The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-07-17

OK the 1Osh Mr.. Blaine attended the COM
mencement exercises OF Bowdoin College
at Brunswick, Ne, made a speech and held
a reception.
OK the 10th Sanville, editor-in-chief Of
Trait d. Union of Mexico, an1 who was
banished from that Republic as "a perni-
cious foreigner" landed at New York.
CONTROLLER CANNON has directed that
an assessment of IO) per cent. be levied on
the shareholders OF the Marine National
Bank Of New York.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made by the
Independent Republicans OF Boston, who
oppose Blaine's nomination, for a general
conference OF Independents so soon as the
Democratic nominations shall have been
made. 1t will probably be held in New
York.
JOHN BRIGHT hopes the powers of the
British Lords will be curtailed. He will
join the reform agitation.
On the eth Prince Albert of Sweden mar
rowly escaped drowning by the wrecking
Of his yacht. The crew were drowned.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE remains of man supposed to be
W. L. King, of Florence, Kas., or j. B.
Smith, of Memphis, Mo-, was taken from
the river at Keokuk, Ia, on the 9Th.
A YOUNG woman named Gertie Phillips
Of Alliance, o., was found dead in a grove
at that place on the 5,h with a bullet hole
i'm her head. Two well-known young men
are in custody awaiting developments.
HUMPHREY JACKSON, while standing on
the street in st. Louis on the 9th, was
struck In the face by a bullet from an un-
known source. The wound was a painful
one, but not dangerous.
ON the 7Ch the steamship Lincoln City,
on it first passage, ran ashore during a
dense fog near Isaacs Harbor, on the
Nova Scotia coast.
FIRE damaged A. c. Toof & Co.'s print
ing house at Memphis, Tenn, to the extent
ot 200 on the n. Fully insured.
Two Detroit (Mich.) girls went boating
in the river with two young men from
Sandwich. One of the girls and the men
were drowned.
| OK the night Of the 7th Commodore Shu-
feldGs summer residence at Oconomowoc,
! Wis, was robbed of 81 900 W orth of silver
ware. The Commodore is a resident of
| Chicago.
PAT O'MEARA, of Fau Greek, Wis, re-
| fused to treat party in saloon, when he
1 was beaten to death with billiard cues by
three sons of prominent German farmers.
/ Threats of lynching were heard.
! ON the Sth VIM. T. McClelland, a prom.
/ inent young Pittsburgh man, attempted
TO commit suicide, first by jumping into
tho river, then with knife, and tried to
shoot the officers who rescued him.
HENRY SUMMERS and May Whitney
were found on the sidewalk at Austin, ILL.,,
on the sth, with bullet holes in their heads.
The man, who may recover, says the girl
did the shooting, but as the pistol was in
his hand, it is thought he did the deed.
| AT Toledo, o., three lumber yards burned
on the 9th, the aggregate loss being over
S35 ,OOJ.
On the night of the ssh w. L. Lamb, one
| OF the owners of the Buckeye Tobacco
! Works at Toledo, o., was shot by a burglar
and will probably die.
ON the 9th Liddell, magistrate of Lur.
gan, Ireland, was shot at while driving
with his wife, and the latter was wound
| ed.
A NEW York salesman, named Leonard
| Davis, has been arrested for forging the
names of editors of newspapers to re-
quests for theater, railroad and steam.
boat tickets, which he sold to scalpers.
| Thre G persons have been arrested as &C
completes.
FIRE damaged the Hamilton rubber fac
tory at Trenton, n. j., $4,000 worth on
the 9th, and several firemen were hurt.
On the 10Th the interior of the royal
armory at Madrid burned; contents saved.
A YOUNG lady named Gertie Phillips,
of Salinevillc, o., who was missing since
June y, was found in the woods ON the
och with pistOl-ball hole in her head. A
party who was with her that day was ar
rested.