The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-17
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

AT Dallas, Tex, on the 9TH Simon
Wilson was sentenced TO sixty-seven years
imprisonment for murder.
AT Oxford, Miss, ). M. Thompson,
editor Of the Eagle was shot dead on the
Sth while resisting arrest by the City Mar
THREE men were killed and one Sc
.vcrely Injured While defending the Casta
Ranch, in sonora, n. NJ, from a recent at
tack by Indians.
CnIEF NyAUE, of the Pemberton
Square police, Boston, Mass, shot in
two places few days agob by crank named
Brennan.
IN terrific affray at Cornishville,
Mercer County, KY, the other day Daniel
Shoemaker killed man named Long, a
travelling salesman, and was himself NOR
tally wounded.
Ir was reported on the Sth that the
busincss part of the town of Forney, in
Kaufman County, Tex, was almost entire
" destroyed by an incendiary fire, the loss
being estimated at $4,000.
jim HERNDoN, one of the Little Rock
a Fort Smith train-robbcrs, has been con
victed of murder in the first degree at
Clarksville, Johnson County, Ark.
WILLIAM HUGHES, found guilty on
wa, hanged on the 9th ct st. John, n. B.
A SAD accident occurred at Il fire in a
livery stable at New Haven, Conn, the
othor night. After the fire extinguished
wall fell on the hose company and two Of
them were so severely injured it was
thought they would die, while six others
were more or less badly wounded.
AT Dublin, Ireland, on the 9th the
third triul Of Timothy Kelly, charged with
participation in the murder of Cavendisl
and Burke, was concluded. The jury fount
p verdict of guilty against the prisoner ant
he was sentenced TO be hanged July ..
BY the burning of Grimes ~ Co.i
mill at Vermontville, ten miles north o
Charlotte, Mich, the other morning, two O
three men, including the proprietor, wer
burned to death.
The Union Depot at Cedar Rapids
To-, was struck by lightning the other after
noon and fired, the flames rapidly spread
ing to all parts of the building, but wer
subdued before destroying it entirely.
A FIRE at indianapolis, Ind, on tn
9TH destroyed the Indianapolis Stov
Works, one hotel and seven residences, e
pethera with stables and outbuildings.
Mrs BROwNELL undertook to ligh
her fire with kerosene, at Omaha, Nebr., tn
was fatally burned, while her four sma
children were rescued with difficulty b
neighbors.
An engine, tender and six freight cal
on the milwaukee, q St. Paul Road wei
over bridge near LanoilIe, Wis, u
other tlny and Engineer Ferguson VIZ
drowned.
THE Standard Oil Company's worl
at Jersey City, \. J., were struck 10y ligh
ming on the Ilth, and tanks, building
hargcs, ears and docks were burned. Sc
eral lives were lost and the damage
property exceeded S1,OO0,oo0.
BY bluuder of +. I. Green, pr
scription clerk at the City Hospital, S
Louis, Mo, tie other day, Dan Kelleho
Amadee Jones and Joseph Stattinger we
poisoned with chIoral. Kelleher and StS
finger died.
JOSEPH MULLErT was sentenced
penal servitude FOR life on the 10th for &C
Spiracv to murder Juror Field in Dubli
ireland.
DURING a severe storm at La Cross
Wis, the other afternoon lightning stru
the house Of James Eagan, severely if I
fatally injuring Mrs Eagan, and in i
degree her daughter, aged thirteen. At n
York on the same day the sash and bli
factory of Bradley & Currier was stru
and fired, the loss being $4,000.
AT Pittsburgh, Fa., on the 10th Wa
McConkey was hanged for the murder
George A. Mcclure in Dead Mans Hollc
near McKcesport, on the night of Aug
., 1881.
FRENCH bridegroom was shot by
Jealous rival while the wedding party v
near the church in Paris a few days a
The assassin committed suicide.
BURGLARS forced their way into
private bank at Vassar, Mich, the otl
night and carried off S4,1o0 in gold d
silver.