The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-21
SOUTHERN eLEANlNos.


and commenced pelting the house with
rocks. This brought Helms to the door
with an order for Moses to leave the
premises. Moses cursed and threatened
Helms, and a fight ensued. Helms drew
pocket-knife and stabbed Moses in the
throat, killing him instantly. There was
an old grudge between these men, and
Moses went to Helms house for the pur-
pose of settling it.
w. r. Wilson, of Dinwoodv. Ca disap-
peared recently with the widow of his
brother-in-law, J. G. Adams. Wilson was
administrator of Adams estate, and is
short $4,000 to $1,000. Mrs. Adams left
three children absolutely destitute.
Thomas jefferson was sentenced at
Memphis, Tenn, recently, to be hanged
January 18 for the murder of William
Ragland on October 10 last. Ragland
was a hack-driveF. jefferson surprised
him in the room with woman who was
intimate with both of them and cut his
throat.
A fire broke out in Pickens, Miss, a few
days ago, and the following business
places were destroyed: D. w. Brit's res
taurant, N. divers drug store, Hugh
fuckers saloon, Blair & FurgesOn's gen
eral store and Gus RousseIl's barber shop.
Detectives Wickliff and Bloomfield, of
Paducah, KY, recently arrested Green
train robbery. During the past few weeks
much freight has been stolen from the
Newport News & Mississippi Valley cars
between Paducah and Louisville. The
crime was traced to Foster, who is an en-
ploye of the road. After the arrest he
confessed and implicated Cobb as an &C
comphce. Partof the plunder has been
found in an old deserted coal mine.
A boiler at Wncox's steam mill near
Er-a7sr 10 nI 6QK-
since, killing four men and wOunding
several.
A creditors bill against J. II. Mckenzie
& CO., of Waynesboro, Ga, charges that
the firm is insolvent with liabilities from
$4,000 to 100000.
The Georgia House of Representatives
has appropriated 100000 for the common
schools of the State. The bill will prob
| ably be passed by the Senate.
A fire broke out in a cottage in La Villa,
Fla, few days ago, and eight houses
were destroyed, including several stores
and shops; loss $4,000.
| Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. Manship, worthy and
| highly respected citizens OF Jackson,
MISS, celebrated their golden wedding at
| their family residence recently.
The boiler Of the cotton gin on G.. w.
| Turner's place, near Montgomery, Ala, a
| few days since, exploded, killing GeO.Tur-
/
| ing seven others.
! Charles Burns, a painter, was shot and
killed on the street in Paducah, KY, a
| few nights ago. Policeman William
| Mount was arrested on suspicion Of hav-
| ing fred the shot, but protested his innO-
| cence. The murder remains mystery.
| Rabbi A. r. Levy, of Chicago, who was
arrested in that city some time ago and
| taken back to New Orleans charged with
| forv Aair frpaC
| by fraud, was tried in the latter city and
| acquitted.
| Since the result Of the late presiden-
| tial election became known there has
| been great activity among the moonshin-
ers in the noun tains of East tennessee.
| The mountaineers rarely read papers, and
many of them think the revenue law has
| been repealed by the Republicans, hence
| they are very bold in the making of Illicit
whisky. a big raid on these wild
caters is organizing and will soon be
made.
! A violent explosion of blasting powder
| took place in the Reincke coal mines, near
/ Darlington, KY, a few evenings since,
| which resulted in the death of Alex. Ash
| ley, Ed Rear and Titus Merritt, three
/ miners, and in the destruction O. 5000
worth of property.
The body of William Spry, Of Davie
/ County, n. c., was found lying on the
1 floor Of his room, in pool of blood, a few
| days ago. There was a bullet hole in his
| leg from which he had bled to DEATH
! Spry, who was az ex-conviet, had been
! charged with incendiarism in Davie COun-
| tv, and evidence was accumulating against
| him.
Harry Smart, charged with the murder
| of Meisner Green and Bell Ward, who
were found floating in the river at Louis
! vile, KY, last summer, was found guilty,
and the sentence fixed was death. Smart,
on another count of the same charge, was
| convicted several weeks ago, and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life.
Notwithstanding all efforts made to
| capture him, and the large reward offered,
Eugene Bunch, the train-robber, it is now
definitely known, is in the vicinity of New
! Orleans, and is liable to be heard from at
any unexpected moment
Mrs John Lee, working in a laundry nt
Chattanooga, Tenn, with her hair hang
ing down her back, got too close to a re-
| volving pulley, a few days since, which
caught the hair and jerked her head
against the shaft, fracturing her skull and
| injuring her fatally.
AS VIM. Carneal, farmer, residing
south Of Guthrie, KY, was attempting to
cross the railroad, driving team, few
nights ago, a train Of freight cars sudden
" came upon him, and, striking his wagon
| demolished it, killed his horses and in
jured him so seriously that little hope was
entertained Of his recovery.
Robert w. Page was boiled to death al
Atlanta, Ca, few days since, He was
an employe of Weller's slaughter house
While under the influence of liquor he fel
into the large kettle kept full of hot water
in which hogs were scalded. He had beer
in the kettle over an hour when found
and his body was boiled almost into jelly
Nine hundred and fifty telephones, here.
tofore the property Of the National I'm
proved, Crescent City and New Orleans
Telephone companies, were burned al
| New Orleans, few days ago, under the
direction Of Frank b. knight, Of the
American Bell Telephone Company, ot
Boston. These instruments we're adjudgeC
bv the United States Court to infringe tht
patents of the Bell company, and as they
couldn not be utilized they were destroyed
Jacksonville refugees are returning.
A queer race struggle Is imminent il
Charleston, S. G. Within the past few
weeks upwards of one hundred ChinameI
have located in the city, and every incOm
ing steamer adds to the number. The i'm
migrants Immediately on landing open
laundry. an institution hitherto almos
unknown in that city, where the washing
and ironing Of $1,000 white people is dom
by negro washwomen. The latter threat
en- to bounce the intruders.
Cliff Clay had on exhibition at the Ma
con (Ga.) fair a dead rattlesnake sever
feet long. The reptile when in life dis
ported twenty-five rattles and button
Quite a snake.
Selig Bros. & Co. Of Atlanta, Ga. hav
failed, with liabilities os $1,000.
The consolidated bodies Of farmers a.
recent meeting at Meridian, Miss, change
their name from the Alliance Wheel IN
cooperative Union 0f America 10 IN
Farmers and Laborers' Union OF Amer
lea. The next meeting viii be held IN -
Louis on the FIRST Thursday in December