The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-02-17


firing was inGulged in by Irish members.
OK the 10th Captain Zalinski delivered
lecture in the War Department library at
Washington on his invention of the pneu-
matte torpedo gun, its shells and fuses.
IT is said that DR.. McGIynn, the excom-
municated Catholic priest has withdrawn
from the Henry George land movement.
His Withdrawal, it is claimed, will great
ly strengthen the George party.
OK the 10th the English police captured
Mr.. Pyne in London. Mr.. Pyne is the
Irish commoner who fortified himself in
his castle and then dared the police to
come and take him.
HERR KRUPP, the great German found
er. has received orders from Austria for
10 heavy guns, to cost $500, 600 horins;
The guns ordered by Turkey and not paid
for will be utilized to fill the first INSTALL
nent of the order.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
On the 6 h five men were buried in the
debris of a falling planning mill at Pitts
burgh, Pa. One of the victims, Patrick
] COnroy, will die.
BRAVE Miss Louise Royce, Nebraska
| schoOl-teache-. three of whose pupils died
in her arms during the recent blizzard,
| will loose both feet and portion of one
arm as the result of exposure.
On the 9th Mrs. Hill and two children
| pershed in the flames, aud her husband,
Geo. d. Hin, was badly injured, by the
I burning of their home in Bolivia, n. Y.
/ 1t is thought the fire was caused by nat
ural gas by which the house was heated.
! On the 9th the second trial of Mrs. Rob-
/ inson, the alleged Wholesale poisoner,
! commenced in Boston.
/ DR. STEPHEN and his wife, and Mr..
Robertson, Americans, were being driven
/ to the Central depot to catch a train
at Glasgow, Scotland, on the 9th,
when the horses attached to their car
riage bolted aud threw the occupants
out. An three were injured.
/ ). :. 4 OTMAN. a prisoner in the Medina
/ County (O.) Jail, awaiting transportation
/ to the penitcntiary to serve a sentence of
seven years for shooting with intent to
kill, committed suicide in peculiar man.
ner on the 9th. He tore his handkerchief
in two, rolled the pieces into balls, and
| pushed them down his throat choking
/ himself 10 death
On the 9Th Feuton c. Rogers was killed
and Mrs. T. NJ Morgan critically burned
| in natural gas explosio on at the residence
of the latter in Anderson, Ind.
On the 7th Jake Fulter, farmer of
| Bolivar County, Miss, shot and killed his
son for attempting to interfere when he
was beating his wife.
On the 7th an unknown man, about
| fifty-f five years old, committed suicide at
the Forty -seconl Street station of the
Third Avenue On. W Elevated road
just as n train was approaching he
jumped on the track and placad his head
on n rail and was instantly killed. The
engine and two cars passed over his
neck, and his blood was sprinkled over
dozens of people passing on the sidewalk
below.
ON the 7th James Dodson, a notorious
counterfeiter, was arrested in Cumber-
] fyr mi ed f0
jail. The evidence against him is very
strong.
IN Southern Cal fornia an Indiana
fug tive from justice ran into cactus
thickst while suffering from delirium, re-
Gently, and met with a horrible death.
ON the sth John Wei5ser, a wealthy
farmer near Pitts burgb, Pa, committed
suicide by hanging. The deceased was
worth at least 100000, and the verdict OF
the coroner's jury was that his mind be-
came impaired on account of his having
too much money.
AT Woodbury., N. J., George Dunham,
who was convicted on the 9TH of the
murder of his mother-in-law, Barbara
Kandl e, has been sentenced to be hanged
on Thursday, March %.
IT Is learned from later news of the
wreck Of the Abercorn near the mouth oi
Co umba river, Washington Territory
, on the night of the h, the number of the
, lost is placed al twenty-five.
, A FEW days ago Charles Stewart, alias
Tate, a Kentucky murderer, was sent K
the ponitentiary from Greensboro, KY.
, for stealing no rs
OK the 9th John Hopp, his daughter
aged fifteen, and a son aged nine years,
were burned 10 death in the destruction
of their home at Ku'ztown, Pa.
on the 9th the wife of Clarence s. ID
Bowers, a worthless character living
and exposure. On hearing of the deatf
Of his wife, Boweri went Off and hanged
Z himself
On the 10th Morris B. Congden was con
, vcted of manslaughter at Court and, N
Y, for killing his daughters child.
r on April 3 next Edward A. DeacOns viii
9 be hang for the murder ofMrs. Ada A
} Stone, ut Rochester, NY, last August.
On the 10th the north bound freigh
5 from Evansville, Ind, picked up an un
0 known man near ST. James. He wa
seuseless when found and was taken t.
a | Evansville, where his injuries were pro-
S nounced fatal The cause of his injurie
Is unknown. 1t is supposed, however
. that he fell off the midnight train.
= On the 10th the powder mills at Wap
e wallopen, a few miles from Wilkesbarre
f Pa, blew up with terrible force, killing
four persons and injuring forty others
h many of whom will die. The conclusion
Y was felt for forty miles.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 9Th convention of delegate
from every Western mining di strict me
:, at Helena, Mont. to consider the ques ito
: OF railroad proprietorship OF minera
, lands, and to investigate the methods o
|, the Northern Pacific road in acquiring
!, title to this class Of property.
on the 9TH an adjourned meeting of III
American Horticultural Society was he'll
. at Riverside, Cal. Ross Lewis, of Nevada
y read paper on Fruit Growing in Ne