The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-01
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


Philadelphia, of centennial fame, was de-
stroyed by fire.
ON the 22d it was decided by District
Attorney Fellows, of New York, not to
press the Indictment for grand larceny
against Miss Dis DeBar, for the present
but to proceed to trial on the charge of
conspiracy.
On the 22d Constable Potts, Of Des
Moines, Ia, was sentenced to five months
imprisonment in the county Jail and to
pay fine of 500 for bribery in cOnnec-
ton with lu uOr cases which he was pros
ecuting.
IN New York the up town central Office
of the Metropolitan Telephone Company
was burned out on the 23d. Loss, about
0,0O0 The cause was the crossing OF
an electric-light wire with telephone
wire.
WHILE fishing, Charles Jackson, the six
teen year old son of Edward Jackson, liv-
ing in the northern part of Monroe
County, Ind, was drowned, on the 22d.
He was seized with o fit and fell in the
river.
SUIT has been instituted in the New
York Supreme Court by the National Park
Bank of New York City against Charles L
De Baum, its defaultfng assistant cashier,
for the recovery of $4,000, which it was
found he was short in his accounts.
On the 23d a building at the corner of
Broadway and John streets, New York, in
the course of demolition, caved in, bury
ing five men in the ruins. The fourth floor
had been entirely removed, and men were
at work tearing down the second and third
floors. The foreman felt the building
shake, and ordered the men to come
down, but before they could do so the
building fell.
OK the 23d the town Of Argonia, near
Wichita, Kas., was entirely destroyed by
a cyclone.
AT Providence, r. l., Patrick keenan,
and John O'ROurke, engaged in sewer
! construction, were buried alive, on the
| oath, by a caving bank. keenan, was
| taken out dead and the body removed to
/ his home. O'Rourke was badly injured,
| but will recover.
AT Napanee, Elkhart County, Ind, Mrs.
| George Reed took her three-months- old
/ child in her arms, on the 23d, and jumped
/ into a well. Both were drowned. She
/ left a note saying that she was tired OF
| living, and would take her child with heI
| to rest. Her age was twenty three.
] RICHARD n. RAY and ThOs. Chalow, oc-
| cupying n buggy, were instantly killed by
passing train, near BOup station, Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the oath.
Ar Portage station, near Bowling
| Green, o., two men were killed and two
others fatally injured by boiler explo-
sion in a saw-mill, on the oath.
AT Columbus, Neb., Alfred Dunkel, a
wife murderer, hung himself in the jail
on the 23d.
On April q disastrous cOnhagratioI
occurred at Ohno, in Yechizen, China
Out of s, 700 houses in the town 1,S00 were
destroyed and many people lost theil
lives.
on the 24th the Girard (Pa.) Wrench
factory was burned, entailing loss o.
$40 600.
AT Mt. Holly, N. J., the Peak murder
trial was resumed on the 25th. Judge Gar
rison excluded the sO-called dying decla
ration of Kate Anderson. The dieisiol
is regarded as the turning point in tn
trial, and it is not unlikely that Peak vii
| escape conviction.
THE appeal of ex-AIderman Henry NJ
! Jaehne, the convicted boodler of Ney
York City, for a writ of habeas corpus
set for argument on the 25th, was post
poned until June 1.
On the 23d Mrs. z. Davis, of Salt LAX
City, learned that her husband, to whom
she had been married twenty years, ha,
married a second wife. The shock un
balanced her mind, and, on the oath, sh
cut her throat with a razor.
AT Leavenworth, Kas., Policeman
Goodell shot three times and killed a wife
beater named Ben Black, on the 25tl
Black had hrst hred at the otncer, 1nhlct
ing flesh wound.
AT the late explosion in Merlot's cart
ridge and fireworks factory in Paris
only two persons were injured and II
loss Of life occurred. Early reports wer
greatly exaggerated.
AT a country sChOOl-hOuse near Dillel
I Neb., on the evening of the 23d, in rehears
I ing for an amateur represen {
"Uncle Toms Cabin" j. w. Foults, th
school teacher, pointed u.pistol at Samut
: Stump, not thinking it loaded. 1t was dis
charged, the ball passing through Stump
4 head, killing him instantly.