The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-07
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
NEAR Fort Buford, Oak, an east-bOund
stock train ran into a herd Of cattle, on
the 26th, ditohing seventeen cars and kill
ing thirty five head OF cattle,
ON the 9th ex-Represeutative John
Mccullough, = prominent Republican
politician of Philadelphia, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
head at his residence In that city.
Domestic trouble is thought to have led
Mr.. Mccullough to commit the deed.
CUSTOMS officers in San Francisco, on
the 9th, arrested an officer Of the China
steamer City of Sydney and two employees
OF the Pacific Mail Company for attempt
ed smuggling, and seized $4,000 worth OF
contraband opium.
THE southern portion Of Indiana was
recently visited by much the severest
rains of the year. All the crooks and
rivers became great and destructive tor
rents, flooding oOrn-helds, sweeping
away fences, stacks of wheat and hay, and
carrying away great deal Of valuable
hard wood timber. The fruit crop also
suffered.
A FLOAT and eight cars belonging to
/ the Pennsylvania Railroad Company sunk
/ In the New York harboT on the 9th.
GENERAL RIGUELME, of Barcelona, is
reported to have died from wounds re-
ceived In q duel with a member OF the
| Spanish Chamber OF Deputies The
civilian was also wounded.
AN incendiary fire, on the 9th, destroy
/ ell the Agricultural works of Houck 81
| Comstoolk, - Meohaniosburg, Pa.
On the 29th Miss Effie Williamson, of
/ Fairfax County, Va, was killed by a
| train on the Alexandria q Fredericks-
burg railroad, near Long Branch station,
/ ra1v FTeau A Ia drfn
OK the 2Sth an electric motor attached
TO q car on the st. Clair Electric road in
! Pitts burgh, Pa, ran away down a heavy
| grade, jumping the track and rolling over
several times where a sharp curve oc-
Cured at the foot OF the hill Several
/ passengers were severely, though none
/ fatally, injured.
! NEAR Lima, o., on the 2Sth, a collision
occurred between a freight train on the
Dayton & Michigan railroad and special
| carrying militia to Columbus. Two cars
and both engines we're wrecked, but no.
body was seriously hurt A hagman's
| negligence caused the accident.
ONE HUNDRED hands were thrown out OF
| employment by the burning Of Herman
Klein & Sons stocking factory in Gin
cinnati on the 2Sth.
JOSEPH BREED. cashier of the Hartford
(Conn.) National Bank, committed suicide
on bud morning OF Lno ZoJu' III lA6 bdsu =
| building by cutting his throat.
ON the 29th porter at the German EN-
bassy in Paris was shot at by a crazy
Frenohman named GARNER, who claimed
to have been ruined by the Franco Ger.
man war. The porter was unhurt.
On the goth three italian wOrkmen who
were engaged in clearing up debris in {
quarry at South Bethlehem, n. Y, were
! literally blown to pieces by dynamite
cartridge which was accidentally exploded
by one of their number.
| TVS Russian eX-Offi GERS were arrested
at Sofia, on the 31st on the charge o.
completely in recent acts of brigaudage
CHAs. I. DEBAUI, who stole S110, 900 be
longing to tie Park National Bank o
New York and absconded to Canada, ha
been arrested and indicted for forgery
and will be extradited at once
ON the 31st trouble broke out in CAM
Phil Sheridan, at Colum bus o., wher
5000 State militia were enCamped. Al
the officers. of the Eighth regiment from
the Colonel down to the Captains, ten
dered their resignations.
AT New Lisbon, o., Mrs. Thompson
crazed by the unnatural treatment of he
husband in gong to a saloon and gettinl
drunk instead of Fastening 20 her sid
when sent for, few evenings ago, too
her newborn infant to a small streaR
| near by, and lying dow n IN three feet o
water, drowned herself and child.
IT is estimated that the losses by tn
forest fires around Ishpeming, Mich, will
aggregate 500 600 to $780, The home
less people are being sheltered and fe,
by those who saved their houses. The,
will require assistance to rebuild
ON the 31st NJ. Vechard, the Socialist
with FIVE OF his companions, was arreste
at Amiens, France, for inciuug the work
men to strike.
1T was reported on the 81st that dis
astrous prairie fire was raging in tn
ranges in Northern Montana, extendin
from the Marias river 20 Sweet Gras
hills, "a distance Of fifty miles The win
ter range OF the Benton & ST. Louis Cat
tie Company has been destroyed.
IT is reported that the young bride o
/ Allie Throckmorton, who suicided 8
Denver, Col, on the 30th, sttempted I
kill herself on the 3tst but wav prevented
, AT Hampton, Ia, ON the 3Ist, in an &C
cident to Barnum & Bailey's circus trair
"a car containing FIVE lions was demolish
ed and the animals liberated, but the
. were all captured after an exciting chase
A GREAT conhagI alton iu Tarnabol
Galicia, on the 31st, rendered two hun
T dred families homeless. It destroyed Is
! houses, entailin a loss of $3.50 900