The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-10-13

AT an early hour on the morning OF
the 4th the prisoners confined in the
Wood county Jail at Bowling Green.
o., made their escape. There were five
of them, one murderer, three desper-
ate crooks and one thief.
WITHIN radius of 10 miles from the
government lighthouse at the mouth
of Pascagoula river in Mississippi q
partial list of vessels shows thirteen
schooners, barks and briggs and many
small craft wrecked or seriously dis
abled, as result of the late cyclone.
The steamer Manin went ashore at Ship
island. The government lighthouse at
Pascagoula was greatly damaged, and
is unsafe.
THE British steamer City Camp from
st. Johns. N. F., was off the coast of
Cork, on the 5th, waterlogged. having
encountered terrible storm on Sep
tember 6. Her cabins were filed with
water and all on board had been living
on the poop deck of the vessel ever
since. Tugs were sent to her assist
ance.
WILLIAM G. DAY, superintendent of
Bradstreet's in st. Louis, died suddenly
at his residence, on the 5th, of heart
failure. Mr.. Day was a Virginian by
birth and was in his fifty-ninth year.
His remains were taken to Lexington,
KY.
AN action of much interest to PEN
sioners was begun in the District OF
Columbia supreme court on the 4th.
The plaintiff, Judge Charles ID. Long,
of Detroit, Mich, member of the SUI
preme bench of the state, filed peti
tion for mandamus to compel the COM
missioner of pensions to pay plaintiffs
pension, which he holds was illegally
suspended.
AS A result of the recent hazing at
Princeton On. J.) college two faculty
meetings were held on the 5th. Six
sophomores were suspended tempo
rarily, and more suspensions will prob
ably follow another faculty meeting.
The students are indignant that their
pastimes are to be interfered with.
In Trinity church, Boston, on the
5th, in the presence of the highest
dignitaries of the Protestant Episcopal
church in this country a multitude of
people, among them many distin-
guished personages, Rev. DIR. William
Lawrence was consecrated bishop of
Massachusetts.
SEVERAL prisoners escaped from the
st. Joseph county Qnd) Jail on the
morning of the 9th. They tore hole
with their hands in the iron floor of
the first tier of cells and descended
into the basement, escaping by the
cellar door. A murderer was among
the gang. They were aided by per-
sons on the outside.
A REAR-END collision between two
freight trains on the Pittsburgh &
Lake Erie railroad occurred near Edin-
burgh station, Pa, on the 9th. Eight
cen cars of merchandise were badly
wrecked. The trainmen escaped in
jury.
THE general session of the Mississippi
Valley Medical association, held in
Indianapolis, on the 9th, indorsed the
action of the American Medical asso-
citation in asking that a government
of health be established.
THE Minneapolis (NIinn. chamber of
commerce adopted resolutions, on the
9th, asking the United States senate to
repeal the silver-purchase clause of the
Sherman law at the earliest possible
moment.
1T was reported in San Francisco, on
the 9Th, that Mrs. Leland Stanford,
widow of the late Senator Stanford,
had decided to leave Washington to
reside permanently in California.
THE paid admissions to the Worlds
fair, on the 7th, were 143, 1884.