The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-24
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aid of kerosene. Both were held Il
answer.
By the explosion of box of dyna
mite cartridges ON the tramp ship r. C.
Booth, lying at the Brooklyn wharf, on
the 14th, two men were killed, one OF
them being blown to atoms, and two
others were wounded. A large hole
was blown in the starboerd side of the
steamship and she soon filed and went
TO the bottom.
POLICEMAN JOHN d. RYERsoN, of Jer.
sey City, M. j., became involved i'm a
row early on the morning of the 14th,
with James Brennan. Lizzie Brennan,
the latter's wife. interfered. Brennan
was shot dead and his wife fatally
wounded The injured woman was
taken to the hospital Ryerson was
arrested.
THE governor of Nizhnee Novgorod.
Russia, has warned the committee OF
exchange that spectators forming cor
ners to raise the price of grain, or other
wise trading on the growing necessities
of the people, win be punished and ex-
peeled from his Jurisdiction.
PHINEAs NJ. ANGUR. who was prohi-
bition candidate for governor of Con-
necticut last fall, died at his home near
Middleton, on the 14th, aged 65. His
death was caused by heart disease.
THE national editorial convention
met in St Paul, Mimi, on the 14th,
about 500 members of the profession
being in attendance.
THE petition committee of the French
senate recommended, ON the 14th, that
the government favorably consider the
appeal of the Panama shareholders
that it cooperate with the Credit Fon-
cier to raise funds to complete the
work
THOMAS HINcKLEY. of Seattle. was on
a spree at Tacoma, WASH, on the 18th,
and in company with a man named
Douglass, entered the Elk saloon and
ordered drinks for the crowd. While
the barkeeper was serving the drinks
Hinckley pulled his revolver and began
shooting. VIM. Brannon, the proprie-
tor, and George Martin, city tax col
lector, were instantly killed; several
other persons were wounded. Hincl-
ley and Douglass were lodged in jail.
PROF. JOHN LLOYD was shot and
killed at Murfreesboro, Tenn, ON the
14th, and Tom Morton, his nephew by
marriage, is suspected of the crime
He has disappeared, and it is known
that there was trouble between the
men.
On the 18th Comptroller Lacey made
a call for report on the condition of
the national banks at the close of bust
ness ON the 9th.
OVER 200 Knights Templar, represent
ing nearly every state in the union,
many of them accompanied by their
wives, sailed from Jersey City, N. j.,
on the 18th, in the City of Berlin. for
tour of Europe to last from five weeks
to three months. The most important
places in England, Ireland, Scotland,
Wales, France and Belgium will be
visited by the entire party, while a good
many of them will also visit the other
continental cities.
The Ohio democratic state conven-
ton, at its session in Cleveland, on the
18th. renominated Gov. Campbell on the
first ballot Determined and noisy OPP
position was manifested by the Hamil-
ton county delegation. Lieut.. Gov.
Marquis was renominated by acclama-
lion. A full state ticket was also placed
IN nomination
On the 18th Emperor William left
England on the imperial yacht Hohen-
sollern for Norway.
DURING a storm at Union City, Pa,
ON the 14th, thunderbolt struck the
residence of G. S. Kelly. Mr.. Kelly and
MS son Willis, aged 20, were standing
1n the veranda. The young man was
killed outright and the father so badly
shocked that he will die.
MRS. Lucy PRATT, a young widow
with three children and slender means,
,ne of the trained nurses at the San
Francisco hospital for children and
training school for misses, recently sold
iorty-fve square inches of her skin for
800. A strip of skin 9x5 inches wide
vas cut from her body by surgeons
md grated onto the leg of VIM A.
Daggett, a railway mail clerk, who had
been frightfully injured in a railroad
THE steamship Columbia of the Ham
ourg-American line arrived at South
Lmpton, on the 10th. with the foreign
commission of the Columbian exposi-
ion on board. consisting of Maj.
Moses p. Handy, of Chicago; A. T. Bull
ock, of Massachusetts,; ex-Congress-
nan Butterworth, of Ohio; Judge w.
Lindsey, of Kentucky, and Z. S. Peek, |
If Chicago.
In an impromptu duel in Birming- |
lam (Ala-) saloon, on the night of the |
9th. between Eugene Byers, an ex-
United States deputy marshal, and |
Wesley Garner, an ex-policeman. both |
nen were shot Garner was fatally and |
3yers seriously wounded.
CAL BRTcE has gone to Europe to try |
md interest English capitalists i'm the |
lew enterprise to parallel the Lake |
shore system from Toledo, O., in as /
lear bee line as possible Mr.. Brice, |
While abroad, will close contract for
line of steamships to run from the |
eaport reached by his system to |
,entral and South American points.
THERE is now every prospect of a |
plendid hop crop in England. and the I
-rowers expect good prices in view of |
he unfavorable reports from the hop /
rop in the United States
DURING a terrific thunderstorm at |
Vest Chester Pa, on the 15th- two |
Italians, named Valerie and Danarto |
'onoto, working on the loop branch of
he electric railway, were struck by /
ightning and instantly killed
Mrs. ANN w. WooD. of Des Moines,
a was arrested by United States Of
Icer, on the 10Th, charged with deposit
ng m the post Office postal cards on
which were written serious reflections \
N the character of another She was |