The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-01
miscellaneous.

| The army-wOrm has appeared in droves
| in the northern part of Madison county,
and the wheat fields are being damaged
by this pest.
The wire fence cutters have begun their
ravages again in Madison county. The
fences of Messrs. Stewart, Winfield and
other planters in the vicinity of Medon
were last week exposing their crops to
the depredatioRs of live stock.
A bivouac of ''Sons of Confederate Vet
Grams" has been organized at Shelbyyille,
with the following officers: r. Sandusky,
president; J. B. Frierson, vice president;
Il. J. Steele, secretary; A. r. Nance,
treasurer; R. p. Shapard, sergeant-at-
arms.
The Tennessee Press association meets
this year, June 13, at Jackson, where ar
rangements have been made for its re-
eeption. After all business has been dis
patched the association goes to Paducah,
KY, where the freedom of the city" has
been rendered, and thence to Mammoth
Cave, Ky.
w. Il. CEb) Alexander, a saloon-keeper
of Franklin, was shot and fatally wound
ed by Lee Lewis last week. Lewis is
said to have been drinking and he went
to Alexander's saloon and rolled a wheel
barrow into the bar. Alexander pushed
it out and ordered him to desist. Lewis
refused to obey, however, and pushed the
wheelbarrow back in the second time.
Alexander again took the wheelbarrow
out and ordered Lewis to leave. The lat
ter then drew pistol and fired four shots
at Alexander. Two of the shots took eff
feet in his breast, one in his shoulder and
one in the back.
The Calcutt Stave factory, which To-.
Gated at Dyersburg about two months
ago, was burned last week. The origin
of the fire was unkn5wn The factory
employed a force Of twenty-five hands at
the factory, besides a large number of
men in the timber regions around Dyers-
burg. The monthly payroll of the factory
ran up into the thousands, and the fire
will produce a serious loss to the town.
Sheriff L. L. McGhee, of Hamblen
county, died at Morristown from gun
shot wound accidentally received last
week in trying to shoot dog. He be
longed to one of the best families of that
section of the State and was quite
wealthy.
Miss Leonie Gilbert, a well-known
young lady of Nashville, was seriously in
jured last week by being run over while
riding bicycle. A heavy wagon passed
over her.
DIR. A. F. Griffith, who was shot down
in a railway coach in Cleveland at the
close Of the recent Congressional conven-
ton at Chattanooga by W. l.. Steakley,
city marshal of Bon Air, died last week
in Jasper.
The American Skemer Factory company
of Munice, Ind, with four plants, repre-
senting about 100000 capital, have
signed a contract to remove to Jackson.
1t will be about three months before they
viii be ready to move
George Charest, who had been giving a
performance on a cable stretched across
the public square at ShelbyvilIe, walked
out on the cable, carrying his wife Lizzie
with him, when the cable suddenly
SNAPPED and both fell to the ground,
thirty-fve feet below Charest's hip bone
was broken and he received many bruises,
but will recover. Mrs. Charest's collar
bone was broken, her skull was injured
and she Ii believed 70 have also received
lntq'naI injuries,