The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-02-03

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| Mexico has been received By the Secre-
/ tOry of State for the extrad itiou of Mayer,
/ alias BourtOn, the alleged ticket swim
| dler, who made arran gements for the ep-
pearance Of Patti in the City of Mexico,
and then absconded with the money.
B0urtOn is now in New York awaiting a
| hearing before a Unitai States commits
I sioner
/ On the 2Tth the steamer City OF New
/ York, from China and Japan, entered
4 the harbor OF San Francisco flying Jel-
l low flag. Three cases of smallpox were
/ found on board. The purser contraeted
/ the disease before the steamer started
and was left at Hong Kong. A lady
| cabin passenger died ON the passage.
The steamer has been placed IN quar-
antinc.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
4 a GREAT sensation has been created
throughout tho State by Governor
Lowry's veto of the Mississippi Consti-
tuition bill.
OK the night OF the 245h Gre broke out
in o. G.. Kings shoe store at Newark, O.,
and it was completely Quilted. The loss
on building and stock is estimated at
$3.50 ,0)0.
On the night of the 23d another crime
| was committed in the streets of Brooklyn.
Mrs. Jennie Geary, thirty years of age,
! was assaulted by her husband, from whom
she was separated, and her throat cut
Fl m ear to ear.
on the 2ith, by an explosion of gun
! powder at Brest L:tovski, in Russian Po-
land, eleven persons were killed and thirty
| injured.
on the night Of the % tba wine cellars
- PUTIN Bay island, Lake Erie, We're de
sToyed by fire, causing a loss of about
S75, 600. on W hich there is an Insurance of
$4,000. The cellars were erected in 1871,
and had a capacity of 175, 01O gallons
EARLY on the morning of the oath the
house of Israel Evans, a license inspector
a Chatham, Ont, was shattered by
dynamite. No one was hurt, but the
house was badly damaged. The police
have arrested a man who had a loaded
revolver and fuse and caps for dynamite
cartridges in his possession. Three other
persons ure also detained on suspicion.
On the night Of the 10Th a fire at 50, 95
ana 90 .lliam street, New York, re-
sulted in the destruction of PROPERTY of
the value of 100000
Is the Wellington coliery explosion,
which occurred at Victoria, B. C., on the
24th, it is believed that nearly ninety
lives were lost. Three fourths Of the men
yet in the mine ara Cinnamon. How the
explosion took place is a mystery.
On the night Of the oath. during the
great storm in Nova Scotia, the post Office
at Annapolis was burglarzsd of S10,0 900.
A dwelling house at BOulanders was
burned and three persons lont their lives
by the fire.
On the 25th Isaac N. Stanley, who, as
! pRylRg-tellnr of the Matt onal Bank OF
Commerce of Cleveland, o., embezz led
500. 600 Of She banks funds in 1856, and
lost the money in wheat spscu' ations,
was sentenced to five years ia the Ohio
peniteutisry by Judge Welker OF the
/ United -StStes District Court. The prison
Ell. con fessed his crime.
AT New ark, o., the fire that broke out
on the night Of the 24th was got under
, control &C three O'Clock thenext morning,
and was entirely subdued by daylight.
Besides the complete d structioD of o. G.
Kings hat and shoe store, considerable
damage was done TO Sprague's jewelry
store, D. i. Jones, hardware, and Crane
Bros, millinery. Bhe total loss is esti
, mated at 5000, 900.
THE young Nebraska school teacher
Miss Shattuck, who was so badly frozen
during the recent blizzard, has had both
Of her lower lin bs anputated
1T is reported that nearly one hundred
bodies have been taken from the yelling
ton (B. C.. ) mine, where the explosion oc
curre'l on tue gath.
DURING tho night OF the 25th the
schooner j. Kennedy arrived at Newport
= r. l. Her captain reported that therl
II
i shoals. 1t is feared that they all wen
ashore
Ar1 p. M on the 26sh the New Yorl
| Central station at Niagara Falls N. Y.
0 containing the American express, bag
/ gage, carriage Offices aud the train-house
2 caught fire and was burned to the ground
. involving a loss Of $50, 600.
? ON the 2Ith pictures valued at S150,OO)
r in transit in a close van, were destroyed
D / bV fire iu London.
OK the e7th a Cable-ear got away frOn
/ the gripmau on a down grads on Sci by
+. avenue, st. Paul Mimi, ran off the tract
e and was smashed 10 pieces Tive or threi
t persons were fatally injured and fourteen
badly,
b, OK the 27th Charles Foster, Of Jim
= town, / r., committed suicide by tyinl
@ one end of a rope around his neck ant
@ the other to a rafter extending from tn
4 end of barn, aud jumping off.
j. On the 27th n fatal boiler explosion oC
CARED at Downs mill, Marion County
! Ga. Brit Down and Charles Brown wer
: instantly killed. and Andrew Smelling ha,
( his thigh broken. All were negroes.
a AT the work house in Kansas City. Mo.
Charles Ward, confined on heavy fine
has been identified by J. II. Orlof as on
> OF two men who robbed him on the stree
$ on the night of December 20.
MISCELLANEOUS. .erF
IsMAIL PAsHNs CLAIMS have been set
tied. BY the terms of the settlement Il
d receive the Egyptian palaces that fols
= merly belonged to him, property in STAN
o boul valued at E50), 600, the commute tior
) OF his civil allowances at tourtoe N year
Il purchase and 100. 600 in cash for crops.
TIE Rockville {Con.l ManUfacturhn
n Company, heavy wooIens, aenploviu
s. four hundred hands. went on eight-hou
o time on the 23l, ana viii remain on tina
u time until tariff matters are defnitel
s. settled by Congress.
& On the oath, in case before LOndo
$ Judge, a decision was rendered upholdin
the binding force of American divorc
1t laws under certain circUus tauces.
al A SOCIAL sensa alton, involving the su,
pension of young lady students in schoC
st for attending dancing party against tn
(. wishes OF the principal, is possessed b
& Hamilton, Is.
Il A FIRST dividend Of fifty per cent. ha
n been declared by the Comptroller OF tn
Currency in favor of the creditors of tn
,f First National Bank Of Cory. Pa, o
5, claims proved amounting to S162,929. Th
nj bank fni'ed October II, 1887.
l. ON February the Chinese Minister
Washington will give a bali to celebrat
"a the Chinese New Year. The bah will
re "A supurb affair, but not as crowded
p that of last season.
ie on the night OF tue 23d the mercur
n went sixty below a. Neche OAK, aud Il
wind reached a velocity of forty miles a
Is hour A heavy fall Of snow set in, an
T. with the wind blowing a gale it was drift
,f ing badly.
on the 25th the eighth annual sessio
"a az the Ame.icau Horticultural Societ
le convened at San Jose, Cal, many of a
most prom inent men in hor ticultUral an
.r agricultural circles in the country be I