The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-08

An explosion at the Bay Chester IN.
Y.) powder works on the 50th killed four
men, demolished the buildings, and scared
the people for miles around.
THE Virginia Supreme Court has denied
a rehearing to T. J. Cluverius, convicted
of having murdered his cousin, Fanny
Lillian Madison, at Richmond.
JOHN II. G. BOWEN was convicted at
Romney, W. Va, on the 30th of murder in
the first degree and sentenced to oimprison-
ment for life, for the killing of Frank
Heatwole on April % last.
BY the caving-in of an icehouse in the
levee at Omaha, Neb., on the 3Oth, three
workmen were injured, one of them fatal
ly, whose name was Mr.. Yeakley, from
Illinois. He died on the way to the hosa
pital.
ADoLPH GoRDoN was discharged from
the Michigan State prison on the 30th at
the expiration of five years sentence
Tor eount8rteiting. He was Immediately
arrested by a deputy United States mar
shall on charge Of counterfeiting while
inside the prison. Moul ds and tools were
found ON his person and in his cell.
FIRE broke out on the 30th in the base
ment Of the Cliff House, a very large
boarding-hOuse, at Lenox, Mass, which
was crowded with guests. There was a
panic among the boarders, and some of
them had harrow escapes, but no lives
were lost. The furniture was nearly all
destroyed. The guests lost largely, main
| iy in money, clothing and jewelry.
THE grand jury of the Kings County
! N. Y } Court of Sessions on the Both in
dicted Supervisors Gallagher, Larkin and
Carroll, for alleged Irregularities in reia-
tion TO the bills of Plumber Williams for
work done in the Court house while they
had charge of it, and ex-Nurse Chas. M.
Edgarton for manslaughter in the second
degree, in scalding to death Patrick Nc
Carthy, a patient in the Flatbush insane
asylum.
Tue hearing of the motion for a new
trial in the Chicago Anarchists cases was
commenced on the Ist-
CHARLES EDWARDS, alias Charles Cor
ham, colored, who murdered his mistress
in Algiers, La, on June 20, was executed
on the lst,
SHANKLING & KEARNs' store, at Bring
hurst, Ind, was wrecked on the 1st A
clerk was weighing out powder as he
smoked a cigar. He was badly burned and
nearly killed.
S. S. HAMILTON, prominent citizen
and pork packer at Louisville, KY, fell
down the stairway of his office on the 1st
and broke his neck He died almost in
stautly.
FIVE boys were out in the barber at
Lynn, Mass, on the 1st, in a small boat,
when the wind capsized the boat and
three of them, Henry Sears, Michael
O'Neal and Darby Green, were drowned.
A STARTLING story is giv-n to the
world by st. Paul, (Minn.) paper to the
effect that the late Emory A. Storrs was
poisoned with digitalis to prevent him
telling the secrets of the Chicago gang,
which he had obtained as Mackin's at
torney.
EDWARD SOLOMON, the husband of Lill-
ian Russell, charged with bigamy, has
been remanded by the London magis-
trates pending the arrival of witnesses
from the United States.
DAVID NJ. CHADWICK, aged sixty five
years, was caught by secret-service Off
GERS and local detectives at Albany, n.
Y, on the 1st, manufa cturing counterfeit
coin, large quantities of which have been
shipped to New Y York and other cities.
A DEFALCATGoN Of nearly $4,000 in the
Union Dime Savings Bank of New York
has just come to light, Otto Baumann, the
receiving teller, being the defaulter. The
bank is thoroughly solvent.
ON the Cd one white man and four
negroes took from five to twenty lashes
at Newcastle, Del, for various Offenses,
principally larceny.
ON the Cd, young man named Ed. Roe
was fatally shot by the accidental dis
charge of his gun while coon hunting near
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
AN explosion with terribly fatal results
occurred at Altoft's colliery, near Wante-
field, Yorkshire, England, on the Sd.
On the / the Alden Canning and Evap-
Grating Company's factory at Benton
Horbor, Mich, burned. Loss, $4,000.
Stock insured for $4,000. The fire was
caused by the night watchman overturn-
ing a lighted torch.