The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-11-15

THE American ship Chesebrough was
wrecked off the northern coast of Japan,
losing nineteen of her crew
THREE pistol cartridges placed on q
street car track at New York exploded
the other night, As the car was pass
ing through Broo1pe street it ran over
them and one bullet struck letter car
rier, James Starck, in the head; another
shot Sarah Daily, seventeen years old, in
the abdomen.
PRoF. DALTON offers to swim the En-
glish channel lying on his back, from
Dover to Calais.
THE New York Supreme Court has
confirmed the Judgment of the lower
court declaring the sugar trust unlaw-
full.
E. III. VAN HOZEN, a prOminenct church
member and cashier of the Toledo (O.)
Natiopal Bank, was arrested recent
ly, charged with embezzling about
$50, 900 of the banks funds. J. NJ. Mckee,
teller of the bank, was also arrested as
an accomplice.
THE sentence of Simon Walker, of
Chesterfield County, Va, the negro boy
who committed a criminal assault upon
Mary Ann Quinn, aged eleven years,
and who was twice sentenced to be
hanged and respited, has been com
muted by the Governor to twenty years
Imprisonment.
The British war ship Amphion struck
reef off the coast of British Columbia
recently. She came near sinking with
the Governor-General of Canada on
board.
AN unknown maniac ran amUck at
Bayou Bouf Station, La, the other
day. He stabbed five or six persons,
some fatally, and was shot as he pushed
out in a boat. He fell into the water
and disappeared, his body not being
recovered.
Four convicts were shot recently
while attempting to escape from the
penitentiary at Huntsville, Tex. One
was killed and two fatally wounded.
THE Flatheads are willing to leave
their reservation in Bitter Root Valley,
Montana.
THE disastrous snow storm of New
Mexico extended into Texas, Several
herders perished with their stock.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's repOrt) for
the seven days ended November Z, in.
Guiding Canada, numbered 267. The
| corresponding week last year the mum.
| Der was 226.
THE mother and seven children of
| family named Parker were drowned re-
| Gently near Yaquina, Ore, while cross
| ing in small boat from Newport to
South Beach. The father only escaped.
THE schooner Southwest and nine
men have been lost in Lake Erie.
THERE was terrible fight between
| citizens at BrOwnsburg, ROckbridge
County, Va, on the 8th. Three persons
were killed or fatally injured and many
others were seriously wounded. A phys
| ician named Walker had threatened the
! life of Henry Miller for insulting Mrs.
| Walker and the tragedy occurred in the
court ROOM Mrs. Walker and Miller
were killed and Walker was fatally
| hurt.
JOHN BREWER, a Colored man, has
been fined 81 900 for using incendiary
| language over the death of Police Lieu
| tenant Crichton, who was killed at the
recent fire in Petersburg, Va.
Two prominent Republican politicians
| of Lexington, Ky.-COlonel Cassius
! Goodloe, collector of internal revenue,
and Colonel Armestead NJ. Swope-had
a desperate encounter on the 8th.
| Swope was stabbed to death and Good
loe was thought to be fatally shot.
THE tattered clothing and surgical
| instrument case of DR.. Cronin were found
| in the sewer at Evanston and BUena ave-
nues, Chicago, on the 8th, only one
block from the spot where the bloody
| trunk was found.