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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-31
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the Senate on the 25th considers
ton of the Sherman resolution regarding
the Virginia and Mississippi elections was
postponed till Monday. A conference COM
mittee was appointed on the Greedy relief
bill. The bill to prevent the Secretary of
the Treasury from buying bonds above par
was referred to the Finance Committee.
The Alaska bill passed, the clause prohib-
iting the sale of liquor being retained. The
bill providing for the performance of exec
utive duties in case of the disability OF
President and Vice-President also passed.
......In the House the Fitz John Porter
bill was taken up and discussed without
action. Several communications were re-
ceived from the departments One from
the Postmaster General stated that an
itemized list of the star-route trial expen-
ses was being prepared, but it would be
detrimental to public interests to publish
it.
GENERAL GORDON has called coun-
Gil of war in Cairo, Egypt.
ANTONIO DERITA, on trial for muir
der in St. Louis, Mo, was acquitted on the
25th.
HERR LAsKER's body was landed on
the 25th at Bremerhaven.
the wrecked City OF Columbus
TIE failures for the week ended the
25th in the United States and Canada num-
bered 317.
OUTBREAKS of hostility against all
foreigners are reported in China.
FIFTEEN corpses were found in one
chamber of the coal mine at Crested Butte,
Col, on the 25th. Thirty-four bodies in all
had been recovered.
THE Horticultural Convention at
Kansas City, Mo, adopted a resolution
calling on Congress to establish board Of
forestry.
New evidence is reported to have
been discovered tending to throw light on
the Zura Burns tragedy Carpenter has
been indicted and committed 10 jail, bail
being refused.
A VIENNA workingman who killed a
detective was a rested on the 25th and was
found to have a revolver, dynamite bomb
and a poisoned dagger in his pockets.
THE Holman bill to prevent duplica-
tion of pav accounts Of army and navy Of
6cers and others will be reported favorably
to Congress.
TWIN bapes of Isaac Martin of Lib
ertv Mills. Ind, were frozen TO death in
their crib on the 25th.
THREE members of the Buzzard gang
Of outlaws were arrested on the 18th near
Lancaster, Pa.
ADMIRAL CoURBET has established q
blockade against the entry of war materials
to TonOuin,
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cn1nrEs AND CAsUALrIEs.

On the 21st the gas works at Malone,
N. Y, exploded, destroying several build
ings.
The greater part of the business pOr-
ton Of Clio, Mich, was destroyed by fiIe
the morning of the 21st
IT is reported that the fishing schOon-
er Kuntzford OF Gloucester, Mass, IS lost
with fourteen men.
On the 2lst Rev Barton Lave, an
aged Methodist clergyman, fell into fire
place at Winchester, o., and was fatally
burned.
DELL ASHCROFT, of Charlton, o., has
made a confession that he, with two 9TH
ers, robbed and fatally injured Mrs. Robin
son, an aged woman, thirteen years ago.
The crime has always been shrouded in
mystery.
On the night of the 2Oth highwaymen
robbed the Wickenberg "a. T.) stage.
They cut the mail-bags and rifed the let
ters.
AT Cornwall, Canada, on the 22d, the
Commercial Hotel with a dozen stores were
destroyed by fire.
On the 22d the st. Lawrence sugar
refinery at Montreal, Can, burned; loss,
Sl50,OOO
On the 23d two men were suffOcated
by gasoline fumes at Saratoga, n. Y.
On the 23d Adam Busch, a fireman,
was fatally injured while rescuing a child
from a burning building at Wood Haven
L. l.
OK the night of the 22d newly mar
ried couple named Bodicker were murder.
ed in their home, log cabin, few miles
south of Fenton, jefferson County, Mo.
and their bodies hacked to pieces. 1t is
supposed to have been the work of a tramp
and plunder the motive.
On the night of the 22d burglars blew
open safe in Ironton, Wis, and secured
$500, but failed to discover 81, 100 more il
currency which lay in the safe.
On the morning of the 23d the Ham.
ilton (Can.) Spectator office burned. Loss
$4,000; insured for 900.
On the oath two ruffians robbed q
Chinese laundryman of 500 at the point OF
a revolver in Cleveland.
on the morning of the oath large
number of miners were killed by an explo
! sion in the Colorado Coal and Iron Compa
ny's mine at Crested Butte, Col.
| A FAILING wall crushed in a wing O
! TIE Hebrew Free School in New York il
/ which there were fifty pupils on the oath
/ A wild panic resulted, but only half a dozeI
| persons were injured.
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FALMOUTH, MAHsss Jan. ~
Divers visited the wreck OF the City Of
Columbus to-day. They report all tho
works Of the vessel gone, not n single stale
room remaining on deck. Even heavy iron
rods used as stays between houses on tho
port and starboard sides were bent and
torn from their places, while the deck itself
" s broken and open. Heavy timbers lay
in various shapes beneath the broken sur
face Of the deck, preventing divers from
going into the hold No bodies we're seen
by the divers. No attompt was made 20
find bodies in the steerage, the only descent
Of the divers being in the after part OF tho
vessel. Tonight a terrible gale is blowing
across the sound, and vast quantities OF
wreckage are coming ashore at Falmouth.
II is expected that bodies will come ashore
tonight. Seafaring men say bodies now In
the water or in the wreck, II not recovered
in a day or two, will be completely de-
voured BY sand-eels. Soundings establish
the fact that the can-buoy was set at least
a quarter Of a mile toward the inshore and
the ledge Of DEVILS Bridge extended 40
wards outside of where the can-buoy was
Originally set, but this fact does not relieve
the officers Of the City of Columbus, as the
boat lies near half a mile inshore from the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-31

