The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-11-19

OK the 18th the residence of s. H. Bak-
er, proprietor of the Pennsylvania Car
| Works at Latrobe, Pa, was first wrecked
and then burned by a natural gas explO-
| sion in the heating furnace. The family
miraculously escaped injury. Loss, S.
| O00
ON the 11th an order of appeal was is
sued staying the execution CT Daniel Dris-
| coll, who was sentenced TO be hanged at
New Yorl, on the 18th for che murder of
/ Breezy Garritty.
! Disastrous foods have occurred
/ throughout the south of France. Much
damage has been none, and washouts
/ along she railroads have compelled the
complete suspension of travel.
on the 18th Alico Wiley, young wife,
I Of New Brunswick, n. j., committed
/ suicide.
Ok the 18th William Kennedy, aged
I fifty, fell into a tub of boiling lime-water
at the Newark (O.) paper-miIl. He was,
\ it is thought, fatally scaIded.
/ on the night of the 11th The Harding
/ Casino in Berlin took fire while ball was
/ I'm progress. -Four persous were killed
and large number received serious in
/ juries.
/ on the 18th the steamer Northerner was
! burned near Sandusly, o. She was val
/ uei at so, coo and was insured. both me-
/ rine or fire losses, for the amount of $40,
/ COO.
! on the 18th Daniel Mccormick, a paint
/ er, sixty three years Of age, committed
/ suicide in New York by throwing himself
into the cistern in the rear Of his house.
/ OK the 18th a destructive fire was re
/ ported in the village of Townshend, Vt.
The post-ofice, two places of business and
several residences were destroyed and a
/ number Of others were momentarily ex-
/ pected 70 go.
/ On the 18th c. B. Chatneld's large -four
\ ing mill and elevator at Bay City. Mich.
was destroyed by fire, with 400 barrels Of
| -four and G,o00 bushels of wheat. Loss,
! $4,000; insurance, so 0)0.
EDWARD SHIELDS, an ironworker, died
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th from the
effects of injuries received in saloon
brawl several weeks ago, when he re.
ceived a How on the head from a beer
glass, said to have been thrown by one
| Henry Ford, who is now in iail.
AN epidemic of juvenile crime seems to
have broken out in Paris. Among the
cases brought to pubic notice is that of a
young girl named Georges, who COM
mitted suicide in the Seine because Of
disappointment in love.
ABOUT midnight on the 18th n fire broke
out in St. Peters r oman Catholic pro-
| cathedral, in Allegheny City, Pa. The
fire had gained such headway when the
firemen appeared upon the scene that oil
efforts to extinguish it proved futile. The
edifice was totally destroyed. Loss esti-
mated at $1,000 fully covered by insur-
auce.
on the 18th Prof. Joseph Schrenk, the
principal of the German academy at
Hcbozen. N. j., was arrested upon a
1 charge of cruelty heating Theodore
Wilisich, one of his pupils. The boys
( body was shown in court and was found
TO be covered with black and llue welts.
| Schrenk was held to answer to the grand
jury.
ON the 18Th a Now York jury, after
/ seventeen minutes deliberatiOn, found
! Andrew J. Whitman, a private detective,
/ guilty Of blackmal and cndeavoring to
! extort 81 $50 from Charles D. Seers, of Buff
falo.
Ok the morning of the 18th Mrs. Jane
/ Wheeler was hrutally murdered at Cieve-
land. O. Beniqmin Wheeler, her hus-
band, has been arrested On suspicion OF
having been concerned in the deed.
OK the evening of the 18Th we'll dressed
man entered the jewelry store of Charles
UPmyor at Milwaukee, Wis, threw a
handful of red pepper into the eyes of the
proprietor, seized bundle of watches and
! escaped.
On the 10 a fire. resulting in loss of
| nearly $50 coo, occurred in the Staten Is
land Dye Works. at Staten Island, n. Y.
On the 18th the steamer Yemasse, of
the Charleston line, arrived in New York
| with its chief officer, George w. Wills,
deal on board, his brains having been
dashed out by a swinging jib- SAL block.
On the l4th, John Ryan, Hamilton
CO., policeman, killed thief named Long,
who was trying to escape.
ON the 18th two engines and fourteen
freight cars We're demolished by q collision
on the Missouri Pacific railway at Deni-
son, Tex.