The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-29
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


good health. The first report caused the
closing OF the French bourse.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ST. JosEPH's ORPHAN ASYLUM, seven
miles south of Newport, KY, was burned
on the 18th. Loss, $4,000.
IN Silver Lake, near Perry, N. Y, AL
bert Z. Purdy, a well-knOwn business
man, and Miss Lettie NJ. Strauss were
drowned. on the 18th, by the upsetting of
their boat.
on the 18th Nine. Dis DeBar and Gen.
eral Dis DeBar, who were recently con-
victed OF conspiracy in swindling Luther
r. Marsh, a New York lawyer, out of a
portion Of his property, were sentenced
by Judge Gndersleeve to the penitentiary
for six months.
THE Sparta Hotel at Wakefield, Mich,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th. The
building was owned and occupied by Ed
ward Bowler, whose family perished In
the flames. Several men were badly
burned in trying to save the children.
Loss on building and contents trifing.
On the 18th deputy United States mar
shall arrived at Wichita, Kas., from the
Indian Territory with Tom Thrumber and
jim Baldwin, murdsrers Of Peter Mann,
Thrumber's father-in-law. The three men
quarreled over the possession of a wagon
and team of horses. Three weeks ago
Thrumber aud Baldwin laid In wait for
Mann, and shot him as he passed along
the road.
On the 10Th John r. Dunn, the lawyer
concerned in the Manhattan Banking
Company robbery, was sentenced to nine
years and eight months in New York
State prison, the full penalty of the law.
THIRTY lives are reported to have Ibeen
lost in the fire at Dubois, Pa on the 1S tn,
twenty men, four women and six chill
dren; also that the loss will aggregate
more than S2O0O,00 Telegraphic COM
munication was cut off by the fire. and
the details have not been received.
On the 18th Fred May, the well-known
man about town, was arrested in New
! York for insulting ladies on the street.
He was intoxicated, and pointed pistol
at the officer who arrested him. The lat
ter dubbed him into submission, and it
was found necessary to send him to the
Chambers Street Hospital for surgical at
tention,
A DISPATCH was received from KEEL,
/ Germany, on the 10Th, stating that the
| steamer Nord had been lost by fire and
/ that eight of her crew were drowned by
! the Capsizing of a boat.
! AT the Nelson coliery, near Shamokin,
/ Pa, on the 20th, there was terrific ex-
! plOsion of gas by which Geo. SChmack re-
cetved probably fatal injuries; Michael
] Kelly, Of Slope Hill, was badly burned,
! besides other injuries, and Karin Karins,
of Scotch Hill, was frightfully burned.
! The latter may recover.
| ON the goth Mrs. Josephine Morike a
\ Polish woman, residing in Pittsburgh,
! Pa, administered strychnine to each of
| her three children, all under nine years
Of age, and then took the fatal dose her
self.
In London, on the 21st, two well-known
| American burglars, Billy Porter and
| Frank Buck, both having many aliases,
! were arrested on "a warrant issued on q
| charge of burglary at Zurich, Switzer-
| land. Superintendent John Shere of the
| Metropolitan police and officers of his
staff made the arrests, and the prisoners
were identified by officers from Zurich.
On the 21st Charles GibIin. the mur.
derer Of Mrs. Madeline GOelz, of New
York, was convicted Of murder in the
first degree. The jury were out only
thirty minutes.
AT Alexandria Bay, N. Y, the stables
and servants quarters belonging to tn,
| Thousand Island House were burned OF
the 22d. 1t was only by the slight veer
ing of the wind that the immense wOodeI
| hotel was saved. The utmost confusion
prevailed among the 800 guests, most o
whom had been called to take the morn
ing boat for Montreal. The hotel fire ex
| llL8 ulSAttS NGAG AOtALAh " 10 o4LAAOSA Us
| less.
A ZACATECAs (Mex.) dispath OF he 23
tells of awful destruction of life and prop
erty by foods caused by heavy rains, OF
the 18th. At Zelos $40 houses were swepf
away, and great many lives lost; a
Leon, the next city in size to the capital
, ! 1 900 bodies had been recovered, aud a
, Lagoon the loss of life and property wa
equally terrible. Hundreds of familie
were homeless at all points, many wer
: starving and crops were ruined.
{ AT Keyser, Md, a shifting engine o
I the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, explode
r on the 22d, killing Engineer Joseph Bel
of Grafton, and injuring fatally job
! | McNabb, Of Winchester the conductor
. and William Baylis, OF Keyser, the fire
/ man.
I AT Schuyllxiu Haven, Pa, on the 22d, /
3 a collision on the Philadelphia & Read
/ | ing road. Engineer John D. Smith and
3 ! man named Frank Herschey, both
Philadelphia, we're killed, and Charlie
e | h. Eddinger, fireman, was terribl
c scalded. The tracks were blocked for 81
z hours.
$ ON the 23d, Cooley Stone, the jocke
f who rode FroEc at Sheepshead bay, L. /
on the 22d, got into quarrel with Earne!
5 | Miller, bartender in the st. Nichol5
. | Hotel at the west end Of Couey Islant
s about payment for drinks. Stone drew
o pistol and shot Miller dead. The murder,
), was arrested.