The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-02-05

On the night of the 9th the body of
John H. Fleming, a book-keeper of To-
ledo, O., was found in the river at that
place. Fleming had been missing since
January 1. Whether the case is one of
suicide or accidental drowning is not
known.
OK the 2sth Fasien, the negro who out
ragged German girl at Indianapolis and
was afte=ward shot in court by the girls
brother, was sentenced to twenty -one
years Imprisonment.
JOHN MCMAHON was collector in Ho-
boken, N. j., for ten years. Two years ago
when shortage Of S51, 900 was discovered
in his accounts, he disappeared. He was
arrested in New York on the 28th and
taken to Jersey City. There are several
indictments for embazzlement against him.
On the 28th John L. Gideon, clerk in the
general ticket office of the Burlington &
Missouri railroad, at Omaha, was arrested
charged with altering and forging railroad
tickets and disposing of them to brokers.
It is alleged that Gideon is one of a ring of
bogus ticket operators, the amount of
whose frauds is yet unknown.
On the 2S5h a snow-slide in Thaynes
Canyon, near Park City, Utah, buried four
men with their teams. Four men were
buried in a snow-slide on Lake creek, near
Ketchum, Idaho, in their cabin. One man
is reported buried under sixteen feet of
snow on Thompson creek, not far from the
scene of the last reported disaster.
On the goth P. Cox, of Buchanan, Mich,
a cousin of the murderer and suicide
Cowles, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head.
ON the 29th three persons condemned to
death for belonging to a revolutionary So
ofafv vvaxa avaoufad Mt
On the 29th four men, names unknown,
were drowned in the Ohio river at Evans
vile, Ind, while trying to cross in a skif.
On the 29th a collision on the Baltimore
q Ohio at Chicago Junction, o., killed L.
Vandelier, a fireman, and severely injured
several other persons.
THE prisoners in jail at Louisville, KY,
refused to go to their cells on the 29th and
were fired on by the jailer and turnkey.
Two of them were wounded.
On the 29th an explosion at the Banks
vile coal mine OF Lang & Co.. near Pitts
burgh, Pa, set fire to the pit and cremated
nine mules. The flames were extin-
| guished.
On the Goth a carriage containing Mrs.
Wesley Stanton, her daughter, aged fif-
! teen, and Mrs. Julia A. Hunter, a prac-
ticing physician, was struck at the Erie
railway CIOSSluS db OhI DOllOdl6g etsy
by a passenger train. The occupants
were thrown out, and Mrs. Hunter was
| instantly killed. Mrs. Stanton was
| dangerously hurt.
ON the 30th Chyo Chyock, one of the
Chinese highbinders on trial in st. Louis
for the murder OF Lou Johnson, a fellow
countryman, was found guilty of murder
in the firstdegree.
NICHOLAS HUDSON, has been arrested for
tn murder of Stephen Ellis, at Rockport,
| Ind.
ON the SOth freight train ran into a
land slide at Scotthaven, Pa, killing the
conductor and fireman and badly injuring
the engineer and brakeman.
DAVE OvERsTREEr, Sims Bree, VIM.
Garford and Mike Mitchell were killed. and
several others injured by a snow-slide near
Telluride, Col, the latter part of last week.
The dead and injured were dug out by the
men of the Sheridan and Smuggler mines.
On the 3Oth the Chapman block, four
/ story iron, brick and stone building at
! Portland Me-, together with a number of
/ smaller buildings adjoining burned, in
/ volving a loss Of $50, 600. The day previous
the Central Wharf Company, at the same
1 place, lost like amount by fire.
! ON the Both six houses on Holloway
road, London, collapsed, and five passers-
/ by were instantly killed and number of
/ others injured.
/ On the 31st Alfred Smith murdered his
wife and another woman, Mrs. Wilson, at
! Cleveland, o.
ON the night of the 30th a process server
was horribly mutilated by moonshiners a t
! Tralee.