1st with an immense crow
: in attendance from all parts Of the country
:, including President Arthur and man
other distinguished persons.
THE cable announces that official
s. of German universities are preparin
IN severe measures against duelling.
or THE executive Council of the Iris
it. National Land League of America was
OF session on the 1st in New York.
}. NINE inmates of the Soldiers HON
= at Dayton, o., were the other day expeue
y at the point of the bayonet by order of Il
II Governor, acting under instructions of IL
}, Board of Managers. The charge again
no them were drunkenness and jumping tt
fence and leaving without permission.
to DAVID HALL, manager of the tel
he graph office at Galveston, Tex, had tv
re- striking operators arraigned before Il
in Recorder for assault the other day, but WI
nd compelled to pay the costs. For questio
i'm ing the decision he was fined twenty-fi7
,or dollars and ordered TO jail for one day. I
at then used profane language, and the sc
lie tence was duplicated. For refusing to ta
he off his hat he got a third dose, and w
nd placed behind the bars.
tic THE funeral of Thomas Hoyne,
art prominent and wealthy citizen of Chicag
nd ILL.,, which took place in that city on t
3lst, was attended by scores of the repl
sentative citizens of Chicago. Mr.. Hoy
zoe was one of the victims of the recent ter
us BILE railroad accident at Carlyon, N. Y.
III A LARGE building, used as a man
- factory of velvets, at Berlin, German
.- was destroyed by fire the other nigl
Three fremen were killed by falling wal
-, The monthly statement shows "a
Of the decrease in the public debt during
hoe month of July was S7,90o,59o The debt
- August 1, less cash in the Treasury, W
me 81 ,543, ,190,616
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