The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-06-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

been ordered to take command of the Nor
folk (Va.) navy yard in place of COmmo-
dore Mayo, who is under charges preferred
by ex-Congressman Dezendorf.
THREE MEN were cited before
United States Commissioner at Galveston,
Tex, few days ago, charged with kuklux-
ing a colored man who was a witness in an
election case.
IN the new Lower California gold
diggings, about a league from the old
Stagertrulies, several nuggets of gold nine
ounces in weight have been found lately.
PARNELL viii start on his proposed
trip to America about the middle Of Sep
tember.
IN a quarrel about clothes-Iine at
New York, few days ago, Frank Rade-
macher was probably fatally shot by Emil
Hollender.
THE body of Isaac Lehman, one of
two cousins and successful button makers,
who somysteriOusly disappeared from New
York at the beginning of the present year,
was found in North River few days ago.
A FALLEN tree derailed a passenger
train on the Baltimore & Ohio Road near
Grafton, o., on the 18th. The engineer and
baggageman were badly hurt.
AT Cincinnati, o., the other day,
Alderman John Kelly shot and fatally
wounded James Toal at a fire engine house.
Toal came up laughing and exchanged hats
with Kelly, who Immediately acted as if
insulted, and drew revolver and fired.
Kelly had been an Alderman number of
years.
WHILE moving a car at the Port
Henry Iron Ore Company's bed at Nine
vile, n. Y, the other morning. a platform
gave away and fell about fifty feet, killing
Conrad Winslow and Edward Lyons, and
severely injuring Patrick Hogan.
AT the Iowa State University COM
mencement at Iowa City, on the 10Th, the
exercises were interrupted by violent dem
onstrations from members of the senior
class, who were displeased at the award of
honors by the faculty.
CABELL, the colOred detective, was
mobbed and shot in the leg the other day at
Catlettsburg, KY, after he had testified in
the Craft murder case.
THE developments in the recent cler-
ical shooting affair in Mansfield, La, indi-
Gated on the 10Th that BENZ. Jenkins was la
boring under a mistaken idea when he
killed Rev. Borden.
SPONTANEOUS combustion caused the
destruction of a flour mill and two private
residences valued at $4,000 at Sandusky,
o., the other day. Twenty-Five other build
ings caught fire, but the flames were ex-
tinguished.
JOHN DEvOY, editor of the I11sh Ma
tiOn, N V, has been sentenced to sixty
days imprisonment in the peniteEtiary for
libeling August Belmont, in charging a mis-
appropriation of an Irish fund.
AT indianapolis, Ind, James A.
Vaughn, a defaulting clerk of the American
| Express Company, was the other day found
guilty and his punishment was assessed at
two years. Imprisonment.
WONG CHING Foo, editor of the
/ Chinese AmcricdH, has been sent to Jail at
! New York on charge of libel brought
! against him by Chan Pond Tipp. Plaintiff
was referred to in FoO's paper a Grim
i inal and thief, and wants $4,000 damages.
/ FIVE men were committed for trial
/ at Tralec, Ireland, the other day ,on charges
| of murder.
Two men were killed by a railway
| smashup near Albany, n. Y, a few days
! ago.
THE police of Milwaukee, Wis, were
! looking for c. G. Synod, few days ago,
who had eloped with his brothers. wife and
! poclIet-boOk.
FIRE broke out in woOd-stOre at
Lyons, France, the other evening and soon
covered two acres. Forty railway cars
were burned. Train service between Ly.
ons ana Geneva was interfered with,
FIRE destroyed the greater part OF
the town of Grants Station, Ore, on the
10Th. Loss. $4,000.
SENATOR HAMPTON delivered an adj
dress at the dedication of a monument tc
| Confederate dead at Camden, S. c., on the
Goth.
DIR. ISAAC HATHAWAY, of Philadel-
phia, was arrested on a charge of assault, 8
/ few days ago, and in the cellar of his house
were found the skeletons of more thar
twenty infants that had doubtless beer
brought into the world by criminal mai
practice.
THE boiler in a machine-shop at Min.
neapolis, Mimi, exploded the other morn
ing, owing to poor construction, and killed
William Sunburn, twelve-year-old boy.
SAMUEL CARTER, as an alleged pen
sion claim agent of Louisville, Ky, wa,
arrested the other day on a charge of con
spring to defraud the Government. H,
was said to have secured a 81 900 pension
for Emily Johnson and good rich fee fol
himself by swearing Emily was her owl
| nOUneT. carter was committed III OeIaul
of bail.
WESLEY WARREN, colored, who wa.
under arrest at Prospect, small town sew
enty-five miles south of Nashville, Tenn.
on the charge of having murdered james
Price, of the same place, was lynched OF
the night of the 20th by party of unknown
men.
AT Campbellford, Ont, few day
ago, a young woman named Kessler, re
turning with her husband from the minis
ter's where they had just been married, WA
pitched out of the buggy by the horses run
ming away and instantly killed.
THE residence of Ezekiel NJ. Patter
son, at New Brunswick, n. J., was robbed
of $4,000 i'll bonds and gold, a few day
ago, during the absence of the family.
SAN Francisco, Cal, had a fire OF
the 20th inst, which was reported to hav,
destroyed half million dollars worth O
property.
AN extension of three years has beer
granted to Graf, Bennett & Co., of Pitts
burg, Pa, whose failure was announce,
the other day, on condition that they pa,
/ forty per cent. in six mouths.
A MISPLACED switch caused train I,
be thrown from the track at Minneapolis
Mimi, the other day, by which the engi
neer and baggageman were killed and
brakeman was seriously wounded. Tn
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