The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-04-09

Columbus, o., was burned on the evening
of the S1st.
J. G. GoFF, a merchant, was killed at
Mont Calm, la, on the 31st by r. HI. Jones.
1t was the result Of an d feud.
WITHOUT reason or provocation youth
boarded a freight train o. the Norfolk q
Western Road in Virginia on the 31st, and
seriously stabbed the conductor.
On the 1st the Emery candle factory at
Cincinnati, o., was partially destroyed
by fire.
NEWS was received at Washington on
the 1st that Aspinwau was in ashes, the
insurgents having burned it to escape
capture by the Government.
WHILE in the act of rObbing store at
San Vego, on the night of the 1st, gun
was accidentally discharged by one of
twelve Mexican bandits, causing the in
slant death of the robber the ball struck.
Citizens pursued the robbers.
FIRE destroyed the Court house at Min
neapOlis, Mimi, on the ID.
/ BY the burning of a steamer at the re-
| cent Aspinwall coniagration, heavy mails
4 of the United States were destroyed.
/ On the ID a stranger giving the name of
NJ. NJ. Smith presented check at Mad
1 ison (Io wa) bank Banker Richards sus-
\ pected forgery and called an officer. The
man escaped and was pursued, shots be-
/ ing exchanged, killing enc Of the pur-
/ suers' horses. The stranger wrote in a
memorandum book that he would die be-
/ fore being taken, and drawing a revolver
shot himself through the head. Papers
found on the body gave his name as Ar
thur Muller.
PETER JOSEPH SCHROEDER, the ex-
Aims house attendant at Philadelphia,
] ho t.I rlor. ar,Frr
/ der, growing out of the recent fire at the
/ Alms-h by which twenty-five lives
were lost, was discharged by the Court on
/ the ground that there was not. sufficient
evidence to hold him.
THE boiler of David Hulz' saw-miIls,
near Scipio, Ind, exploded on the ID and
| killed Anthony Cleaver, engineer, and fa-
/ tally injured David Hulz, Morton Hulz
I and Alfred Hull.
| NEAR Alexander, Genessee County, N.
| Y, on the 2d, Mrs. ID. S. Spring, in a fit of
/ passion, saturated her bedding with kcro-
sene, applied match, and herself and
two children perished in the flames.
JAS. 5. WHITE, charged with embezzle-
ment Of 5000 in Milwaukee city bonds,
was arrested at Niles, Mich, on the 2d,
while on his way to Canada.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE old Produce Exchange building,
whitehall street, New York, has been pur-
chased by the United States Government
for S25O,OOO, subject to the approval of
Congress.
OK the 3)th Judge Sawyer of the United
States Circuit Court in San Francisco, de-
cided that Chinese merchant, resident
in this country, could depart from it and
enter it again without being subjected to
/ "a rorJitfc,s frrvosaI ~ socEf,., q Of tbo
Chinese amended restriction act.
THE British House of Commons ad .
journed on the 3Ist ult. until April 9th.
THE bark Sonntag, of Boston, from
Chittagong November oath, with jute butts,
arrived at Salem, Mass, on the 30th De-
cember I'd, Andrew Sodanlan, the ships
carpenter, died of cholera after an illness
of five days. December 26th, Emil Peter
son, seaman, died of the same disease af-
ter fourteen hours sickness. The Board
| Of Health ordered the bark from the wharf
into the stream. Great excitement pre-
/ vailed.
/ French reinforconen5s started for Ton
/ quin on the 3lst.
! The Baltim ]re & OHIO telegraph line is
\ TO be extended to st. Paul and Minneap-
/ oils.
! THE French troops as Formosa will
] bNuCuabo lub lSlullu anu 70 70 1lauol.
| CLEVELAND CO.. negroes threatened to
mob Hoyt, who shot Stanley while prOwl-
/ ing in his yard.
IT is reported that Osman Digna has
| evacuated Tamai and Hasheen.
HIRAM II. KTMPToN, formerly worth a
couple of million dollars, was put in the
/ poor-house at New York on the 31st.
/ GERMANY has made further annexations
I along the west coast of Africa.
/ l.. DEMARCHI, n grocer from Memphis,
4 Tenn, is reported to have elcped with the
/ young and buxom niece of his wife.
! RIEL, the leader of the Northwest re-
| bellion, is said to have 1000 welI-armed
followers, and means to fight.
/ THE Central Pacific Road and branches
north of Goshen have been leased to the
/ Southern Pacific for ninety mine years.
! THE excitement over the Winnipeg re-
/ bellion continues unabated at Toronto.
/ DUN's agency reports the failures for
/ the first quarter of the year. 3,65S-an in
| crease of 362 over the same period of last
year.
! CANADIAN troops are being conveyed to
| the scene of the rebellion via the Canadian
/ Pacific. 1t is a long trip, and much mis-
| chief may occur before they get there.
The French Chamber of Deputies voted
! $4,000, 900 of the SlO,0O0,000 Tonquin credit
asked for by Ferry, pending the forma-
/ tion of a new Cabinet.
! Preston, the rebel leader at Panama, is
reported to have seized a ship and several
/ Americans with it. The American feet
has been ordered to get ready to so to the
1 scene.
THE troops Of the Mudir of Dongola had
a fight recently with hostile Arabs in the
/ Hamak mountains.
| THE coinage at the United States Mint
at Philadelphia for March was s., 200, 492,
including 1902 silver dollars.
No news of the French army in Tonquin
had been received for thirty-six hours up
to the evening of the 3lst, and much un-
| easiness was felt at Paris.
OREGON had the most remarkable
weather during March. Vegetation is
| far advanced, and the earth's surface pre- =
| sents the appearance of the middle of
/ May.
THE force OF the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing has been reduced by ninety
two men because Congress failed to make
the necessary appropriation to increase
the quantity of United States notes fur
nished the Treasury OF the United States
| for redemptions and exchanges.
SECRETARY MANNING has instructed the
| Superintendent of the United States Mint
at Carson City, New, to suspend coinage
! operations until the beginning of the next
fiscal year, July 1st and to reduce the
force accordingly.
TIE New Zealand Government is act
| lively placing the colony in proper state
| Of defense. Heavy guns are being
mounted and torpedoes laid at Mosquito,
and a fleet OF torpedo boats is being or
| ganizod.
| The Commissi oner of Pensions issued