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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06
DANGEROUS DYNAMITE.

The Terrible Results OF Explosion OF
Dynamite Carried Careiessly in n Buggy
i'm Proximity to "A Political Parade-Ignit
ed by Sparks From Fireworks.
ToMAH, WIS, october 80.
At a Democratic demonstration last
evening an accident of the most DISTRESS
ing description occurred. While the
torchlight procession was in form, and
marching through Main street, an explo-
sion of dynamite occurred, resulting in
the death of Lewis Styles, of this city and
the fatal injury of Albert Hancock, of Val
ley Junction. Thirty cartridges were
placed in a buggy and caught fire from
the sparks from the fireworks, some OF
which were in the same convey
ance. The horribly managed body
of Styles was picked mp some distance
from the explosion. Visiting delegations
were notified and the meeting postponed.
Great damage was done to the buildings
on both sides of Main street Tor block.
The glass and sash in all windows were
more or less broken and lights in stores
extinguished Il. Lombard was in the
buggy with Styles, and realizing the
danger, jumped and miraculously escaped
death. The escape Of others ia the inn
mediate vicinity was wonderful. Styles
leaves widow and one child.
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Operations of the Pension Bureau.

WAsHTNGTON, D. O, UctOber ~.
Third Auditor Keightly, in his annual re-
port to the Secretary Of the Treasury,
states that the financial operations of bis
Office during the last year involved S94,-
676,45G. The report shows that during
the year pension agents made disburse-
menfs as follows: On accounts Of inya-
lids. S4I,01I,lO6 widows, s6,5I7 ,Oo4i
minors, 81 ,109,4 dependent relatives
S5,497, ,454. On account Of the war ol
1912, there were paid to survivors during
the year S27s, $50, and to widows si,OoS''
802 The amount paid 10 surgeons az tht
several agencies during the year aeste'
gated 1886. .725.
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RUSSIAN OIL WORKS.
The Most Productive OF PennsyIvaia Oil
Wells Out done by Those in the Russian
Port of BaICoo, on the Caspi IN Sea.
TTTusyITUE pa October %

The Most Productive OF PennsyIvafa Oil
Wells Out done by Those in the Russian
Port of Bakoo, on the Caspian Sea.
TITUsyLLE, PA, October %
Butler special says: "Phillips' well
No. l is doing thirty-one barrels an hour
and Phillips No. ?, forty six barrels The
Christie well is doing seventy-fivc barrels
an hour, the Corners well ninety-flye bar
rels and the Armstrong well 500 barrels"
For the past two months the Titusville
Herald has been making extensive inquir-
les abroad among cOnsuls and Petroleum
Associations with view ofpTocuTing reli-
able information as to the Russian oil fields
and what is likely to be the extent of
their competition with American pctrO-
lcum. A long article is published in the
Herald to-day showing that there exists
at Bakoo, on the Caspian Sea, extensive
oil fields, prolific beyond anything known
iu the United States. The records fur
nisbed by the owners of some of the
wells are given. One well produced
nearly one thousand barrels in the
first half hour; and another well
did 5000 barrels a day. Another well
produced $4,000, 900 gallons OF crude oil,
which was sold for sixteen cents a ton for
fuel, there being no demand for it for IL
Eliminating purposes. Consul General
Perry estimates the minimum produc-
tive capacity of the Bakoo fields at 46,-
000,00 tons of crude oil a year.
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A Sad Fate.

H OMAHA, NEB., October q.
Information is received of the acci-
dental death of George ball, formerly of
Omaha, and his sister near North Adams,
Mass, by being run over by a railroad
train while crossing the track in bug
gy. Han had both legs broken and his
skull fractured, and his sister had h.r
skull crushed. They were the Ouy chill
dren of an aged widow at Stamford,
VT, and were on their way home. Hall
was formerly employed for several years
as bookkeeper for BarkaIow Brothers,
railroad news agents here.
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WnISKYs WORK.

