The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-02

ON the 22d one Of the finest business
blocks in Portland, Ore, was destroyed by
fire. Eureka, New, was also visited by
disastrous conhagration-
On the I'D two large buildings of the
Middlesex Bleacbery and Dye Works at
SOmmervillc, Mass, were burned. The
buildings covered two and a half acres,
They were filed with valuable fabrics.
and the total loss is estimated TO be $780,
600, on which there is S6J0J0 insurance. Il
was the oldest and largest establishment
of the kind in the county.
On the 22d Chas. f. Henker, black
smith, hanged himself in the Seventh
Ward Democratic wigwam at Fort Wayne,
Ind. He leaves a wife and six children.
No cause assigned.
ABOUT half the business part of Bronson,
Mich, was burned on the night of the ? ist.
Eighteen business houses, two dwellings
and several barns were consumed. 1t is
supposed to have been the work of an in-
cendiary.
A LONDON dispatch said the British gun
boat Wasp was wrecked off Tory Island,
northwest coast of Ireland, on the 23d.
Fifty-two men were lost.
Al Hayesville, Tenn, E Twin Henry was
killed on the 23i by f I. Johnson. This
is a sequel to the suicide of Mrs. Johnson
at Indianapolis last year.
On the 23d passenger train on the Chi
cago g. Alton Railroad en- route to st.
Louis, collided with a freight train near
! Pontiac, Ill. No one was seriously in
/ jurcd, but two Pullman coaches were
| burned.
| BURGLARS dug a sixty-foot tunnel under
the vault of the First National Bank of
Las Vegas, N. NJ. The scheme being dis
covered ON the 23d, Mexican went in the
cellar and meeting one of the excavators,
shot him dead without word.
On the 23d Howard Sullivan, in jail at
/ Salem, N, j., charged with the murder
of Ella Watson, made full confession.
He said he killed her to get the money to
go on an excursion to Atlantic City. He
denied outraging her.
By an accident on the Brattleboro &
Whitehall Railroad near West Dummer-
ston, VT, on the 23I, nineteen persons
were injured, one fatally.
The Grand Jury of Rutland County,
| Vermont, have indicted John B. Page, ex-
President, and j. NJ. Haven, ex-Treasurer
of the Rutland Railroad Company, for
embezzlement of $4,000.
OK the 22l the mangled and Iifeless body
| of Gillie Leigh, member of the British
/ Parliament, was found at the base of a
precipitous cliff in the Big Horn Noun
! tains in Wyoming. Leigh was out with a
small English pleasure party. He left the
camp on the lash inst. for a stroll, and
was not heard aftervard until an eight
days search revealed the dead body. The
remains will be shipped to England.
On the oath Darwin n. Gardner, oi
Cleveland, o., shot his wife and then shot
himself No cause for the tragedy wa.
apparent.
On the oath the bazaar and 400 houses al
Zeitoun, Syria, were destroyed by fire.
ON the oath John Fore, an Italian barber
at Binzua, Pa, was shot dead by Mrs
Kavanaugh, to whom he was paying tht
devoted against her wishes.
On the oath John Gray, a wealthy farm
er of Cass County, Ind, was killed on his
farm while engaged in pulling up stumps.
His team started suddenly, throwing a
heavy stump upon him, injuring him sc
that death seon occurred.
The Captain of the steamer Lord of the
Isles, which arrived in New York from
Yokahoma on the oath, reports that OF
August %, off Cape Guardaful, he took of
the crew of the French transport Avyron
500 all told, and landed them at Alden
The Avyron was wrecked five miles soutt
of Guarda 'ul.
ON the oath Chas. r. Rice, travelling
agent for Chase Bros, nurseymen, Roch
ester, N. Y, killed himself at Paterson
N. j., when about to be taken to Jail Oh
the charge of swindling his employers
AT WhitestOwn, Pa, on the 18th, Ger
man, seventy-fve years of age, fatally
shot his wife, aged sixty five, the result o
a quarrel.
THE large glass works, covering TIVE
acres, owned by Abel Smith & Co., anC
Robinson, Rea & Co.'s machine shops
in addition to many dwellings, were de
stroyed by fire at Pittsburgh, Pa, on tn
25th. The loss aggregates several hundreC
thousand dollars.
FIRE destroyed the large brick FIGURING
mills of Clement Brothers at Neenah
Wis, on the night of the 24th. Loss, $40,
600; insurance, So, 900. On the 25th Coates
Elevator at the same place was destroyed
Loss, 81 900; no insurance.