The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-27
SOUTHERN oLEANlNGs.

Oconee, ia, a lew nights ago.
The cotton-seed oil mill at Monroe, La,
burned a few night ago. Seven cattle,
box and fiat cars on the Vicksburg, Shreve-
port & Pacific Railroad were also de-
stroyed.
J. Jack Cook shot and killed a man
named Philips at Montgomery, Ala, a few
nights since. Both are railroad engineers.
Domestic matters was the cause.
The Governor of Georgia has respited
Warren Price, the johnson murderer, until
December 18th, and committed the sentence
of Heny Cato, the DeKalb County murder
er, to life imprisonment. Both were to
have been hanged on the 18th.
Fire in Eufa1a, Ala, a few nights ago de-
stroyed eight or ten stores, with stock of
goods, and also 200 bales of cotton. Loss
in the neighborhood of 900.
Rev. F. A. Mood, D. D., Regent of the
Southwestern University, died at Waco,
Tex, few days ago, while attending the
session of the Northwest Texas Methodist
Conference.
News of an incendiary fire at Big Sandy,
Tex, few days ago, has been received.
Total loss, 81, 900; insurance, $1,000. The
heaviest losers are: S. Ahrenson, dry
goods, 5000; J. NJ. Darrah, dry goods,
$1,000.
Eugene Puckett, aged fourteen, fell from
the fifth floor of the Grubbs-K -Kemker
Bakery Company's building through the
elevator to the engine-rOOm, at Nashville,
Tenn, few days ago, and was instantly
killed.
Major George T. jackson, the defaulting
President of the Enterprise (Ga.) Cotton
Mills, has been arrested on four indict-
ments, charging him with the wrongful
appropriation of $152,OOO.
Police Officer Furnell, of Dallas, Tex,
while attempting to arrest Jim Salmons a
few days ago, was so seriously injured
that his life is despaired of. He was in
sensible for several hours. Salmons was
subsequently arrested and jailed.
Deputy United States Marshal A. n.
Woody, of Fort Worth, Tex, had lady
relative insulted by Cohen, the man who
was recently horsewhipped in that city,
and finding him at Temple, attacked him,
beating him severely over the head with a
revolver.
A boiler exploded at Kings foundry at
Mobile, Ala, a few days ago, and almost
completely demolished the two-story brick
machine shop in which forty men were
working, and only five were hurt and these
slightly. Heavy pieces of iron flew through
Gibney's foundry also and tore thereof off
the same. Although Gibney's was full OF
men at work no one was hurt.
Mr.. W. n. Davis, wealthy merchant OF
Thomasville, Ga, shot himself in his room
a few evenings since. Two shots were
fired, both in his breast. In a note found
in his room he requested E. M. Smith,
Cashier of the bank, and his father, who
lives in Florida, to wind up his affairs.
The Tri-State Medical Association OF
Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee,
which was recently in session at Mem
phis, Tenn, adjourned after eIecting the
following officers for the ensuing year;
President, I. K. Powell, DanceyviIle
Tenn; Vice Presidents, J. M. Taylor,
Corinth, Miss; w. K. Harrison, Osceola
Ark; G.. b. Gillespie, Covington, Tenn
w, B. Rogers, Memphis, was reelected
Secretary; T. j. j. CrOfford, Memphis
reelected Treasurer. The regular annual
meeting will be held in Memphis next No
vember.
A justice of the peace in Harrison
County, Mississippi, presides with coat and
shoes off.
Water has been exceedingly scarce al
Mobile, Ala. The wells and cisterns were
all dry, and there was very poor pros.
pect of any immediate improvement.
The sentence of Jacob Floyd, who was
to be hanged at WoodvilIe, Miss, Decem-
ber 9TH, for murder, has been committed tc
imprisonment for life.
John Holland, while 'possum hunting
near Calhoun, Ga, a few nights ago
was struck by a falling limb from a dead
tree and instantly killed.
A little child of Mr.. Hayes, of Atlanta
Ca, while sitting on high stool in front
of the fireplace, few days ago, fell in
and was burned to death.
Recently man giving the name of Will
lis Green arrived at West Point, Ga, from
the Alabama side of the river with Miss
Henderson, a lady of excellent family, and
they were married, the groom alleging
that he wanted spice of romance by an
elopement. 1t now develops that he has
wife and three children in another part
of the State. The fair victims brother
went after him with a shotgun.
A foul murder was committed a few
nights ago near Chasahoula Station, La
on the the Morgan Railroad. The victim
was stranger, aged twenty three years
From letters found on his person he is sup
posed to be Frederick Luburg, whose faith
er lives at San Antonio, Tex.
Two negroes, supposed to be those who
shot George E. Birdsong recently in Kinds
County, Mississippi, while passing through
Oak Ridge, eighteen miles north of Vicks-
burg, shot and fatally wounded a white
man, one of a posse of three who attempted
to arrest them.
Near Weatherford, Tex, few days ago
A. H. Cleveland attempted to arrest Lafay-
cite Hannah for carrying a pistol in
church and firing it. Hannah was in
company with Frank Miller. They resisted
the officer, and in the difficulty Miller was
shot through the breast and mortally
wounded.
A few days since, while a number of ne
groes were enjoying themselves at a dance
at Fort Worth, Tex, Stuart Brockman, a
negro, came to an open window and fred
at Grant Ferguson with a 45-calibre re-
volver, hitting Ferguson in the neck, in
dieting a fatal wound. The two men had
had trouble about woman.
New Orleans only polled IS, ,151 votes.
A. J. Richards, English sailor, shot
himself through the head with a revolver
few nights ago at Morse Point. ten miles
below Houston, Tex. He died almost in
stantly. Temporary insanity was the
cause.
William Herrin, a hack proprietor, COM
mitted suicide at San Antonio, Tex, a feyz
days ago with morphine. He had been
drinking and was Jealous of a woman. He
was twenty eight years old, and has parents
and numerous other relatives residing al
Dallas. An inquest was held, the verdict
being suicide.
According to the new directory, the city
of Memphis, Tenn, has 1920 population
A gin belonging to Charles Newton, near
Gainesville, Tex, burned a few nights ago
The fire started in the roof, and is sup
posed to be the work of an incendiary.
There were only two bales of cotton in the
gin at the time, which were saved. Total
loss, 81, 800; insured for $500.
Miss Sue Townsend, of Conyers, Ga, at
t..rnnted snicide a few davs AGO bv swal-