The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-09-16
Miscellaneous.


ALF RoRB BIvoUAc No. 5, Sons of
Confederate Veterans, has been or
ganized at GAINESVILLE with fifteen char
ter members.
j. j. HAMILTON, an escaped convict
from Oliver Springs, was captured at
Milan last week after desperate re-
sistance and returned to the mines.
The University of Tennessee COM
menced it's eighty-sixth annual session
last week with most fattering prospects.
One hundred and two men have applied
for admission to the freshman class
alone. This indicates largely in
creased attendance and great prosperity
for the institution.
A BOLD burglary was committed at
Dayton last week, it is thought by some
of the fifteen prisoners who are at large
as the result of the recent jail delivery
at Chattanooga. On Market street, in
the heart of the city, the store OF Thomas
Bros. & Mcdonald was entered, the safe
blown open, and 5000 in cash stolen.
THE expenses for the transportation
of convicts and troops during the recent
mining troubles are very heavy. The
Nashville, Chattanooga & ST. Louis
Railroad has presented a bill for $1,000
for transportation between Nashville
and Chattanooga. The transportation
on other roads will amount to about
SO, 900.
HAS developed that Ella Roberts,
who was killed with shotgun last week
at Round Pond, in Montgomery County,
by Ella Rogers, was murdered and not
accidentally killed, as reported. The
Rogers girl was offered $3.50 by an old
negress to put Ella Roberts out of the
way, and she accepted and chose the
shotgun method. Ella Rogers has fed.
A WHOLESALE Jail delivery occurred
at Chattanooga last week, eighteen
prisoners escaping. Among them were
three condemned murderers, Bud Jor-
dan, John Massingale and Nose Broder,
the latter colored. The bars in win
dow had been sawed until they could be
pushed out, and as darkness fell the
work Of making an exit was completed.
A we'll nigh successful attempt of the
SANS nOEb was AesuO oAlJ T" 70" "S0nS
ago.
SINCE the recent miners troubles law
lessness has run riot in the mountains
around Jellico. A White Cap organiza-
ton that came into existence some
months before the outbreak has been
especially active, and scores of men on
the mountains who gave assistance to
the miners have been threatened. Jellico
has a large chapter of the order, and
they have given shocking display OF
their brutality. They were seized with
a virtuous spasm and captured several
women OF the town and several
of their male companions. They were
dragged by about thirty White Caps to
a grove, stripped of every stitch of cloth
ing, thrown over a log and dashed until
the blood dripped from the wounds.
One of the women is believed to be
fatally hust.
THE Criminal Court of Davidson
County met last week. The sensational
part of Judge Ridley's charge was that
some of the deputy sheriffs were coin
ing fortunes by arresting negroes on
charges of vagrancy. He warned the
jury to investigate such cases.
ARTHUR MARES, the 27-year-old son
of the late ex-Gov. Marks, died at Mont
eagle last week after week illness of
typhoid fever. He was one of the most
promising young men in the State. He
was lawyer by profession, and dur
ing Mr.. Cleveland's administration was
secretary of the American legation IN
London and afterward in Berlin.
AT Erin last week Constable Whit
Broaddus shot and killed Matt Allen,
noted desperate. The facts of the case
are as follows: The-offcer had war
rant for Aliens arrest, and attempted
to serve it Allen resisted arrest, and
the officer drew his pistol and shot the
offender dead. Allen was noted des-
perado and OUTLAW, for whom there have
been several warrants issued for vari-
Gus offenses- The one held by Constable
Broaddus was an old one, and Allen was
not expecting the arrest until the officer
had him cornered. He showed fight.
however, and met his death as stated
above.