The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-11-16
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

4 the bodies of James McGuin and Fred
! Ward were found, on the 9th, one shot,
the other stabbed TO death. 1t is be.
lieved they were murdered by parties
who wanted to secure their claims. o.
z. Jewell, a farmer. has been arrested
charged with the murder, and warrants
issued for several other men.
HERMAN SCHUMACHER, of Hobart,
Ind, while hunting, ON the 9th, shot
himself. His dogs were fighting, and
he struck at them with his loaded gun.
Both barrels were discharged into his
abdomen and he died in few minutes.
THE tug Crusader was destroyed by
fire at her dock at Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich, early on the morning of the
9Th. Fircmen Henry Billings, of that
city, and Charles Williams, OF Port
Huron, who were sleeping on the tug,
were burned to death.
ANOTHER smallpox case was reported
on the 9th. The victim is a schoolboy,
/ Herbert Burger, son of a war depart
ment clerk Two of the patients at
the smallpox hospital died on the 9th.
They were James Brown and Samuel
Mundel, both colored domestics.
0NEws comes of the lynching, near
Blackford, Crittenden county, Ky, by
whitecaps, of Gabe NolIa and his son
Ulysses. They were charged with burn
! ing houses, together with Berry Rich,
who was lynched recently, and also for
other crimes.
JOHN h. O'MALLEY, an Illinois state
senator from Chicago, who was de-
feated for reelection, was drinking
with two companions in a North Clark
street saloon, on the 7th, when the bar
tender entered their private room to
collect for drinks. O'Malley took this
for an insult and fired a bullet through
I the bartender's arm. Charles Shepard,
: the driver of the cab in which the SEN
atOr was taken home, was shot through
\ the knee and hand by O'Malley be-
cause payment of fare was asked.
KATIE GILLESPIE, an 1s-year-old sales
woman in the employ of Hilton,
Hughes & Co., of New York, while
( stepping from the elevator in the es-
tablishment, on the 7th, was caught
\ between the elevator and partition
and instantly killed. The accident
was caused by the poor girl, who was
in playful mood, skylarking with the
elevator boy.
A DISASTROUS collision between a
passenger and freight train, result
ing in the loss of six lives, occurred,
4 on the 9TH, at Rosen Steel siding, 108
miles east of Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
/ baltimore & Ohio railroad.
THE -7-year-old daughter of Column
\ bus Livingston, living at Logansport,
\ III, was accidentally burned to death,
on the 7th, while visiting relatives near
Dahlgren.
OK the sth the czaF and czarlna.
i through the court minister, Count
! Norontsoff- -Dachkoff, thanked the Jew
/ ish community of st. Petersburg for
| their message of coincidence upon the
! death of the ear, and for the loyal and
! patriotic sentiments thereupOn eX-
pressed by the Jews.
JoHS z. RAIBEAU, manager of the AL
| bemarle club of Richmond, Va, shot
/ and mortally wounded Otto Frazer on
the sth. The tragedy was the result of
a drunken quarrel originating over a
/ game of dice between the parties the
previous night.
kid" THOMPSON and 'HCol." Hopper,
two of the Roscoe train robbers, We're
captured at the foot of the Reno
mountains, on the 9th, and taken to
Phoenix. Ariz. The robbers fought
desperately, only surrendering on con-
dition of good treatment after over
fifty shots had been fred.
AT an early hour on the morning of
| the 7th, the residence of Charles Gil
man, at Black Rock, Conn, was de-
/ stroyed by fire, and the occupants mar
/ rowly escaped with their lives; loss,
$50, 600
THE speed trial of the torpedo boat
| Ericsson, built in Iowa, which was to
have occurred at New London, Conn,
on the sth, was postponed to the first
| fair day on account of the prevalence
| of a fierce snow storm
THE First ational bank of San
Bernardino, Cal, closed its doors on
the sth,
Four HUNDRED men employed at the
Canton copper works in Baltimore,
Nd, were formally notified, on the
9th, that on next payday their wages
will be increased 10 per cent. The pro
| prietors say the new schedule has been
| struck owing to the prospective in
/ crease in the profits of the concern. A
/ reduction was made in the wages of
tue tupAuNCS III NONeInbF. 1872 lul-
mediately after the general election.
GEORGE w. BoGGs, ex-city treasurer
of Tocoma, Wash, is under arrest,
charged with the embezzlement of S29,-
| sOO.57 public funds. lie was released,
on the 9th, on SIS, 600 bail.
THE Spanish coast steamer Fer
! nando, foundered twenty miles north
| of Bahia Honda, Cuba, on the 9Th. Ten
/ of her passengers and crew were
| drowned.
THE failures during the week ended
/ on the 9th, were 261 In the United
/ States, against 35s last year, and 81 in
Canada, against 81 last year.
GmLAUAE LOUIS FIGUIR, the French
! chemist and scientific writer, died In
Paris. on the 9th, aged IS years.
On the occasion of the funeral Of the
car 25,0OO of st. Petersburgs poor Will
| be provided with dinners.
A DISPATCH TO the London Times
I from Yokohama says that the two
Americans who were arrested at Kobe
are torpedo experts who had con-
/ tracted with China TO employ their
own inventions to destroy the Japa-
nese heet. China promised them ST.
/ O00, ,OGO for each warship they de-
stroyed and a propOrtionate sum for
each merchantmen they succeeded in
/ blowing up.
a COMMITTEE of twelve negro minis
| ters, appointed by 1000 colored mem
/ bers OF the International EuirratiOr,