The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-15


On the 6th Taft q Morgan's sash and
door factory, the Baldwin Refrigerating
| Compauy's Office, Sheppard & Morse's
lumber-yard and planning mill, and over
half a dozen tenement houses, in Burling
/ ton, VT, covering an area OF two blocks,
were destroyed by fire. The total loss viii
| be S2OO, 900; insurance, $125, ,OOO
On the 9th TIE boiler of n portable en-
CINE in the Union Depot Company's
| yards at St. Paul. Mimi, exploded, killing
| Phillip Fischer, John 7. Duffy and Hugh
| NJ. Nevin, beside injurjng James P. Duff
! fey, John 7. Nevins, John MoEigen, Ed.
Wallace, Mccormack and Edward Linn
sted.
MRS. L. M. McColl's fine mansion at
/ Bridgewater, Mass, was burned on the
| 9th. Loss estimated from $40 600 to S65, 600;
| partly insured. The fire is believed to
have been the work of incendiaries. The
| house was unnoccupied.
On the 9th the south bound Rapid Tran
| sit train from YOnkers ran into gang Of
Italian track-repairers on the New York
| City & Northern railroad track near High
! Bridge, killing two of them and fatally in
| juring two others.
! ON the night of the 9th terrible thun-
1 der-stOrm passed over Bellows Falls,
/ VT The light of burning buildings was
! seen in every direction.
On the 7th a carrying pipe of the Stand
| ard Oil Company sprung leak at Green
! point avenue and Oakland street, Long
Island City, N. Y. Sparks from a black
smith shop ignited the oil. The pipe
| burst and the burning fluid spread rapidly
over the ground, threatening the de-
struction of property. Two alarms were
sent out. The flames were finally ex-
tinguished before much damage was done
A CABLEGRANI from Potsdam, on the 7th
said that the Emperor passed an indif-
ferent night. His sleep was frequently
disturbed by coughing. In accordance
with the advice of his doctors, he did not
rise until IL a. m.
A BRAZILIAN named RaOul Herques, a.
Monaco, Italy, on the 9Th, while dining
shot his brother and sister-in-law anC
then committed suicide.
| AT Lainzsburg, Mich, on the 7th, fire
| swept both sides of Main street for over
block. Loss, over SlO0,O0O, with little in
surance.
WHILE yachting in Chesapeake bay. on
the Sth, 7. Harrison Garrett, brother o
| Robert Garrett, was run down by th'
steamer Jappa and drowned. Mr.. Gar
rett was manager of the firm of ROber
Garrett a. Sons.
On the 7th Deputy Sheriff Alvord, o
Cochise County, Ariz., had a iight will
three Sonora train robbers in the Wheat
stone mountains, sixty miles north o
. NOgaleS. The otncer succeeded IN XIII
. ing two and mortally wounding the other
IN OsgOod township, Ont, a bricl
school-hou was blown down in cy
, clone, on the 9th, and twenty children
buried in the ruins. None were killed
but all were more or less injured ant
some probably fatally
{ AT Appleton, Wis, the Atlas pape
= mill, owned by Kimberly, Clark & Co,
, was burned to the ground on the Stl
{ Loss, $4,000; insurance, $50 600.
z On the Sth reports from Newfoundlau
. stated that destructive forest fires wer
I raging on the south shore of Conceptio
bay Many families had been burned on
3 and several persons had perished in Tia
x / flames.
| AT Wellesville, o., on the Sth fire dc
( stroyed Bancrofts livery stable, Millen'
livery stable, j. b. Smiths store and Dun
n can Smiths residence. Loss, $4,000
Q partly insured.
e ON the Sth, while a number of Italian
e were eTcavating for a sewer in Eve
street, Brooklyn, the earth suddenly cave
= in and buried Feroda Guerrefepo an
q Michael Mingo. When taken out Ming
S was dead, and Guerrefepo died shOrtl
. after