Terrible Tragedy i'm Georgia as The Result
OF Over.Tndulgencc In strong Drink-A
Wife and sister-in-Law Murdered,
TALLULAH, GA, october so.
A Asickening tragedy was enacted in Rob
IN County yesterday. Mr.. Eugene Beck,
leading citizen, has been addicted TO
the use of strong drink. He returned
home this afternoon, and began quar-
rel with his wife, when he drew re-
volver and emptied five charges into her
head and heart, the woman sinking
dead at his feet. Miss Addie Bailey, his
sister-in-law, who was in an adjoining
room, rushed in, when the remaining
charge of the fiend's revolver was emp
tied into her heart. Beck then fell on
the floor in Il drunken stupor, from which
he was awakened by the officers who ar
rested him. 1t is expected that he viii
be lynched, as the jail is insecure, and
the relatives of the murdered woman
are desperate men.
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THE TRUTH OF IT.
The Story of Governor 81. johns Mntrimo-
ninI Experience-Reply to "a Recent Sensa~
satiOnaI Newspaper Report.

Tho Story of Governor ST. johns mntrttno-
NAL FxpeFience-Reply to IA Recent Sensa-
sattOnaI Newspaper Report.
CHICAGO, Ill, october 81.
An article having appeared i'm the papers
charging that ST. John, the Prohibitionist
candidate, had been divorced from his
wife for desertion, and mad neglected to
provide for their child, Mr.. Van Vleet,
editor of the LeUcr, was asked for infor-
nation as TO The truth:
'Whcn St. John was in Chicago he sent
for me and told the story of his first mar
riage. He did this for fear, he said, that
the Republicans might base some siam
derous story upon it. lie told me that
when he was nineteen years old, while
living in Richiand County, H., he made
fool of himself by marrying young lady
of that neighbOrhoOd. Soon after be dis
covered he had been deceived, and there
upon went 10 California to permit her 10
gct a divorce for desertion A year or
two afterward, ne returned, when public
sentiment fully sustained him, and he
married his second wife"
'"Did he neglect 10 provide for their
SOM"
"Ic said he did not. lie said he gave
the boy an excellent education, and that
he was now in railroad Office out West
doing finely'
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Prosperous Idaho.

WAsHISGToE, D. c., October "a
Governor Bum, of Idaho, In his an
nual report to the Secretary of the In
terror states that the funded debts of the
Territory is but s69, PCS, and the popula-
ton is So, 00O sufficient to secure Idaho's
admission into The Union as q State. The
assessed property of the Territory is
Sc, $50, ,0O0-an increase of over fifty per
cent over last year. The principal in
dustry of the Territory is mining. Gov
ernor Bum says ''the Coeur d'Aiene belt
is one of the richest mining districts in
the country" The output OF mineral
wealth during the past year Is estimated
70 have amounted TO about 81, 7,000, 900.
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THE MAN HE WANTED.
4 Man Indicted for Horse Stealing with
out III Knowledge Walks Iuto Jail Like
Rat Into n Trap-A Faithlcss Womau's
Unseemly Grief.

out H s Knowledge Walks Into Jail Like
Rat IntO "a TTap-A Faithlcss Womau's
Unseemly Grief.
MULFoRD, PA, October %.
In the Pike County Court, held
here last week, young man named Fred
Drake was placed ON trial for stealing a
valuable horse, belonging to his
brother-in-law, John Quinn. He
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
seven years hard labor in the
Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia
From Drake it was learned that he had
an accOmplice in the horse-stealing, and
the Grand Jury, therefore, indicted a man
named AnZie White, and. a warrant was
issued for his arrest. Greatly to the sur
prise of Sheriff Williamson, who
should call at the jail on Sunday last but
the very man White, for whom
he had n warrant, accompanied by brakes $
wife, the latter having visited the jail for
the purpose of bidding her husband good
bye The wary Sheriff invited White into
the cell adjoining that occupied by Drake
and, after locking the door, read to him
the warrant for his arrest. White was
dumbfounded, as he had not learned that
he was even suspected, let alone indicted
for the crime of horse stealing Since the
arrest of Drake his wife, who isyoung and
pretty, about twenty years Ofage, has been
living with White at his house. Mrs.
Drake was greatly affected by Whites
arrest, and Wcpt cOpiouSly, as she con-
vcrscd with him through the cell door,
appearing to have no thought for her hus-
band. Between her sobs she said White
was innocent of the crime charged against
him by her crring husband, and that she
could prove it when the proper time comes.
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nIIsCELLANEOUs.

