The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-26
SOUTHERN oLEANINos,


mules belonging to Moses Patti colorsd
died from hydrophobia.
Tom Cochran, who was shot at the race
track in Memphis, Tenn, recently, by
Policeman Hendrick, is dead. Hendrick
was lodged in Jail.
Mack Carneal, a yardman in the Louis
vile & Nashville yards at Birmingham,
Ala, was struck by locomotive few
nights ago and almost instantly killed.
Carneal leaves a wife and two children.
Rain has at last stopped the forest fires,
which have been so destructive in North
Carolina. Immense stretches of the long
leaf pine country have been burned, en-
failing irreparable loss.
John Green, negro, now living in JEFF
fersonville, Ind, two years ago, in the
Federal Court at Louisville, KY, sued q
number of white men of Hart County,
KY, for ku- -kluxing him while he was Iiv-
ing in that county. The suit has been
compromised by the defendants paying
Green 800 and costs.
The stable of James Miller, a colored
hackman of Louisville, KY, two horses, a
carriage and his colored driver, sleeping
on the second floor, were burned a few
days ago. Miller, as soon as he discov-
cred the fire, rushed into the building to
save his horses, but was overcome by the
smoke and lost his life.
to few days PAST, was the property Of
Captain R. A. Hardie, a Uniontown (AIa.)
citizen. 1t was the inaugural address of
General w. H. Harrison delivered on
March A. 1S41. The address is printed on
satin, and is perfectly clear and well pre-
served. Captain Hardie has sent it to
President Harrison.
At Ringgold, Ca, a few nights ago,
Jacob A. Parsou, a contractor, and five
If =, SIvyx I1rrJ Jviv, III,
coffee. A tablespoonful of arsenic was
found in the bottom of the coffee-pot. The
attending physician said the family would
recover.
John Banks shot and killed Andrew
Taylor, near Coal Greek, Tenn, a few
nights ago. Banks was badly wounded
by Taylor's brother.
VIM. Dibble, alias j. E. Dow, colOred,
was convicted of the murder of Walter
Long, in Thomas County, Ga, and SEN
fenced to death.
The Southern stove molders at Chatta-
noogo, Tenn, elected Fillmore Gibson, of
that city, president, and P. L. Pfngst, of
Louisville, KY, secretary. They ad-
journed to July 10.
Miss Mamie Tatum, of South Pittsburgh,
Tenn, was shot through the brain and
instantly killed by her brother, Joseph
Tatum. few nights ago. The shooting
was accidental.
Isaac Jones, a Jacksonville (Fla.) ne
gro, broke every bone in the body of his
four-y ear-oId child with an iron bar,
few days ago, and then fatally beat his
wife. Jones says he has fits, and that he
was suffering with one at the time of the
deed.
The Grand Lodge of Tennessee, knights
of Honor, met in annual session in Nash
vile last week. There was large attend
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represented. The reports of the grand
officers showed that the order is in -four
ishing condition.
VIM. Wiley, who was recently tried in
the Circuit Court at HOpkinsville, KY,
charged with the murder of Albert
Wright at a dance near MadisOnville last
December, was found guilty and sem
fenced to the penitentiary for life.
Joshua F. Ross, convicted Of the mur-
der of his uncle, George Hughes, at Glou-
cester Court House, Va, and sentenced to
FIVE years. Imprisonment, will have an
other trial. 1t was asked on the ground
that one of the jurors had expressed an
opinion on the case before he was
sworn.
Captain John Smedley, an old and
prominent citizen, died at his homo in
Paducah, KY, few days ago. He was in
the sixty-tirst year of his age. For a
river, and for several years past was a
member of the City Council.
Henry Rice, the murderer of Vince
Olive and John Hollis, who was lodged in
jail at Florence, Ala, had to be moved to
Huntsville for safety. A mob was or
ganized, and the leaders declared the y
would have the prisoner and lynch him.
A west bound passenger train, on the
Vicksburg &g Meridian railroad struck an
I
Miss, a few days ago, inhicting wounds s
from which he died. He was upwards of
eighty years old. and being very decrepit
did not hear the train in time to get off
the track.
Bishop Walden, DR.. J. G. Hartzell and
! associates held meeting at Chattanooga,
Tenn, a few days ago, at which the papers
were signed and the unifcation of the
! Chattanooga University and the Grant
Memorial University at Athens was COM
/ pIeted. The two universities are now
/ combined in one. The School of Liberal
Arts will be in Chattanooga, the School
| of Technology at Athens, both being un-
| der one board.
| The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
/ reports that there is great activi ty
/ throughout the South IN building cotton
| seed oil mills, and that a dozen mills, to
cost s., 900. 900 or more, have been or
is a report that 81 OO0, 900 company has
| been organized in Philadelphia to build
mills in the South. The new mills re-
/ ported are nearly all by independent
/ companies not connected with the Cotton.
/ Oil Trust.
! A negro named Grant who has been
/ confined in the county Jail, at Raymond,
I Miss, killed the jailor, Robert Thomas,
/ a few nights ago. The negro was put in
I so,9 ~ Tvy
macy. 1t is thought that he was harmless
4 and he was allowed to walk around in
! the jail-yard when the negro struck him
/ on the head with an axe, almost severing
/ the head from the body
/ ANOrthern tourist receRtlyphotOgraped
at the Secretary of States Office in CO.
| lumbia, s. c., one of the most remarkable
/ documents existing among the records of
/ the State. 1t is the original deed made by
/ the Casseque Indians, in 1878, to the Lords
proprietors Of Carolina for all that tract
/ of land which now constitutes what is
! known as the low country Of South Caro-
! lima.
| Colonel w. G. Johnson, OF Lexington,
/ Ga, has in his library a book that was
/ printed in 1868 making it 226 years old.
/ It. is "Rolle's Abridgment of the Laws Of
/ England at that period. Role was the
presiding Justice at the trial of and signed
4 the death warrant of Charles l., under
I which he was beheaded.
William Baker, a brakeman, was at
( tempting to uncouple a moving train al
Darlington, KY, few days since, when
his foot caught in a frog and he was
thrown under the car-wheels. His leg
was broken in three places and he was
otherwise badly injured.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company viii shortly erect steel plant
in Birmingham, ala.
The eastern portion of Montgomery
County, Ala, was visited recently by a
{ cyclone, and a number Of houses were
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