The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-05-18

OK the 1Ith the House committee on
pOst-offices and pOst-roads ordered a IA
vOrable report on the bill to provide for
pOst-Office buildings, at q cost not to ex-
coed S25, 600 each, at all places where the
gross receipts OF the pOst-ofice for two
years or more preceding shall have ex-
eeeded So, 600 in each year.
On the 11th the House committee on
acoustics and ventilation agreed to re-
port the Dunham bill, making an appro-
priatiOn Of S150,OO0 to enable A. De Bauset
TO build an air ship to convey passengers
and freight through the air, and for other
purposes.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
THE notorious ''BIinky'' Morgan, Ender
sentence to hang for the murder of De-
tective Hulligan, at Ravenna, o., has fled
motion for leave to file apetition in error
in the Ohio Supreme Court.
RECENTLY, in a duel at Nynregyhaza,
Hungary, a magistrate named Hegedues
was killed by his nephew.
On the Sth a terrible crush was caused
in the Thalia Iheater, New York, by a
needless alarm of fire, in which several
women were injured and many others
tainted.
IN st. Paul, Mimi, Joseph Robler and
Charles Miller were killed, and John Fart
badly injured by the fall of an elevator at
aamm'S DteWerys on the 5th-
In New York, on the 9th, at a fire in
Browns American Club stables, Foreman
Thomas Goss and superintendent Muir
ray, Of the Insurance Patrol, we're injured
by the fall of an elevator.
AT Hebron, w. Va, three tramps broke
into the house of Jacob Morgan, an aged
farmer, and demanded his money. Upon
his refusal they murdered him and then
robbed the house.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, in a fit of jealousy,
on the 10th, Charles Turner, aged fifty
one, shot and killed his wife, Augusta
Turner, aged forty five, and then blew his
own brains out.
On the 10th a collision occurred on East
river, between the ferrybOats Montana
and Republic. Both boats were pretty
well crowded, and the usual panic ensued,
but no one was seriously injured. The
boats ply between New York City and
Brooklyn.
| ON the 9th the dam at Hamlin, Mich,
went out carrying two million feet of logs
out into Lake Michigan, together with
/ seventeen houses on the bank Of the creek.
| The life-saving station had narrow es-
cape. The houses were deserted in antici-
patton Of the flood.
On the 10th Cashier VIM. r. Royce of
the Willimantic Comm Savings Bank
was arrested for alleged Justification of
! accounts.
| On the 10th st. Pau's Episcopal Cathe-
dral, at Buffalo, N. Y, was destroyed by
| fire resulting from natural gas explo-
/ sion. During the day at least a dozen
| other explosions occurred in the same
city.
ON the 11th seventeen persons were
reported fatally injured in a rear-end
collision on the Erle railroad, between
! Orange and Newark, n. J.
IN Cincinnati, Henry MunzbrOck, the
first saloon keeper found guilty under the
Owens Sunday-ClOsing law, was fined S5C
and costs and sentenced to ten days in the
l wOrk-house.
| AT Greensboro, Ga, on the 11th, Geo
McDufie, a negro preacher, was hanged
for the murder of William Cheney, also
/ cOlored.
| THE notorious Diss Debars viii be tried
/ in New York City on the 23d.
ENoCH MCMAHON and his farm hand,
/ who were cremated IN the burning resi-
/ dence of the former, near Summittville
Ind, on the 9th, it is suspected, were first
murdered by robbers, who afterward fred
the house.
On the 10th eighteen miners were killed
I oughtright and many injured by fall Of
! rocks in a mine at Stassfurt, Saxony.
On the I1th James H. Murray, line.
man in the employ of an electric lighi
company in New York City, was killed by
a shock while repairing an electric-light
wire
Ar Glencoe, Can, the temporary bridge
used in the construction of the new iroI
| bridge over the Thames river gave way
on the 10th, precipitating six men into the
! water below. Alexander Watterwortf
and William Lamb were instantly killed
The others were seriously injured.
AT Buffalo. N. Y, on the 11th, John Cul
len was sentenced to imprisonment fol
life for killing his mother with an axe il
January last.