The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-05

ALEXANDER ROSE, an employe of tbs
Brush Electric Light Company at Detroit,
Mich, while fixing the carbons on the
tower on Gratiot street on the 25th, fell
headlong distance of 135 feet, being hor-
ribly mangled by the fall. He lived for an
hour after the accident.
THE body of a we'll dressed man about
thirty I've years old was found in the river
at New York on the 25sh. In his pockets
were two cards bearing the name of w. II.
Smith, one as Of the New York Clipper,
the other as the correspondent Of the. Gin
cinnati Sporting Journal.
On the 26th Wiebren Wartena was
hanged at Rensselaer,, Ind, for murder.
A large crowd gathered in the town to
witness the execution and it was conduct
ed in the presence OF over a thousand peo-
pie.
on the tn the Vauambrosia Skating
rink and two or three other buildings at
Troy, n. Y, were burned. Loss, $40 900; /;
insurance, S25 900. Owing to the fierce
gale the northern part of the city narrowly
escaped destruction.
PAT SMITH, OF Stone City, near Ana
mosa, Ia, was arrested on the 265h on sus-
picion of having murdered his wife, who
was found dead in bed the day previous.
He is in Anamosa jail.
FIRE destroyed Mitchell & Wells plan
ing mill in the southern part of Kansas
City, Mo-, and eight tenement houses cd
joining, on the 2G5h. Loss estimated at
| $4,000. The mill was the only property
insured.
FRANK J. CANNON and Angus Cannon
have been held in 81 900 bail each at Salt
Lake City for assault on United States At
torney Dickson. S. A. Kenner was dis
oh
Foulger, all defiant, unlawful c3habitors,
were sentenced on the 26yh each to six
mouths Imprisonment and 500 fine.
IL the case OF Fred FOo5e, charged with
the murder OF Andrew J. BrinS, saloon
keeper at Fenton, Mica, the evening
of December % last, oa trial at Flint on
the 2Gth, the jury brought in a verdict Of
murder in the first degree. The prisoner
listened coouy 20 the verdict and was re-
manded to jail to await sentence.
On the 26th Charles Boulen, who was
awaiting trial in New York for the murder
of his wife, com mjtted suicide by cutting
his throat with pocket knife in his cell in
the Toombs.
OK the 36th John Schlsesman, sixty five
years old, committed suicide in West Ham
burg, Pa. He tried to shoot himself with a
revolver first, but the cartridge failed to
explode. He then cut the artery Of his left
wrist with a pocket knife, and gashed HIM
self at various places in the arm and in one
Of his feet, and bled to death.
GoTTLIED LENTz Killed his wife and then
himself at Philadelphia, on the 2Sth.
EDWARD o. OLIVER, of Evansville, Ind,
lost his life on the 2S5h by an electric
shock.
On the 2S5h unknown man went over
the falls at Suspcn sion Bridge, \. Y, and
was lost.
FRANK BUegEL, who shot his wife at
Massillon, o., on the 9th, afte-ward COM
mitted suicide.
ON the 27th Reeser Davis was instantly
killed by the fast express on the New
York, Pennsylvania g. Ohio railroad, at
New Portage, o., while attempting to cross
the track ahead of the train.
OK the 9th the Lutheran Cemetery &
Cypress Hill Railroad Company's depot at
Brooklyn, N. Y, burned, together with
forty cars, seven motors and a quantity of
harness, involving a loss of SI0J,Oo); par
TALLY insured.