The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-03-02

On the oath the case of Jay Gould, Rus.
sell Sage and the Kansas Pacific bond
holders was again taken up by the New
York City grand jury.
THE hotel-keepers of st. Louis have been
requested by Mayor Francis to refrain
from engaging rooms TO outside part les
until satisfactory apportionment has
been made for tho National committee
men and State delegations.
AT Cincinnati Judge Sage, of the United
States Circuit Court, has refused an order
to remove Ben E. Hopkins from the coun-
ty Jail to his home, where he might die
surrounded by his family, stating that it
was the duty of the court to execute the
law and protect the general public, rath-
er than to consider the comfort Of indi-
viduals.
The President it is said. favored the
selection of Chicago for the location of
the Democratic National convention, and
said il must not go to San Francisco. This
antagOnizsd a majority of the committee,
and Frisco, seeing that her chances were
gone, swung to ST. Louis under the lead
er ship af Mr.. German.
on the oath Rev. VIM. Keylord, of the
South Jersey Baptist Conference was ac-
quilted Of the charge of assault, preferred
by Miss Carrie Pharo.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
"A
tempt to blow up the handsome freight
house of the Rending Railroad Company,
at Shamokin, Pa, was frustrated by the
ign ORANGE Of the dynamiter.
AT Baltimore, Nd, the killing of Cap
tain Whitehurst, in the battle with the
police boat Folly, on the night of the 18th,
has caused intense excitement in portions
of the city where he was wei and favor
ably known. The coroner's jury failed to
q T,., Sl,fT Ii 4
On the 21st Rebecca Lester was arrested
I'm Cincinnati, charged with an attempt to
poison the wife OF her paramour.
Ok the 2lst the city marshal of Carbon,
Ind, shot and killed miner while trying
to quell a dis turbnnce.
on the 2Ist the body of Valentine
Gulcher a German. was found near Grand
! Island, Neb., riddled with bullets.
On the 2lst Miss Jessie Bryant, daugh-
ter of a wealthy farmer living near Louis
willie, KY, took "Rough on Rats" by mis-
! take for quinine and was soon corpse.
On the 21st burglars entered the Office
/ Of the Burlington & Missouri River pas
4 senger depot at Nebraska City, Neb. Tney
/ failed to break open the steel cash-box,
| and secured but little of value.
/ OK the morning of the 2ist Dennis Nc
/ Graw and his wife, of Lama, o., were
found dead in their bed from the effects
Of natural gas.
APRIL has been fixed upon for the ex-
ecution of Luther J. Shaffer, Of Lock
Haven, Pa.
/ THE English and American students at
/ the U niveTsity of Berlin met on the 22d
/ for the purpose of forming a club exclu-
| sively of students OF their own nationali-
/ ties.
! CHARLES WINGARD and his niece, Miss
| Anna Fox, an coping couple from Mon
roe, Mich, were arrested and placed in
! jail at Alliance. o., where they commit
| ted suicide on the morning of the 22d
/ A COLoRED hero Of Paducah, KY,
/ named Tom Burdette, whose boat sprung
a leak in midstream while crossing Bee
| creek, on the 22d jumped into the wat er
/ and succeeded in saving his passengers, a
/ Mrs. Hays and her child, but lost his own
/ life in the noble work He leaves a widow
/ aud four children. for whose benefit a
! fund is being raised.
OK the 23I Lewis Moore, colored, who
was hanged at Atlanta, Ga, made a con-
fession of his crime on the scRffod, and
| said that whisky was the cause of it.
On the 231 the President aud party Wis
/ tied The Florida Ex. sition at Jackson
| vile, and were much pleased with the ex-
/ hibts and the attention paid them The
public were excluded during the visit.
OK the 23l Governor jackson of Mary
| land signed the death warrant for j. b.
/ Biscoe, the colorcd youth who murdered
| Captain DIX IN on his sloop on the POtO-
mac river. h viii be hanged on Friday,
| April -, at Leonardtown.
OK he 231 Thos. Denham, formerly a
wealthy ice-creHm manufacturer and
well-Snown citizen of b o3klyn, shot
himself dead. DissiTated habits had
ruined him, and he was in n despondent
condition.
on the 24th, at Terre Huute, Ind, viii
lam N. Monroe, in jumping from mov-
ing Nandalia train, was fatally injured.
His home is at Knightstown, Ind.
OK the oath Cl-arles Holton, the youlg
son of c. G. Holton, of Oh cago who was
accidentally sh It on the - by his
brother, Ethan Allel Hilton, died of his
/ wounds.