THE House Committee on Public
Lands has summoned Commissioner Fink
to testify.
VICE-PREsIDENT J. p. GRIER of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company made
argument before the House Committee on
Commerce on the Gath, opposing bills to
regulate Interstate commerce, and espec-
tally such as would interfere with pooling
privileges.
THE resignation of Hon. John c..
New from his position i'll the Treasury De-
partment is positively announced.
OK the oath Fred Douglass was mar
ried in Washington to Miss Helen NJ. Pitts,
white woman, formerly of Avon, n. Y,
and who was employed as cOpyist in Doug
lass Office while he was Marshal of the
District of Columbia. The groom is seven
ty-three and the bride thirty five years of
"a
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Trouble on the wabash.

MACON, Mo, Jan. 81.
There was a wreck on the Wabash about
$3.50 O'Clock this morning, the cannon-ball
train due here at 4:45 being thrown from
the track. A broken rail caused the disas-
ter. The accident happened four miles
south of this city, and the first reports re-
ceived here were of the most sensational
character; but it was soon discovered that
the reports were exaggerated. The engine,
baggage car and first coach passed
safely over the broken rail, but
the coach and the sleeper left the track,
and the sleeper turned completely over.
There were about forty-five people in the
two cars, nearly all of whom were more or
less bruised, but only seven were seriously
hurt. Among these were:
G. W. Burns, express messenger.
Geo. Thomas, Louisville, KY; leg broken
and back hurt.
Frank Shaner, Richmond, Va; back and
head injured.
Miss Della Shaner, Philadelphia; badly
cut and bruised on face and shoulders.
Mrs. Tallman; head and face bruised.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-31

NHICAUDt JAN y
-Four weeks ago Herman Koerstein, re-
siding here, was arrested for embezzls-
ment in Bromberg, Prussia. An officer
bearing extraditiou papers from the Ger
man Government arrived in Chicago this
morning. This afternoon Deputy Sheriff
went 20 Koerstein's cell for the purpose OF
bringing him out for transfer. As the
prisoner was about TO leave the cell No
drank what appeared to be "A glass of water
ACCOMMODATING the deputy TO the office the
prisoner staggered and dropped into
chair, shaking violently. He whispered,
ssI am sick" and expired in twenty min
utes. Koerstein had drank a deadly solu'
tion Of cyanite Of potassium
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-31
HORTICULTURAL.
Annual Session of the Mississippi Valley
Association.

