The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-03-26

OK the 10th Michael Riley, boiler
maker, killed his wife at Windsor, Ont.
The couple were in the habit Of getting
intoxicated and quarreling.
ON the 18th Laura A. Miller, aged nine
teen, hanged herself at Buffalo, N. Y, be-
cause she was forbidden to attend roller
skating rinks.
On the 18th, during a magistrates trial
Of a matter between negroes at Carroll
ton, Miss, i'm which about twenty negroes
were present as witnesses, a party of
about lfty white men rode up, armed with
repeating rifles, surrounded the building
and opened fire on the negroes, killing ten
of them outright, mortally wounding three
others and more or less seriously wound
ing the rest.
OK the 18th Mrs. Bohrman, OF AvOndale,
o., while temporarily insane, killed her
son Albert, seriously wounded another
son, Arthur, and then committed suicide
by cutting her throat with a razor.
On the 18th a court-martial at Fort
Wayne, Detroit, Mich, sentenced Robert
/ e. Rivers, Of the Twenty third United
/ States Infantry, to twelve years impris-
| onment at Leavenworth, Kas., for forgery
and desertion.
FURTHER details concerning the Car
/ rollton (Miss.) affair show it to have been
/ fully as horrible as first reported. Twelve
negroes were slaughtered, and others viii
| die of wounds received.
! MRS. LIPPENDoRF jumped into the Ohio
river from the ferryboat while crossing
| srom Cincinnati to COvingtOn on the after
noon of the 18th. She held her little child
in her arms, and it was drowned, but the
mother was rescued by the captain of the
boat.
~, +l. 1otb Voso,l, rro,,lr,. ,,-os acci6av
/ tally shot and killed in Clay County, Ten
nessse, by his six-year-old child.
STATE protection was asked and granted
| for Archer and Lynch at their preliminary
examination at Shoals, Ind
ON the 18th Texas & Pacific engine,
| pulling a passenger train, exploded near
| AledO, Tex, killing Engineer Metcalf and
severely injuring Fireman Clark.
DAISY CARROLL was arrested at Spring
/ City, Tenn, on the 10th, charged with
completely in the embezzlement of $780,
900 from the Champion works at Spring
field, o.
Two more victims have died from the
effects Of injuries received in the recent
Murraysville (Pa.) natural gas explosion.
BEN MOTION, of Evansville, Ind, fell
down an elevator shaft on the 20th and
was crushed to death.
"A QUARRY collapsed at baXeS, FRANCE
on the Goth, burying a number of persons.
AN accident occurred on the Wyoming g
| Valley railroad near Hoadly, Pa, on the
| goth, killing a fireman named Fred Smith.
THE ferryboat Cooper's Point was burned
at her wharf at Camden, n. j., on the 20th.
| Loss, $4,000.
WILLIAM II. CARTER, proprietor of the
| Nelson Pharmaceutical Works, New York,
committed suicide at his Office on the 2Oth,
| by shooting himself in the right temple.
No cause IS assigned for the act.
EDWARD JOHNSON, known also as Allen
| Wright, committed murder near Oak
land, Neb., on the goth, and to escape pur-
suit killed three more men. At last ac-
counts he was fortified in a barn and was
] keeping a mob at bay.
THE Monarch Line steamer Persian Mon
| arch, Captain Watson, which left London
March II for New York by the way of
/ Havre, went ashore on the goth, near Tor
quay, Devonshire, i'm a dense fog. Tugs
succeeded in floating her. and she proceed
ed to Plymouth, where size will be over
hauled.
EARLY on the morning of the 2oth light
! ming struck a house at lVatertown, Conn.
occupied by VIM. McGa1ey and Clarence
| Cook. Two daughters of Mr.. McGaffey
were killed.
Four notorious Mexican horse thieves
with seven stolen horses in their posses
sion, were overtaken by the same number
of Americans near Lordsburg, N. NJ, on
the both, and in the fight which ensued
three of the Mexicans were killed. The
other escaped. Six stolen horses were re-
| covered.