The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-23

A COLLISION occurred on the Pennsyl-
vania Railway at Hanker's Station on the
18th. John +. Layton, brakeman, was
killed, and three other trainmen injured.
Several cars loaded with coke were
burned.
OK the 18th Lawrence L. Cauley, a Phil
adelphia youth of eighteen, shot Mamie
Benson, aged fourteen, at Lancaster, Pa,
because she would not love him, and
then shot himself fatally. The girl will
recover.
On the 18th Thomas NJ. Scraggy, an old
man engaged in the stationery business in
Philadelphia was convicted of dealing in
obscene pictures, books, etc, and sen.
fenced to imprisonment for two years and
fine of $1,000, the full penalty.
On the 18th a Turkish mail caravan
from Bagdad was attacked by brigands
near Ismid. Three of the escort were
killed and $3 O,O0O in Government bullion
stolen. The Sultan sent troops in pursuit.
WHILE drawing a truck containing
Christ Turdhorst, patient, upon an ele-
vator, to take him to the amphith eatve,
for a clinical lecture on the 18Th, VIM.
7. Thomas, an attendant at the Cincin-
natl Hospital, fell through the hatchway,
pulling the truck after him. Both were
killed.
NEAR Mouongahela City, Pa, on the
14th, two coke trains collided, killing one
man and wounding others.
On the IA c. A. Jackson & Co.'s i'm
mense tobacco factory, at tersburg, Va,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Four hundred men are thrown out of en-
ployment.
IN Racine, Wis, a large double tene-
ment house was partially destroyed by
fire the morning of the 10Th. Six families
occupied the house, and all escaped ex-
cept Edward and Alb5rt Gross, who were
fatally burned. The loss is 5000.
The remains of John Dunn were found
the evening of the 18th in the creek in Emf
grant Canyon, U. T., held under a wagon
loaded with wood. The wagon had upset
and pinioned him down, crushing out his
life.
WHILE saving wood with circular saw
at Berne, Ind, on the 145h, Henry Michaud,
aged twenty years, was thrown against
he saw and fatally injured by the saw
cutting him nearly in two.
On the 14.h J. Gaumes and family, o.
Linton Township, jefferson County, Ohio,
drank from a spring of water which was
poisoned, and at last accounts were lying
at the point of death.
MASKED men robbed farmer of 81, 700
near Gram, Pa, on the 10Th.
Two negroes quarreled over the election
at Cincinnati on the 10th. One was shot,
the other stabbed. Both win probably
die.
AT Wauchusett, Mass, the Snow paper
mill owned by Crocker, Burbank & Co.,
was damaged $4,000 by fire on the 10Th.
Insurance, $4,000.
FIRE destroyed the Chenango Valley
! Touring mills, Geo. g. Noon & Co., pro
prietors, and the paper mills of Cary,
Nash s. Ogden at Port Dickinson, a suburb
of Binghamton, N. Y, on the evening of
the 15sh. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
It is a serious blow to the community.
JOHN KEoGAN, aged forty five, fatally
shot himself through the abdomen while
cunning near Auburn, N. Y, on the 10Th.
OK the 10Th Rev. Jas. F. Chalfant, o.
the Methodist Episcopal Church, died
Cincinnati.
AT EIkton, Nd, on the 18Th, a market
wagon containing VIM. Prior and a little
| boy and girl named Katie Dresline and
Robert Jones, while crossing the railroad
track, was struck by the New York Ex.
| press on the Philadelphia, Baltimore &
| Wilmington Road. All three were in
stautly killed and the wagon smashed.
The horses were also killed.
ON the 18th the trotting horse May bird
/ dropped dead on the track at Mystic Park
| Boston, Mass, after trotting in the %;
class. Her owner had refused $4,000 foI
her.
| HARVEY FOSTER made a heroic effort tC
/ save Miss Lizzie Wallace from a passing
| train at Harris burgh, Pa, on the 18th, and
both were horribly mangled-
On the 9Th F. A. Burton, President oi
the Blaine and Logan Club, was shot dead
| by a river rough at La Crosse, Wis. Nc
motive assigned. The affair caused Sc
| much excitement that citizens overpow
cred the officials, took the murderer from
| the Jail and hanged him.
AT MonteIlo, Wis, the bank, Opera Hall
and a number of stores and business places
were destroyed by fire on the 16 h. The
loss is estimated at S5O, goo; about one-hali
| insured.