The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-24

ON the night of the 18th a carriage con-
tanning VIM. Lewis, Joseph Mullen and
man named Carpenter, was struck by
train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington &
Baltimore railroad at Chester, Pa, and
Lewis was killed and the other two so
badly injured that their lives were de-
SPARED Of.
On the 10th the schooner F. J. King, of
Morristown, N. Y, laden with iron ore
from Escanaba to Chicago, sprung a leak
and sunk in twenty five fathoms of water
about six miles of Cano island, Lake Su-
periOr. The crow reached shore in the
yawl. The vessel and cargo are a total
loss.
Ell COYoTE's band was surprised by Mex
lean cavalry on the 18th, and the leader
and seven others were butchered.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made at
Bucharest on the 18th to assassinate NJ.
Bratiano, Roumanian Prime Minister.
A RUMoR was current in London on the
| 18th that plot had been discovered to
assassinate Prince Alexander, and that
two men have been found who were paid
to commit the crime.
/ A FARMER named Upsolp, living six
miles from Chetek, Wis, cut his wife's
/ throat from ear to ear on the 18th, and
then hung himself with bed-cord. Do
mestic infelicty was the cause.
/ A BLooMINcToN (ul.) hack driver twice
attempted suicide in Clinton on the 18th
/ by taking laudanum, and to prevent any
further attempt to take his life he was
placed in jail All efforts TO learn his
4 name were unsuccessful.
THREE officers belonging to the Spanish
army at BarceIon have been arrested and
/ imprisoned for leading band of soldiers
60 join the Carlists.
| Rev. JESSE Cook, colored, was hanged
in Butler, Ga, on the 18th for the murd er
/ of his wife last April. The crowd at the
execution was estimated at eight thou
/ sand. Cook made a full confession.
IT has been found that james L. Litton,
! the Englishman who was sent to the
Charles street jail in Boston a few daye
ago for attempting to defraud the propri-
etors of the Revere House, is Stewart
Letablere Litton, the son Of the late Right
Hon. Edward Litton.
HENRY ROGERS, keeper Of the toll bridge
! at Saratoga Lake, N. Y, was accidentally
shot and killed on the 18th by his nephew,
Allison B. Petit, of New York. The lad
had a shotgun and was loading it when
it was discharged in some way and the
load entered Rogers stomach. He died
almost instantly.
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| Godfrey, a wealthy farmer of Girard
township, Pa, left her husbands side on
| the night of the 18th, and on the 18th was
| found at the bottom of the Nickel Plate
bridge, near by. The unfortunate woman
had thrown herself over the precipice, a
distance of $50 feet, and was dashed to
death.
MRS. ANNIE HUBBELL, wife of w. H.
Hubbell, of New Y orz, drowned her six
| year-old daughter in bath-tub on the
18th, and then hanged herself. They had
been dead about six hours when the hus-
band and father returned home and found
them.
ABOUT dozen cottages at the Johanna
Heights Methodist camp meeting
4 grounds, near Reading, Pa, were burned
on the night of the 18th as the result of
/ incendiary efforts.
/ SAMUEL P. LEE, of Attleboro, Mass, was
! convicted at Taunton, Mass, on the 18th,
Of bigamy. He is only twenty- ono years
of age.
THOMAS ROGERS, printer, made des-
perate but unsuccessful attempt to end his
life in New York on the 18th. First he
| tried an infusion of match heads, then
| stabbed himself twice with a picture nail
and finally tried to cut his throat with q
broken bottle. He rec entity inherited d
fortune, and this is one of the results.