The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-13

Smiths hackers to give a series of ex-
hibition contests with Smith throughout
the world, ending in California. Smiths
managers are averse to real fight.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
NEAR Waterford, on the Irish coast
terrible marine disaster isreported to have
occurred, in which twenty five persons
were drowned.
FIRE losses during December aggregated
$40, 3OS, 600, against Sl1 200, 900 for the same
time last year. The total fire waste for
the year 1887 amounted to the extraordi-
nary figure Of S129, 1854, 900, which has not
been exceeded since the great Boston fire
This is about $1G000,000 greater than the
losses of 1856.
IN Russia a secret tribunal has con-
demned to death the Nihilist Tschernoh
and seven other prisoners charged with
an attempt on the Cars life during his
journey in the Don Cossack country.
On the 4th two express trains on the
Dutch State railroad collided near Mep-
pei. Twenty-six persons were killed and
many others injured.
On the 4th, though this season marks
the third ice palace built in st. Paul,
Minn., the first serious accident occurred.
Ernst Hoenspa, a workman, fell from the
top of the turret, distance of siXty-hve
feet, and landed at the bottom in a bag
OF chopped ice He was taken to the
City Hospital, where be will probably
die.
On the 4th a fire occurred in the Theater
Royal, at Bolton, England. All the prop
critics were destroyed. There is evidence
that the fire was the work Of an incendi-
airy.
SIX lives have been lost and many per-
sons have been injured by disastrous
floods in Seville, Spain. The damage by
the floods in Malaga is es timated at 5000,
600.
On the 9th Ton ButtsfeId, young
farmer, living near Palmyra, Neb, was
arres ted, charged with murde dering his
father and mother. The particulars re-
/ ceived are meager.
OK the 9th a span in the now central
viaduct, now being constructed at Cleve-
| land, o., and which connects the South
/ Side with the city proper, fell. 1t was
ninety feet long and eighty five feet
/ above the ground. A large car, on which
there was supplies, was pushed off the
! end of the span by accident, and in fall
/ ing it knocked braces and beams out of
/ place and the span went also. There were
! eight workmen on the span when it fell,
! two of whom were killed aud the rest in-
/ jured.
On the morning of the 9th fire broke
/ out at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in the
\ and attic brick structure. and was Occu-
/ pied by the navigation, construction and
/ equipment bureaus. and also for storage
! purposes. The building was completely
| Quilted, the walls alone being left stand
| ing. The total loss will be about S200,0
On the night of the 9th Mrs. Stack, an
aged lady of Cumberland Mills, Me-, was
killed by a burglar after a desperate
! struggle.
! On the 9th the Union depot in Atchison,
| Kas., was totally destroyed by fire, in.
/ cluding the hotel contained in the build
| ing.
! THE body of the editor of the London
! Sportsman, Archie Mcneil, has been
found near Bouiogue, France. He had
| been murdered and robbed.
| AT Allentown, Pa, on the 9th, verdict
of "not guilty. was rendered in the case
against Annie Bruckner, charged with
! the murder of her husband on October q
last.
NEAR Glenwood Springs, Col, on the
/ 9th, John Neville aud companion were
caught in a snow-slide and carried
! down the mountain side several hundred
/ feet. Neville was killed, but his COM
panion escaped with slight injuries.
AT Oakland, Cal, on the 9th, Nathan B.
Sutton was hanged for the murder OF
Alexander Martin, ranchmar, in Sep
| tember, 1886. Strenuous efforts were
| made in Suttou's behalf for comm utation
of sentence, but Governor Waterman re-
fused to interfere
IN the storm of the Cd B. ). Hellan, Oi
Bachelor Grove, Oak, was frozen to
death. He had gone to Louisiana, two
miles distant, to procure medicine for his
sick wife, and was lost when returning on
foot.
On the evening of the 9Th William We'll
kel, of Vincennes, Ind, shot himself
through the body, and when the doctor
relieved him of the bullet he stated that
he wanted to die; that he had lived long
enough. Welkel is a young man lately
employed by the electric light company,
and was married to a widow recently
They did not live happily. He will die.
On the 9Th, while the west bound ex'
press on the Lake Shore railroad was run
ming at a high rate of speed about twenty
five miles east of Erie, a boy who started
to go from the sleeper to the dining cal
was blown from the platform by the gait
then prevailing. The ira in was stopped
and the boy was picked up, but he ha,
been so in iured that he died before Erie
was reached. The unfortunate youth wa.
the son of DIR. B. NJ. Gassoway, of Port
land, Me-, a surgeon of the United States
| navy.