The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-02-12
SOUTHERN oLEANlNes.

years OF age, was murdered near Jo1eS-
boro, Ala, a few days ago, and his wife
and two daughters are charged with the
crime.
Mrs. Cole, widow of Judge James L.
Cole, of Placquemine Parish, aged sixty
nine, was found murdered in bed a few
mornings ago. Thieves took her jewelry.
including diamond ring from her finger,
Five persons have been arrested on sus-
picion.
Franklin J. Moses, formerly Governor of
South Carolina, recently finished a term
of three months in the Detroit (Mich.)
House of Correction for obtaining money
on false pretenses. He was at once ar
rested by Boston officer, to stand trial in
that city on an Indictment for swindling
Colonel T. w. Higginson and several other
professors Of Harvard University.
On returning to his home in Jackson
County, Georgia. a few nights ago, Mr..
Basil White found his bride wife hanging
dead from a joist in the stable Her
maiden name was Elizabesh Beatty, and
she had been married but one week, her
husband being widower with one child.
The new relations hip proving irksome she
sought relief in suicide.
The mother of a dead infant found in
Dallas, Tex, few days ago, in well,
has been discovered in the person of Ella
Coleman, young woman from Sherman,
Tex. When her crime was discovered she
took train for the East, and officers went
in pursuit of her. She is a prepossessing
young woman, single and about eighteen
years old.
A few nights ago a farmer named z.
Smith, residing four miles north of Gov
| ington, Tenn, was murdered by unknown
persons. His body was found in the woods
near his house, his skull having been split
open by hatchet. Robbery is believed to
have been the cause of the murder, the
money in his posses sion at the time having
| been taken.
Fire at Lewisville, Tex, few nights
ago, destroyed the principal part of the
town. The heaviest losses, with insurance,
are: B. Plew, loss, g, 600; insurance, 81, 700;
w. H. Hyder, loss, s., 900; insurance, s., 600;
FL. Owens, loss, $500; insurance, none; John
Kealy & Co., loss, $1,000; insurance, none:
Mrs. May Rawlings, loss, s., 800; insurance,
none; E. F. Slower, loss, 81 800; insurance,
none. The total loss is estimated at $1O,-
! 900. The origin is thought to have been
| incendiary.
During the year 1888 Ballard County,
| KY, lost several bridges, the most i'm
| portant passways in the county. A reward
of $1,000 was offered for the apprehension
of the guilty parties, with evidence
| to convict. No clue was obtained,
and would never have been, most
likely, but for the arrest, a short
time ago, of VIM. Beard, charged with
| breaking into store. After the arrest and
| incarceration of Beard, he concluded to
cause the bridge burning business to be
divulged and secure the company of his
confederates. He managed to get an in
terview with Mildred Coffee, of that
county, one of the party, and induced him
| to pea ch on Tobe Hendricks, who, Coffee
says, fired the Scarborough bridge across
| the west fork of Mayfield Creek, on the
Milburn & Paducah Road. Hendricks was
arrested upon Coffee's affidavit, and is in
! jail at Wickliffe. He denies any znowI-
edge of the burning, but it is understood
that both Beard and Coffee will testify to
the effect that they saw him setting fire to
it. 1t is hoped that further developments
will reveal the whole diabolical scheme by
which Ballard County suffered so heavily
in the loss of bridges, as well as hersCourt-
house, by fire.
VIM. Garlock, late cashier of the sus-
| pended Island Savings Bank Of Galveston,
Tex, died a few days ago from paralysis.
John Drake, who murdered his wife at
| Thomaston, Ga, has been sentenced to be
hanged on the 2Oth of March.
Alice Thomp son, col ored, was shot and
fatally wounded by Samuel Reynolds,
colored at Nashville, Tenn, few days
ago, because she refused to marry him
Reynolds escaped.
A band of rustlers raided a stock-ya ard
in the eastern part Of San Antonio, Tex,
few nights ago, and ran off fifteen head
of horses, valued at s. 900.
The safe in Pat Byrnes' saloon in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, was cracked few nights
ago by professionals and s., 4,000 stolen
! s., 200 in greenbacks and 81, ,775 in notes. A
diamond drill was used in cutting the hole
into the combination, and it was then
| shattered with a chisel and the door
| opened.
The boiler in the Snider Brewery at
Louisville, KY, exploded a few days since.
John Bush, an employe, was struck and
fatally injured by piece of iron. Frank
and Henry Kippers and Rudy LamIeng,
three children playing in an adjacent yard,
were struck and seriously hurt. The cause
of the explosion was a mystery.
There are rumors of mismanagement of
the Marine Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
| Charges are made by ex-patients of negli-
gent attention, dirt, and want of kindly
care on the part OF the nurses. Afffdavits
have been prepared and forwarded to the
Surgeon General of the Army, with a
view to having him examine into the
| matter.
The dead body of James Evans, white.
! was picked up near the mouth of DooIey's
Bayou, La, few days ago. Evans
started from Mooringsport, in Caddo Par
| ish, for Shreveport in skiff during the re-
cent cold spell and was last seen alive by
a passing colored man in the act of making
| fire in his skiff, which was moored at the
mouth of the bayou.
The jail at Abilene, Tex, was set on
fire few days since by a prisoner named
Butler, charged with robbing a drumm er
named Levy, from Fort Worth Butler
was arrested but a short while before and
swore that he would burn himself out, but
no attention was paid to the threat, and he
was confined with pocket full of match
es The door was ignited and the flames
gained considerable headway before dis
covered.
The pistol must go, says Georgia.
NJ NJ Carter and Berry Hamilton, al
legged murderers of Drew. .Sitton, were cap
tured at Lindale, Tex, and lodged in Jail
at Tyler. Other parties are implicated
and their arrests are expected.
Miss Carrie Beusse, daughter of Captain
Henry Beusse, of Athens, Ca, was sitting
in the hallway Of their residence a few
nights ago, while several young gentlemen
were practicing with parIor rifles. Louis
Braden aimed at the door-post and fired
lust as Miss Beusse raisedIfrom her seat,
the ball striking her in the temple and
grazing around to the other side, infiicting
a dangerous wound.
Lucy Peek, 115 years Of age,,was burned
to death at Crawfordville, GA.
Walter Standiford and D. Young quar-.
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