THE United States Supreme Court, in a
longevity case, decides that the time of
service as cadet in the Military Academy
at West Point must be regarded as "actual
time srvice in the army" within the
meaning of acts of Isl and 80, in comput-
ing his longevity pay.
AT Petersburg, Va, there is so much
poverty since the closing Of the cotton mills
that Citizens Committee has been ap-
pointed to supply the necessaries of life for
225 families.
ARRANGEMENTS have been perfected for
a new trunk line railroad between
Pittsburgh, Pa, and the seabOard. 1t
win be known as the Seaboard q Western.
1T is announced that the Metropolitan
Bank of New York win so into hquida-
tion and retire from business.
on the 2Sth a majority of the judges of
the Supreme Court of Ohio declared the
Scott hquor-tax law unconstitutional. The
decision caused considerable excitement
in the cities and towns throughout the
State.
OK the 2Sth a severe gale swept over the
British Isles, causing great destruction OF
property at various points.
A CAIRO dispatch of the 18th an Hunced
that Khartoum had fallen after desperate
struggle by General Gordon and his fol-
lowers. The report, however, lacked con-
firmation.
THE strike Of the Pennsylvania coal
miners has collapsed and the men are re-
turning to work at the proposed reduction
On the 2Sth the Grand Division of Rail-
way Conductors met in convention at Bos-
ton, Mass. They viii meet in Louisville
KY, next year.
IN his expedition to Khartoum, General
Wolseley viii have $500 English troops
The Mudir Of Dongola has promised to
furnish contingent of 5000 men, to be
] armed with Remington rifles.
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STARVATION AMID PLENTY.

A widow Lady, Once in AfIuent Circum-
stances, Literally starved to Death in the
City of IsrotherIy Love.
PHILADELPHIA, a, october 80.
An inquest held on the body Of Mrs.
Johanna McCord developed the fact that
the woman had actually died from starva-
ton. Mrs. McCord was formerly quite
rich, but her husband lost his money and
died, leaving her penniess. She was re-
duced 10 want. when Mrs. Margaret Wal
LACE, herself very poor, discovered her.
For weeks they gradually starved, and all
their combined worldly possessions, save
their scant clothing, found its way to the
pawnshop. Last Monday they met Chas.
Hamm, a grocer, who gave them room
over his store, but Mrs. McCord had
already suffered 50 severely from want
that she died next day.
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a widow,s sacrIace.

ST. LOUIS, BIO, UctOber 30.
Lizzie Schaffer, widow with five chill.
dren, has lived at 92l North Seventh foI
some time past. She was very poor, and
occupied a single back room on the third
story. About six O'Clock last evening
she saw the four-year-old child Of a neigh
bor named Levy trying 10 scramble into
her window from porch close by In
her anxiety 10 save the child she, as she
clutchcd it, oycrbalanccd herself and fall
ing to the bricks below was instantly
killed. Strange to say, the child, which
fen clasped To her breast was unIniured.
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A Fendish Crime.

