The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-06-11

ERNEST s. BENNETT, VINO, Tor 8 dozen
years previous to 1884 was the trusted
bOOkkeeper of Wadsworth & Co., of Daven-
port, Ia, was sentenced on the Sd to two
years and five months in the Anamosa
penitentiary for forgery.
On the 2d Frederick Reader, aged sixty
five years, the Schenectady IN. W agent
of a Chicago dressed beef dealer, took
strychnine enough to kill ten men. He
suffered great agony for several hours,
when he shot himself in the breast. He
can not recover.
On the 2d a Baltimore & Ohio local
freight engine, while standing the
track in the yard at BeIlaire, o., exploded
the boiler with terrific force, killing En-
gineer Johnston, Fireman John Wander
WORT and Matt Hammond, another en-
gineer, all of Newark o. Two of the bodies
were blown a distance of one hundred
yards.
YVES HONESTY and Tabley Banks were
hanged at Winchester, Va, and Jim Bax-
ter at Lebanon, Tenn, on the 4th.
N. Fl. HANCOCK has been arrested at
Austin, Tex, charged with the murder of
his wife on Christmas eve last.
A ROBBERY of $4,000 has been worked
on the United States Express Company
between Van Vert and Cincinnati, o.
ADvICEs from the City of Mexico say:
In raid of Apaches near Magdalena ten
persons have been killed, one of whom is
George Sheppard, an American.
Mrs. S. J. JOHNSON suicided at Cedar
Rapids, Ia, on the night of the Sd by
drowning. Her husband was foreman of
the Gazette office. Domestic difficulty is
assigned as the cause.
Soon after the dinner hour on the 4th
John O'Brien, a three-year convict in the
Joliet (In.) penitentiary from Decatur,
made an attack upon Asa r. Parks, an
other convict, with an iron shovel, killing
him. No known cause for the affray.
FRED BALLOON, of Binghampton, N. Y,
was arrested by Federal authorities at In
dianapolis, Ind, on the 4th, for receiving
a letter under an assumed name in answer
to an advertisement for a young lady Sec
retary to an ice company forming at Dem
yer. Col. A deposit of ten dollars was
demanded of applicants.
News was received on the 4th of the
| destruction by fire of the Shell Lake Lum-
| ber Company's mill at Shell Lake, Wis,
involving a loss of about fifty thousand
/ dollars. Insurance small. Two hundred
men are thrown out of employment
AvERDICT of guilty was rendered by the
| jury in the Maxwell case at st. Louis on
/ the 9th.
| ORANGEMEN on the 9th attacked the fu
neral procession of young Curran, who was
| drowned at Belfast during the recent Or
ange Catholic riot, and general fight en-
sued, in which one man was stabbed and
several others were badly cut.
JOHN HTTz, late president, and Charles
E. Prentiss, late cashier of the German
American National Bank of Washington,
convicted of making false entries in the
books Of the bank, wore sentenced on the
9Th to five years imprisonment each.
FIRE destroyed the works of the Penn
sylvania Bolt and Nut Company at
Lebanon, Pa, on the 9Th.
THE ship Chioua, lying at the foot of
Kent street, Green Point, L. l., loaded
with $1,000 cases Of kerosene oil, took fire
on the night Of the 9th. She was towed into
the stream and proved a total loss, esti-
mated at about one hundred and sixty
thousand dollars.