The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-23


structed the jury to bring in a verdict OF
not guilty, as the evidence was not sut1-
cient, was argued by Prosecuting Attor-
nev Pugh OF Hamilton County in the Su-
preme Court Of Ohio, on the 18th.
Mr.. EDWARD HARRINGTON, NJ. p, for
West Kerry, ireland, has been summoned
for melting to boycotting. His trial is
set for the 2Gth Of November.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
LAWYER JOHN F. KAvANAGH, Of New
York has disappeared. He is under
charges Of forgery in connection with ap-
plicatiOns for rebate Of tax assess ments
on city property belonging to his clients
IT is shown by the details Of the colli-
sion between the Cuuard steamer Nantes
and the German bark Theodore Rugar,
of the coast Of Cornwall, that twenty-five
of the Nantes crew and twelve Of the lat
ter vessels occupants were drowned.
DISAPPOINTMENT over the election and
! financial losses caused by it led Thomas
L. Bolts, an insurance broker at New
| York, to commit suicide on the 18th. He
died within an hour
AN accident occurred on the Baltimore
| g. Ohio railroad, on the 14th, ten miles
west of Grafton, W. Va, q freight train
/ being derailed and passenger train run =
/ ming into the wreck on account of no flag
! being displayed.
THE houses Of the Peoples Ice Com
/ pany Of Dedham, Mass, collapsed on the
/ 14th- Nearly a dozen people were buried
/ in the ruins, all of whom sustained seri-
4 Gus, and some perhaps fatal injuries.
] ENGINEER VANKoRFF, Of the burned
/ Steam Gauge and Lantern Works at
! Rochester N. Y, has been arrested,
charged with setting fire to the premises.
AT West Superior, Wis, on the 18th, in
| n quarrel on a moving train, pistols we're
/ drawn, and a promiscuOus fusilade fol-
| lowed, in which four nom -cOmbatants
were wounded, but none fatally.
Mas. FRANCES KNECHT's residence at
! Plymouth. Pa, was burned on the 14th.
| Her two children perished in the flames.
| Upon learning of her loss the bereaved
mother became maniac.
! UP to the 18th nineteen bodies have
been ezhumed from the ruins of the Ian
/ tern works burned at Rochester, n. V, on
the 9th.
d. W. VAUGHN, a blacksmith of Dem
| yer, Col, who acted as peace maker in a
sal oon fight in that city, on the morning
of the l4th, was followed by one of the
| combatants and shot dead.
THE French Government works at
| Chatellerault for the manufacture of
small arms were destroyed by fire, on the
| 10Th, causing a suspension in the manu-
| facture of the Lsbel rifle, the new French
arm.
PETER SHIBLEY, a weu-known farmer
living near Lordstown, O., on the 18th
deliberately shot and killed his aged
wife. They had been married sixty
years.
On the night of the 14th James Leroy
Cortelyan, proprietor of the Nassau (N
W Hotel, was burned to death by the
explosion of a kerosene lamp.
q On the 18th Solou g. jenkins, of Wall e
ington, Conn, shot and killed Stephen
Anthony, his father-iu-l law, ag ed sixty
and then attempted suicide, shooting Of
his right ear.
Atlanta, Ga, on the 151h, between James
Hunt, a recently -elac,ed member of the
Georgia Legislature and II, s. Moore, 6
railway mail agent, the latter became
| angry and drew a peakuife and Stable
the former In the stomach, causing death
in few minutes.
VIOLENT gales prevailed along the ives
| coast Of Great Britain on the 14th ant
| 10Th. Numerous wrecks occurred, among
them the Norwegian bark Hypatia, whicl
went ashore near Holyhead. No live
were lost.
A VESSEL which sailed from Clutch, In
dia, bound for Bombay, with 900 native
on board is long overdue. tits supposed
that she foundered with all on board.
LOUIS HEMQUE ST, deckhanu on IN
barge S. c. Baldwin, was drowned as tht
vessel was entering the canal at S aul
Ste. Marie, Mich, on the 18th, and tn
engineer Of tho barge was scalded {
death on the down trip.
THE dome OF the Glasgow (Scotland
Exposition building was demolished an
, the Ladies' Industrial department in tn
p structure completely wrecked during
[ gale which prevailed on the 18th.
SEVERAL days ago Herman Anderson
and a young lady friend left Rice's Poin
- Wis, in a skiff, intending to go to Wes
, Superior to attend dance. Nothing ha
, since been heard Of them, and it is sup
[ posed that they were drowned.
) OK the 18th Captain John Miller, {
Jimtown, I. T., was killed by Jim Ables
} Captain Miller was seventy two years OLD
> and is said 70 have killed thirty men dur
] | ing his life.
AT Circleville o., on the 18th, thre
! | young women were run down by pas
senger train on the canal bridge of th
| Cincinnati q Miami Valley railroad
Emma Nickens jumped upon a stringer {
the bridge and saved her life; Mani
{ Tam lost leg and died from the shocl
{ and Allie Redmau was instantly kille
B and horribly mutilated.