The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-22
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT Lakefield, Ont, 500 900 feet of lum-
Der, owned by r. & G. Strickland, was
burned on the 11th. Loss, $4,000.
For kissing his sweetheart on the street
Albert Miller, of Harrisburg, Pa, was
~sentenced, on the 18th, to two months i'm
prisonment
ON the IIth more than one hundred and
fifty warrants were served upon Cincin-
natl saloon-keepers for selling liquors on
Sunday.
IN Paris duel took place between M.
Paul de Roulede and NJ. Arene, member
of the Chamber of Deputies, on the 11th.
The weapons used were swords. NJ. Arene
was wounded.
ON the 10th a quantity Of gunpowder
and dynamite was stolen from a store hut
on Arran Island, Ireland. Since then
number Of tenants have been cautioned
not to pay their rent, and warned that if
they do they will be blown up with dyna-
mite.
On the 18th the Brookside creamery,
near MechanicsviIle, Ia, the property of
J. R. Norm & Co., of Cedar Rapids, was
burned. Six tons of butter, with the
dwelling house and stable, were de-
stroyed.
ON the 18th, during a storm, lightning
struck the house of Berlet GundersOn,
four miles south of Clarkfeld, Mimi,
killing two children and shocking the re-
mainder of the family severely.
AT Elizabeth, n. J., Lawrence Stearns,
an invalid, died, on the 18th, from over
exertion, caused by extinguishing the
flames that threatened the life of his
/ mother.
AT Minneapolis, Mimi, Louis Blew
| stein, proprietor of a second hand cloth
ing store, shot himself, on the 18th. The
| only explanation he gave was that he was
| tired of living He died in few hours.
On the 18th Moses n. Gage, a prominent
| resident of Hyde Park, Boston, was found
dead in his yard. 1t was discovered that
he had cut his throat.
THE American schooner John Bird,
/ from JonespOrt, Ne, for HillsbOrO, n. B.,
/ was reported ashore near Mispec, N. B.,
/ on the 18th, and would be a total loss. She
| was uninsured.
On the 18th Barclay Peake, who pleaded
| guilty at Mt. Holly, n. J., of murder in
the second degree for having shot and
| killed his cousin, Kate Anderson, was
| sentenced to twenty years Imprisonment.
On the 18th the Bayview House, owned
| by Daniel Thurber situated at Water ISL
and, South Beach, opposite PatchOgue, L.
l., was destroyed by fire.
AT Menomonie, Wis, a clay bank in a
brickyard caved in on the 18th, burying
| seven men, two of whom were taken out
dead and terribly mangled; two died in a
few hours, and the remaining three had
legs and arms broken and internal in
juries.
THE hush Of death was produced in the
German capital by the sad news from
POtsdam, on the 18Th. The people were
quiet and subdued, and the streets were
silent. Berlin thought and spoke OF
nothing but the mournful tidings which
the sad morning had brought to the wait
! ing hearts Of her people. A national
grief moved all Germany, because be-
loved "Unser Fritz" was no more.
AT New York Lawyer Dunn was found
guilty of grand larceny in the first de-
gree, on tho 18th, in receiving from Teller
Scott money stolen by the latter from the
/ Manhattan Bank.
THE railroad bridge at Duluth, MINI.
caught and held the logs liberated by the
giving way of the boom at Cloquet on the
18th. 1t trRuspires that the boom at FonC
du Lac, Mimi, also gave way.
On the 18th the supreme Court of Cali
fornia affirmed the decision of the lower
court in the case Of DR.. !. Milton Powers
! ! convicted of the murder of his wife anC
sentenced TO be hanged.
ON the 18th VIII Hague, formerly cit!
clerk Of Paterson, n. J., who fed t.
! Canada in 1881, leaving deficit of S4, ,OO
! in his accounts with the city, voluntarily
returned, and gave himself upto the au
thorities. Hague was also treasurer o
the Peoples Brewing Company of New
ark, and was some $4,000 short in his &C
i counts there. He states that his life as
/ fugitive had become unbearable, and b.
decided to return and stand trial.
, On the Pennsylvania road twenty freigh
4 cars were wrecked near Fifty-secOnt
street, Philadelphia, en- the 18th, and wer
. almost entirely destroyed by fire Caugh
3 from a hot-box aud fed by refined oi
]
! loaded.
on the 10Th the jury in the Diss De Bar
case were unable to agree, and we're locke
up for the night