The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-03-08
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A SISTER of Senator Sharon endcav-
ored to kill herself with penknife recently
in a bath-roo OF the Palace Hotel at San
Francisco, Cal.
Two masked robbers plundered a
farmhouse OF s, ,2J0 the other night near
New COmerstown, ..
THE Mississippi River had fallen three
inches at Cairo on the 2Sth, and the news
from below was reassuring. The worst was
thought to be over at Shawneetown, but the
town presented an awful scene OF desOIatiOn.
m one addition four solid blocks Of dwell
ings had entirely disappeared. The Pres
byterIan Church floated a mile away. Sew
eral mills and business houses were entirely
gone. The principal merchant in Black
burn, KY, had a $l2, 600 stock OF dry goods
on a barge tied 10 a tree. The villages Of
blackburn and Raleigh had both been near
~ wiped out. over one hundred houses in
these places were gone. At Columbus,
KY, over ten feet of water was spread over
the town and filed nearly all the stores.
Belmont, Mo-, opposite Columbus, was also
a watery waste, every foot OF ground be-
ing under water from ten to twenty five
feet.
Moan d. SMITH pleaded guilty at
Memphis, Tom, the other day to charge
OF embczzling 81, 500 from the United States
Collectors Office.
A sLEIGHING party of thirty-twO per-
sons went over a forty-fOot bank into the
Delaware and Hudson canal near Hawley,
Pa, the other day. All were more or less
injured.
Another raid upon the Chicago &
Evanston Road was made at Chicago, ILL.,,
the other night by enraged property owners,
who tore up about five hundred feet of
track.
JOHN II. GRAHAM, of the firm of T..
II. Whitney & Co., of Chicago, H., Ostcn-
sibly started for Wisconsin recently TO make
purchases with IS, 600, but instead went to
New York, where he was Oyerhauled by
Doane Whitney and forced to settle.
AN earthquake startled the citizens of
Norwich, Conn, the other evening, and was
followed by brilliant meteor.
AT Rome, Italy, paper bombs charged
with powder were the other day thrown
into the courtyard Of the residence Of the
Austrian Minister, before the Austrian En-
bassv, and in front OF the royal palace Of the
Quirinal.
THE brewers of New York have as
certained recently that $40, 900 worth OF bar
rels have been annually stolen and sold out
side The city by the collusion of drivers and
coopers.
AT Lawrence, Mass, Charles II. Cate
fatally shot Mrs. NJ. 5. Anderson the other
day and then killed himself.
THREE passengers were killed out
right and three others badly hurt by the
ditching of a train on the Oregon Short
Line, twenty five miles east of Neosho
Junction, Utah, recently. The cars We're
badly wrecked.
LOUIS p. CARMAN, eX-Secretary of
this Manhattan Fire Insurance Company,
had been missing from New York several
DAYS on the 2Sth, when his accounts were
found to be $4,000 short.
The last foot of land at Arkansas
City, Ark, had disappeared under water
on the 1st. Disastrous crevasses were re
ported, though planters were still hopeful
that the overflow would not be OF great eX-
tent. At Cairo the danger was thought to
be over.
A PARTY of ranchmen surprised IN
Indian camp near chihuahua, Mex, the
other day and captured twenty five squaws
and killed ten bucks.
ROBERT Il. Cook, the Jersey City IN.
JD Savings Bank emblezzler, has been
sentenced to five years in the States Prison.
THREE gamblers exchanged about
fifteen shots on the streets of Salt Lake,
Utah, the other day, in settlement Of some
trouble originating in a gambling house in
that city, and one of the trio was seriously
wounded.
F. J. FRIED, formerly an extensive
lumber merchant at Oakland, Nebr., has alb
seconded, leaving unpaid liabilities to the
amount Of S21 900.
L. A. SHANNON, who had recently
cut quite swell in Dallas CTex.) society,
bas been arrested and taken to Waco, where
he was wanted on a charge OF theft.
THE five train robbers arrested re-
Gently, after desperate battle, for an at
tempt 10 rob a Union Pacific train near Salt
Lake. Utah, have been sentenced to the
Penftentary, Nay, Hawley and Francis for
fourteen and Earl aud jackson for twelve
years.