The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-12-18

OK the 9th Lord Chief Justice COIeridge
of England, sentenced Captain Dudley and
4 Mate stephens, Of the Mignonette, TO be
hanged. They killed and ate the flesh Of
a companion while in a starving condition
at sea.
THE noted Cincinnati phnanthropist
Reuben r. Springer, died on the 10th.
TEE first acts of the Diaz administration
In Mexico are giving satisfaction.
I The japanese Prince Alexis Saigo, q
/ nephew Of Colonel Oyama, japanese Min
/ lister of War, died at Washington, D. c..
on the 10th. He was only eleven years OF
/ age.
A PROPOSAL is made that the President
surrounded by his Cabinet and others,
/ shall from the White House open the New
! Orleans Exposition by electricity.
PRIME MINISTER FERRY has been in
/ formed by Earl Granville that English ne
/ gotiations with China with a view of set
/ thing the Franco-Chinese difficulty AMIGA
/ bly,, have resulted in failure.
THE American Base Ball Association has
dropped the Virginia and Indianapolis
clubs. Officers elected: H. ID. Mcknight,
\ President; Chris Won der Abe, Vice Pres
ident, and W. G. Wycof, Secretary and
! Treasurer.
/ THE President consented to start the
machinery of the New Orleans Exposi-
tion by electricity from the White House
on the 10Th.
In West Virginia a curious political
complication has arisen as the result of the
change of the time for State elections
voted upon October 14th.
THE silver jubilee of Archbishop Lynch's
conservation began at Toronto, Ont, on
the 11th, accompanied with imposing fes-
tivities.
TANMANY, 500 strong, win participate in
the ceremonies attending the Inauguration
Of President Cleveland.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
NEAR Ashton, Oak, Mrs. J. S. Mills and
her three year-old child were burned to
death on the 6eh
OK the Ohio Central Railway near Nc
Cutchensville, o., incendiaries fired a
bridge on the 9th, and a train of twenty
three loaded coal cars went through the
burning structure into the creek below.
On the 7th a steamer, supposed to be the
Alliance, OF Cardiff, foundered off the
Cornish Coast (Eng.) and ali hands were
lost.
A NUMBER of mysterious deaths have oc-
Cured in family named Koran at White
water, Wis, fifth of whom has just died
from poison administered by herself, after
confessing that she had caused the death
of the others by the same means.
THE mysterious pOisonings at White
Sulphur Springs, w. Va, are found to have
been perpetrated by two colored servants
who had been dismissed from one of the
families. They, however, mixed their
poisons, giving strychnine and arsenic to-
gether, thus partially defeating their pur-
pose.
On the 9th six hundred cases of good to-
bacco, valued at $4,000, went up in smoke
at Thompsonville, Conn.
On the 9Th Mrs. c. E. Giesendorffer,
wife of former wealthy manufactures,
drowned herself at Indianapolis, Ind.
THE people of Pittsylvania County,
Virginia, are anxious to capture Charles
Palmer, desperate only eighteen years
old, who shot one man to death and
nearly killed another. A lynching is
probable.
OK the 9th six persons were cremated in
a burning dwelling at Trenton, a small
mining village near Delano. Pa. Only a
seven year-old child escaped, who was
dropped from a window of the burning
building by the father, Frank Farrell, who
returned for other members of the family
and perished with them.
ON the 10th James L. Flint, a member of
the New York Union League Club, was
arrested on a charge of having persuaded
a man to vote under another's name for
Cleveland.
NEWS was received at st. Paul, Mimi,
on the 10th, that a commercial traveller
named Baird had been killed and robbed
of 81, 800 near Golden City, British Column
bia. Eddy, Hammond & Co., for whom
Baird Travelled, have offered reward of
81 900 for the capture of the murderers.
THREE young men, j. w. Mckee, Frank
H. Mcdonald and Charles H. Locke, all of
Buffalo, N. V, were arrested in st. Louis
Mo-, ON the 10th. The first-named was
book-keeper for firm in Buffalo, and
took away with him Sl,14S.7O of his en-
ployers' money. The young men spent all
but sos, which was recovered. They were
willing to return without a requistion.