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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-17
sMOTmERED IN THEIR CELLS.
Four Prisoners Perish in Burning Jail
at JcrseyviHe, HI.

at JcrseyvilIe, HI.
JERsEYvILLE, Ill, Jan 8.
The most horrible event that ever hap
pened in Jerseyville occurred this morning
it being the burning of the County Court
house and Jail and the pershing of four in
mates incarcerated aud awaiting trial. Last
night at about fva o'clock, the Jailer locked
the prisoners in the cells for the night, and
left good warm fire in the stove in the
corridor. This was done to warm the cells
for the night, the weather being extremely
cold. This morning about two O'Clock
some parties in the ne ghborhood heard the
screaming of the prisoners, but thought
nothing about it, as the prisoners often
make unmeaning disturbances. About five
O'Clock this morning Mr.. Tpscomb, sexton
Of the Baptist Church, came up town to
start a fire for the church, and thought he
smelled something burning, but saw moth
ing. He staid at the church till about six
o'clock, and when coming out saw smoke
emanating from the Jail. The alarm was
at once given, and when the Jail was
reached all was locked and no entrance
could he made until Janitor Blay was sent
for, who lives about one-half mile away.
The building being brick and the timbers
hardwood the fire made very slow prog
ress.
At about G3J O'Clock the ianitor arrived
and a number of men, with wet spOnges in
their mouths and lanterns in their hands,
forced their way into the damp, smoky
cells, and found the dead bodies of Walter
DuusCIon, twenty-five years old, incarcerat-
Gd for the murder of Mrs. Nellie DOdson;
James Griggs, aged thiTty-one confined for
larceny; Emile Koehler, aged twenty-tlree
in jail for stealing a mule from Alex. Won
derly, near Brighton, Ill; August Shultz,
aged thirty-four, locked up for stealing
coat.
Dunsdon and Shutz were in the same cell
and were found lying on the floor with their
feet to the cell door, and it is supposed
they We're awakened, and after making
futile efforts to get out fell TO the floor and
suffocated.
Griggs and KoehIer were both found in
their bunks well covered up with blankets,
and il is thought they were smothered with
smoke, not awakening from their natural
sleep, no evidence OF disturbance appear
ing. All four were in solid stone cells and
were not burned in the least, sutfOcatiOn
from smoke being the cause Of -ath.
Tho burning of the building was very
. slow, commencing about four O'Clock This
morning and not consuming the structure
till about ten. There was no insurance.
prisoners by both Grand Jury and the
Court a number of times. There was no
night Waterman at the Courthouse, and
Sheriff Frost says he has not been allowed
one only on occasions when desperate char
acters were in the Jail, and fears were en-
tertained that they would get out. The
loss to the county is etimated at about S20,-
OOO The cause of the fire is supposed to
have been a defective fiue.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-17
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


In the Senate, on the 1lth, the joint
resolution to appropriate 81 100000 for the
Mississippi was amended so as to give it
the form Of a bill and passed. A bill was
introduced appropriatng 81 100000 for
National College of Medicine. Also for re-
Hefof survivors and heirs Of the Jeanette
crew; to establish postal savings banks.
The resolution Of inquiry regarding the
propriety Of retaliatory legislation on ac-
count of foreign prohibition of American
products was laid over. Mr.. Cullom ad-
dressed the Senate in favor Of the bill to
reoIganizc the Territorial government of
Utah. Mr.. Brown opposed the bill and de-
Clared all recent legislation in regard to
Mormon affairs unconstitutional. The new
rules were adopted. The House was not
in session.
a CALL for ten million three per
cents was issued ON the 18th.
Ir is rumOred that Vanderbilt has
secured the West Shore Road.
The British plans for sanitary reform
in Alexandra, E-yps, have been adopted.
AN effort viii be made in Russia to
ahroga the auti-Jevi~h laws.
TIE Comte de Paris has gone TO Mad
rid on invitation. of King Alfonso.
The Brady suit against c. p. Hunt
mgton for e5O,OOJ ended on the I1th in a
mstrial.
The roof of the Lackawanna round
house at Hoboken, n. j., was crushed III by
snow ON the 11th.-
TIE White Star steamer Celtic has
been spoken again. She was Jogging along
satisfactorily under sail.
The business failures for the week
ended on the llth were 533, slight de-
crease from the highest ON record.
4 NUMBER of Bedouin raids in South
ern Egypt have been repulscd and sew
eral uprisings pu- down recently.
CAREl's widow declines 10 90 abroad.
She asks for safe employment in Great
Britain.
CHINA has issued a call for volun-
teers. The ship channel in Canton River
has been blockaded all but a passage
ninety feet wide.
commission in the British army IN order to
accept service with the Belgians in the
Congo region.
THE Postal Committee of the House
will recommend a bill giving the Postmas-
ter-Gencral power to establish postal SER
vice wherever needed.
TdE Prince Edward Island fish mer-
chants are pJshing their claims against the
Dominion Government for damages result
ing from TIE fisheries treaty.
THE state of Senate Anthony's health
compels hum To de-nne the posi- ion of
Pres dent pro tempore OF the Senate,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-01-17