TRoY, IND, October S3.
Last night Mrs. Geo. Foster was in her
house, about ten miles from this place,
when a mau passing along the road
stepped in and asked to stay all night.
About eight Mrs Fosters house was
seen to be on fire. 1t was beyond saving
when the neighbors reached it, and IN
the embers the remains of Mrs. Foster
were found with marss, which plainly
showed that she had been murdered.
The whole neighborhood is aroused and
a large crowd is securing the co untry Ia
search of the fend.
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ing Factory fu SetIgIng the Safety OR
Others Results ia the Sacrifice of His own
Life,
CHICAGO, Ill, october 20.
In the building corner of Michigan and
Canal streets, occupied by several firms,
there was a tremendous boiler explosion
shortly after noon to-day. The windows
in the rear upon the alley, where the en-
gine aud boiler were located and part of
the wall were blown out. In an instant
the flames followed, . and the entire
structure was choked with smoke. Upon
the topmost floor were twenty-one girls,
and eighteen men and boys.
There was in the rear what is known as
q fire stairway lined with iron. Down
this the girls and men groped their way,
their skirts and jackets pressed to their
nostrils. James w. Carr, foreman of the
cigar-box factory on the top floor, who
gave warning to his employees, was, it is
said, the last to leave the floor. He fol-
lowed the men to the third floor and
asked anXiously whether all were on
hand. Fearful that some might be left
behind, he turned back. The employees
CROPPED their way to the ground floor and
escaped
A few minutes later Carr, the foreman,
was seen at a fifth-stOry window. He
crept out upon the cOrnice in the dense
smoke ana flames ana let himself down to
the window-sill by his fingers Men rushed
to the roof of the building across the alley
with ropes. 1t seemed to the excited
witnesses of the terrible scene as if the
brave fellow clung there five minutes.
had to turn my head away from the
awful scene. Men below with canvas he Id
it stretched out, but finally Carr caught a
rope with his left hand and loosened on
the ~&. He dropped but could not retain
his hold and plunging through the canvas,
was picked up bleeding and it is said lis
neck was broken.
1t is rumOred that several men are miss
ing but in the confusion nothing definite
can be learned, and it is believed the ru.
i. l.
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Declared Unconstitutional by the Ohio
Supreme COurt-The Effect of the Deci-
siOns
COLUMBUS. o., October 2s.
The Scott Law was this morning de-
cIared unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court.
COLUMBUS, O., October %.
The decision of the Supreme Court that
the Scott law isunconstitutional will bank
rupt nearly all the cities in the State, as
levies for the year were made on the sup
position that the law was constitutional
and would bring into the Treasures of
counties and cities a stipulated amount
of money. In Columbus, for example,
between SIS, 900 and 500, 900 were real
lied from the tax list and none Of the
amount has been paid this year. he
great question with municipal and coun-
ty authorities is how they will secure i'm
mediate relief from the embarrassing sit
uatioD, the Legislature not being in ses-
sion to grant authority.
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soUTHBURY, CoSE., October %.
On Sunday Mrs. Maria Enchat was
found at the foot of her cellar steps dead
and bruised with lamp in one hand and
the Iamp-chimney at distance from the
lamp. How she came there Is a mys-
terry, but the Coroner said IL was an ac-
cidenfal death The verdict is ques-
toned by the people, who argue that it is
at variance with all the circumstances.
The people ask If she fell backward down
stairs, how II was that her eyes and nose
showed marks Of violence and how If She
fell forward, the back Of her head should
be particularly injured. They await All
explanation
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A TERRIBLE CRIME.

A Husband Returns From His Work to
Find His Wife Beaten to Death With n
Club in the Hands of His Own Mother
Tho Murderess Handed Over to the
Authorities.
PALESTINE, TEX, October %.
Mrs. Elizabeth Parker, OF Eikhart, was
lodged in jail in this place charged with
numbering her daughter-in-law. The
G. ime with which she is charged is most
horrible in its de ails. Her son, Andrew
Parker left home IN the evening to attend
to his business, leaving mis- Ti!e and two
little children with his mother. As Pat-
ker neared his home at about niue O'Clock
at night, he heard his wife screaming.
He entered the house just in time to see
his wife fall and expire, while over her
body stood
HIS OWN MOTHER,
infuriated with anger, holding a heavy
club in her hand. Parker's wife would
have become mother in a few weeks.
The poor victim was beaten black and
blue across the shoulders aud abdomen.
Parker kept the particulars of the ter
rible murder q secret for few days, but
finally concluded, in justice to his chill
dren, to let the law take its own course
and swore out warrant against his
mother. \ Coroner's Inquest developed
the above facts. No explanation is offered
for the mothers brutal conduct towards
her sons wife. The case is attracting
great attention by reason of the fact that
the sole witness against Mrs. Parker is
her own son. She was held in default of
$50, 600 bail.
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A Valuable Prisoner.

