The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-02-19
Miscellaneous.

j. w. JOHNSON, counterfeiter, who
was arrested in Dyer County for showing
the queer, and later confined in the Mem
phis Jail, died In prison at Jackson last
week. Johnson's guilt or innocence
will be decided by higher tribunal
than that of mar.
A HORRIBLE tragedy was enacted in
Carroll County last week. Charles
Travis and his wife have been having
domestic troubles for some time. A
short time ago Travis kicked his wife
from the door. She swore to kill him,
and one night last week while he was
sleeping she procured a razor and
slashed and cut his face and throat in a
dozen places, death following in few
minutes.
The mangled remains of Frank Brad
ley, a young man "a years old, were
found last week on the East Ten
nessee, Virginia & Georgia tracks in
the yards at Knoxville last week. No
one saw him killed, but the supposition
is that he was struck by the early morn
ing Chattanooga train. A quart bottle
with little whisky left in it leads to
the belief that while intoxicated he sat
down on the track and fell asleep.
The grand jury at Chattanooga last
week found an Indictment against Maj.
M. j. O'Brien, the absconding Supreme
Treasurer of the Catholic knights of
America. There are four counts in the
Indictment, the principal one charging
him with misappropriation and stealing
900, the property of the Catholic
Knights, as belonging to the widows
and orphans fund. He is also charged
with stealing $4,000 each from Mrs.
Annie E. Bowen and Mrs. Dorothy
Bailer, these amounts being insurance
policies held by their late husbands.
HENRY S. SMITH, an old pensioner liv-
ing in the upper end of Knox County,
went to Knoxville last went and drew
his money for last quarter. At late
hour that night he fell in with three
well-known roughs named John Cawood,
who was concerned in a murder case two
years ago, Bunny McLemore and Bob
Haskinscn, who induced him to take
carriage drive. They drove him to
lonely spot three miles from the city,
and after filling him with whisky beat
him into insensibility and robbed him
of all he had, about S35. He will re-
cover. The men were arrested.
The hot controversy over the location
of the Bristol postoffce has practically
been settled. The gentlemen who went
TO Washington representing the Ten
nessee side of the city have returned,
and report that the Postmaster-General
has declared that one postofice is sufa-
cient for town the size of Bristol, and
that he cannot think of establishing
another there now. He also SAYS that
he has just completed arrangements by
which the town will be supplied with a
free delivery of mail not later than
July 1.
THE deal has been completed by
which Knoxville gets the Southern
branch of Holbrook Norman College, of
Lebanon, O., an institution having an
attendance of over 1900. 1t is train
ing school for teachers, having law and
medical departments attached. One
hundred and thirty acres have been
purchased on Broad street, two miles
from the city, and $50, 900 will be ex-
pended in building, and SIS, 900 in grad
Ing and beautifying the grounds.
Josiah Holbrook will take hold of the
institution at Knoxville, which is ex-
peoted TO bs In running order by next
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