a !
by Broken RaiIs-Twenty-hve Persons
injured, but None FataIly-List of the
Wornded.
OMAHA, Mn, Jan. z.
The passenger train leaving Lincoln for
Omaha this morning over the Republican
Valley Branch of the Union Pacific was
ditched about fifty miles southwest of this
city by a broken rail. The baggage, mail
and two passenger coaches were tumbled
down an eight-toOt embankment and rolled
out on the prairie forty or fifty feet. The
engine passed over the weak spot in safety
and remained on the rails. The coupling
between the tender and the baggage car
snapped off. The only evidence of wreck
on the track was the missing rail, which
was soon supplied. The scene on the prai-
rie, however, where the fragments Of tho
cars were strewn about battles description.
two wrecking trains have been sent out to
the scene, Dr. Mercer, chief surgeon of the
Union Pacific, and three assistants went to
attend the injured. ....
The following is list of the iniurcdi
Mrs. Day Mills, of Marshall, Ia, G1ter
nal injuries on left side; had three chill
dren with her, one of whom was severely
bruised.
Mrs. Mary Bushnell, David City, Nob.,
bruised about the head.
1Yn1. !. McCutcheon, traveller for Weber
Wagon Company, residence unknown, left
arm injured
Rev. J. +. Osborn, Fremont, Neb., head
bruised.
Rev. c. G. Harris, lincoln, Neb., head
and side bruised.
Book-keeper for Nye g. Colson, from FIRE.
mont, Neb., collar-bone broken.
Miss Ayers, Illinois, bruised about the
chest.
Rev. John Miller, David City, Neb., shoul
der and back. ...-..s.
r. S. Rood, Lincoln, Neb., head and face
mashed
}. Nj. sierley, Stromsburg, Neb., two ribs
broken.
J. NJ. ogers, train conductor, right
shoulder dislocated.
Henry Osborn, brakeman, hand mashed.
j, c. Kimball, Omaha, express meSscn-
ger, chest and right leg hurt.
Louis Vesperman and wife, Lancaster,
Wis, slightly hurt about the hands.
G. D. Kaufman, Des Moines, right shoul-
der bruised.
John HommelI, Morate, Ia, confusion on
left foot
Mr.. Orr. Springfield, H., head and back
slightly bruised.
Marc Antony, left hand bruised
j. II. Armstrong, Peoria, Ill, cut over
right eye.
A. w. Smith, Dakota thigh broken.
The first seven are pretty badly injured,
but it is thought they viii recover. The
sufferers have been quartered at Valparai-
50, with the exception Of those able to
travel, who were brought to this city.
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A sTREEr-CAR stable burned near the
Union Depot in indianapolis, Ind, on the
9Th, causing an iucipient panic, but it
proved not TO be very formidable affair.
OK the 9Th n hotel at Bunker Hill,
H., and the Courthouse and Jail at Jer-
seyvillc were sacrificed to the fire-fend.
At the latter place four prisoners were
burned in their cells.
o. the .th two children were lost in
the burning of dwelling at Mechanics
town, o.
A NEGREss named Ph rbe Brown,
more than 100 years old, burned to death
the night Of the 4th in her cabin at Brook
IyH, III.
ON the 7th the inquest in the terrible
Crouch murder, near Jackson, Mich, was
resumed, and resulted in the finding by the
jury that the victims of the tragedy came
to their death by the hands of persons un-
known. Nothing was disclosed throwing
any light upon the terrible mystery. De-
tective skill has thus far been utterly
DafIlcd.
OK the sth the fall Of a scafIold in
Milwaukee, Wis, proved fatal to three
workmcn.
AT Meadyil.e, Pa, the Opera-house
Dl'3h tll-tl Oh lllt tNbil lbNn' ~ ''f''''s
IL New York three Cinnamon have
been arrested Tor the murder of a fellow
Celestial.
ON the 8th the steamer Katadin was
report od disab ed off the coast of Ma ne.
Ok the Sth the Norwegian bark Nor
ma, with a cargo of cement, was wrecked
near Galveston, Tex.
FIRE destroyed the cooper and black
smith shops # the Saltwater (Mnu.) Peni-
tentiary on the 9th; loss nearly 100000.
A SWITCH on the New Jersey Cen
iral Railway becoming clogged with ice
caused n collision near Easton, Pa, on the
9th, by which three persons were badly in.
iured.
A BAILIFF was assas,inated in Dublin
the night of the 9th while returning from
court.
WHILE returning to his home The
night Of the 10Th George Ashha, Of Delphi
Ind, was shot in the head and dangerously
wounded by some person unknown.
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the Water Bucket.
DALLAS, TEX, Jan. q.
The details Of horrible CRIME come from
the neighboring county of kaufman. A
poor, but honest and respectable, family
named Byrd haYe resided several years
past near kaufman, renters Of the farm of
DR.. Bennett. Last Thursday night ono after
another of the family, beginning with the
father, was attacked with violent spa8m-
like sickness until seven ont of the niue
members were prostratcd at the point ~
death. Medical aid was summoned. Ev-
cry symptom Indicated poisoning, and the
treatment was for that specific kind OF
sickness, emctics and otaer antidOtcs being
administered, but to no saving purpose.
BY Sunday evening last the father ana two
Of his little daughters we're corIsis aud
four other members Of tho family wcre not
expected TO live through the night. The
theory Of the poisoning is that whateycr
article was used was put i'm the family WA
terbucket about Thursday evening,
as investigation established the fact
that every one of tho sick had
drunk from tho bucket, while the
two who were not stricken hal not tHsted Of
the water, Who the pOisOner is has NOT
been thoroughly established but farmer,
name not learned, is strongly suspected.
The reasons for suspccting him are That %
suit Of clothes Of the accused without his
consent TO attend a circus at Dallas. Ife
had young Byrd tried before justice of
the peace for theft. Byrd was acquitted
and set free Ill-feelinE has since existed,
and the accused is said on several occa
sions to have threatened to have eycugc
for what he terms persecution Of himself
by the Byrds. The dead have all been kept
in the house awaiting results of the other
sick members, that pOst-mortem examina-
ton may be made on tire bodies Of NIL, that
the fact of death from poisoning may be
fully established and material for criminal
prosecution secured. Sheriff WILSON, who
arrived in Dallas this afternoon from kuuf-
man, saws that two more Of the victims are
undoubtedly dead, as they wore given up
by the physicians at a late hour last night.
He saws tine affair has created great excite
ment in the community, and the most e1s-
treme feeling against the suspected party,
against whom strong threats Of lyuchinE
are freely made. He had not been arrested
when Sheriff Wilson left Kaufman this
morning, but IT was probable that bee
would be, or surrender 20 the authorities
for safety duTing the day.
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THROUGH LACK OF CAUTION.
Gang of Twenty-Five NTeu working J" -
Railroad Cut Run into by n Hrssis'-Atf'"
Killed and Several Injured. r.

