The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-03-23
o. the 1eth II 80 stated La qeneral.

Boulanger had decided TO enter the Cham
Der Of Deput les.
OK the 10th special requiem services |
were held in the London churches and in |
the Chapel Of st. George at Windsor for |
the late Emperor Of Germany. The Queen !
and many members of the royal family
attended at the latter service. Minute |
guns were fred at the garrison towns.
In Paris, on the 18th, a requiem service
for the dead Emperor was held in the
English church.
OK the 10Th the funeral of the late EN-
peror Of Germany was solemnized in
the presence of a large concourse of titled
mourners and of the pOpulace of Berlin.
THE Illinois Supreme Court, on the 18th,
in the case Of Edward Mcdonald, one of
the Cook Coun ty (IlL) boodlers, who was
tried with McGarigle, granted a super
sedeas. suspending the execution OF the
three years. sentence until arguments for
a new trial can be heard. Bail was re-
fused.
GENERAL mourning was observed on
the 10Th for the late Emperor William Of
Germany at Malta, Madrid and Mel
bourne, Australia
On the 10th the municipality OF San
Reno, Italy, unanimously conferred hon
orary citizenship upon DIR. Mackenzie.
OK the 10th the Chinese immigration
treaty was laid before the Senate. It
excludes all Chinese laborers from our
shores except those now here, and makes
exceptions of certain privileged classes.
On the 10th bill was introduced in the
Senate to provide for the admission of
Utah into the Union.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND, on the
10Th, sent to the House of Representa-
tives an answer to a resolution calling
for information as to the amount Of money
expended for the apprehension of Illicit
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/ revenue laws. He said that these ex-
! pen ditures were in payment of local dep
uties employed as guides to officers in
! i'm making arres Is, but failed TO s ate the
/ amount paid out.
| OK the 10th the passage of a bill to pre-
/ vent food adul teratiOn was urged before
/ the House committee on commerce by Mr..
Emory, Of Philadelphia, president of the
Society for the Prevention Of the Adulter-
ation of Food, and Mr.. c. b. Thurber.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK tie night of the 18th terrible
tragedy was enacted at the John Lowell
| House, Chattanooga, Tenn. Levi Brown,
a boarder, requested Mrs. Lizzie Davis,
the laudlady, to read letter for him.
! fter she had complied, Brown drew a re-
volver and shot her dead.
A DAsTARDLY assault was made by un-
! known parties upon an aged couple named
bridge, on the night of the 11th. The de-
feuseless pair were brutally beaten and
robbed Of fifty dollars, all the money in
( the house. The place was then saturated
with kerosene and fired. A timely rescue
saved them from awful death.
on the 18th intelligence was received at
Victoria, b. c., of the drowning in the
Skirna river, Alaska, on February 20, of
Rev. Mr.. sheldon, Mrs. r. Cunningham
and two Indians. It is thoug hit that the
Sheldon referred to is Rev. Sheldon Jack
son, the noted Indian mis- sionary in
charge Of the Indian schools in Alaska
under the direction of the Governments
on the 14th Reading railroad passen-
ger train ran off the track near Middle
/ port, Pa, killing one passenger and in
juring a number of others,
On the 14th John H. Skinner, alias Cox,
an outlawed and ostracised wretch, who
on the night of November Is, 1887, wan
. tonly shot down B. +. TOrque an, an in
offensive gentleman residing near Hop
; kinsville, KY, was taken from the jail II
shat place by an armed mob, to the seem
} of his crime, aud hanged to a wild ch cry
tree.
OK the 18th Gilbert Burrows, Of Day
ton, o., was shocked into insensibility
, | from the phone of a telephone which h'
had taken hold of TO answer a ring at tn
r ! instrument. Investigation showed tha
, the telephone wire was crossed witt
I ! large incandescent light wires.
o on the 14th an Italian named Onart
@ was instantly killed and two others wer
{ | seriously hurt by the explosion Of dyn
8 | amite blast in a cut near Burgetts town
Pa. number of others received sligh
y injuries.
a on the 18th the steam tug Mary CintOl
;, sprung a leak Off the Battery, in Nev
y York harbor, and went to the bottom. He
I IN, oil wwyovs
r.. afterward picked up.
n On the 10Th two engineers and cor
ductor were killed ard nine other person
J were injured on the Lehigh railroad nea
d Pennington, N. J., by derajled and collit
l. ing locomotives employed in forcing
t, passenger train through the snow.
i On the 18th Frederick CarOlin, a carpeI
It ter, murdered his mist ess in most brT
tai manner with a hatchet, in New Yors
/, The womau's name is unknown, but sh
was E. widow with three children.
d On the morning of the 10th Danit
h Bowman, a wealthy farmer of Ale
e County, o., was found lin his corn -fielC
Ie with a deep cut in his forehead. He
'e supposed to have been murdered.
-e ON the 10Th Immense natural -ga
explosion occurred at Toledo, o., entail
D. ing n loss of several thousand dollars.
Oh travelling mau named fireman was fata
l. ly burned. .e
q OK the 10Th, at Belleville, o., John Deal
a farmer, aged seventy years, attacke
ot his wife with knife and then went to g
or outhouse, where he cut his own throa
8 Mrs. Dean will probably not recover.
is thought that Dean committed the GRIN
OF while temporarily insane.
+ ON the 18th sixteen persons we
70 drowned of Bairi, Naples, by the capsi
; ing of a Trieste pleasure boat.
ON the 10th, while James SCarlett was
IS trial at Bonham, Tex, for the murder
: Andy Lacefield, in 1885. the latter can
u into court and protested that he was n
a corpse. -r
As on the 10th A. D. Rather and r. Mund
az of Temple, Tex, were held up and robb
pu near the Santa Fe railroad bridge on r.
X river nine miles from Gainesville. e. Rath
o. gave up 1910 and gold watch, and MunC
20 contributed the modest sum of fifteen do
lars.
he MISCELLANEOUS.
IA On the 18th the hearing Of the Stewa
Of will case was commenced in the Ne
York courts.
ON THE burning OF Suakim by the Soud
he ese is not confirmed.
DURING the terr ible snow storm OF {
,s 18th a sleigh containing John Rudd,
NJ and wife, of New York, on their way
Calvary Cemetery to bury the body OF
n daughter was overturned at Borden al
81 West avenues and the corpse and c
ce cupants thrown into a ow-drift. 7
IN sleigh was righted and the funeral par
az succeeded in getting within a quart
,ct ofa mile Of the cemetery. From the
or the driver carried the corpse to {
grave, followed by the mourners on fos
he On the 18th the negroes of GeOrg
ad asked the Railroad Commission to set
the ouesfion of discrimination again