The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-04-23

JOHN A. O'NEIL, of Hoboken, N. j., has
been appointed superintendent of Engrav =
Ing in the Treasury Department.
The President, a New York paper says,
wants it understood that his Cabinet ac-
cepted for the full term.
THE Royal Clan Of the Scottish Clans
met at Cleveland, o., on the 10th, end r.
R. Scott, Of st. Louis. Mo-, was elected
Royal Chief, and J. c. Dodds, of st. Louis,
Royal Secretary.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the 18th the Stiiman, the finest hotel
In Cleveland, O., was badly damaged by
fire. No lives lost
On the 18th Mrs. Strubbs, OF Indianap-
oils, Ind, died from the effects of lauda-
um taken with suicidal intent She died
with her baby in her arms.
In a New York elevated railway collis-
ion on the 18th, two trains were wrecked.
No one seriously hurt.
On the afternoon of the 18th eight five-
story tenement houses fell IN New York,
burying sixty workmen in the debris, a
number of whom were injured, several, it
is thought, fatally.
On the 18th A. T. Skinner, a grain deal
er OF Logansport, Ind, was killed by the
accidental discharge Of a gun that he was
cleaning.
AT Osceola, Mich, on the 18th, six men
were buried under 80 900 brick, a tier hav-
ing given away while they were cleaning
a smoke stack.
THE Grand Jury of the District of Co
lumbia on the 18th indicted Robert Butler
Malone, the son of Senator Malone, OF
Virginia. He was indicted for assault
with intent TO kill John Willis, an employe
lsNfN al EIofa al Muh xvh 4 fEe
drunk, drew revolver and fred at Willis,
the bullet touching the latter but not seri-
ously injuring him.
THREE Mexican horse thieves were
killed in fight with rangers near Eagle
Pass, Tex, on the 14th.
A RoLLER-CoAsTER collap sed at Toledo,
o., on the 14th, injuring a number Of
school children quite seriously.
FRANK P. LANDERs, charged with swim
/ ding jewelry firms out OF large amounts,
has been taken to Chicago by Pinkerton's
men from Boston, where he was arrested
on his arrival from Europe.
THE body of a murdered man was found
in tho Southern Hotel at st. Louis, Mo.
on the 14th, and was identified as that oi
c. Arthur Preller, an Englishman. 1t is
thought that he was murdered by w. H
Lennox Maxwell, who was with deceased
The body was badly decomposed and was
concealed in a zinc trunk.
ANDREW HOFFMAN, a wealthy farmer
of Muskingum County, Ohio, shot and
killed John Callahan, and then fed.
NEARLY the entire business portion ot
Bloomer, Wis, was destroyed by fire on
the morning OF the 14th, entailing an ag-
gregate loss on buildings and stock OF
$4,000; insurance, $50, 900. Fifteen OF
more business establishments were de-
stroyed. The fire is supposed to have been
of incendiary origin.
A TELEGRAM from Santa Fe on the 14th
announced a shooting scrape on a train,
and it was thought that a young English
man who acted in n mysterious manner,
and who somewhat answers the descrip-
tion, may be Maxwell, charged with the
Southern Hotel crime at St. Louis.
AT Evansville, Ind, on the 18th, a boat
capsized drowning Mary Draper, her little
daughter and her niece.
A BRITISH Consul in Armenia was
wounded recently and his quarters rifed
by marauders.
On the 18th George H. Humpf, a section
hand on the New York Central Railroad
killed his wife, child and himself.
A Mr.. Power, of Boston, says that
Preller, who was found murdered at St
Louis, was a sympathizer with the dyna.
miters, and that Maxwell was heard tC
say ''The whole crew ought to die"
On the 10th F. q. Small, a murderer,
was lynched at Pierre, Oak.
OK the 10th Senator Stanford's stables
in California were fred by tramps, and
112 horses and mules persisted.
AT Norfolk, Va, on the 10th, Rev.
Thomas Spencer, colored, was convicted
OF housebreaking. He was given five
/ years.
AT Newburg, N. Y, on the 18th, Hugh
McCann, a blind man over eighty years
of age, was indicted for the murder of his
/ wife.
FIRE totally destroyed the office of the
Buffalo IN. W Express on the evening ot
the 10Th, caused by the carelessness of the
porter in lighting one Of the lamps in the
composing room. There were many mar
row escapes, but no loss of life. Loss about
! $3.50, 900.