Annual Session OF the Mississippi Valley
Association.
KANSAS CITY, No, Jan. p.
The fifth annual session of the Missis-
sippi Valley Horticultural Society con-
vened here to-day and will continue for
four days. Tho attendance is large, COM
prising 120 delegates from all of the twenty
States embraced in the territory covered
by the society, besides n large number of
prominent visitors from all parts of the
compass. The Convention assembled at
two O'Clock p. nj. and the following officers
were present: President Parker Earle, of
Golden, Ill; Secretary VIM. H. Ragan, of
Clayton, Ind; Treasurer j. G. Evans, of
Kansas City, and Vice-Presidents eX-GOv-
crnOr r. w. Furnas, of Browns vile, Neb.,
D. 5. Grimes, of Denver, and Hon. T. n.
MunsOn, of Dennison, Tex. Many other
distinguished citizens and hUrticulturists
of other States are present, including Hon.
Sylvester johnson, President of the State
horticultural Society of Indiana; Prof.
of Kansas; Ex-Governor Morton of Nebras-
ka; Prof. Beal, of the Michigan AgricultuT-
al College; Prof. Budd, of the Iowa Agri-
cultural College, and Ex-Governor Norman
j. Colman, Of st. Louis.
An organization was effected and the
usual committees appointed early in the
afternoon, and the remainder of the day
devoted to hearing and discussing able and
interesting papers, as follows: "Circula-
ton of Sap" by Prof }. w. Robson, of
Kansas; ''Trees Peculiar to Texas" by I.
V. Munson, of Texas; 'Small Fruits" by
Hon. Sylvester johnson, of Indiana.
letter regretting his inability to at
tend was received from Hon. NJ. =. Walden,
of Massachusetts, President of the Ameri-
can Pathological Society, and replied to by
telegraph.
The display of fruits is very fine, es-
pecially the collection of the Missouri State
Horticultural Society, numbering twenty
four plates and $50 varieties, including all
kinds of summer apples, which have been
kept in a state of perfect preservation. Ne
braska exhibits a fine collection of sixty va
so has a very fine display.
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GUNNISONs COI-s an q.
Willis Kissee, a saloon-keeper, and John
Kellogg, a gambler, quarreled over game
of cards, in which Kissee was worsted. A
short time after Kissee met Kellogg on the
street and Immediately drew a pistol.
Kellogg attempted to wrench it from him,
but slipped and fell. Kissee then fired,
shooting Kellogg through the body. Al
though mortally wounded, Kellogg drew
his gun, returning the fire, and killed Kis-
see instantly. Kissee was formerly from
Springfield, No, and leaves a family. Kel-
logg came from Kansas here, and is un-
married. There islittle hope of his TecOv.
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MUTT NOT GUILTY.
Verdict Rendered in the Celebrated Case
at Pittsburgh, Pa.-ReIn al kable Demon
stratiOn the Announcement of the
Finding.
PITTSBURGH. PA, Jan. Q.


PITTsBURGH, PA, Jan. p.
The city was on the qati riUe this morn
ing to know if there had been a verdict in
the Mutt case. Court met at $3.50 O'Clock.
Half an hour later it was announced that
the jury were ready with verdict. In the
room there were as many spectators as
ever, and outside as many as ever who
could not get in. At ten o'clock sharp the
jury filed in. When they were seated
Judge Stowe sternly warned the audience
that, no matter what the verdict might be,
there should be no demonstrations of ap-
proval or disapproval, and those disregard
ing this injunction would be arrested. The
prisoner, who was in the dock, was told to
stand up. He did so, rigid as a statue;
his lips thinner and more cOlOrieSs and his
heavy eyes more heavy.
"Gentlemen, have you agreed upon
verdict" asked Clerk Rowand.
'We e bave,o answered the jurors.
'What say you, guilty or not guilty?"
was The next Interrogation.
Not guilty." replied the foreman.
Such a shout as went up from the thou
sand voices in the courtroom never was
before heard in this county, at least. The
shout entered the ears of those in waiting
outside, and they proclaimed it as they ran
down stairs, yelling at the top of their
voices, " Acquitted! acquitted" The crowd
in waiting upon the street took up the re-
fTaln and yelled 1t out with might ana MAN,
Shop men ran to their doors and Joined in
shouting. Judge Stowe was to ali appear
ances as happy as the happiest. A hearty
smile illuminated his face as he left the
bench and shook hands with Il number of
those who had worked and prayed for the
deliverance of the boy. He never seemed
To think once about enforcing the penalty
for disobedience of his injunction about the
order.
Mutt was removed to prison to undergo
the formality of having his present sanity
established. He will probably be dis
charged tomorrow. Mrs. Mutt and her
daughter heard the news they were
alighting from the carriage in front of the
office of their counsel. They were deeply
affected. The jury called on them III a
body, aud sOnc of the jurors mingled tears
with the widows.
Everybody indorses the result. When
released the prisoner will be taken to the
farm of an uncle in Fayette County, and
there kept until the excitement has passed
away.
The hearing as to the mental condition Of
Mutt will take place tomorrow. Several
experts will be examined, and his counsel
express themselves as confident that he will
be released. The hearing is necessary to
satisfy the Court that he is proper person
to he at large. The law on the subject is
very clear, and provides that when per-
son is acquitted of any Offense by reason OF
insanity the jury should so declare, and the
court shall have power to order him kept in
strict custody so long as such person shall
be q uuSOun6 mind.
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A FRIGHTFUL LEAP.
An Express Train Leaps From a TresiIe
Twenty-Five Feet High-MiracuIOus Es-
cape From Death of All on Board.