LEAvENwORTH, KAs., October %.
Major Wasson, the United States army
payraster who was sentenced to serve
eighteen months in the Kansas State Pen
jtentiaI-v. was released from the prison
to-day. and will 20 direct to Des Moines,
Ia, where his parents reside. lie has
never been closely confined, and being a
good civil engineer, planned and almost
superintended a fine system Of water
works for the prison until its completion.
He was out great portion Of the time on
surveying expeditions, locating ground
for the coal mine at the prison.
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Bad Management.

CAIRO, October D.
The supplies sent from England for
the Nile expedition are arriving at Wady
aalfa In a very confused way. There are
immense quantities of some one ine of
articles, and none at aH of 9TH
ers. A serious result of this
bad management is that the troops
will be deprived of tobacco and of many
medicines. The Canadians have got
we'll under way and overcome the OBJ
stacIes I'm their path with great ease.
The whale boats are very success
ful. The steamer conveying the Camel
Corps was partially disabled at AssoRaT
and at Assiout-
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MRS. DIR. PAYY.

Her Abilities and Her Necesslties-aow
They Should be Recognized.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, October %.
Mrs. DR.. Payy, widow Of the Arctic ex-
plorer, arrived on the "Bayou Sara" this
morning. Her stay in New Orleans, where
her husbands relatives live, was chiefly
spent in endeavoring TO obtain situation
as chief of a department in the Worlds Fair
Her friends in this city have looked with
favor upon the idea of urging that the De-
partment of Missouri be given to her as a
recognition of her ability and her ne
cessity, which latter is very
urgent, as she has received no assistance
from the Government, not even her hus-
bands back pay, due two years ago. The
seminary which she conducted at Mary
vile, Mo, during the dark, uncertain
hours through which she waited for her
lost husband closed last June, and she
has been financially unable to reopen IT,.
While in st. Louis she viii be the guest
of Deputy Marshal Couzins.
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and His Followers and the Capture of
Khartouna by the False Prophets Lowest.
ing Force.
Carlo, October rs. +
Anxiety exists here and at Wada Halfa
and Dongola over the persistent rumors s
ftom nat We sources now ahoat at both
the latter places to the effect that Khar-
toum has at last succumbed to the re-
peated attacks of the rebels. Accord
ing to native reports received at Dongola,
the rebels, who have been menacing
Khartoum for several months, recently
received large reinforcements from the
Mahdi. Early in the morning they made
a sudden onslaught on Khartoum, and
Notwithstanding Gordon's followers
fought desperately, the town was soon
at the mercy of the enemy, who swarmed
into the place from the surrounding
country.
Another report says General Gordon
was surprised through the treachery of
some Egytian troops under him, and was
compelled to surrender by overwhelming
odds after a desperate attempt to drive
the rebels back. A thousand of the lat
ter were killed.
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POLICEMAN SCHERLoH, OF Cincinnati,
died on the Both of wounds received during
the disturbances which occurred at the Oc-
tober election.
TEE King Of the Belgians has presented
King Humbert of Italy with silver medal
for devotion to the echolera-strickenp people
of Naples.
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A HERO'S FATE.

Tho Brave Action of the Foreman of Burn-
ing Factory Ia Soaking the Safety Of
Others Results ia the Sacrifice of His own
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TIle golipar 9ulIetiu.
TERMS OF ADVERTTaTNa .

One square Of eight lines, sl.50 for the arae
Insertion, and q celits Tor each subseeueDt
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KHART0UM FALLEN.

The Reported Defeat of General Gordon
and His Followers and the Capture of
Khartoum by the False Prophets lowest.
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THE SCOTT LAW

Declared Unconstitutional by the Ohio
Supreme COurt-The Effect Of the Deci-
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a Thirteen Year Old brooklyn Boy, Driven
to Desperation by In-Treatment at the
Hands of a Bully, PIunges rs Pocket
knife Into His Assailant's Heart.