a Gang of Twenty-Five New working lh ~
Railroad Cut Run into by n Hr''iss--Ah'""
Killed and Several Injurrd. .s.
PrrrsHuRGu a, Jan. y
Brinton s alton. on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, eight miles east OF here, was tho
scene this evening of a terrible accident,
which resulted in the instant killing of tw"
men and the severe uiuring OF i've o'hors,
one OF whom has since died. All day
large force of men had ueen employed ON
the Pittsburgh Division Of tEe Pcnnsyl-
vania Railroad cleaning tho snow 4Fomthe
track. At n cut just east Of Brinion SON"
fifteen or twenty men were engaged th s
evening about seven O'Clock, when tho
Walls accommodation suddenly rounded
the bend at Brinton, AMI before an Gae men
could get out OF the cut thcy were run
down. The "a ain was stopped as quickly
as possible ana backed 10 the scene Oh the
accident, whru a terrible sight met iho
gaze of the passengers and train men. The
dead and dying We're scattercd along lhe
track Tor fifty yards. Tuc bodies on Two
men were found badly munglct aud' Iile
extinct. Five others were badly injured,
and one has since died in the hospital. Ihn
names Of the killed, with THO exception OF
Jacob Heidelburger, aged ~, are no known2
as the men were only engaged to-day, ana
were not even known 10 their fellow work
men.
The names of the injured are Frank -
liza, aged -, single; back hurt ngcrQuslE.
Herman Sands, aged 80, single; tight i'G
broken.
T. Chilli aged -, married dangerous
scalp wound: lett knee and arm fractured,
John Fisher, aged 30, single; right knee
fractured.
After the accident the men crowled ont
of the snow in all directions. The accident
was caused by tho failure Of the men to
have a lookout TO warm tltem of the mp
proach of trains, and ms it was durE and
escaDing, il was impossible To see or hear
Il train coming. H. is known that twenty
five men were working in the cut when tho
accident occurred, and all have been o''
cnIflltltl fnr
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Another FemaIe collage Burned.