An Express Train Leaps From a TresiIe
twenty-five Feet High-MiracuIOus Es-
cape From Death of All on Board.
DAYTON, O., Jan. p.
Express No 2, engine No. 81, on the Gin
cinnati Division Of the Toledo, Cincinnati
g. st. Louis Railroad, dashed Off long
trestIe near BeavertOwn, five miles from
Dayton, at five o'clock p. IN. When the
train, consisting of two coaches, baggage
and mail car and engine, was in the middle
of the trestle, running at the rate of thirty
miles per bour, truck wheel OF the engine
suddenly broke, hurling the engine and the
entire train from the trestle to the ground
below, a distance of twenty-five feet. Sew
enty feet of trestle was carried along and
the train is a complete wreck, max
ing damage of $1,000. No one had
time to escape, and how a terri
ble loss of life averted was
a miracle. Engineer Henderson and Ex-
press Messenger Marsh were buried in the
ruins, and were cut out, both badly injured.
Conductor Miller sustained serious internal
injuries, W lie Morgan II. Morgan, promi,
nent citizen of Nendacia, o., seriously
hurt. Five other passengers were more or
less injured, while fourteen others escaped
with slight cuts. Relief trains were sent
from this city and Cincinnati, and for the
time being sufferers and passengers were
cared for at a farm-hous near by. The
scene Of the accident is in a rough, sparse
Iv populated section of country, and the
trestle was built three years ago over
ravine. Trains are generally delayed.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-31

WAsflNUIDNl d y-s . HI y
The Mexican treaty will yet be ratified,
its friends believe. It will not be called up
again till they are ready to put it through.
An active canvass is being made, and it
will be known how every one stands before
it is tried again. It is not probable there
will be much more discussion upon it, but
it viii be called up and voted upon when
they are prepared for action. 1t is the
opinion of Senators generally that it wild
not be necessary to resort to ratification Of
the supplementary protocol extending the
time Of the treaty because the Senate has
authority to do that itself, and has covered
the point by the amendment TO the time
clause.
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CLEVELAND. Jan. "a.
Last night VIM. Rolf, merchant at Col
lingwood, was aroused by loud explosion
In his store Hastily dressing he ran 20 as
certain the cause, whereupon five burglars
assailed him with pistols, firing several
shots. Being man of nerve and unwound-
ed, Rolf showed fight and the burglars left,
fearing the arrival Of assistance, but in re-
treating hred more shots, in all ten or
fifteen shots. While Rolf, still unbarmed,
was examining what had been stolen, tho
burglars returned, and appeared about 10
make another attack, but the appearance Of
some neighbors frightened them away.
They had tried to blow open the safe CON
tanning a tempting sum Of money.
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The Zura Burns Case.

