The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-29


w. H. NJ. CoBLEIGH, a wealthy farmer,
aged seventy three, was killed nine miles
south Of East Saginaw, Mich. The wind
blew a heavy gate on him. He struggled
desperately but died before help came to
remove the gate. He leaves a wife and
two sons.
A CAGE in one Of the shafts of the New
York aqueduct fell a distance Of fifty feet
on the 10Th, killing one man and badly
injuring three others.
ALBERT KoRNITsKY, alias "Bismarck,"
has made a written confession of the Had
dock murder at Sioux City, la.
A FAMILY at Saco, Me-, was poisoned by
drinking new cider from cask which
formerly contained embalming fluid.
OK the Goth fifteen persons died from
cholera in Pesth and two in Trieste, Hun
gary, and thirty-two new cases were re-
ported in the former place and nine in the
latter.
A woMAE died in Roosevelt Hospital,
New Y orlx, on the 21st, from ether admin
istered for purposes of an operation.
THE trial OF ex- Alderman McCabe was
| commenced at New York on the 21st and
/ a plea of insanity was entered.
TIE United States Circuit Court grand
! jury at Boston reported four new indict-
ments on the 2ist containing 100 counts,
charging embezzlement, making false en-
tries and II sudulent withdrawal of funds
| against Richmond J. Lane, ex-president
of the Addington National Bank.
A SPECIAL from Green Bay, Wis, states
| that the propeller w. L. Brown with a
full cargo of coal for Depree, sprung a
leak and sunk in seventy-six feet Of water
OF Peshtigo. She was valued at S33,O0O.
Chicago agents hold insurance on the hull
and cargo.
THE propeller Orcela. Of the Red Line,
Lake Superior, running between Duluth
and Buffalo, caught fire on the 21st at Du-
luth, and had to be scuttled. She was
partially loaded with railroad iron and
lime. Loss on boat, $15, 900 to 2),00Oi loss
on cargo, $4,000.
WHILE David Evans, aged fifty years,
and his son William, aged fourteen, Of
/ Millport, Pa, employed at the Sterling
slate quarry near Slatington, were cross
/ ing a tunnel on the 2lst it caved in, carry
| ing them down one hundred feet and
burying them under a mountain OF earth.
1t will take months to recover their
| bodies.
DR. A. b. SLOAN committed suicide at
| GFeenville, Miss, on the 22d.
The British dispatch boat ImOgene is
/ reported wrecked at GaIlipolis in a fog.
| A BOHEMIAN named Martin Soukup kill
cd two women with an axe and burned
the barn and dwelling of his employer
near Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the night of the
| 21st.
FIRE destroyed the works of the Canada
Paper Company at Windsor. Ont, on the
22d
HON. JOSEPH B. CLARK, prominent cit
! izen Of Manchester, N. H, committed sui
eide on the 22d.
THE agent of the American Express
Company at VermontvElle, Mich, was
bound and gagged by robbers on the night
/ OF the 21st, who secured $500 from the safe
and got away.
a sCHooLHoUsE in West Glare, Ireland,
to which children Of boycottsd citizens
were admitted, was wrecked on the 22d by
unknown parties.
SCHPIEDT & MILLER's foundry, at
Mansfield, o., burned on the 22d. Loss,
about 10000; insurance, S1S,OOO
| JAMES CRAFT and Mrs. Elna Brass were
arres ted late in July near Cadillac, Mich,
\ for the murd Ter OF the woman's husband,
! who disappeared Jun 10 last. They con-
fessed the murder, and on the 22d pleaded
/ guilty and were sentenced to State prison
| for life
A FRIGHTFUL accident happened nosr
/ Kenton, KY. on the 22d A steam mill
being operated by Handy & Moss HOf-
man blew up, killing Handy instantly
and scalding Hoffman SO there is lSttle
hope of his recovery. Both were married
and had large families.
A SPECIAL from New Iberia, La, of the
22d says; Information was received here
to-day that during the storm of the l2th
over q thousand head Of cattle were
| drowned and two fishing smacks were
driven ashore on the Islands Of Chenjere
au Tigre and Cheniere a la Croix. No
lives were lost.
TIE loss occasioned by the fire at Farm.
ington, Ne, on the night of the 22d, is es-
timated at $500, 900.
TIE Chicago Glass Manufacturing works
at Chicago burned on the 23d.
BON the Esd Robert W. Alston, of Atlanta,
Ga, a clerk in the Sixth Auditors office,
Washington, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head. -
On the oath the steam barge Rudolph
caught fire on Lake st. Clair and was to-
tally destroyed.
HIcKLEN J. LANDERs, of Landers 81
Weaver, brokers, indianapolis, is missing,
snd it IS alleged that he successfully prac-
ticed Neeld's bogus warehouse methods to
the extent of $4,000.