The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-08-09

FIRE at Danbury, Conn, the other
night destroyed the Dexter hat factory
and contents, valued at 100000. At Nc
Gregor, Iowa, a block of buildings was
swept away and ten firms, in various lines,
lost $35, 900.
SIX men were killed by collision of
freight trains on the Troy & Boston Rail-
road the other morning, near Pownal, VT.
The engines were driven into each other
and fifty cars were derailed and piled ontop
of one another. The wreckage Immediately
took fire and the bodies of the victims were
nearly consumed before they could be
taken out. The accident was caused by the
carelessness of telegraph operator, who
forgot to stop one of the trains at Peters
burg Junction.
The road agents who robbed the Deer
Lodge and Helena coach few days ago
have been arrested near Gallatin City,
Mont, and part Of the stolen property re-
covered.
THE Emperor of Germany has direct
ed that the 40Oth anniversary of Martin
Luther's birthday be celebrated in all Pro-
testant schools.
A PARTY of soldiers in Ecuador the
other day sacked village and murdered
several persons. Three of the leaders were
court-martialed and shot.
Mrs. MARY W. BLoDGETT, widely
known as a nurse in the Naval Hospital
during the war, died in Chicago, ILL.,, few
| days ago.
AT Yale, in British Columbia, $50
cases of giant powder exploded the other
day, breaking all the windows in town.
/ No one was killed.
THERE had been no rain for two
months in British Columbia up to the ID
inst. Forest fires were raging exten-
/ sively.
WILLIAM SMITH, Baltimore (Md.)
shop-keeper, having had difficulty with
his wife, the other day killed her and then
/ committed suicide.
SMALLPOX and malignant fever,
more fatal than yellow fever, was reported
on the 2d to be raging on the coast of Qua
temala. Yellow ferer was playing havoc
among foreign residents of Callao, Peru.
CHARLEY FORD, one of the slayers of
Jesse James, was arrested at Kansas City
on the I'd on an old Indictment charging
him with participation in the "Blue Cut''
| robbery.
CAPTAIN D. w. PREssELL, a white
man sixty-four years of age, was taken
from the Jail at Mayersville, Miss, where
he was confined on a charge of 'assaulting a
nine-year old girl, by mob of three hun
dred men and hung in the courthouse
yard.
The managers of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad state that two million
bushels of wheat will be sent to tidewateI
this season from Manitoba.
AT the annual Faith Convention,
which was in session at Old Orchard, Me.
on the ID, DR.. Cullis was amounting the
halt and the blind with healing oil. a Miss
Ruth King, of Rohway, n. j., had an
nounced herself cured of deafness lasting
twenty years.
Four HUNDRED employees Of the Re
public Mine at Humboldt, Mich, strucl
the other day for a restoration of twelve
and half per cent. in their wages, a Gu
having been made two months ago. Ninety
coopers in St. Louis made a demand for al
advance of two cents per barrel.
ASSIGNMENTS were made the othe
, day by Charles H. Ward & Co., shoe man
ufacturers of Boston, Mass, with liabilitie
of $750, 900, by F. L. & J. d. Phinney, boo
and shoe counter manufacturers of Bangor
Me-, with liabilities of 800 900, and b,
James McNichol, fashionable tailor of ST
= Louis, Mo. A watch company at Lancas
ter, Pa, had also suspended operations
throwing $50 men out of employment.