The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03
miscellaneous.

WHILE out hunting near Brownsville,
last week, Will Bancroft accidentally
shot and killed his 9-year-old son. He had
his gun ready to shoot rabbit, but re-
placed it to his shoulder, when it fired
and the contents went into the breast
of his little son, who only uttered the
words, 'Oh, papa" and died.
WILLIAM ALGER, of Milan, one of the
most progressive strawberry growers in
last week.
OWING to dullness IN the iron mar
ket the Knoxville Iron Company shut
down its works last week, throwing
nearly 500 men out of employment.
THE old mill building known as the
Haskins Mill, situated near Newborn,
and filled with some 400 or 500 barrels
of corn, was consumed by fire last week.
1t is thought it caught from the sparks
of passing engine. The corn and
building were insured.
Gov. BUCHANAN has appointed DIR.
w. H. Jones, of Nashville, and Frank
M. Smith, of Knoxville, to be members
of the State Board of Education.
THE 9-year-o3d blind daughter of A.
J. Nelson, a well-known citizen of
Knoxville, was burnd to death last
week by her clothes catching fire from
a crate.
On May the Commercial Associa-
tions and various business bodies
throughout Tennessee will meet in
Nashville to organize State Associa-
ton of the commercial bodies of the
State. The object of organizing State
Association is to give the different as
sociations throughout the State q chance
to act in an organized way and by
united action develop the various re-
sources of the State, encourage manu-
factories and influence legislation IA
vorable to all enterprises of general in
terest All Commercial Associations
will be represented.
HOWELL BRANCH, one of the oldest
citizens of Crockett County, died last
week at the advanced age of 73 years.
He was one of the pioneers of West
Tennessee, having come in 1881 to the
immediate section in which he died. He
accum ulated large estate.
JOHN P. FULLER, of Birmingham,
Ala, and James Fuller and Simon A.
Muller, of Georgia, have filed a bill
in the chancery court against Hamilton
County, claiming the ground on which
the courthouse is located, united with
the buildings comfortable fortune.
1osD fhaf 70 in
died, possessed of one-half of the land
in question, and that he possessed con-
fidence in his brother-in-law, Moses
Presley. The joint owners entrusted
Presley with the management of the
property, requiring no bond. In 1914
Presley signed bond giving deed
for the whole, which was kept off the
records until 1851, Presley claiming
that he was the full owner, and the
truth was not learned until 1887. The
suit is in it's way very sensational one,
involving as it does questions of title
to such valuable property.
THE regular meeting of the Tennes-
see Press Association at Memphis on
April %, promises to be an interesting
affair. The handsome steamer Chicka-
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tion will take trip up White River to
the head of navigation. The distance
will be something over 900 miles. The
meeting promises to be one of the most
successful ever held by the association.
THE much talked of creamery at
Jackson has at last developed into a
certainty; nearly all the required stock
has been taken and that much needed
enterprise will be established without
delay.