The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-04-16

light before she would sing in Chicago.
Il was her foriginal contract, which Ma
1leson was endeavoring to scale down to |
1900.
THE Mahdl has been severely defeated |
1t EI Obeid. He viii not attack Dongola |
until after the feast of Ramadan, three
months hence.
ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN Demo-
cratic Postmasters were commissioned on
the 9th to fill vacancies.
In is related that although Senator
Payne, OF Ohio, has filed some thirty odd
applications for consulships, he has not
yet secured sn appOintmens in the consul
lar service.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A CONFESSION has been made by Daniel
b. Blatt, who lives in the finest house In
Youngstown, O., and who is a deacon IN
the church, that he IS forger TO the
amount of 5000.
Four people were burned to death in a
house near Asheville, Tenn, the night OF
the 5th Foul play is suspected.
DURING the month of March the losses
bv fire were Sc, ,00O, ,O09 in the United States
and Canada
ON the 9th, at fire in Halifax IN. 81
boarding house, Jas. Fuller was burned to
death. Several fishermen, who were sleep
ing in the upper part of the house, escaped
NV humping from window to the arm Of
a telephone pole and then sliding to the
ground
FIRE destroyed o. C. Steenaburgh's sash
and door factory at Fond du Lac, Wis.,,
together with large stock of product, on
the 9th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, Sl2,-
900.
FIRE destroyed the Leon Hotel at Talia-
| hasse, Fla, on the 7th.
JOHN D. MCKEE, an oil broker of Pitts
burgh, Pa, committed suicide on the 7th.
! ANTHONY RYAN, of Rushvile, Ind, was
run over by a train and killed at Colum-
/ bus, o., on the 7th.
| AT Fort Madison, Washington Terri
| tory, an Indian woman threw a lamp at
/ George Hoeg. 1t exploded and burned
/ Hoeg to death.
On the 7th John L. Cummings, a clerk in
i the First National Bank of Cincinnati, was
shot dead in a street car by q Mr.. Nc
MILAN, who charged the former with the
ruin Of the latter's daughter.
THE negro, Howard Cooper, who as
saulted Miss Kate Gray near Rockland
Md, was caught and placed in a Baltimore
jail.
On the sth Nelson Edwards, n New Yorl
dentist, cut his throat with a razor.
AT Davenport, Ia, Gilbert L. Parker
and Fred V. Rogers were drowned on the
! Sth.
ON the sth Thos. McClintock, of Chicag o
was robbed of 1000 while on a train neal
Pittsburgh, Pa.
OPEN threats of lynching are mad'
against George Mcmillan, of Newport
Ky. who killed John Cummings.
On the Sth Edward Lambert, of Chicago
shot and killed his mother-in law, wound
ed his wife and then killed himself.
AT Phoenix, Ariz., on the Sth, a Mormon
Bishop and an Elder pleaded guilty to tn
charge of polygamy and were sentenced t.
ninety days in jail.
ON the Sth Frederick Greiner, convicted
of the murder of Margaret Zeling las
September, was sentenced at Columbus
O., to hang on July oath.
M. SEIBERT & Co.'s immense furnitur
factory at Pittsburgh, Pa, was destroye
by fire on the 9th
ONE of the ballot boxes in Chicago wa
stolen, and several men have been arrest
, ed, charged with the theft.
In a terrible hurricane at Tamativ
Madagascar, on the 25th of February, new
of which has just been received, twelv
vessels foundered in the harbor, tiv
French and six native vessels and th
American bark Sarah Hobart.
. ANOTHER heavy fall of rock is threa
ened in the Raven Run Mine in Pennsy
vania, and the recovery of the bodies
i. the ten men overwhelmed by the first ia
\ is despaired of.