The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-05-25

men. Ihey express themselves Wiling 10 /
give the commission all the information
in their possession whenever the Senators
will come to investigate.
On the 18th caucus Of the Republican
Senators was held which lasted four hours.
Discussions on the Fisheries treaty, the
Mills proposition on the Tariff bill and |
general politics, including the Southern
investigation, took place.
OK the 18th Queen Natalie Of Servia and /
her son arrived at Weisbaden. Before she /
left Vienna it was practically settled that |
the Queen should go to Belgrade on her /
return TO Weisbaden.
On the 18th the Supreme Court Of Michi- /
gan unanimously declared the Local |
Option law unconstitutional.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES
AT Mineral Point, Wis, while recklessly |
firing a revolver in his saloon on the night !
of the 18th, Mark Terrill shot and killed
/ Henry Wesley, a cOlored man, who hap
| pened to be present.
| AT Augusta, Ne. on the 18th, during a
| quarrel between VIM. H. Hopkins and
Jas S. Getchel, Hopkins was Knocked
/ down, and in falling struck his head on an
/ iron rail, fracturing his skull.
( IT is estimated that the loss Of the town
! Of Fountain, Col, by the collision and ex-
plosion on the Santa Fe railroad, on the
18th, will reach $4,000. The loss to the
railroad company will aggregate $4,000
Ok the 14th John Curry and John Laf-
| fey, of Keokuk, Ia, were drowned in the
| Mississippi river, above Warsaw, Ill.
On the 18th the clerk Of the United States
Supreme Court received from Attorney
/ General Boone of Missouri the formal re-
quest for the mandate in the Maxwell muir
der case.
On the 18th suit for damages was COM
menced against Ensign Thos W. Ryan,
U. S. N, and J. II. Meade, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, by the father of Minnie Parsons, for
abduction of his daughter. The court
granted a capias for the arrest Of the de-
PENDANTS, and fixed the bail in each case
at y, 600.
In New York, on the 10th, Nicholas John
Haasler, AN immigrant child, eleven
/ weeks old, was crushed to death by his
father, who sat on him by mistake, the
I little fellow being rolled up in blanket.
| OK the 10Th George Benson, the Patti
ticket swindler, awaiting extraditiOn to
Mexico, killed himself in Ludlow Street
Jail, New York City, by throwing himself
over the stair -case rail to the stone floor
: below.
On the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
the Leadville express was derailed seven
D miles north of Salida, Col, on the 10th,
5 while running at high rate of speed to
t make up time. More than dozen persons
were injured, few of them severely.
AT Ft. Reno, /. f., on the 18th, Sergeant
Porter Webster, of Company A, Twenty
fourth Infantry, was shot and instantly
! killed by Private Davis Simons, of the
K ! same company. Simons had threatened
{ the life of a woman, and while attempting
- to arrest him Webster was shot
AT Wilkesb barre, Pa, Thomas RhOne, q
| carpenter employed at the Lehigh &
t Wilkesbarre company's breaker, fell, on
e the 10th, down the shaft, six hundred feet
n and was instantly killed. nearly every
l. bone in his body being broken.
NEAR Lakesi e, Mich, on the 10th, G
tramp assaulted Mrs. NJ. Gall in heI
q home, but after desperate struggle was
d beaten Off Later he returned, and after
- mailing up all the doors and windows, Sc
fire to the house and barn. The woman
d saved herself and children by crawling
l. through q window.
y JAMES ORR, Pittsburgh (Pa) dentist
whose mind had become unbalanced b,
D. domestic troubles, committed suicide, Ol
IN the 18th, by inhalation Of artificial gas.
s. On the 18th news was received from
is Tahiti, Polynesia, that band of native
M had surprised the French patrol an
Is killed a marine officer and two sailors.
NEAR Lancaster, Pa, on the 18th, Will
C. crossing Conestoga creek, at Graeff'
n Landing, on raft used in place of
s. bridge that had been swept away, Capital
he John B. McCaskey, principal of the Lam
" caster High school, and seven pupils wer
/ LuIOWn lnbO ALlc water ~ tAAC "a ok'SlAAA4S5 =
n the raft and Willie Smith, aged seventeen
he was drowned. The other pupils were res
n Cued by the teacher.
It On the 17th the jury in the trial Of Pat
81 rick McGraw for the murder of Willial
J. Sloan, clerk Of the chief of police {
as Pittsburgh, Pa, in August, 1887, brougf
n in a verdict of voluntary manslaughter.
n AT Plattsmouth, Neb., on the 10th,
rk Pinkerton detective, assaulted by a crow
of brotherhood engineers, shot twice
ial his assailants, fatally wounding one an
ed seriously injuring two others. He the
N made his escape.
to AT Dunlap, Ia, on the 18th, Thorn;
Jones fatally shot his wife, and bein
nd pursued by a mob, sent n bullet throug
1n, his own head, inhicting a fatal wOun
nd The murder was the result of an old fan
Re- lily quarrel.
on AT the Palmer mine, near Cascad
IN Mich, shortly after midnight, on the 1St
Fred Hamburg and Charles Sunberg we
yas killed by an explosion of dynamite. Th
le- were in a small powder-hOuse, and appe
tn, to have been in the act of running, as t
staple from the door was driven into t
tic back of one of them. The cause of the e
uis plosion is unknown. Both men lea
the families.
Ind MRS. MATILDA LARSON, of Omaha, Nel
res was fatally burned, while trying to sta
the a fire with kerosene, on the 18th.
ill. ON the 18th Mrs Scofeld, held for col
at plicitv in the death of Broker Hatch,
-ict New York, was taken before the 5
nal preme Court on writ of habeas corp
ne. and discharged from custody on {
in ground that the court had no authority
cause her confinement in the house of {
ate tention.
ted THE conviction Of Doodle Alderman
and J. McOuade, who is serving a term
ent Sing Sing, was sustained by the gene
nd term of the Supreme Court Of New YO
on the 18th.
zen, THE courthouse at Sidney, Ia, "
Ior burned on the nth, resulting in the da
ted | age of the records of Fremont County.
L of OK the 18th, as the west-bound Bost
express due at $40 a. m, was running
son, the drawbridge at Norwalk, Conn,
en- rails spread and the locomotive and I
Ma cars ran the length of the bridge on
g Of ties. The locomotive stopped within
inches of the edge of the bridge. The
all cape from terrible disaster was mira
to lous.
nty, ATI:17 a m, on the is, William GeOT
-nor the GAINESVILLE murderer, was hanged
the Columbus (O) penitentiary.
ad- AEIsCELLANEOUE-
G" THE Canadian Steamship Company
was announced a cut in cabin rates to 70
hama, the new rate being SloO.
men on the 10th the New York City G. A
slIy memorial committee declined to CIV
late Y,Iace in the Decoration Day parade
@ tne Phil Sheridan Post No. 1, Independ
to a - ~ ny - - .,,SSr,,,5 of CoDfed eTats
the lASS oo1Is y --l.a.,,. = = avcl,,def
! LnelL SlL the rules of the organization.
A REGULAR January blizzard rage'
= 90 Marquette, Mich, on the l4th, but
- .t snow melted as fast as il fell. Snow
,o,,, fell at Gladstone, Grand Haven, !
5e- Tawas and Alpena, and cold weather
vailed in the entire fruit belt.
Will On the l4th the American RenI