The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-07-09

STONE BASEMEaE shot and fatally
wounded his father near Windsor, BERTHE
County, s. c., on the 29th, and then robbed
the safe of 5000 and fed.
TIE police OF Memphis, Tenn, received
information early on the morning of the
30th, Of a double murder having been per-
petrated some three miles east of the city.
The victims were Paul Justice and his
wife. They kept a grocery, and it is said
they were shot and killed by parties who
were detected in robbing the store.
WHILE four worlzmen were raising
frame house in Nashville, Tenn, on the
29th, il fell. burying David Rucker and
Charles Ransom, both colored, in the ruins.
When found, Ruclcer was dead and Ran
som, who was lying on top of the corpse,
was severely bruised.
AT McAlister, I. T., an eight. year-old
son Of w. Bell started out to lariat his
pony, when the animal became frightened
and in his maneuvers entangled the lad in
the rope, dragging him fully two hundred
yards. When found he was badly mangled
and after a couple of gasps expired.
THE Koenig cotton mill, in st. Peters
burg, Russia, was destroyed by fire on the
10Th. The loss is S275,000.
JACK KEEF, a local sport, was shot and
killed by Morgan Anderson, of Alliance, in
Wooster, o., on the night of the 29th. The
shooting was the result of a quarrel about
a woman. Anderson. escaped.
FREDERICK JUTY, an imbecile son of
Charles Juty, a well-known Pittsburgh
(Pa.) coal operator, attempted to kill his
step-mother on the 29th, and, failing, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself through
the head.
TIE entire business portion of Alturas,
Cal, was destroyed by fire on the 29th.
Loss, 100000, partly insured.
JOHN HARDIN, of Brazil, Ind, murder
ously assaulted Levi Leash on the Goth
while both were at work at the Central
rolling mills, striking him on the head
with an iron bar eight feet long. Leash's
skull was crushed. He can not recover.
ON the 3Oth eight persons were instantly
killed by an accident to a mail train from
Belfast to Dublin. The train was going at
high rate of speed, and left the rails at
Knockbridge. Twenty persons were
wounded. The train was completely
smashed.
ON the 30th Mrs. John Schick, aged fifty
five years, committed suicide at Daven-
port, Ia, by severing her jugular vein and
a small artery with a small pair of sharp
pointed scissors. Mental alteration was
the cause.
FIRE destroyed the sash, door and blind
factory of Briggs, Wharton & Beverage
at Appleton, Wis, on thenight ofthe Goth.
Loss, 500 600; insurance, $4,000.
ON the 1st Edwin Bellows shot and
fatally wounded his wife at Wilkesbarre,
Pa.
AN express train on the Erie reod was
wrecked by a misplaced switch near Sus-
quehanna, Pa, on the 1st.
WHILE resisting arrest Seymour Dar-
liag was shot and killed at CircleviIIe, o.,
on the 1st. Several others were wounded.
MILLER & LAwRENCE's tub and pail
factory at Leominster, Mass, burned on
the 1st.
ON the night of the 5Oth Angus Lindt's
residence, at Chicago, was burned and
the sleeping inmates were saved by a dog
barking furiously until they were awak-
ened.
ON the fst Peter lingerie, a crank, who
went from Pittsburgh to Washington for
the avowed purpose of killing the French
Minister, was arrested while prowling
around the latter's residence with a loaded
revolver.
THE city oS Independence, Cal, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire on the 1st.
Loss, 100000; insurance, $4,000.
AT the Black Diamond colliery near
Minersville, Pa, on the 1st, two miners
named Abbott Russell and John Kelly
were engaged in tapping the water from
an old breast when a great volume of wa
ter suddenly burst in, drowning both men
and completely flooding the mine.
OK the 1st an express train on the Stutt-
CART & Berlin rail way ran into a local
train, demolishing the latter and killing
and wounding large number of persons.
Nine are known to have been killed. None
| of the passengers on the express were ia
tally hurt.