The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-04-06


Detroit EceRfHg Journal to pay $500 to
General Greedy OF any other person who
would sendit a correct guess as to the three
hottest days in Detroit during the coming
summer, General Greely telegraphed that
they should be July IA, Is and is.
On the 30th, by an order of the Post
master General, the mails from New York
| City to the City of Mexico we're expedited
/ from twenty-fOur to thirty hours. The re-
duced time is six and one-haf days.
DIR. MACKENzTE's diagnosis, and the cor
! rectness and wisdom of his treatment Of
I the EmperOr's case, is becoming daily
more apparent.
/ On the 30th James GilhOoly, member Of
/ Parliament for West Cork, who was re-
| Gently sentenced to two months imprison-
/ ment, but released on bail pending his
/ appeal, was sentenced to two weeks addi-
/ tonal imprisonment for assaulting a
| police inspector.
OK the 29th Governor johnson Of Mary
land pardOned the seven judges and clerks
| OF election who were found guilty Of
frauds at the polls two years ago, and
sentenced in June last.
On the 30th DR.. Mackenzie, having been
! hooted by a mob upon the streets Of Ber-
lin, the Emperor promptly gave orders for
his protection in the future, and declared
that an indignity to the great doctor would
be taken as an insult to himself.
! CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
On the 22d it was stated that the short
! age Of State Treasurer Tate Of Kentucky
would amount to S25O,OOO.
On the 26th an aged woman named Mar
icle was burned to death in her residence
near Dryden, N. Y. 1t is supposed she
overturned the stove and set the house on
fire while suffering from fits, to which she
was subject
IT is reported that one Of the robbers
I who murdered Mine MananreT C1FihIgaI nf
the Phoenix (Ariz.) silver mine was over
taken by the pursuing posse and killed.
| On the 27th Conductor Robin was killed
in the wreck of a freight train on the Kan
sas City, st. Joe. & Council Bluffs rail-
road.
Two white men and a negro were killed
and several wounded by an explosion of a
boiler at Luce's saw mill, COokville, Tenn,
on the 27th.
THE Honan floods in China are over,
leaving two million people destitute. The
starving hOrdes are invading the surround
ing towns and devouring every thing like
locusts, causing great distress to the poor
inhabitants.
On the 2sth the sugar-1aden steamer
Canonbury, from Matanzas, struck west of
the cold Man." off Nantucket Mass, but
the crew of twenty three men were gal
lantly landed through a perilous surf
| by the Life-Saving crew, amid the
applause Of a large concourse of people on
the shore.
IT is reported that losses from recent
floods in Germany are enormous, aggre-
eating S50, 100000.
On the 2Sth three men were manned for
life by powder explosion in an ore mine
at Rittenhouse Gap, Pa. Several other
wOrkmen were seriously injured.
On the 29th Thomas H. Sdllman, OF
Plainville, n. j., cut his throat in the pres
/ Of his aud "a her. la NJ Il
instantly expired, He had been driven in
I sane by the report that he was suspected
: of murder.
IN Kikinda, Austria, more than two hun
dred houses were destroyed by fire, on the
29th.
? AT Detroit, Mich. on the Goth. Simon
, O'Neil, an old soldier, who entered the
> army in 1857, and served through the civil
and three Indian wars, suicided by hang
t ing.
o On the Doth NJ. H. Sidebottonl, of somer-
set, KY, was arrested and confessed tC
: the murder and robbery, on the 2Sth, Of
g Thomas Wilson, an old soldier who haC
gone to that place to collect proof to aiC
t him in getting pension.
= Ar Montreal (Can) a detective was, OF
- the 29th, sentenced to fourteen years. i'm
g prisonment in the penitentiary for robbinl
T Grand Trunk railroad offices.
e AN aristocratic young counterfeiter o
Il
r the 29th, sentenced to three years in thu
r. penitentiary with hard labor.
On the Goth the jury in the famous Pat
u tersOn murder case at Cheyenne, w. T.
IS was discharged after being out eighty-on
% hours without coming to an agreement
On the 30th Albert Murrish an insur
.e ance agent living in Center Township
e Neb., shot and killed his wife and fatal,
, wounded the hired man, because he sus
.e pected them of undue intimacy.
II On the 30th John r. Decamp, vice -presi
= dent of the defunct Metropolitan Bank
u was rearrested in Cincinnati, having beel
a surrendered by his bondsmen.
s. On the 29th Mrs. John Garlich, of Gin
= cinnati, was instantly killed by an ele
vator, while trying to step off before it ha
= stopped.
N OK the 29th the bill granting the 81
+ Louis q San Francisco railroad the righ
At of way through the Indian Territory passe
the Senate.
" of Raleigh, n. C., reported, on the 30th, tn
'n capture of an Illicit still in Chatha1
is County, N. c.
'l' Mon0n river, fifty villages were complete
a. ly submerged.
p On the 3Oth Harry Lovett, of Philade1
te phia, was killed at Lynn, Mass, by a
y electric shock while experimenting IN a
OF electric Company's works.
On the Both o. J. Coughlin, publisher {
ny the Binghamton IN. " Dispatch, was al
sd rested on a charge of criminal libel in a
girls astray.