The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-03


/ panied by King Oscar and Crown Prince
/ Gustaf Of Sweden Prince Henry OF
/ Prussia and Count Herbert Bismarck,
| took an extensive drive in Stockholm
! On the 9th Mrs. Cleveland, MRS. Fol-
| som, Richard W. Glider and his sister.
Miss Jeanette Glider, arrived in Marion,
4 Mass, in a special train from Fall River.
] Hon. A @. PORTER, of Indiana, will
accept the Republican nomination for
/ Governor, provided he is the unanimous
/ choice of the State convention.
CHARLES 7. O'FERRALL. was renominated
/ for Congress by the Democrats OF the
| Seventh district of Virginia on the 26th.
/ The convention indorsed the administra-
/ ton of President Cleveland and also the
! action Of Congress on the Mills bill.
on the 27th the Empress william .'as
4 delivered Of son, at POtsdam.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
NEAR Belmont o., on the 22d, an east
bound freight on the Baltimore & Ohio
| railroad, consisting of thirty-five cars,
Il jumped the track completely demolish-
\ ing sixteen oars. A brakeman, whose
home is in Newark, o., was fatally
/ hurt. Loss unknown.
IN Sing Sing, N Y, on the 23d, Mrs.
Mary Shoemaker and her fve-year-old
/ grandson, James Barrian (cOlOred), were
\ instantly killed and horribly mutilated
/ by a passing train.
Ar Haverhill, Mass, as the body of the
i infant child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Blum was awaiting burial on the Path,
4 the drapery took fire from candles burn
ing around the catafalque, aud the body
was burned to a crisp. The room took
| fire, butt the flames we're extinguished
/ with small loss.
/ NEAR Redding, Cal, on the oath, James
Mason, ansold stage driver, sat on a fifty
/ pound box of giant powder and touched it
/ off. Twenty pounds Of his body was
/ picked Hp in a basket
On the 25th one young woman was
killed, aud several others severely in
| jured, by the collapse of the floors of a
New York City book -bindery.
THE damage wrought by the great fire
| in Port au- Prince, Hayti, on the 4th, is
placed at So 900, 600. Over 800 buildings
were burned The fire was of incendiary
origin. a
on the goth company of militia at
7 tackled, routed and captured nineteen OF
a band OF bold, bad tramps, who, armed
! with revOlvers, were making life burden
| TO farmers and others in the neighbOr-
hood of AshtabUla, o. They had pre-
/ viouslyrouted the local police.
NEAR Presidio, Cal, Rothblum s. Co.'s
/ beefspaCking house was burned, on the
Goth, the large building and plant being
entirely destroyed, and causing loss of
| $4,000
WHILE playing on some logs in the
/ L'Assomption river, four sons Of Mr..
Vandevill, of Boston aged six, eight ten
I and twelve years. respectively, were
/ drowned at Montreal Can, on the oath.
Their bodies were recovered and buried
on the 26th.
NEAR Arlington, Va, a sixteen-year-
old son of Mr.. o. L. Pruden, assistant
secretary to the President, was killed, on
| the 9th, on o farm. The lad was riding
on farm wagon, when sudden jolt
threw HIM off. The wheels passed over
him and so crushed him that he diB III pc
short time.
AT Brighton, N. Y, on the 9th, a seri-
| Gus break occurred in the three-mile
/ level of the Erie canal. Several boats
were broken in two, and all OF the east
| bound boats we're DELAYED.
On the night of the Goth Deputy Sheriff
l.. s. Elmer, of Wahpeton, Oak, was
taken from Jail by a mob,of angry citizens
and hanged for the unprovoked murder
of Miss MOllie KOrbel.
On the night Of the 26th Eugene ZEN
zins, a young married mau of st. Paul,
i Nina, attended prayer meeting in In
dianapohs with his wife, where, after
taking part in the exercises for awhile, he
retired to a classroom and took dose of
carbOlio acid, dying in great agony a few
minutes later. He was out of employ
Iaent aud Respondent
AT Canton, o., the New York aud Chi
cago Limited Express, east bound, was
wrecked on the 9th. The locomotive
jumped the track. on a switch crossing,
and was upset. "A com binatfon car fol-
lowing was dashed upon the disabled en-
CINE and demolished. Engineer Pat Nor
gan was fatally injured, and several pas
sengers were slightly bruised Travel was
delayed four hours. ..fEF
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, Robert Barnett and
w. L. Penny, Jr., charged with swindllng
Vim. Mertz out of $40, 600 in a bunlzo game,
we're acquitted on the 27th.
Fsf AIIsCELEANEOUs.
oN the 2Sd the Senate adopted the
conference report on the River and Har-
Dor bill which practically passed the
measure aud left it ready for the Presi-
dents signature.
NEAR Ration, Col, on the 23d, one hun
dred settlers rode to the rancho of George
Blosser and reinstated him in possession
Of his property, which, during the alb
sence of BlOsser and family from home,
had been turned over to the representa-
tives of the Maxwell Grant.
A CUT in freight rates was announced
by the Union Pacific Railway Company,
: on the 23d, at points in Utah between
Yampa and Lehi Junction, OF thirty cents
on first class freight twenty cents on
second, third and fourth Glasses, fifteen
. cents on fifth class, twenty cents on A,
and eight cents on B, @, D and Z.
On the 23d Chairmen Hoge and Murphy
| of the Burlington grievance committees
arrived at Denver, Col, and called a
meeting of the strilSih & engineers and fire.
men TO discuss the question of declaring
, OF the Burlington strike. After an inter
esting session, lasting several hours, the
strikers unanimously decided to carry on
l the fight.
CHARLES p. SMITH, lighthouse keeper
at Fire Island, N. Y, and Edward J,
Udahl, his assistant we're dismissed by
the Secretary OF the Treasury, on the
28d, for carelessness and negligence.
THE only bidder for the steel plates fol
the battle ship Texas, to be built at Nor.
. folk, was the Standard Steel Castinr
> | Company OF ThurlOw, Pa Their bid Il
S41, ,684.
I THE annual meeting Of the Wisconsin,
, Editorial Association was held at Mil.
! waukee on the 24th. After the forms
= business Of the convention was finished
! the members Of the association made ~
1 | excursion to Sault Ste. Marie, over tn,
Lake Shore & Western and Sault Ste
. Marie roads.
Q THE acton Of Resident Magistrate Town
: send for libel against the Dublin Free
> MANS Journal for imputing corrupt con,
duct 70 him, was settl d out OF court, OF
! the cath. The Journal agreed to apologize,
Q and withdraw Tho imputatiOn aud to pay
. E5OO and costs.
- THE Hosiery Company Of New Bruins
, wick, N. J., determined, on the Gath, t
close their factory indefinitely or unit
b the markets will justify a resumption
e This frm in good times employs 1,lO
j. men.
!, MAUD s. trotted a mile in 2i12%, a
!, Fleetwood Park. New York City, on tn
23d, the fastest time ever made on tn
s Fleetwood track. Mr.. Bonner il having
" the mare put in condition TO beat ne
r / 1epord Of 2 .0s x IN case he should desefd