DECATUR, ILL, JAM q.
Mrs. Rebecca J. Carpenter, the Decatur
witness in the Zura Burns case, will leave
for Lincoln tomorrow, as Will the boy Cry
mer, TO testify before tie Grand Jury. Mr..
Burns and his daughter, Mrs. Fannie Dukes,
are now in Lincoln. w. H. Darlington, Of
Decatur, who thought he saw a man re-
sembling Carpenter at the depot in Lincoln
that Saturday night before the muir er in
company with young woman looking like
Zura Burns, lately visited Lincoln in COM
pany with Decatur friend Of the accused,
and took look at Carpenter, whom he had
never seen before. Darlington at once ad-
mitted that Carpenter is not the man whom
he saw walk away with the girl at the de-
pot,
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BOCORRO, n. N, Jan. ..
About one O'Clock this morning 15O men
silently surrounded the Jail and, overpow-
ering the guard, quickly and quietly took
out the notorious murderer, Joel A. Fow-
Ter. Taking him TO tree just west of the
Jail, they hung him and then dispersed.
Fowler's crime was the murder Of Jas. +.
Cole last November, and was one Of the
most brutal and cCwardly murders ever
perpetrated. Fowler, with a number OF
drunken companions, took possession Of
the town and marched through the streets,
firing into the windows and making the
citizens dance and sing at the mouth OF
their revolyers. Cole interfered to pre-
vent bloodshed, and was stabbed 70 death
by Fowler.
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Cruelty in the virginia Penitentiary.

RICHMOND, ' A, Jan. 2.
In the Senate to-day letter was present.
ed by a former empIoye at the Penitentiary
containing grave charges against the Peni-
tentiary officials, showing from neglectful
and careless treatment of sick convicts
number of them died. Among the cases
mentioned is that of an Italian serving a
term for attempted wife-murder, who be-
came i'll last summer from eating under
cooked peas. Owing to his writings the
doctor said he was insane and ordered him
bound in an iron bedstead. Next morning
the man was dead, the flesh dreadfully cut
from the cords with which he was tied.
The committee will investigate
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The Legal status Of Telegraph DIesaages.

CHICAGO, Jan. ..
During the trial OF James II. Melville for
alleged embezzIement in the Criminal
Court before Judge Howes yesterday, the
prosecution desired to prove that part Of
the money was sent TO Melville through
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
The money order clerk Of the telegraph
company declined to produce the original
message on the ground that a message
could not be made public property. The
court ruled that telegraph communications
could not be considered more confidential
than any others and that no commnnica-
tion could be excluded when the cause Of
Justice renders its production NECESSARY.
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HORRIBLE NINE ACCIDENT.
Fifty-Seven Men Imprisoned in Colorado
Mino by an Explosion of Fire Dam
No Possibility of Escape from D"Atn-
Full List of the victims.

Fifty-Sevan Men Imprisoned in Coior"""
RIino by an Explosion OF Fire Damp
No Possibility of Escape from D"@'N
Full List of the Victims.
GUNNIsoN, COL, Jan. ~
A fearful explosion occurred at eighu
o'clock this morning in the Coloraao OoaI
and Iron Company's mine at Crested
Buttes. 1t was one of the most appalling
that ever occurred in a coal mine IN TINS
country. Crested Buttes, near which the
mine is located, is a coal mining town tnI-
ty miles north of Gunnison CITY, on inc
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Inc
cause of the explosion is not dehhlIsly
known, but il is supposed to be lIoin h'o'
damp. The explosion occurred elther III
chamber one or two, just half an hour al
ter the day force of sixty-seyen men had
gone to work.
There were ten men at work in chamber
four. These escaped unhurt except one
man, John Angus, who was in the passage
way just outside the chamber. lie Is Oauiy
burned but will recover.
FIfty-seven men were at work in cham
b9rs one and two. These are thought TO
have perished. The explosion was oil such
force as to completely barricade the mann
entrance, and the appliances Tor supplying
air located near we're badly wrecked, ami
the roof of the tramway blown OH lae
men at work on the anthracite mesa are tho
night force of the &. 9. q /. company's
mines. Citizens were generally WORKING
hard all day to rescue the men allh9ubh
il is thought none can possibly escape allNe'
The Town Hall has been prepared Tor the
reception of the dead.
AS soon as possible the fan was repniredl
put to work pumping air into the mllle, anu
men set to work to remove the obstructlohs
so as to reach the chambers and get the
bodies out tonight if possible.
Following are the names OF hfUy-hVe OF
the unfortunates; the other two are not oD-
faf
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The 8ulirar 8mlIetiu.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING:

One square of eight lines, &1.50 for the firsa
lnsertion. and IS cents for each subsequent
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A FIENDISH CRIME.

A Recently Married Couple Horribly Butch"
cred in Their Humble Home near st.
Louis, MO.-The Crime ShrOuded in Mys-
tery-The Generally Accepted Theory OF
the Tragedy.