The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-22
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

IN AA0A tAOA0 COuntJg MAI AtAlANAg EAGthL
excitement existed on the 18th over the
attempted murder by tramp of Mrs.
Richard Carr, who had refused him food
or money. The man cut her throat severe
ly. The Sheriff was searching for the
man, and should neighbors catch him it
was certain he would be 1ynched.
On the 18th Parmele's malt house at Au-
burn, N. Y, burned; 10000 bushels of
barley were ruined. Loss, $4,000; insured.
ON the 18th the flour mill of Nat Palmer,
at Strong Point, Cumberland County, w.
Va, burned with n loss of $4,000.
FIRE destroyed the Post-office, four
stores and two other buildings at Far
well, Mich, on the night of the 1Ith. Loss,
S12, ,O90.
FURTHER details of the terrible Alabama
cyclone increase the list of casualties and
the amount of damage done.
AT Lockport, Ind, on the 18th seven
buildings were burned with loss of $780,
600.
ALARGE party of Polish employees in
the plow works at South Bend, Ind,
struck on the 18th and there was a riot
which almost required the calling out
of troops. The cause of the riot was be-
cause one hundred of the men refused to
quit work. There was some bloodshed.
A TERRIFIC dynamite explosion near
Somerset, Pa, on the 14th, resulted in the
death of two men.
THE offices of the American Legation in
London, Eng, were slightly damaged by
fire on the 14th.
On the 14th Ben f. TAFT, clerk of the Gin
cinnati Police Department, was arrested
on a charge of embezzling $4,000.
On the I4th Matthew Brown, promi-
nent citizen of Toledo, o., was run over
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POLICE COUNCILLOR RUMPFF was fatally
stabbed at Frankfort on the Main. 1t is
thought to be the work of unknown Social
lists.
ON the night of the 18th a farmer sixty
years of age, living near Howell, Mich,
who had mourned only nine weeks for his
deceased wife, when he took unto himself
4 another was given tin horn serenade.
/ A shot was fired into the crowd and one of
| the serenaders killed.
FIRE destroyed an elevator and 5000
\ bushels of grain at Big Stone, D. T., the
night of the 18th. Loss, $14, 600.
BY an explosion of fire-d damp forty eight
men were entombed in a coal mine in
/ France ON the 18th.
! ON the 10Th the bodies of four infants.
ranging from the age of one to three years,
were discovered buried near Big Rock
1 Bridge, Franklin, Pa. Great excitement
was occasioned by the find. The bodies
| were encased in rough boxes, and one, at
/ least, had been recently buried.
A FIRE in the dwelling of Abel Kitcharn
| in New York on the 18th, burned the owner
to death before he could be taken out. He
was over eighty years of age.
On the 10Th Matthew Brown, for many
years prominent grain merchant of To-
! ledO, O., and at present a Director in the
Second National Bank of that city, was
run over by a runaway team and received
injuries which were supposed to be fatal.
He is about eighty years old.
EARLING, Ia, was almost wiped out by
fire on the 18th. Ten business houses, and
the hotel and clearinghouse were destroyed.
Loss, over $4,000.
On the 18th Richard Olds, at the bottom
of the Star of the West Mine, at Butte,
/ Utah, gave the wrong hoisting signal.
/ The bucket turned with him and he fell
out, alightlng on an upright drill which
ran into his body, causing his death in a
\ few hours.
! THE Adams Express Company's Office,
| at Greenville, Conn, was robbed the night
| of the 1tth of 500 in money, taken from
! four c. o. d. envelopes. Frank W.
Brewster, agent of the company, was ar
rested and made a confession, returned
/ the money and gave bonds to appear for
/ trial.