The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-02-26
URn1Es AND CASUALTIES.

On the 10Th two men met horrlDle |
death at Cleveland, o., by being caught |
on a railroad bridge with no foot-rack. A
passing engine cut them to pieces.
A TERRIBLE snow-slide swept through
the mining camp OF Alba, in Utah, on the
14th, destroying three-fourths OF the town
and killing sixteen persons.
AT Boise City, Idaho, as the result of a
bitter political fight, a Republican news
paper Office was sacked, and an attempt
made to burn the Democratic organs Of
fee.
SEVENTEEN persons were killed by an
explosion in a magazine at Gibraltar on
the 10th.
THE planing-mill of Mills, Shellmier 6
Co., Cincinnati, o., were damaged by fire
on the 10th to the extent of $4,000.
OK the 10th eight cases of dynamite were
stolen from a magazine in Westchester
| County, New York. 1t was thought that
| Socialists committed the robbery.
IN the pocket of the young man who
murdered his sweetheart and then killed
himself at Shelbyville, KY, on the 10th,
was found poem, headed: "DaisY, dar-
| ling, God has called thee"
On the 18th a terrible mine explosion oc-
| Cured near Wilkesbarre, Pa. One man
was killed and several injured.
| THE police Of New York are at work on
a genuine case of garroting and highway
robbery that happened on Third avenue
on the night Of the 18th.
! A SPECIAL. from Tombstone, Ariz., says
a fire on the 18th des stroyed the entire busi-
ness portion of the town of Bisbee. Loss,
| 100000
MAURICE WENDELL, Secretary of the
! Aurora Watch Company, Chicago, is
| charged by the other officers with hav-
ing spent 500 600 of the concerns money.
FIRE destroyed 2. Bartlett q Sons ho-
siery mill at Lake Village, N. H, the night
of the 10th; also Horace Woods var n
mill. The loss of Bartlett & Sons is $l2,-
600; Woods, ST, 900. One hundred men are
thrown out of employment.
THE noted imported stallion Brudont,
worth SIS 900, and other valuable horses
were burned in a stable near Cheyenne,
WV. T., on the 18th.
FIRE at the Memphis wharf on the 18th
which started in the Ida Darragh, burned
that boat and her cargo, and also spread
to the steamer City of Helena, of the
Anchor Line, and that was also destroyed
together with the wharf boat and contents
The Helena was valued at 100000. TOta
loss, Sl50,000
THE pulp mill connected with William
A. Russell & Sons paper mill at Law
, renee, Mass, burned the night Of thu
: | 18th, with its valuable machinery. Ih'
loss is not less than $4,000; fully in
| sured.
i AT the burial ground ATTACHED to the
Pisgah Church, five miles from Point
Pleasant, w. Va, the sexton on the 1Stl
found a half dozen bodies taken from
graves and strewn about on the ground
There is no clew to the perpetrators, no
: to their motive.
EDWARD RYLAND, a well-known forge
and check-raiser, pleaded guilty in New
. York on the 18th, and was sentenced t
State Prison for five years. His yOunl
wife, Elsie who assisted him in his oper
ations, is now serving a twO-and- half
years sentence.
(. FIRE destroyed the Thomas block a
\ Brazil, Ind, on the 10Th. Loss, $780, 900.
], OK the 18th the Grannis block was near
" destroyed by fire in Chicago. The los
- is very heavy.
BY collision on the Virginia Midlan
-, Road on the 18th, several persons weT
: killed, the cars set on fire, and both train
r. were burned.
~ On the 10th Philadelphia was visited b
n disastrous conha grafton. A number
stores and warehouses were des stroyed, in
!, volving loss of S4OO, 200.