The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-03


IT is now said that only twenty five per-
sons were drowned by the recent inunda-
tion at Mandalay, Burmah.
NATHANIEL r. BATES, who murdered his
wife at Hagerstown, Ind, on the % of
last March, was execU ed In the jail-yard
at Richmond, Ind, on the 2Gth. The exc
cution was Witnessed by five hundred per-
sons.
THE house Of A. L. Kane on Pros pect
avenue, fashionable thoroughfare Of
Milwaukee, Wis, was entered at an early
hour the morning of the 2Gth and robbed
of $500 worth of jewelry and silverware.
THE dead body of an unknown man was
found on tho 26sh in the edge Of grave
yard a half mile from Manly Junction,
Worth County, Iowa. It was covered
with blood, and clubs lying near We're all
stained with gore. Three large cuts on the
head penetrated the skull. The deceased
was evidently a German, and, although
foully murdered, complets mystery sur
rounds the affair.
SCOTT FRANKLIN, a young attorney Of
McLcansboro, H., who had been visiting g
relatives in the neighborhood Of Vevay,
Ind, for several weeks past, was drowned
while bathing in the O'&9 river at Vevay
on the goth. The body was recovered.
SEVERAL soldiers of the Guards at Bel
fast have been arrested for Tioting.
On the 27th Farmer Wells, of Willis Sta
tion, Mich, killed his wife by cutting her
throat.
ALFRED CASSIDY and Peter Weltcr on
a spree together at Evansville, Ind, on
the 9th, quarreled, and Cassidy was
killed by Welter.
on the 27th Sister Eulalie, superioress
of the Immaculate academy, Newport,
Ky, caught fire in her room, and burned
to dea h before help could reach her.
OS the 27th fire destroyed the roller
mill of Lee g. Brown at Saranac, Mich.
A heated journal caused the fire Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $1,000.
on the night of the 27th Craudal's toy
factory a MontrOse, Susquahanna Coun-
ty, Pa, and thirteen business houses and
two residences were burned; loss, S75, 900.
A TERRIBLE prairie fire ragged in Potter
and Sully counties, Dakota, the past week
Potter is almost a barren waste, and Sully
is badly burned. There is no way Of es-
| timating damages at pres mt.
TIE Pension Bureau Officers have COM
/ pleted the investigation of ex- Chief Pen
I sion Clerk Gays accounts at Pittsburgh
/ Pa. They found that the shortage amounts
1 TO exactly 1887. The examination oi
| the books was very labocious, occupyin g
I over six weeks.
| On the 27th n skif containing six young
/ men upset in the Ohio river at Cincinnati,
and four Of the occupants were drowned.
| The names of the victims were the two
| Gay brothers, Frank Wilson and Georg,
/ Glover, and their ages ranged from thir-
! teento twenty three.
1 on the sSth six Grecian villages, among
| them PyrgO and Philistra, were enEulfcC
\ by an earthquake, and over six hundred
| lives were lost and nearly thousand peO
| pie injured. Several Italian cities were
| badly shaken up and shocks were felt il
/ Egypt and elsewhere.
FIVE summer boarders are reported "
/ ing i'll at Maiden, Mass, having Econ poi
soned with Trough on Rats ministered
/ by a colored servant girl through the tea
| pot.
On the 2Sth John Murphy, aged clever
| years, youngest son of Thomas Murphy
/ ex-col,ector OF the port of New York, wa:
! drowned in the surf at Long Branch.
! OK the .9,h lis htuing struck the Latin
/ Rand Powder Company's magazine a
/ Chicago, causing an explosion which in
stanuy killed two persons. fatally injure,
three and seriously injured twenty ffv'
\ others.