The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-07-26
SWAN, the man arrested at Nash

SWAIN, the man arrested at Nash
vile, Tenn, for stealing the ledger, SO fM~
pOrtant in the Polk trial, has confessed he
took it at the instigation OF ex-Treasurer
Polk; also, that he received S175 for the
deed.
In the Criminal Court at Washington,
D. c., on the 18th, Judge Wylie dismissed
the pleas in abatement filed against the
star-route Indictment in the Kellogg case.
A motion to quash was filed.
In an affray at Toyah, Tex, on the
18th, between the cowboys and State Rang
ers, one of the former was killed and an
other mortally wounded.
POSTMAsTERs have been notified by
the Department to make preparation for
the reduction in postage, which takes effect
October /.
SEEMING. the American student who
fought fatal duel in Germany, has been
arrested in Switzerland.
FIRE among the shipping in Brooklyn
IN. " harbor on the 18th destroyed sew
eral vessels and a pier. Twelve firemen
were badly injured, and the captain of a
vessel was drowned. 1t was thought the
loss would reach 100000.
john L. HICKMAN, ex-Supreme
Treasurer of the Catholic Knights Of Amer.
lea, has gone to Europe. Reports on the
18th made him short in his accounts all the
way from $4,000 to 100000.
THE Virginia State Republican Com
mittee has elected Congressman DezendOrf
Chairman and declared in favor of James
| G.. Blaine for President.
Four farmers were arrested near
Newry, Ireland, ON the 10Th for beating
nearly to death a man who took a farm
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! evicted.
ANDREW MERCER died in Canada,
leaving an estate worth $3.50, 900 and no
viii. 1t has been decided that the property
escheats to the Dominion Government,
which represents the crown.
Four men robbed a bank in Cold
water, Mich, in broad daylight the other
day, one creeping into the vault and secur-
ing package of jewelry before the cashier
! discovered him.
THE news of the recent assault upon
the American Consulate and wounding of
the acting Consul at Monterey, Mex, has
been confirmed.
The steamer Daphne, which sank in
launching at Glasgow, Scotland, recently,
has been foated. Twenty seven more bodies
were found.
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Venezuela have been opened to a connection
with the Texas system.
AT Wellington, o., Marshal George
Brainard saw two suspicious characters
prowling about the street under his window
the other night, and went down and ordered
them to halt. After exchanging shots with
them he was hit in the jugular vein, and
soon expired. The nnurderers were caught
THE son of farmer named Zimmer,
living near Milwaukee, Wis, lost a leg a
few days ago while hiding in the grass to
surprise his father, who was driving a
mower.
EMPLOYEES in the Bessemer. Steel
Works, at Chicago, Ill, presented a de
mand to the company on the 10Th for a
change from work by the day to work by
the ton. The company refused the demand
and 1900 men struck.
THE funeral of Tom Thumb took
place at Bridgeport, Conn, on the 10Th with
Masonic ceremonies. Fully ten thousand
people viewed the remains.
THE wedding of Sir Charles Michael
Woolseley, Baronet, and Miss Anita The
resa Murphy, daughter of D. T. Murphy, OF
San Francisco, Cal, occurred at Kensing
ton, Eng, on the 10th. Minister Lowell
witnessed the ceremony.