The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-09

THE rooms occupied by the Bell Tele-
phone Company at Toronto, Ont, were
burned out on the 1st.
DAVID GRIGsBY and Braden Porter have
been arrested at Keokuk, Ia, on charges
Of counterfeiting.
In San Luis Obispo County, Cal, Eu-
gene Walker and his wife were killed by
Peter Hemmi and his son on the 1st, and
the murderers were afterward lynched by
a mob.
G. S. SEYToN, formerly a New York
stock broker, was accidentally shot and
killed while examining an electric gun at
London on the 1st.
EARLY on the morning Of the 1st burg
lars entered the post-ofiice at Center Har-
Dor, N. H., blew open the safe and escaped
with 500 in money, securities amounting
to 81 900 and quantity of stamps.
WIN. +. ROBERTSON left Readsbcro, Vt,
for Searsburg on the 1st with six French
logging laborers. While crossing c bridge
It gave way and the men and horses were
precipitated into the river. Mr.. Robert
son and three Of the Frenchmen were
drowned.
PHILLIPS, the wife-murderer, is to be
executed on the Sth at Indianapolis, Ind.
FIRE in the Fairbank canning estab-
lishment at the'town Of Lake, suburb Of
Chicago, on the I'd, caused loss of $60, 900.
CAPTAIN FARSuNGToN POWER was ar
rested at Beatrice, Heb., on the I'd, and
will be returned to Illinois on a charge of
forgery.
MRS. NATHAN GRIFFITH, living near
London, Ont, while laboring under re-
ligious excitement on the Cd, cut her hus-
bands throat with a razor.
THe house OF Josh Hobel, in Reno, Mimi,
was burned on the 2d by an incendiary,
and Hobel's two-year- daughter was
burned to death.
THE new tank-house of Swift & Co., at
Chicago, was wrecked on the 2d by an ex-
plosion, and the watchman, David Mere
field, was seriously injured.
A PARTY of Mexican customs officers re-
Gently surprised band Of smugglers near
San Fernando, killed their leader and cap
tured a large quantity OF goods.
THE Eewhary hominy mills at Terre
Haute, Ind, were destroyed by fire on the
2d. Total loss, $40, 900; insurance, $34, 900,
in Eastern and foreign companies.
JOHN WHITE, who lived a few miles
north of Seneca Falls, N. Y, drove in town
on the ID and became very drunk. When
be returned home at night he, in some
way, set fire to his dwelling and perished
in the flames.
EIGHTEEN places OF business at Port
Rowan, Ont, were burned on the ID. Loss,
500, 900; insurance, $4,000. The origin of
the fire is unknown.
REV. WIN. HAMMOND, OF the Free win
Baptist Church of Franklin, n. H., de-
camped on the LIST with 50, 900 beIon sing to
a newly welded bride. He was arrested
in a Boston bank the next day as he was
cashing the check.
On the ID, a posse OF deputy sheriffs,
commanded by the famous Jim Court
right, who were escorting train out Of
Fort Worth, Tex, were fred upon by
band OF armed men about mile and half
from the city, and three of their number
were wounded, two fatally. One of the at
tacking party was also severely wounded,
and the rest made of to the timber. Troops
were ordered by Governor Irel and to Fort
Worth.
REPORTS received on the Sd detailed
serious loss Of life and property in the
South as the resultiof the recent floods
Government aid was called for to save the
sufferers from the horrors OF starvation.
On the 4th body, supposed TO be that
of Russell Nourse, of New York, was found
in the Thames, at London.
On the Cd, during a snOwballing fracas
between a party of boys at Pittsburgh,
Pa, a strange boy who had been made the
special object of attack fatally stabbed
James Glunt with jack-knife.
On the 4th August Freis, a German, was
accidentally shot in a Baltimore (Md.)
summer garden by boy who was exam
ing a pistol which he did not know was
loaded, and in whose hands the weapon
was discharged.