The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-06

Ok the 27th John s. Swift Of Hartford,
Conn, who was recently found guilty of
the murder of his wife, was sentenced,by
Judge Sanford to be hanged on April 8,
1889.
On the morning Of the 9th a dozen per-
sons were injured and two passenger cars
were wrecked by a collision between two
passenger trains on the Long Island rail-
road in Brooklyn.
Ok tine night Of the 2Gth the residence
Of f. l.. Guy, Canadian Pacific con-
ductOr, at Winnipeg, Man, was burned
aud Guy was cremated in his bed. His
wife was absent from the city and Guy
was living alone.
Or the 2Ssh Paul Boden, Of San Fran
cisco. who was convicted of smuggling
$500 worth of d amond jsweiry and
fancy gowns, was sentenced in New ork
to a years imprisonment
On the night of the 9th the pos t-offlce
o Massilon, o., was burglarzed. Four
Tags of mail from Cleveland and Pitts
burgh were cut open and rifled. small
amount OF stamps and money were taken.
FRANK FULLER, the slayer of Arch
bishop Seghers was found guilty of man.
Slaughter, and sentenced to McNeilPs
island for ten years, and to pay a fine of
s 900. The deed was committed on the
Yukon river in Alaska last December.
Oh the SSth Major a. NJ. Way, indicted
for the embezzement of $4,000 from the
Empire Building and Loan Company of
New Brunswick, n. J.. was arranged for
trial. He pleaded non vuit contendre.
and was reinandsd for sentence. The
whole amount stolen by Way in eleven
years was S3S.701 from the Empire Asso-
citation and Sl9) from the Union Bull ding
and Loan Company.
OK the 29th the steamer Newcastle City,
from Newcastle, England, was wrecked on
the Nantucket shoals, of the coast of Mas.
sachusetts.
UNDER charge of murderous cruelty to
members of their crew during a recent
trip from San Francisco Captain Paynter
and Mate Fischer Of the bark EmbletoR
are in prison at Sunderland, England.
ON the afternoon of the 29th the North
western elevator at Ada, Mimi, caught
fire and was destroyed, together with
80 600 bushels of wheat. Loss about S.,
COO
AT Fergus Falls, Mimi. the High school
building, with all its contents, was
/ burned on the morning of the %. Loss,
| $4,000; Insurance, $2).O The mercury
was 80 degrees below zero during the fire.
Two of the four train robbers, L. u.
King and J. I. Matthews, who went
through Denver & Rio Grande passenger
train near Grand Junction, Utah, last
| October, were arrested at VernaI q. T.,
| on the 10Th.
/ OK the 20,h Mrs. Kate Warman, wife of
1 Henry Warmau, of Cincinnati, ignited
l her clothing at the stove while about her
work, and was burned to death.
On the Goth John North, of Philadel-
/ phia, went home drunk, picked a quarrel
/ with his wife, who was nurs ing a three
months-old child, and. aiming a fearful
/ blow at her, struck the child on the head,
/ killing it instantly.
AT an early hour on the morning of the
Goth, an unknown man entered the store
of the Eau Claire Meat Company at Wash
| burn, Wis, under preteuso OF getting a
| five dollar bill changed. Just Mr..
/ Bonesvaid, the senior member of the
| company, had opened the safe he was
| felled to the floor by a blow on the head
/ by the stranger, who secured $500 in gold
and silver and made his escape.
! OK the Both Gus Edmonson was hanged
/ at Decatur, Ala, for the murder OF his
! wife in May, 1887.
! On the S0th Joseph Zeigler, an Evans-
! vile (lnd.) policeman, by mistake, killed
/ Abraham Smock, comTade, who was
| ont on ".ark."
/ on the 30th, at Harrisonburgh, Va,
! VIII lam FinchUm was hanged for the
murder of his brother.
ONE of the cabin passengers, named
/ Chitty, on the voyage from New York of
I
which arrived at Queenstown on the 30th,
committed suicide.
AT Mariana, Ark, on the 30th, Albert
/ Peters was legally executed for the u.ur-
der, in April, 1885, of William johnson
near Trenton.
OK the night on Goth John T. Fullen, a
mechanic, attempted to walk out from
| Chicago to his home IN Lake View, dur
/ ing the blizzard; he W "a frozen stiff,
ON the evening Of tho 30th, during the
/ performance in the theater at Carthagena,
Spain, a broker occupying one of tho stalls
committed suicide By exploding a dyna-
mite cartridge. The concussion extin-
guished all the lights in the house, and the
| audience, becoming panic stricken, fed
from the building. Daring the excitement
over one hundred persons were more OF
less injured.
on the S0th a young man, handsomely
| dressed, and of prepossessing appearance,
/ shot himself in the right tempIe while be-
ing driven across the Brooklyn Bridge in
/ a cab. The wound is mortal There is nc
clew to his identity except a letter which
was found in his pocket addressed to "E
c. Baldwin, No. 10 Clinton street."