The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-01-25

THE ice sunk a tug in the James
River at Petersburg, Va, the otherday.
FIVE persons were burned to death
by fire in a London, Eng, tenement.
FIVE children Of man named GrOe-
stick, living at Dubuque, Iowa, were the
other day attacked by a disease called
laryngael diphtheria, which it was said no
medical treatment was able to overcome.
Three OF the children had died and the other
two were not expected to live.
SHAW, who was Cashier of the sus-
pended City Bank Of Jersey City, \. j., being
unable to secure so, 900 bail, was recently
placed in jail. Other persons implicated
were about to be arrested.
A MAN in the uniform Of a general
officer a few days ago penetrated TO a room
in St. Petersburg, Russia, where secret mil
itary plans were kept, and had nearly fin
ished copying one when arrested.
A BROKEN rail ditched train near
MapIeson, H., the other day. The fireman
was killed and the engineer was severely in
jured.
THOMAS HIGGINS and Michael Flynn
were hanged at Galway, Ireland, on the 18th
for completely in the Huddys murder.
On the 18th indictments had been
found by the Washington, d. c., Grand
Jury against three persons charged with
corrupty endeayoring to influence star
route juror.
Mrs. J. HAWK was burned to death
at Westervlle, o., recently by her clothes
taking fire from a cook-stoye about which
she was working.
In Henry County, o., the other day
timberman named Kline, aged twenty
two, was caught by tree which he was
telling and instantly killed
AN entire block of business buildings
at Macarthur, o., was on the 18th destroyed
by fire.
/ A FIRE in TweddIe hall block in AL
bauy, y. Y, which contained an opera
4 house, a bank, and ten stores, caused a loss
I OF 1906, 600 il few days ago. Erastus Corn
I ing's residence was saved by the determined
/ efforts Of citizens.
/ NICHOLAS FELIX, an inmate of a
charitable institution at Allegheny CITY, Pa.
commenced last July to starve to death, and
mpleted his labors few days ago. Small
quantities of milk and whisky had been reg
ularly forced down his throat.
A TELEGRAM from London, Eng, on
the nth stated that the steam ,hip Helvetia,
New York to Queenstown, lost her fourth
officer overheard. An American bark had
two men washed away. The ship Undine
had arrived at Colombo, Ceylon, and re-
ported eight Of her crew drowned.
A BROKEN rail on the Midland Branch
Of the Chicago & Northwestern Road, twelve
miles north OF Clinton, Iowa, the other
night threw two cars down a twenty-fOot
/ enbankment, killing brakeman and injur
ing the conductor and nineteen passengers.
AT Tralee, Ireland, on the 18th, the
local workmeu refused to erect a scat
fold for the execution OF Rolf and Barrett,
sentenced to be hung for the murder O1
Thomas Brown. Upon the arrival OF Mar
wood, the eXecutioner, at Limerick, en-
route to Tralee, the police had great difli-
Guilty in protecting him from the crowd.
JAMES RYAN, in passing a fly-wheel
in the .IItna Mills at Wheeling, w. Va, the
other day, had his foot caught in the cogs
and his LEG was crushed off up to the thigh.
He died in a few hours.
JOHN Koch and wife, three days in
this country, were missing in New Yorb
City a few days ago. They had considerable
money when they left the house Of a friend
Their three children were with friends.
JOHN II. MOORE, Ferry-master, II
the employ OF the New York Ferry Company
at New ork City, was arrested a few day!
ago on a charge Of embezzling about $40, ,OOC
from the company.
Two more bodies were recovered from
the ruins OF the Newhall House at Miiwau.
kee, Wis, on the 18th, making forty-fiv,
who had been recovered from the ruins anC
sixty four dead in all.
2 THE village of Marais, Switzerland
: was the other day destroyed by great lanC
slide.
THREE persons were killed and sew
/ eral others were badly injured the other da,
} by the explosion of a locomotive at Mans
field, La.
) IT was reported from Seattle, w. T.
the other day that seven persons were killet
/ by the explosion of a steamer in the Skagi
River.