The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-05-08
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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fifteen or twenty other buildings burned
at Glens Falls, y. Y.
A SUPPOSED lncendiary fire caused the
destruction OF $4,000 worth Of lumber at
Cedar Springs, Mich, on the 2S5h.
OS the 2S thirty-eight corpses were
taken from the railway wreck at Ciudad
r al, Spain. Fifty soldiers we're still miss
ing.
OS the 2Sth a number Of convict work
men, employed in building a Government
barrack at Portsmouth, Eng, were injured
by the fall Of the structure.
ON the 2sth, Smi'h b, a sOu-in-law, and
Cicero, son of the deceased, were arrested
in Des Mones, Ia, on suspicion of being
murderers of an old man named Jefferson,
on the 2G5h. The son has confessed, impli-
eating J. J..Wilson and John A. Smith.
OK the 2Sth, while two blocks Of buildings
were burning at Panama a large mob be-
gan pluudcring, and We're fired on with
deadly effect by property owners. Loss,
8 OOOl.
on the ooh the steamer Falmouth
burned of Portland, Me. Three lives
were lost.
TIE victims OF the recent railway disas.
ter at Cuidai Real, Spain, are said to have
numbered I'D.
on the night Of the 2Sth, near Charleston,
w. Va, three burglars being discovered in
the house Of John Woods, shot him and
his son, the latter fatally. Woods daugh-
ter wounded one Of the robbers with pis-
tpl shot
ON the 29sh a building caught fire near
Bloomington, Ind, containing a quantity
of blasting dynamite. An explosion oc-
Cured, killing one man and wounding
thirteen.
On the Gosh powder magazine exploded
across the bay from Havana, Cuba, caus-
T ing considerable damage and great con-
sternation in the city. The gas works
were also destroyed. Many lives were
. lost.
ON the S0th the Poor-house of Van Buren,
| County, Mich, burned, and fourteen in
valid and aged iumat ties persisted.
IT has been conclusively shown that the
recent terrible railroad disaster at Ciudad
Real, Spain, was purely accidental
CHICAGO drug clerk ON the Both gave
Mrs. Laura Williams by mistake a fatal
dose of morphine for quinine.
ON the night Of the 29Jh Allen Ingalls,,
one of the murderers Of the Taylor family
at Avondale, o., hanged himself in the Gin
cinnati jail.
TIE robbers and murderers who have
been operating in West Virginia were
caught on the Both and taken to S. Alhans.
While being removed for safe keeping two
of them were taken from the officers and
/ lynched.
IN Bu,nos Ayres terrible storm pre-.
vailed on the 3D.h. Houses were des.royed,
rivers overlooked and numbers of lives
were lost. The rainfall was the heaviest
in fourteen years.
I WALLACE & Co.'s circus was mobbed by
a gang Of roughs at Montpelier, Ind, on
/ the lst. One man was fatally wounded
/ ONE Of the walls of the Cincinnati Court
| house fell ON the Ist killing one Of the men
/ employed on it.
THE gang OF robbers who attacked the
/ bank ut Harper, Kas., were caught on the
lst and were promptly lyn he'd. They
proved to be the Marshal and Deputy Mar
shall of Caldwell, Kas., and two cowboys.
on the Ist large number of workmen
We're injured by the fall of the wall Of a
burnt buildiugin London.
A SECTION OF the stand at the Cincinnati
| baseball park fell ON the lst under the
weight of crowd. Many persons were
/ hurt.
ROBBERY Of the mails from British Col
umbia for Europe on Wholesale plan is
reported to have taken place on the North
ern Pacific Road.
NusCELLANEOUs.
AT Irwin Station, Pa, two thousand
miners, who have been on strike, went to
work again on the 2S5h, their demands hav-
ing been acCeded to.
IT is thought that nearly twice as many
money y-order offices will he established in
1884 as i'm any preceding year.
On the 2S5h w. II. Lytle Post, of Fort
SEQ t., Kas., shipped carload Of corn to
r. Z. Ice Camp at Richmond, Va, to aid
in building home for disabled ConGedcr-
ate soldiers.
ADvTCEs state that the King of Siam has
notified Minister Halderm1n that he viii
send exhibits to the Worlds Cotton Fair in
New Orleans.
A MEMORIAL has been forwarded by a
special committee of the Philadelphia Com
mcrcial Exchange to Washington asking
Congress to enact such legislation as viii
either redeem, retire or legalize the trade
dollar.
THE army bill appropriates 50, ,259, 40.
THE University of Oxford has voted to
admit women to honorary examination.
A TELEGRAPH rates war on Chicago
business was inaugurated on the 29th.
TROOPS are pursuing small bands of
Spanish insurgents in Catalonia and Ma
varre
On the 29th.the United States ship Ports
mouth arrived at Newport with yellow
fever on board.
IT is officially denied that a proposition
has been made to annex Cuba to Mexico.
THE postal telegraph bill will probably
make twenty-five cents the maximum
charge for twenty words.
In the Blue Mountains, near Lehigh Gap,
Pa, a vast amount of timber has been de-
stroyed ny forest fires.
The British House of Commons has
l 0HnrfpA u t., 4I,a
cattle importatio ion bill.
THE Committee on Public Lands of the
I House has agreed on bill to repeal the
pre-emption and timber-culture acts.
THE British troop ship Crocodile, from
India, has arrived at Portsmou n, Eng.
She had cholera on board during the voy-
age.
ATroRNEYs have inaugurated new pen.
sion swindle. II is worked through false
representation regarding bounty claims.
IN criticising the report of the Scotch
. crofters' investigation, the Pan lIyU tTT-
( -etts SAYS il teaches the lesson that to eNpa-
triute malcontents only increases the diff
Guilty.
IT is reported that a new company, with
a capital OF SI,21O,tO), is to be organized tc
purchase the mills and furnaces Of the sus-
pended firm Brown, Bonneu & Co., Of
. Youngstown, Ohio.
THE guarantors Of the Cincinnati musi.
cal festival are beginning to object to the
I heavy assessments.
On the .9th four hundred and fifty chests
. of adulterated tea were seized in New
York harbor on the steamer France from
London.
ACCORDING to a London dispatch Of the
29th the British police were awaiting the
= arrival Of the steamship State OF Florida
at G asgow to arrest some dynamiters.