The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-05-06
WIEN the old wabash q Erie canal

WHEN the old Wabash az Erie canal
was built Col. Hanna gave valuable
| ground on both sides Of Ave streets in
Wabash, Ind, crossing the canal, to be
used as dock spaces The canal was
abandoned. twenty years ago and this
/ ground has remained vacant. Suit fol
| possession was begun five years ago
and the case has just been decided. The
part of the canal in Wabash county Is
owned by a company, but the judge de
cided that the dock spaces should revert
to the heirs of Col Hanna. The ground
is now i'm the heart of the city, and is
worth thousands of dollars.
THOMAS SPEIR, an architect and
Princeton college graduate, shot and
killed himself, accidentally it is claimed,
at his home in South Orange, N. j., or
the 27th.
CARRIE BOOKER, a country belle, Ii
plaintiff in breach of promise suit al
Goshen, Ind, against Melvin Wysong,
In which she asks for $4,000 damages
They became engaged in the fall OF
1891, but Wysong has since married an.
other. Plaintiff AYERS that all the
while defendant was pretending tc
make love to her, he was also paying
court to his present wife.
SCHOOL children playing near the
Burlington Qa.) roller mills, on the
27th, found the dead body of a baby near
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North
ern railroad track. Marks on its throat
showed it to have been strangled to
death. 1t is supposed to have been
thrown from a passing train.
JOHN WILLARD and Charles Wisdom,
accused of the murder of Edward A.
Drexler in st. Louis, have each made
confessions charging the actual com
mission of the crime on the other. 1t is
morally certain that one of them is
guilty, and public opinion leans to the
belief that both are equally SO.
A CHUPADURA, one of the most deadly
snakes to be found in Honduras, was
discovered in bunch of bananas in the
warehouse of the Vessels company in
New York. He was three and a half
feet in length and very vicious. The
reptile was secured, and has been sent
to the Central park "zoo."
MRS. ALEXANDER, an invalid, and her
nurse, an old lady named Elizabeth
Jones, were burned to death, and Dr.
Briggs and Mrs. KING were fatally
burned in fire in a New York fat
house on the 2Sth. Several other per-
sons were more or less burned or other
wise injured.
WM. AsToR's body has been en-
balmed and will be brought to New
York on the La Bourgone by his widow
and Mrs. Drayton.
THE entire business portion of the
town of Hudson, o., was destroyed by
fire, supposed to have been of incendiary
origin, early on the morning of the
2Sth.
THE absence of champagne from the
menu at the reception of the Maryland
club at Baltimore, on the night of the
2Sth, so incensed Gen. r. Snowdon An
drews, one of the guests, that he struck
a member of the committee Of arrange
ments, who assumed the responsibility
for the omission. A duel is expected to
follow the ungentlemanly assault.
THE Arlington and Germania beach
hotels and a large bath house at Hull,
Mass, were burned on the 29th. The
Hull town records were stored in the
Arlington and were destroyed. They
can not be replaced.
CARL DoER, a wealthy farmer, while
going to his home near Brownstown,
Ind, on the night of the 2sth, was
murdered and robbed by parties un-
known.
THE master cotton spinners of Boil
ton, England, have resolved to run only
four days a week. The partial cut
down affects 20, 900 operatives.