The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-01-08
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A SEVERE earthquake shock was felt at
Carinthia, Austria, on the 18th, many
buildings being damaged.
GEO. CLARK, a notorious burglar, COM
mitted suicide in the Office Of the Chief Of
Police of Rochester, N. Y, on the 29th.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GLOVER, of the "Beggar
Student" Opera Company, were among
those burned to death in the hotel fire at
Racine, Wis.
SIX persons were killed during an cleo
tion of Burgomaster at Nagarroszi, Hun
gary, on the 29th.
SHERIFF TERRY was shot and killed
by Emmett Butler at Helena, Tex, on the
10Th. Butler was killed by an unknown
man while attempting to escape.
FRANK STUMPs, twenty years of age,
was arrested at Cincinnati, o., on the 29th,
for having in his possession several hun
dred dollars in $40 counterfeit notes.
A MOUNTAIN landslide in Spain on the
29th killed a number of people, and caused
one place to be almost entirely abandoned.
THREE Cinnamon chopped one of their
countrymen with hatchets, at Newark, n.
j., robbed him and than suspended him
from a rafter, where he was found almost
dead.
DIR. JAMES MoFFATT, leading Homeo-
pathic physician of Brooklyn, N. Y, has
been sued for assaulting a lady patient.
Damages are placed at $4,000.
IT is now estimated that the number of
persons killed outright, or who have died
from injuries received by the demolition of
buildings, dwellings, etc, consequent on
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reach 100.
THE business portion of Kentl and, Ind,
was wiped out by fire on the 29th. The
loss is estimated from $4,000 to $4,000;
mostly insured. The fire was incendiary.
THERE were renewed shocks of earth
quake in portions of Andalusia on the 29th,
and the terror of people was so great that
the towns were almost deserted, the pOpu-
lation being encamped in the open fields.
The greatest disaster was the partial de-
stuction of Frigiliana, town of 1900 in
habitants. Hundreds of persons perished,
being suddenly engulfed.
INSPECTOR GOODRICH and others closely
inspected G.. L. Plunkett & Co.'s wooden
mills office, at Hinsdale, Mass, on the
29th, and were convinced that dynamite
was employed in the attempt to blow it
up.
In a railway collision near Wigan, Eng,
on the Goth, twenty-six persons were in
jured.
On the 29th Catharine MiIlar was found
in an Outhouse in Baltimore, Nd, where
she had been for five days, nearly dead
from exposure. Four toes of the left foot
were frozen off, the right foot badly frozen
and part of her nose also gone.
ON the 29th a terrible fire was reported
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was twenty degrees below zero and all the
pumps frozen solid it was impossible to
control it. The stores of Hollonback, F.
Nasup Cavanaugh, R. d. Jones, P. H.
Johnston, wholesale liquors; Samuel Y.
Goodwin, same; Parks Billiard Hall and
dozen smaller buildings were in flames,
and buildings were being torn down to
stay the progress of the fire.
On the New York elevated railroads two
collisions occurred on the 30th, due to fog,
but fortunately no lives were lost.
THE recent earthquake caused the death
of hundreds of people in some of the Span
ish towns, besides injuries to great num-
bers.
On the night of the Goth eight masked
men lynched Pleasant Anderson near
Blakesburg, Ia. He was tried for murder
a year ago, and acquitted.
On the 30th William Pearson, a spirit
ualistic crank, killed his infant child with
a hammer at Chehollis, Wyoming. He then
proposed to his wife that they both cut
their throats, which they did, but they
were both alive at last accounts.
In a railway accident in England on the
1st four persons were killed and thirty in
iured.
OK the 1st Representative Laird, of Ne
braska, was severely injured at Washing
ton while horseback riding.
ON the 1st a Baltimore & Ohio train was
wrecked near Grafton, w. Va. Two men
were killed and number injured.
AT Ipswich, d. T., on the 31st, number
of business houses were burned.
THE total number of persons killed by the
earthquakes in Spain since Christmas will
1900.
On the 3lst Mrs. Mary E. Cody, step
daughter of a prominent member of the
Canadian Parliament, was arrested in De-
troit, Mich, charged with forging her
mothers name.
At Albania, Spain, one thousand houses
are in ruins, the result of the earthquake.
One hundred and ninety-two bodies have
been recovered.