The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-26


William.
CoNGREss adjourned sine die on the
2Oth, ending the longest session in the
history of the Govern ment
THE Bulgarian Sobranje has been sum-
mOned by Prince Ferdinand to meet on
the 9th inst.
THE statement that Empress Frederick
saw proofs of his book before it was pub
lished is denied by DR.. Mackenzie.
On the 18th the Pennsylvania Farmers
Club, embracing a dozen Of the best
known men of the State, we're entertained
at dinner by Mr.. George W. Childs at
his country place, "WoOten." Among
the guests was General Sherman, who
planted pine tree near an oak planted
by General Grant in 1884.
WRIGHT SANFORD died on the 18th at
the Gilsey House, New York, of con-
sumption. He was a well-knOwn club
and sporting mans
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE report of the grand jury on the
condition of Howard County (Ind.) In
firmary, made public on the 10th, says
that the keeper has neglected his duty and
that the institution is in a shamefully
filthy condition. The rooms are reeking
with dirt and fairly alive with vermin,
while the food is totally unfit for human
beings.
AT Waverly Ia, Mrs. NJ. E. Billings
was arrested, on the 15th for alleged per-
jured testimony given by her in the trial
of her husband for the murder Of County
Attorney Kingsley last December. She
is now in Jail.
on the 18th Mike Frederiohs, a dis
charged bartender, was arrested on sus-
picion Of having fred the saloon and
dwelling Of his former employer, j Ohm
Barkenhageu, near Milwaukee, Wis, on
the morning of the 14Uh. A bridge cross
ing the river near by was also burned.
HIRAM VICKERY made a break for hber-
ty from the Fols som (Cal) prison, on the
14th, where he was serving forty-years'
sentence for burglary, and was riddled
with bullets by the guards.
Iy Glasgow, Scotland, block Of bull d.
ings adjoining the one on Buchanan
street which was destroyed by fire, on
the 14th, collapsed the following morning
and was totally ruined. The loss on this
block is e5O,0O0.
WHILE lying at her wharf at Calais,
France, on the 10Th, the channel steamer
Vile de CALAIS, exploded her boilers.
The vessel was torn in two and the for
ward part sank Immediately. 1t is feared
that several lives were lost.
WHILE passing through Wellesley,
Mass, on the 18th, a passenger train on
the Boston 81 Albany railroad had mar
row escape from serious disaster by COM
ing in contact with huge bOwlder which
had fallen on the rOad-bed.
THE story that three deserters from the
German guu-bOat Moewe were killed a nd
eaten by natives Of Zanzibar, is declared
to be unfounded. The bodies of the
sailors were probably mutilated in ac-
cordance with native fetishjsm.
ANOTHER accident occurred on the
Lehigh Valley railroad, on the 10th, at
Tamand station, on the Pottsville branch,
by which seven persons were killed and
twenty-six injured. A fast freight
plunged into construction train unload
ing ties.
NEAR Vevay, Ind, Mr.. Armstrong;
barn, with horses and tobacco, burned on
the 18th. Loss, 200.
Two BURGLARS, under the guise of white
washers, on the 17th gained entrance to
the jewelry brokerage Office Of w. w.
Maynard, of Boston, and secured watches
and diamonds valued at over 81, 200.
A FoRrUNE-TELLER known as Jean
nette" was burned to death in Denver,
Col, on the 10TH in the flames of her
clothing, ignited from q bursting kero-
seue lamp which she attempted to fill
while intoxicated. The house was also
consumed.
CHARLES Z. MATTHEW'S, a city employe
OF Springfield Mass, was found in West
field, on the 18th, suffering from thirty
stab wounds in the breast, supposed to
have been self-iudicted. The physici an s
gave no hope OF his recovery.
COUNT PREMIo REAL, the Spanish Con-
| sul-General for Canada, committed sui
eide by shooting, ut Que bee, on the nth,
He had been depressed in spirits, owing
to financial difficulties.
EDWARD FrTzPATRICK, aged twenty -four
] years, killed his nephew, aged four years,
ut Albany, n Y, by crushing his skull in
/ with shotgun, on the l7th The murder
/ or, who is thought to be insane, was ar
/ rested.
] Boy burglars raided the bank at Rave MS
/ wood, W. Va, on the night of the 18th,
and got away with $500 or 800.
On the 18th four Galway Qrelaud)
moonlighters were sentence at Wicklow.
/ Cahill got one years imprisonment at
/ hard labor and Noon, Reilly and Bran
nally nine months each.
/ WHILE attempting to board the propeller
| St Louis, with mail aud papers, F. K.
/ Stimson, aged forty two, postmaster al
| Mackinaw City, Mich, was drowned By
| the capsizing Of his boat on the 18th.
A REAR END collision between two
/ freight trains occurred at Riverton, Ia,
/ on the 18th, in which several cars and an
/ engine were wrecked.
A GANG Of juvenile burglars has been
/ discovered at Saratoga, N. ", having an
! IRON clad oath, passwords, etc, in regu-
lar bandit style. A number of mysteri-
Gus robberies at that place are thus ac-
/ counted for.
The coroner's jury investigating the
I Mud Run (Pa.) catastrophe, was in ses-
sion on the 18th, but could not agree on
/ verdict.
On the 18th J. ID. Mcclure, paymasteI
for Con tractor McFadden, who is build.
ing a branch road for the Lehigh Valley
I Company, and his body guard, one Flanni
| gan, we're shot and killed by three
| masked men in strip of woods on the
mountain near Wilkesbarre, Pa, and
| robbed OF S2A 600
AT Rochester, ". Y, the business COM
munity was agitated, on the 18th, by the
/ announcement that II. S. Briggs, the safe
| manuf cture1, had ysteriously left the
city; that he was charged with forgery,
and that the sheriff had levied on hi.
/ property The extent OF the forceries is
own lint thav will nrnnr-,f 40 NJ .,,s