The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-13


Ind, Thos. Richards, a twelve-year old
boy, was fatally shot. Among other at
fractions Of the fair was a shooting gall
lery, and while Flobert gun was being /
loaded the weapon was accidentally dis |
charged, the ball striking young Richards /
Immediately over the right eye and Pene-
trating the brain.
MICHAEL CoNDoN, an indianapolis, |
Bloomington & Western employe, was met |
shortly after one O'Clock the morning of /
the 2d by a footpad near indianapolis, |
Ind, and upon refusal to surrender his !
money was shot three times, once in the
shoulder and twice in the back, one ball
passing clear through his body. His re-
ccvery was pronounced improbable.
AT Manti, Utah, Hans Ottasen, aged
about fifty, was found on the morning OF
the Sd murdered in his home.
On the evening of the 81 the steamship
Ramon dc Herrara, of the Havana line,
took fire between decks at her dock in New
/ York, and $4,000 damage was done to
vessel and cargo.
THE Knoxville coal mine, near Pitts
burgh, Pa, was burning on the Sd, having
been fired by incendiaries, and much prop
| erty had already been destroyed.
! On the Sd the towns of Myas and Ali
cante, Spain, were inundated. The floods
did great damage to property. Several
/ lives were lost.
ON the 2d an entire family, consisting of
/ David Whitmore, his wife and three chill
dren were killed by a locomotive, which
struck the wagon in which they were rid
ing to church at Maquoketa, Ia
GREAT damage to shipping interests was
occasioned by the recent gales along the
Newfoundland coast.
On the 4th freight train collided with a
frafn
| Road A brakeman was killed and several
| passengers were injured.
On election day two men were killed at
the polls in Chicago, one by United
States Deputy Marshal, notorious char
acter, known as ''Black Jack" Yattow.
In Cincinnati, o., on the 5th, Patrol Ser
geant James Dunn shot and fatally wound
ed John Shannon.
AT Roanoke, Va, on the 5th, Lizzie VIII
son, aged fourteen, was dragged into
back lot lot, and her throat was cut from
ear to ear. The murder is a mystery.
AT South Haven, Mich, ON the 9th, the
| steamer Grace Grummond burned to the
water's edge.
FIRE destroyed the Opera-house at
Cory, Pa, on the 9Th, together with the
| Telegraph printing Office and Raymond's
carriage factory. Loss, 100000.
, A NEwsBoY named BERTHE Kain, aged
ten, was shot and killed in Cincinnati
ON the 5th by Thomas Mccormack, aged
fourteen, with pistol he did not know was
loaded.
A FRENCH Canadian weaver named
George Chagnon was killed and several
? persons were injured by the bursting of a
dy-wheel of the engine in the Wauregan
) Mills at Providence, r. l., on the 9Th.
e ON the 9th the body of Andrew Marshal,
/ FIr,E Of RrfE
America at Montreal, was found floating
in the st. Lawrence River opposite the
city. The affair presented mysterious as
poets.
FIRE destroyed Grohmer's stables in Car
e rollton, Ind, early on the morning of the
S 6th. Thirteen valuable horses were con-
S sumed, and several others fatally burned
e The loss is very heavy.
"a ON the evening of the 9TH George Al
q bert, a desperate criminal of Shelbyville
5 Ind, was shot dead at his house by JohI
e Renner, of Connersville. Renner gave
himself up and pleaded self-defense. Al
e berts was beating his wife, and Renner in
terfered Alberts turned ON him and Rem
% ner shot him.
: THREE railway bridges on the Straitsvill'
Branch of the Columbus, Hooking Valley
10 & Toledo Road burned the morning of th'
IS 9Th. Loss shout $4,000. The wires wer
" cut and communication with the genera
r. offices thus = shut Off. The bridge
n were all in the same neighborhood, be
tween Straitsville and NelsOnviue.
II FIRE destroyed f. Bernstein's clothin
/ store at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the night o
the 5th. The stock, said to run as high a
Of 10000, was completely destroyed; insur
l. ance light The building was damaged t
j, the extent of 1000.
AT the dynamite works of Stump-tS Co
rs at Stouchburg, Pa, an explosion occurre
,p on the 9Th, resulting in the instant death {
le three men, the demolition of the build
he ing and damage to surrounding struC
lures.
ld JOHN Tyler, a young lad, was killed a
nc Ottumwa, Ia, on the 9Th by falling froT
sr a train, which passed over him, crushin
ce his body.
j. -Four persons were killed and numbe
injured by a boiler explosion at Staffor'
ie England, on the 9th.
h BY the fall of a smoke-stack at Rolesoni
p Station, Pa, on the 9Th, six men were kille
'p and several others killed.
IT is reported that the schooner VIII
IN Gazelle, Captain Lawson, which left Sa
ru Francisco October 1st, on a cod-fishin
OF cruise, was wrecked Off the Choumagi
y Islands, OkhOtsk Sea, and all hands lost.
q MISCELLANEOUS.
a. NUMEROUS deaths from cholera are r
a ported in new localities in France.
,s- REINFoRCEMENTs of $500 men for Il
French army in Tonquin were preparing
e. start on or before the 10Th. A second il
ne stallment viii also start a fortnight late
ID OK the Sd the Pennsylvania Road d
20 clared dividend of three per cent, pa
lev able November 29th.
,at THE Northern Pacific Railway is nc
fl running 100 trains daily on the line b
on tween st. Paul and Bismarck.
las II is. estimated in connection with the c
We in Chicago passenger rates that the w
at- may extend to the Pullman and Wagn
re- Palace Car Companies.
nv On the Ist the Sheriff and his deputi
in left Ottumwa, Iowa, to attend a polite
N meeting at Bloomfield, and during tn,
in absence the prisoners confined in
,th jail improved their opportunity to escaI
es THE municipal authorities of the city
tic Dublin have decided to change the nal
he of Sackville street to O'Connen stre
The trades-p people on the street are great
re- irritated at the change.
~ THE Atlantic steamship companies
~ endeavoring to agree on a raise in the p;
senger tariff between Europe and
the United States.
ana No street cars were running in New
nm leans on the 4th, the drivers having strU
for less hours and more pay.
I OK the 4th all the business exchanges
-, New York were closed, and everybody K
- a hand in the elections.
ON the whole the election was an 7
usually peaceable one, very few distul
ances being reported from any localities