The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-01-29
CRISEEs AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE ship Frank N. Thayer, from Manila
to New York is reported burned at sea.
Mrs. URIAH GORDON, of Rushville, Ind,
committed suicide on the 21st by hanging.
BY an explosion Of a boiler at Terre
HaUte, Ind, on the 21st, six men were ia
tally and five others seriously injured.
AT Dawson, Pa, on the 21st, young
man named Marshall and a young lady
named Risen were drowned while skating.
AN explosion occurred in the shaft of the
Newburg Oriel Coal Company's mine at
Newburg, W. Va, on the 21st, by which
thirty miners were killed or imprisoned in
the burning pit
THE Delaware Oil Works at Chester,
Pa, were almost entirely burned out on
the night of the goth. The fire. started
from an explosion, and burned all night.
Nearlyea1 the buildings employed in-the
manufacture of lubricating and paraffine
wax were burned. Loss, about 200.
On the 22d Mrs. Georgie Gravener jump
ed into a cistern at Louisville, KY, with
her babe in her arms and both were drown
ed. An accumulation of trotbles had un-
settled her reason.
ON the 22d a rear-end collision occurred
at Oakdale Station, Pa, on the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, by which caboose and
seven cars of freight were wrecked, three
men killed and others injured.
On the night Of the 21st, during a quar-
rel over a religious discussion at Chicago,
Henry Neimeyer, cook at the Sherman
House, was fatally shot by William III.
BehIer.
ON the 22d Jacob Christman, a young
German, received fatal injuries near Wa
bash, Ind, by a log rolling upon him
which he was helping to load upon sled.
ON the 22d two young men were fatally
and one seriously injured at Pittsburgh,
Pa, by coniding with a heavy wagon
while coasting.
ON the 22d John r. Moore, wealthy
farmer residing near Clifford, Mich,
while in a temporary fit of insanity,
plunged head foremost into a large wood
stove in which fire was burning, and was
probably fatally burned before he could be
rescued.
A BRAKEMAN named Edward Heatom
was crushed to death by the cars at Ham
burg, Ia, on the 22d.
On the 23d two men were killed by col
lision on the Philadelphia & Reading road
at Ringtown, Pa.
THERE were eleven murders in Paris last
week, the last on the list being that Of a
musician whom NJ. de Verneuil found in
the company of his wife on their way
home from tue circus. The weapon used
was rapier, with which de Verneuil also
| tried to kin his wife, who escaped with an
ugly wound in her arm.
THERE were three incendiary fires at
! Kingston, Ont, on the night of the 23d.
! The incendiary was caught and proved to
/ be the son of r. 81. Horsey, a leading mer-
| chant.
/ vVArrrp Rupso,y alfas tfTl,a Eid - q
I notorious desperate, was killed at Mon
tezuma, Col, a day or two ago, by Lewis
George, on whom Burson was pulling his
gun, when George got the "drop" on
him. The coroner's jury justified the kill
| ing.
/ On the 23d Alice Halter, pretty four
teen -year-old girl, was arrested at Buffa-
10, N. Y, on charge of arson, she hav-
| ing made n deliberate attempt to burn the
house of her employer, with two young
children, because she could not go to a
| party.
/ GEORGE +. LANGBEIN, JR., shot himself
dead in New York on the night of the
23d because Mrs. Jennie Noll, a divorced
woman, of whom he was enamOred, en-
couraged other admirers.
BY the explosion of n locomotive boiler in
the roundhouse at the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul depot at Madison, Wis,
Peter Burk was instantly killed and nine
others were badly injured, some, it is
/ feared, fatally.
A FIRE in the West Shore ferry house al
New York on the oath caused loss OF
/ $40, 900.
THE county poor house near Jackson
Mich, burned on the morning of the oath
and five aged and insane inmates perished
i in the flames.