The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-01
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
RICHARD c. CUNNING, of the Insurance
firm of Crosby & Cunning, Buffalo, N. Y,
was on the 22d held in default of $1,000
bail for illegally voting at the last election.
THOMAS COOLEY, aged fifty years, a
wealthy mill owner, started to go from
Marquette, Mich, to the village of Harvey,
four miles distant, on the 22d, and was
caught in a snow storm and frozen to
death.
THE Chief Signal Officer on the 22d re-
ported the wrecks of several vessels on
the North Carolina coast. Among them
the sloop Vim, of Portland, Me-, bound for
Jacksonville, Fla. Crews all saved.
SHORTLY after the workmen quit work at
the Union Oil Company's building at New
ark, N. j.. on the 22d, one of the small oil
tanks exploded, setting fire to the building.
The damage to building and works was
$4,000; insurance not known.
on the 23d the third wreck for the week
on the Pan Handle Road occurred at
Brinley Station, west of Dayton, o.
FIRE destroyed Harrigan g. Hart's
Theater Comique, on Broadway, New
York, on the 23d; no insurance.
ORGANIZED bands of thieves are op-
Grating in Wheeling, w. Va, and vicinity.
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cinnati, o., was arrested in his employers
place of business on a charge of embezzle-
ment of money. He asked to go into a
closet and on coming out dropped dead
from the effects of poison he had provided
in anticipation of arrest. He was to have
been married the same day.
WHILE driving in a sleigh at Mt. Carmel,
Pa, on the 231, Henry Strong aud VIM.
Erwine, were hurled over an embankment
and killed.
On the 23d man answering the descrip-
tion of Kline, the train robber, was seen
at Clarksville, Ark. A large party started
from Little Rock in pursuit of him.
AT Dayton, o., during the night of the
22d, gOphers inserted a pound of powder
in the safe doors of p. e. Gilbert, and a
fearful explosion blew the doors twenty
feet. They got sixty cents for their trouble.
| FIRE destroyed Morrison's spinning mill
at Dundee, Scotland, on the 23d. Loss,
/ $4,000.
/ AT Detroit, Mich, on the 23d, Michael
Beck an inmate of charitable institution,
was struck by a train and fatally injured,
He only lived a short time
| A FORMER resident of Atchison, Kan,
named Charles Linden, was murdered on
the 23d in Boulder, Col, while attempting
to waylay and rob n pedestrian in that
place. Linden drew a revolver and or
dered the person to deliver, when the lat
ter grabbed the weapon and struck Linden
over the head with the butt, which caused
his death.
CHRISTMAS afternoon Minneapolis was
visited by 100000 conhagratiOn.
OK the evening of the oath w. c. Har.
vey, of Panora, Ia, was shot, badly in
jured and robbed of 5000 that he was car
rving home with him for safe-keeping, il
being after banking hours.
A COLLISION occurred between the
steamer Chetudra and the bark Hohne-
strand off Eddystone, on the south coasi
of England, the 18th, and both sunk
! The crews escaped in boats.
A NEGRO named Sanford Sisco, whom
| Abram Garnee, of Park Ridge, N. j., de-
clared assaulted and robbed him on the
23d, was arrested on the 25th.
FIRE destroyed the Masonic Temple al
Cincinnati, o., on the oath, causing great
loss to the order, as well as business firms
occupying stores in the building.
/ ON the 25th John Gostz, Jr., who was in.
iured by a natural-gas explosion at But,
Ter, Pa, died after terrible suffering. On,
/ of his sisters is out of her mi.Gd on account
of the death.
AT Ithaca, n. Y, on the 2ith, the Cor,
oner' Jury concluded a three days secre
| investigation into the death of Mark A
/ Blakely, Of Lansing. The verdict says tn,
shot was fired by his son Charles, who ha,
| been arrested.
On the Path VIM. $. Kerker, late Teller
in the Second National Bank at Ironton
o., indicted on nineteen counts for embez
element of the banks money, was found
guilty in the United States Court on thre,
counts, charging false entries, whereby
the bank lost $4,000.