The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-20
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the 10th the Bent County (CoL)
court house at Las Animas was burned,
all the records being destroyed. The loss
is q very serious one, but can not be COM
/ puted in dollars and cents. No particu-
lars are known.
On the morning Of the 10th, between
three and four o'clock, the alms-house
aud adjoining dwelling located in
East Village near Monroe, Conn, were
| burned to the ground. Three persons per-
ished in the flames.
AT Haverville, Mass, on the 10th ter
ribIe railroad disaster occurred in which
nine persons were killed and over fifty
/ injured.
/ OK the 10th Rev. John Lowther, a
rector at Bolton, near Wigton, England,
/ committed suicide by shooting. Previous
/ to the act he had received a summons to
answer a scand0lous charge. Deceased
! was cousin of Lord Lonsdale and rela-
! tive of Right Hon. James Lowther.
| AT Meriden, Conn, on the night of the
/ 10th, fire was discovered in the barns Of
I the horse railroad company, and although
/ the entire fire department was called out,
/ the entire main barn burned out, with
| eighty horses and fourteen cars. The
/ win foot up So, 900. Insurance, S20,0 900.
I NEAR Fiume, Austria, the bodies of
/ fourteen women have been dug out Of the
/ snow. Many are still missing, and it is
supposed they are buried beneath the
snow. Thirty thousand persons in Mon
/ teuegro have been deprived of food by the
1 floods.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th fire
/ hroke out in the central building of the
I Fra artrs Of
/ building contained the armOries of the
/ Merchants Phalanx aud Putnam
/ Phalaux, and also the fire alarm tele-
graph headquarters, all OF which it was
feared would be DESTROYED. The loss is
roughly estimated at 100000; insurance
| unknown.
/ ON the 18th Theodore Houston, promi-
nent railroad man of New York, commit
/ ted suicide by shooting himself.
AT Atchison, Kas., the residence OF
/ United States Senator Ingalls, was de-
/ stroyed by fire on the 18th. The loss is, in
| some respects, irreparable.
Oy the 18th Macy Warner, the murder
er confined at JeffersOnville, Ind, made a
desperate attempt to commit suicide by
cutting an artery with piece OF glass.
On the 18th Tom Barrett, convicted at
| Minneapolis, Mimi, of the murder of
Street Car Driver Tollefson, was senten ced
to be hanged May il.
! OK the night of the 18th the car works
| at Dauphin, Pa, ten miles from Harris
burg, together with a church and several
houses, were destroyed by fire. The loss
/ will be heavy.
In Paris, Ringgold Cooner, an Ameri-
can forger, has been arrested on an extra
| ditto n warrant for a forgery upon the
| London e. Westminster Bank, by which
! he realized E3,GO0.
] On the 18th the Fourteenth Regiment
armory building at Columbus, o., was de-
| stroyed by fire. The Ohio poultry, ken
| mel and pet stock exhibition was in prog
ress in the building, and fifty thousand
| dollars worth of blooded dogs and chick
ems were burned.
Two schooners, the VIM. Parsons, which
sailed from Gloucester, Mass, for Georges
Banks November -, with twelve men,
and the Peter D. Smith, which sailed No
vemher Is with a crew of twelve, have
been given up for lost.
On the night of the 18th Indianapolis
had a fire in the wholesale district of
South Meridian street, which at latest ac'
counts had done damage to the extent OF
nearly a million dollars.
On the night of ths 18th the Arcad ia
building in Detroit, Mich., occupied main
ly by printing offices, was gutted by fire.
The employees of the Free Press, W hose
building adjoins the Arcadia, were tenn
porarily driven from their posts by the
dense smoke.
On the night of the 18th, John Ma rly, c
I young man of Bloomington, H., died
from the effects of a dose of aconite,
taken by mistake for cough medicine.
g RUSSIAN frontier advices say the troops
in the Lubliu district are suffering terri
bly, from cold. Forty sentinels have
been frozen to death. Dysentery and
typhus fever are prevalent.
OK the 18th w. II. Johnson, a New YOrl
stock broker. committed suicide at tn,
Rathbun House, in Elmira, N. Y, by
shooting himself through the heart with {
revolver.
OK the 18th ''Jakev King was shot anc
instantly KILLED by Isidor Vehon, Chica
go saloon-keeper. He had stolen some o.
= Vehon's geese, and was about to shoof
him when VehOn drew his weapon and
fired.
IN the court house yard at Has tings
Mich, the 12th, VIM. II. Jewell,
local Republican politician and an OK
tensive farmer, was found with his arm
and legs frozen solid, and died soon after
ward. He was commander Of Cox Pos,
G. A. r.
Ok the 18th a United States deputy mar
shall arrested Elmer Gest, a late employ
of the post-oflice at Xenia, O., for thief
from the mails. The Office had lost money
: and valuab!es to large amount, and al
investigation has been under way 70
some time. Gest is a boy, and claims {
be able to prove complete innocence.
OK she 18th Henry Schmidt was hange,
at West Union, Ia, for the murder o
Lucreti Peek, September 4, 1886. He mad
a statement on the scafTold, admitting tn
murder and charging that Ellison 1
! Smith insti gated it and was present a
) the time, and that Smith killed Abran
Peek.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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