The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-01-04
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oath, for the purpose Of hberating a pris
oner named Green, A. G. Clay and New
ton Nolan were shot by City Marshal Nc
Mahon, and both men were badly wounded.
ON the night of the oath Darwin Vaughan,
aged eighteen, and his sister, aged fifteen,
children of Earl Vaughan, a Boston
draughtsman employed by the Whittier
Machine Works, were drowned in Jamai-
ca pond, while skating.
On the night of the 24th another awful
river disaster occurred at Plaquemine,
La. The steamer John II. Hanna and a
valuable cargo of cotton was totally de-
strOyed by FIRE, and a large number of
persons perished in the flames or were
drowned.
TIE schooner Mary c. Decker, from New
York for Tampico, put in to Charleston, s.
c., on the Path, in charge of the first Of
1cer. Her captain, Henry Petty, was lost
overheard during gale of Cape Hatteras.
On the 25th the Olympic Theater in
Ashland, Wis, and five saloons adjoining,
were destroyed by fire, Loss, $4,000,
theater lost their wardrobes. The wealth
er was very cold, and it was difficult to
obtain water from the frozen hydrants.
On the night Of the 23d, at Hehyn, Ala,
Turner Bryant was shot dead by his
father -in-law, B. L. Chambers, while try
ing to force an entrance to Chambers
house, where Mrs. Bryant, who had left
her husband, was living.
FoUNT HoRNER, aged twenty, became
crazed with drink at Charleston, w. Va,
on the 25th, and obtaining a club, ran
through the streets knocking down and
severely injuring several people. The
last man he struck, Edward Aimes, drew
knife and killed his assailant. Aimes
was arrested, but afterwards was dis
charged.
WHILE a party Of seven were out sailing
on the bay about six miles from San Fran
cisco, on the 18th, the boat was capsized
and six Of the occupants were drowned
Following are the names: Andrew Sic
gel, Kate Siegel, George Stump and wife
Matt Cox and Mary Morales.
FRANK j. MYERS, aged eighteen, cookin
q Toledo (O.) restaurant, in attempting tC
close an iron shutter at the rear of the
restaurant building pushed it against an
| electric light wire on the 25th, and re-
| ceived a shock which knocked him to the
| ground. He was instantly killed.
ANDREW GRIMES, a drunken sailor, stab
| bed and killed John Martin, the mate of g
schooner, at Atlantic City, N. j., and ther
! threw the body overheard. The only eX-
! PLANTATION he gives of the affair is that he
and the mate ''had a row."
BY the fire on the steamer Left Erics-
son, which was burned to the waters edge
off Allad Point, w. T., on the oath, FIVE
| lives were lost, perhaps seven.
DURING a fire in the tenements 70 and 81
Bowery, New York, on the morning Of the
| 25th, Charles Stacker, aged twenty-six
was probably fatally burned, and a mum.
ber of other tenants were saved with diff
| fculty by the police and fremen.
THE business portion of Marblehead
Mass, is in ashes, more than twenty five
buildings, including eight or ten large
/ shoe factories, having been burned. Th'
| loss will reach half million dollars.
GEORGE BUsHKAdP, the second victim o
! the Strobel fire at Cincinnati, died on tn,
/ 25th from injuries received by the falling
! walls.
| NEAR Clippers Gap, in the Sierras, tn,
overland east-bound Central Pacific traiI
/ was stopped by robbers, recently, and
about $4,000 stolen.
A BOMB was recently exploded in from
/ of the Madrid residence Of SenOr Silvela
] a Conservative member Of the Spanisl
| Chamber of Deputies. The perpetrators
/ Of the outrage are unknown.
! On the 25th two young ladies named
/ Smith were drowned at Hillsville, Pa
/ They, in company with another girl ant
| two young men, were crossing the ALE
! gheny river in q sl0iff, when the boat sanl
| with them. The rest of the party wer,
rescued in an exhausted condition.
Ex-JUDGE ROBERT A. JOHNSON, one o
| the most prominent Democratic politician
| in Southern Ohio, suicided at his hom
in AvOndale, a Cincinnati suburb, ol
the 28th, by shooting himself through tn
head with revolver. Depression on &C
count of the death Of his wife is suppOse
to have been the cause.
AN explosion in the Toronto cont.
! Ammonia Works instantly killed Davi
Sexton and seriously injured several 9th
| er workmen, on the 25th. The entir
! building was wrecked and the grOun,
| shaken for blocks around.
TIE Abban Flour Mills at Waltham
/ England, were destroyed by fire recently
The loss is 100000.
EDWARD w. Rowland, formerly of New
| Bedford, Mass, was murdered recently
in Mexico, where he was for a year il
| charge Of two electric stations. He leave
| a widow in Lynn.
LITTLE JOHN BRYAN, living near Nebras
ka Cay, Neb., lost his life, on the 26th
while attempting to procure clothing
from his burning home for his mother
and her small children who were stand
ing in the snow almost naked. He had
previously rescued his sister from the
flames.
A SPECIAL from Saqua La Grande
Cuba, announces the murder Of a soldie
and sergeant Of the Civil Guard by tn
bandits near JicOtea.
GUsrI VAsKo, the murderer of Skokau
OF Perth AmbOy, n. J., has been sentence
to state prison for ten years.
On the 26th the British bark William n
| Chapman, from Hamburg. December II
for New York, was sunk off North Fore
land, by collision with the British steame
| Bedlormie.
A FEW days ago the Machine brothers
of Havana, Cuba, who, while under sen
tence OF death for kidnapping. escape,
from jail a month ago, murdered de
tective who was after them.
| MAIL adviCes from China bring detail
Of the capture and suicide of ''Dr." S trath
allen Drummond, at Colombo, CeyloI
who had fed from New South Wales {
avoid prosecution for practising medicin
under spurious diplomas. He took wit
him $50, 900, stolen from his wife, whom b
had married under false pretences. Afte
his arrest he took dose of poison, an
died almost Immediately.
ADvICEs from Batabano, Cuba, Civ
particulars Of the murder OF Senor Carl
Sanches Gonzales, an old resident of th
town. He was arbitrarily arrested, an
then shot in cold blood by a sergeant Of th
Civil Guard.
on Christmas Day George Anderson, q
/ Valparaiso, Ind, got drunk and attempte
20 murder The family Of John Van Wel
with a razor. He was overpowered b
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Vert, aided by the
hired man, and later arrested.
MISCELLANEOUS.
TIE Italian Chamber Of Deputies, by
vote OF l75 to 50, passed bin TO authoriz
q defense credit Of 1f5, 200, 900 lire.
IT is asserted that the municipal author
ities at Bstoum, Asia, have refused {
grant the Rothschilds the privilege of ruI
ming pipe line through the town TO con
meet their petroleum wells directly wit