The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-09-28

JAMES NJ. WHITE, well-known MEM
Der of the New York cotton exchange,
died, on the Goth, at his home in Brook
lyn. The cause of death was eonsump-
tion, combined with gastric fever.
THE federal grand jury at Birming-
ham, Ala, on the goth, returned in
dictments against four ex-postmasters
on the charge of embezzlement of post
Office funds.
OFFICER PETER DILLON, of the Ale
gheny pa police force, was instantly
killed. on the Goth, at 2:3O a m, by
catching hold of a live wire which a
heavy windstOrm had blown down.
POSTMASTER HARRY MARIETTA and
four other Connellsville (Pa-) citizens
who were recently convicted of unlaw-
full assemblage in connection with riots
in the coke region, were called up for
sentence, on the Goth, before Judge
Ewing. Marietta was sentenced to
pay fine of $500 and costs of prosecu-
tion. The other defendants were fined
in proportion to their ability to pay.
GEORGE SCHNfoUsE, who murdered his
wife and children in order to obtain the
insurance on their lives. was executed
in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Goth.
EDMoNIA ANDERSON and Irene Wash
ington, two beautiful octoroons of
Swift, Ala, fell out on account of rival
claims to the affections of Ben Olson, a
Swedish sailor, and fought with
knives, on the 21st, until the Washing
ton woman fell to the ground fatally
wounded, when the other stabbed her
self to the heart and fell across the
body of her dying rival.
CORPORAL d: J. MORGAN, United
States army, who committed suicide in
Detroit, Mich, on the Goth, was once
the wealthy husband of a beautiful
woman who deserted him in 1884 for a
life of shame which she ended by sui
eide in house of ill-repute. After his
wife's desertion Morgan sold his prop
erty. gave the proceeds to relatives and
enlisted in the army
IN the supreme court of Massachu
setts Judge Barker, on the 21st, denied
the application of Attorney-General
Knowlton for preliminary injunctions
to restrain the American Sugar Rein
ing Co., known as the Sugar trust,
from doing business in that state until
it should file a statement of its fnan-
cial standing up to March 1 last.
GUARD w. c. GOETHE was stabbed
three times in the neck and probably
fatally wounded, on the 21st, by con-
vict in the Ohio state prison, whom he
had threatened to report for some
slight violation of the rules.
MORRIS VTELTENBACK, a Russian, be-
tute immigrant, jumped from the
steamer Philadelphia in Boston harbor,
on the 21st, and was drowned.
FAILURES in the United States for the
week ended the 21st were 212, against
321 last year, and 4S in Canada against
40 last year.
PRESIDENT NUNEz of the republic of
Colombia died on the 18th.
DIR. ID. j. DECK was found guilty of
manslaughter, at Akron, o., on the
night of the Goth, for the poisoning of
his wife to get possession of her prop
erty and to enable him to marry again.
Mrs. BUELL., sister of Rev. w. l..
Slutz, and the latter's two daughters,
Mabel. aged is, and Helen, aged 3, were
run down and fatally injured at Big
Four crossing five miles east of Lon
don, o.. while taking carriage ride in
the country on the 21st.
WHILE squirrel hunting, near Buff
falO, Pa, on the 21st, John Tarr, pro-
prietor of the Central hotel of that
city, was probably fatally shot by his
companion, w. ID. Sloan, who mistoOl1
Tarr's brown hat for squirrel and
sent full load of shot into his head
and neck.