The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-12

IAAE hESLs
EVICTIONs have been resumed on the
Des Moines river lands in Iowa. The dis
possessed farmers were reported organiz-
ing to repOssess the lands and would defy
the officers.
A SENSATION was made at the meeting
Of the board of managers Of the Ohio PEN
itentiary at Columbus the other morning
when Prison Physician Clemmer filed
report charging Deputy Warden Cherrtng-
ton with OutrageOusly furnishing an in
sane prisoner named George Bates in the
ducking tub. A legislative investigation
will probably result.
CUSTOM house officers at San Francisco
the other morning seized 2,224 fve-tael
boxes Of opium, valued at S15, 568 which
had been smuggled. The drug was found
concealed under pile Of fat in a soap and
candle factory conducted by Richard Ahlf
and H. Gachdez, saloon keepers.
SEVERE wind storm was reported from
Jackson and other places in Minnesota, on
the 21. The wind blew up the prairie
fires, and much destruction resulted, one
life at least being lost
- A SECTION Of a freight train broke loose
from the engine near Centerville, Ind,
the other day and ran back on the second
section, wrecking the second locomotive
and nine cars and killing two tramps.
FIRE destroyed the five-story brick
lutlding, 3S to A Canal street, Chicago,
recently. Loss about $780, 900, fairly in
sured.
LATER reports Of the destructive prairie
fires in Dakota show that several lives
were lost. The farm property destroyed
was immense. A wind storm accelerated
the flames which proved so destructive.
LATER returns showed the election of
r. L. Cofran, Democrat, for mayor OF To-
peka, instead of Metsker, Republican, as
first reported, by 204 majority. A Demo-
critic councilman was also elected.
In fight a few days since, near Flag
staff, Ariz., between a sheriff's posse and
robbers, who held up the Atlantic & Pa
cific express about two weeks ago, Ed
ward ST. Clair and r S. Wilcox, deputy
sheriffs, were killed.
THE town of Leola was almost entirely
destroyed by the recent prairie fires in
Dakota.
THE posse engaged in the evictions on
the Des MOines river lands in Iowa were
| fired on by concealed parties with Win
| chesters as a warning. No one was hurt,
GENERAL JACOB SHARP has resigned as
] governor of the Soldiers Home at Mil
waukee, Wis and General Kilburn Knox
/ has been elected his successor. Ill health
/ was the cause.
FoREsT fires have been raging around
/ Courtenay, Oak. One hundred families
were deprived of absolutely every thing.
! The loss reached fully $4,000
TWO freight trains collided the other
morning near Reno, New. Harry Wilson,
l a brakeman, and j. ii. Mysegarder, O
farmer were killed and fourteen cars
/ were wrecked
Ex-GovERNoR CROSBY, of Montana, re-
! Gently threatened to sue Russell B. Har-
rison, son of the President and in 1881
/ president of the Montana Live Stock
Journal Company, for libel Harrison
| promised to retract the charges.
SwIFT's packing house, Chicago, tool
fire on the morning Of the 18th, resulting
/ in a loss of S1C0 900.
DANIEL BAUGH, a pioneer of Seymour
| Ind, has reached the age of one hundred
years. His health is almost perfect.
1T is positively denied at Albuquerque
n NJ, that there is any truth in the repor
Of a deadly fight between officers and trait
| robbers in Arizona. The officers never
/ even struck the trail of the outlaws.
1T is thought that troops will be needed
| to suppress the settlers threatening dis.
orders on the Des Moines river lands.