The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-09-10


Todd, wealthy New Y FORK lawyer heav-
ily interested IN real estate transactions,
shot and killed himself on the 31st in his
fathers house.
ZANKoEA, a Russian, and the leading
spirit in the Bulgarian revolution, has
been arrested at Sofia.
REPORTS come that the natives of the
Eastern part of the province OF Sechuen,
China, and those of Cochin China have
Tis n against the Christians and are mas
sacreing them and destroying property.
On the I'd six master builders were in
jured at Barcelona, Spain, by explosives
placed under the tables where they were
holding a meeting.
on the ID two men were killed in a col
lision on a logging railroad, near Gray
ling, Mich.
On the 2d a threshing g-machine boiler
explosion at North Greenbush, N. Y, killed
two men and wounded several other per-
sons.
LATEST accounts show that ten white
and twenty-five coIored persons were
killed by the earthquake at Charleston.
The suffering and damage to property are
even greater than at first reported.
on the % the wholesale stores of J. +.
& b. Garret, dealers in paper and print
v
burned out. Loss, SJ0, 900; well insured.
On the 2d jerome R. Hurd, farmer liv-
ing in Greene County, Mich, was killed
by the accidental explosion of dynamite
cartridges he was carrying in a basket.
His limbs and neck were broken and his
body was horribly mutilated.
A VIOLENT outbreak Of cholera is report
ell near Naples.
SEVEN Hungarians were burned to death
in shanty near Stonestown, Pa, on the
night Of the I'd.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made to
wreck the train which conveyed Prince
Alexander to Sofia.
A COLL SION on the New York Central
railroad at Marcellus. n. Y, on the Sd,
caused loss of S15OO0O.
A SOUTH BFND Ind.) dispatch of the Sd
says Mrs. Emma Molloy attempted to
commit suicide at that place by drowning.
FIRE destroyed twelve houses at Noun
Carmel, Pa, on the Sd. One woman and
child are thought to have been burned.
ROBERT A. TODD, Of Milwaukee, Wis,
was viciously, and it is thought fatally,
assaulted on the Sd by his son Robert, who
is insane.
ANOTHER earthquake shock was felt
about eleven O'Clock the night of the Sd at
tion. 1t extended from Jacksonville, Fla,
to Washington, D. c. Several houses al
ready damaged in Charleston collapsed,
and one woman was killed.
Mrs. ELIZABETH BUNNELL, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, was arrested on the Sd on
charge of administering poison to E lwar
S. Shaw, nephew Of Mr.. Shaw, the rail-
road magnate. Mrs. Bunnell strongly
protests her innocance.
JOHN WALSH, aRed seventeen, was in
stantly killed in the Union Foundry and
Machine Company's works, Allegheny,
Pa, shortly before noon on the I'd. He was
caught in the betting and his body was
terribly mangled, nearly every bone being
broken.
PARRoTsvILLE, in Cooke County, Tenn,
is in wild state of excitement over a
frightful epidemic which has made its ap-
penrance there. The disease, which in
every case proves fatal, resembles aux,
except that the victims are attacked with
severe pains in the head and at the same
time with pains in the abdomen. The
physicians are unable to cope with the
disease, and those stricken with it sue
cumb within short time. Twenty seven
deaths had occurred up to the night of
the Sd
On the 4th a very heavy lumber and mill
fire occurred at Zilwaukee, Mich. The
loss was very heavy, nearly twenty acres
of mills and lumber and shingle piles be-
ing swept away.
OK the 9th fifteen families were made
homeless by a fire in New York.
OK the 5th Levi Probst, of West Point,
Neb., committed suicide at Reading, Pa,
by jumping from a train while on his
wedding trip.
OK the 5th, Officer George Woods, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, chased a man named Ed
ward Henning; both fell over precipice
and are supposed to be fatally injured.