The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-16

MICHAEL DANNER, station agent fol
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail
road at Marseilles, ILL.,, was arrested a few
days ago on a charge of embezzling Odd
Fellows funds in New York ten years ago.
Ar Omaha, Neb., a painter named
Husser fell from a tower which he was
painting the other morning distance Of
one hundred and twenty-five feet, and lived
five minutes after he was picked up.
In the trial of Featherstone, Deasy,
Flanagan and Dalton, the dynamite con-
spirators, at Liverpool, Eng, the jury on
the 9th found the prisoners guilty and each
was sentenced to penal servitude for life
THE cotton factory of E. L. q a.
Gerst, the tobacco warehouse of S. H. Hol-
land & Co., the tobacco factory of Hale,
Hickey & Oyer, the tobacco factory of
w. F.. Low & Co., and several outhouse5 at
Danville, Va, were destroyed by fire on
the 9th. The estimated loss was $3.50, 200 /;
insurance, $4,000.
PICKPoGKETs are reported to have
reaped a rich harvest during the recent re-
union at Springfield, Mo-, quite a number
of persons in attendance there having lost
their valuables in the crowd.
MORTTz SHARFF, the boy who was
principal witness against the defendants in
the celebrated Jewish murder trial in Hum
gary, has confessed that his testimony was
false. Rioting against the Jews at Pesth
proceeded to such lengths on the 9th that
the Government picketed the streets with
soldiers.
WHILE five employees of a steel man.
ufacturing establishment at Pittsburgh,
Pa, were taking stock in the warehouse tho
other day rack supporting 500 tons OF
steel gave way, burying Charles Oshman
and Robert Shernitz under the ruins and
/ slightly injuring the three others. Oshman
was killed instantly and Shernitz would
probably die.
! A PRESBYTERIAN clergyman named
Sweet cut his throat and jumped overheard
4 from the steamship Manitoba in the straits
/ of Belle Isle few days ago.
/ THE liabilities of Charles w. Cope.
| land & Co., of Boston, Mass, who failed
recently, are s. 101 800; assets, 81 ,603,7O0, OF
which $616,7O0 is a claim against Shaw
! Bros. of the same city.
! A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Massillon, O., the other day, and the en-,
| gineer and fireman both killed.
/ The cable announces that floods are
4 feared in Egypt, owing to an unusually
rapid rise in the Nile.
The schooner E. G. Irwin was seized
at Richmond, Va, few days ago for vio-
lation of the neutrality laws. She had on
| board two cannOns, boxes of ammunition
and large numbers of carbines and pistols
/ One of the crew stated that for two days al
sea she lay to and signaled for another yes
sci, which failed to appear.
A RECENT fire in Baltimore, Md.
swept off a tinware factory, synagogue
and twenty houses, causing a loss of 5000
/ The Shenango machine-shop at Sharon, o.
was also burned.
THE Irish infOrmers who were refused
permission to land at Melbourne, Austria
liza, recently, because of the alleged discov
cry of a plot to murder them, have beer
transferred to a British iron clad
THE Ohio Liquor Dealers Protective
Association met in convention at Toledo OF
the 9th to organize for the fall political
campaign.
THE Maryland Republicans viii hold
their State Convention at Baltimore, Sep
tember %.
Mrs. G. E. LITTLE, of Indianapolis
Ind, who recovered her reason after con
finement in a lunatic asylum for twenty
seven years, has brought suit for possession
of real estate in that city, now divided
between thirty three owners.