COLUMBUS. GA, Jan. p.
The Columbus Female College burned
down this morning. The fire originated
from a defective 1ue, and when discovered
was so far under way it could not be con-
troled. Hydrants were frozen and tho
fremen had difficulty in thawing them.
All the inmates were aroused in time to
escape. The building cost So, ,00J, and was
insured for $4,000 The furniture was in-
sured for s., 900. The entire loss Is esti'
mated at about $4,000; loss over insurance
urobabIv - 600. The college was the prop
srtv of a stock company, q. r. Glenn, Presl-
dent. II was established seven years u1o,
and was in hourishing condition. It VIII 10
rebuilt.
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PORTLAND, ORE, Jan. 7.
An old man named Jacob Fisher had
desperate fight to-day, near the city, with a
young man named VIM. Bloxam, resulting
in the instant death OF the former. Domes-
tic difficulties caused the deadly row.
Fishers wife and daughter left him some
time ago in consequence of his cruelty, the
former obtaining divorce. Bloxam was
engaged to marry the girl, and naturally
espoused the cause Of the women. This led
to very bad blood between the men, who
met to-day. Both we're armed. The fight
began with pistols and ended with repeat
ing rifles. Thirty shots were fired. Blox-
am escaped without scratch. Fisher was
shot several times. Bloxam surrendered.
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KANSAS, it is said, will be called on to
request the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Company tC restore to the United
States $4,000 acres of land.
ON the 9th high wind and tide carried
to sea "A large number of bath-houses, stores
and other buildings at Atlantic City, n. J.
At various places on the coast serious dam
age is reported.
A CHALLENGE has been issued by the
eight-oared crew of the University Of Penn
syIvania for race with any crew, coupled
with threat to claim the championship if
the challenge is not accepted within sixty
days.
THE faculty of Harvard have again
declared against allowing college athletics
to be contaminated by professional train
ers, or a spirit of money-making or of
thickness or jockeying Of any kind.
The recent snow-storm in Central
Kentucky was the heaviest ever known
there. Snow fell to a depth of fourteen
inches at Richmond. In many places
farther east the snowfall is the heaviest
for many years.
IL Salt Lake City, Utah, a raid of
gamblers has begun, and on the 9th large
number Of the fraternity were taken into
custody.
The Pacific Mail steamer Toxic, from
Hong Kong, which reached San Francisco
on the OH, brought only twenty-one Chi
nese traders. The trade in the famous
Canton certificates IS supposedly checked.
FOUR locomotives were required to
haul the Canadian Governor-GeneraTs
train through the recent snow-storm to To-
r0nto. ...
STATISTICS sofpork-packingint the West
shows for all points TO the 10th inst. from
November ! a total of 3, 81, 900 hogs, against
4,o25,OO0 year ago, being a difference of
5000 hogs to date. Estimates for the en-
tire season foot up 6,oS5,o0O hogs, against
{, 6,l32,o0O last year. The belief IS expressed
that there IS more likely to be an increase
IN the number Tor the entire season than
decrease. 1t is believed the average weight
will be below last years.
HE announcement OF reductions OF
wages in Pennsylvania irou-works con-
tinUe.
TIE National Bank of Mexico prom
l-es fourteen per cent. dividend for the
fiscal year.
TIE amount required for improve
ment on roads in the Yellowstone Park this
year is estimated at $4,000.
On the 10th five Indians were killed
in fight between bands of Cuippewas and
Pottawattomics in Wisconsin.
TIE New York Chamber of Com
merce asks the President to take steps to
secure free commerce with the Congo re
gion.
For the coming season st. Paul, Min
neapolis, saltwater, Milwaukee, Muskegon
and Ierre Haute Will be represented IN the
Northwestern Baseball League.
II IS intimatcd that the Chicago EX-
position building may be torn down, and
the National Republican Convention will
be without house.
ON the night Of the 10th about $4,000
was realized at an entertainment for the
benefit of the poor in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Business men managed the affair, and only
local talent was employed.
On the 10th the Treasury Department
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RALEIGH, n. G., Jan. 9.
Saturday night on the plantation Of w
9. Taylor, Lcnoir County, an entire family
Of negroes, VIM. Groom, wife and six chill
dren, were burned to death. Tine weather
was the coolest Of the season, and 10 is sup.
posed large fire was made before retiring
and the house caught from brands falling
on the floor. 1t was not discovered till
noon Sunday, when neighbOrs who went 20
visit the family found nothing but tho
ashes of the house and the remains Of eight
human beings. The father and mother
were found near together; an infant be-
tween them, where the bed had stood. Tho
others were in their usual place Of rest.
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Accidentally Shot.

