The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-04-13


TO give terrible pain, determined to "cast
physic to the dOgs'' and starve out the
malRdy by refusing all food. The pain
entirely ceased after thirty nine days.
He was buried two days later.
Ok the 9Th Representative Mcdonald
was instructed by the House committee on
public lands to report favOrably his bill to
declare a forfeiture of the Hastings &
Dakota railroad land grant, lying opposite
that part of the road not completed in he
contract time. Under the terms of the bill,
actual settlers on these lands will be al
lowed to take out patents under the hOL1e-
stead laws.
OK the 9th Philadelphia jury awa- led
damages to- Adam FOrepaugh, the sh Ow-
man, for delay in getting his show train to
Meadville, Pa, in time to give an after
noon performance.
SENATOR MALONE in his reply to
Governor Wise of Virginia says, sarcas-
tically, that Gas our leaders have dimin-
ished by desertiOn and revolt, our rank
and file have grown.
IT is said that Roscoe Conkling has re-
Gently been under the care Of physicians,
sufferinglfrom an abscess in his right ear.
On the 9th the President approved the
Logan and Blair pension bills
BRIGADIER- GENERAL Crook has been
nominated by the President to be Major
| General.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
RECENTLY Count Thar Karolyi, cousin
of the Austrian Ambassador at London,
was killed in aduel with Count GYherky,
| Governor of NeogrOd.
On the Sd Patrick Holihan, eE-alder-
man and present chairman of the Demo-
| cratic city committee of Auburn, n. Y,
was arrested and lodged in police head
/ quarters. Holihan went hons intoxi-
/ Gated and brutally beat his wife and chill
/ dren. He has the reputation cf being a
/ chronic wife beater.
] IT has been ascertained that the report
that Count Thor Karolyi, of Austria, was
killed in duel is erroneous. On the con-
| trary he committed suicide. 70 is sup
posed that he was mentally depressed by
the unfavorable turn of a love affair.
IN the Delaware Iron w orks, New York,
on the 5th, seven men were fatally or
severely scalded by molten iron, with
| which they were running casting.
AT Emlenton, Pa, an oil ta TX contain
| ing seven thousand barrels Of oil, was
| struck by lightning, on the I'd, took fire
and boiled over, the burning fluid flowing
down the hill and threatening the destruc-
ton Of the town.
In collision on the Chicago & North
western railroad, near marry, Ia, on the
ID, four men and many head of stock were
| injured, and ten cars and two engines de-
| molished.
AT Key West, Fla, on the Goth, the
| United States man-Of-war Richmond,
! flagship of Rear Admiral Luce, was con-
siderably damaged in a collision with the
Swedish bark Lima.
IN various parts of TyroI, Austria, ava
lanches have done much damage to prop
erty within the last few days. A house
was buried at Weissenbach, on the 4th,
and the occupants, four women, were
killed.
AT Shamokin, Pa, on the 4th, an explo-
sion of gas in the Nelson shaft, by which
two men were horribly burned and 9TH
erwise injured; the premature explosion
Of q blast at the Garfield cOlliery, by which
one man was fatally injured, and an ex-
plosion of boilers, with casualties, at the
Cameron colliery, were the days Incl
dents.
AT Monte Carlo, 1taI :, 1t Is estimated
that the suicides comm: tied there during
the past three months will number fifty.
On the 9TH John I. Stone, the indicted
embezzling manager of the Pennsylvania
School Supply Company Of Philadelphia
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two
years in the penitentary.
On the 9th Frank Pittman, of New York
was found guilty of murder in the second
, degree, for the murder of his daughter
Rachael
AT Southport, N. c., on the 9th, the sig
nal corps observer reported the American
schooner Douglas Hoover, with a cargo o.
railroad iron, five days from New Y ork, OF
! Frying-pan shoals. The vessel and cargt
p are total loss.
On the 9th White and Cross, the Raleigl
. IN. c. bank fOrgers, offered to return t,
= Raleigh on the charge Of forgery, withOu
eXtradition, but not on the charge o
carrying stolen n-oney into Canada
Counsel for the Norfolk Bank refused (,
q withdraw this charge.
IT was reported, on the 9th, that fighting
3 had occurred between the Spanish garri
son at Zooloo and the natives of the ZoOlo
islands, in which the Spaniards lost tel
! | killed and seventy wounded, and tn
natives two hundred killed.
1T is stated that Frank /. Wilson,
freight clerk of the Boston & Providenc
3 railroad, has absconded from Boston, an
is $1,000 or $4,000 short in his accounts.
On the night of the 5th Kennedy Porter
son of Ex-Governor Porter of Tennessee
: was probably fatally shot at Nashvill
n by viii Edmunds. The origin of the diff
: ficulty is supposed TO have been the at
. tertiOn of young Porter to Edmunds' sis
= ter.