The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-05-11

chose delegates to St. Louis, and adopted
resolutions in favor of Cleveland for Pres
ident and General Stevenson, of Illinois,
FOR President.
OK the 4th Mr.. W. II. Smith, replying to
Lord Charles Beresford, refuted the asser-
ton that the English army and navy are
in dangerous inefficient condition.
IF such proves to be the unmistakable
desire of the party, New York friends of
Mr.. Blaine announce that they can state
positively that Mr.. Blaine viii consent to
be candidate for the presidency.
AT dinner given By his brother, on
the Sd, Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, in a
speech to his constituents, took formal
and final leave of his former colleagues
Of the Liberal party.
IN the House the lockout Of ordinary
business by the tariff discussion is en-
gaging the serious attention of Speaker
Carlisle and other members of the COM
mittee on rules.
THE Office Of president OF Clark Uni
versity, lately founded in Worcester,
Mass, by James G. Clark, has been ac-
cepted by Prof. G. f. Stanley Hall, of
John Hopkins University.
On the 4th the Republican convention of
! Washington Territory, held at Yakima,
| rejected a Blaine resolution and sent an
/ uninstructed delegation to Chicago.
| AT st. Paul, Mimi, on the 4th, awarrant
was issued for the arrest of Charles
| McGeachy, a theatrical agent, for criminal
| libel in making damaging statements
| about a rival play.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
! AT Rushyille, Ind, on the 3Oth, by the
explosion Of a lime mill VIM. Caldwell,
\ the proprietor, N. Z. COnde and Joseph
Laken were fatally, Allen Laken and
! Alonzo Rea seriously, and three others
/ slightly hurt.
On the LIST the town of Trenton, KY, was
| visited by disastrous fire and large
number Of buildings were consumed.
ASSISTANT CASHIER CHARLES L. DE-
BAUM, by an ingenious system of falsifying
the books Of which he had control, sue
ceeded in robbing the National Park
Bank of New York Of 500 900. He had
been connected with the bank for twenty
! years.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 1st, Geo.
| Seibert VIM. Bitter and Kate Durkin were
arrested, charged with completely in the
Berwick tragedy, in which Annie Nagel
was burned to death.
AT Summerville, Ca, a negro named
Henry Pope, under sentence Of death, but
who had been several times respited by
the Governor, was taken from Jail and
hanged by a mob, on the 30th.
NEAR Elko, Neb., two section men were
killed and three seriously wounded, on the
30th, in a collision between a locomotive
and hand-car.
NEAR Paris, on the I'd, the Due DeGra-
mont was slightly wounded in duel with
NJ. Rambeaud. The duel grew out Of a
dispute over turf matters.
On the I'd John Steiner, a Cleveland (O.)
saloon keeper, was fined SO and costs and
sentenced to thirty days in the work
house, for violating the Sunday law.
AT Erie, Pa, the residence Of Mr.. Frank
IL T..
dynamite on the night of the 1st. The
crime is attributed to saloon keepers or
roughs whom he had prosecuted.
! The judgment of the trial court, in the
case Of William George, the murderer,
was affirmed by the Supreme Court OF
Ohio, and he was sentenced to hang on the
18th.
ON the Sd the Supreme Court of Massa-
chusetts confirmed the conviction of Mrs.
Robinson, the wholesale pOisOner.
AT Columbus, o., ON arch in the new
Board of Trade building in course of erec-
ton fell and killed two workmen, on the
AT Fort Garland, Col, on the Sd, Billy
Carson shot, in self-defense, and killed
Thomas J. Tobins, a former companion
of his father-the famous scout Kit Car.
son.
On the Sd Minnie Forsythe, a Mt. Yer.
non CO., girl, eighteen years old, tried to
, murder her father by beating him over
the head with a club. She broke his arm
and fractured his skull.
ON the 4th Thomas G.. WOodford, chic.
/ clerk in the State Comptroler's Office, al
; Annapolis, Nd, hanged himself.
RECENTLY, Robert NJ. Thompson, an alb.
? sccnding guardian, convicted at Memphis
, in May, 1856, Of Withholding 81, $40 pension
money from the children of Thomas Nc
, Call, was arrested near Goldberg, N. C.
I and on the 4th was committed to jail ii
3 Washington by United States Commits
sioner Bundy.
ON the 4th James II. Hunting, an un
D successful stock-brol1er of New York, ,shO
himself dead after inditing a request t,
Cyrus W. Field, his only friend, to sen,
I his body home for burial as cheaply a.
{ ! possible.
NEAR Messina, Italy, on the 4th, an ex
a plosion occurred in a tunnel in process o
= ! excavation in which six workmen wer
. killed outright, and a large number in
!. jured, some fatally.
d, AT Rye, N. Y, on the 4th, George Sut
ton, a master mechanic, was killed, an
q Michael Curran, a laborer, had his jaw
Z and back broken by being struck by
i train on the New York, New Haven {
Hartford railroad, while working on tn
: new bridge.
v ON the Sd L. w Holman, of Boston, wa
q arrested, charged with conspiracy to muir
n der his half-sister, Miss Emeline d. Hol
man, of Worcester, Mass.
d OK the 4th +. l.. Grouse, of Easton, o
S committed suicide in Cincinnati, by hang
g ing.