ELWOOp, IND, Jan. Z.
This morning, at the Kidwell farm, five
miles west of here, John Kidwell had a
loaded shotgun setting behind a dressing
case, and his wife, fearing some accident,
asked him to remove it. He attempted 30
do so, but the hammer striking the dress
ing-case the weapon was discharged, the
contents OF one barr striking Miss MOllie
Ring, Mrs. Kidwell's sister, in the right
side of the face, shatteTlng the jawbone
and tearing the tongue entirely out, and
producing a fatal wound. There were no
shot in the gun, the death wound being
caused by the heavy patent wad.
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WHY They Didn,t Marty.

LEXINGTON, Mo, Jan. z.
Miss Clara Hughes, who is one Of the
colored bellies of the city, was to have been
married to-day to Charles Talbot, an in
dustrious coIored man living few miles
from town. She is a Methodist and he is
Baptist. Each wanted minister Of their
own denomination to perform the cere-
mony, and neither would yield when the
wedding hour came, so the nuptial knot
was not tied and the twain still remain,
two people. Guests who had been invited
to attend the wedding lett greatly disap
pointed. One of them suggested that two
preachers perform the ceremony, but the
suggestion was scorned by the principals
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The old customs of the Virginia of
the cavalier period have not entirely dis
appeared, Notwithstanding a general
impression to the contrary. An English
traveller who has been present at we'd
ding in Virginia describes festivities
p >rthy of the pen Of a Thaekeray. The
Gid wains scotted rooms rung with laugh
ter as the company performed the old
Virginia reel. The colored cook sup
piled the da ntiest dishes, and after the
festivities at the paternal mansion, the
bride and groo.r went away on a series
of visits 10 country houses, where a repe-
tition Of the gaities awaited them
Phfl1deIDhtu Press
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-Respectinr the early postal

-KespectnE the carly postal IacTIl-
ties in Texas a writer in the Galveston
Neacs says: ''The intelligence Of the
death of President Jackson was brought
to Galveston by the master Of an Italian
brig, whose craft had stopped at the
mouth of the Mississippi and received a
New Orleans paper conta ming an ac-
count of the death of old Hickory
Neither the Captain nor any of his crew
being able to read English, the paper
was untouched until three days after
the arrival of the brig at this port when
it was accidentally discovered, and the
tidings were given to. the people of
Texas fourteen days after the Presi-
dents death. y
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CnTDrrs AND CASUALTIES.

OK the morning of the 9th the Park
Thcater al Cleveland, O., bul ned. 1t was
new building supposed to be fin e-proof.
On the 9TH Proctor a. CANDLES soap
factory burned az Cincinnati. O.i loss over
100000,
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. -

Patrick Murray had a talk about
matters with his wife in New York re-
Gently and she advised him to 90 to
confession. He went directly to the
Church of the Visitation, went into the
confessional and had just started on his
s<ory when he fell de4d.-N. J. Malk
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A young child was taken to church
in Quebec, Canada, the other day, and
baptized, and ahen the parents and
friends returned home the child was
found dead in its wraps Toronto Mail
Opium is smuggled in soles of Chi.
nese shoes at San Francisco. ~ San
Francisco Gail,
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TIre 8uIirar a}alIctiu.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING; F;

One square of eight lines, SI50 for tho FIRST
Insertion, and IS cents for each subscquept
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WHOLESALE POISONING.

seven out of "a Family Of Nin" Persons
POisOncd-Thrce Dead and the Others
Not Expected to Liye--A NeiGbbOr Sus-
pectcd of Having Placed the Poison LA
the Water Bucket.
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OVER AN EMBANKMENT.

a Passenger Train Thrown from the Track
by a Broken TtaiIe-Twenty-fvs Persons
Injured, but None FataIly-Llst of the
WoE nded.
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A washington Negro Boy who Onder''>'S
Wholesale Poisoning # Human belhES
and Cattle. lie Confesses Having hlie"
ms Mother and Aunt.