The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-08

The Board of Aldermen of Covington
has contracted for the erection of a $10,.
600 public school building, to be com.
pleted by September 1.
The name of the East Cumberland post
office, in Claiborne county, has been
changed to Shawnee, in accordance with
a petition setting forth the wishes of all
the residents of that place.
Detective Irwin was acquitted at Knox
vile last week of the murder of Will
Smith, of Clinton. The killing took place
about a year ago in an express car on
the K. & o. road at Coal Greek. Smith
got in with Fred Gerding at the officers
suggestion. Gerding planned to rob the
train, and would have carried his plan
into execution had it not been that he
was overp0wered by superior numbers.
In the fight in the car Smith was shot
through and through, and died a few
days later. Gerding was arrested and
sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.
George B. Wilson, of Troy. died last
week at Dawson Springs, KY. His health
has been bad for several months, but his
death was quite a shock to his friends.
He was clerk and master of the Chancery
Court of Obion county, and has been for
eighteen or twenty years. He was one
of the most prominent men of Obion
county. At the beginning Of the war he
volunteered into the Obion Avalanche
company, serving throughout the whole
war. He was a member OF the Mcdowell
Bivouac at the time of his death.
Rather an odd suit for damages, which
has been pending between w. H. Peck
and the Marietta & North Georgia road
in the United States Court was decided
at Chattanooga in favor of the railroad
company Peck was station agent on
the Marietta q North Georgia road, and
ALSO acted in the capacity of telegraph
operator. The company removed the tele-
graph instruments from the office. wishing
to abolish it, but left wires running into
the building. One day when Peek and
his wife were seated in the office
thunderstorm suddenly came up. There
was a flash of lightning, a roar of thunder
and Peck knew no more. When he came
to his senses he found his wife beside
him on the floor dead. Then he brought
suit against the company for $4,000. 1t
was the opinion handed down today that
the company was not liable.
Gov. Turney has pardoned Ed Mitchell,
who was convicted of burglary By the
Criminal Court of Shelby county in 1891,
and sentenced to FIVE years in the peni-
tertiary. The pardon was granted on the
recommendation of the Attorney General
and prominent citizens of Shelby county,
it having been discovered that the chief
witness in the case had been rendered in
famous before the trial.
The State is pretty well fixed financially
now, as there is nearly $1,000,090 in the
treasury OF the 100000 in the hands
of the State about 100000 Of it belongs
to the penitentiary fund This leaves
more than ample funds for paying the
July interest, pot to mention S100,0 ex-
pected during the past month.
A sensation both surprising and anus
ing was created last week by the publica-
ton of the runaway marriage Of Capt. W.
L. Digger and Miss Fannie Ricketts,.
He is 20 years old, very wealthy and the
father OF numerous children, while she is
but "a Capt. Digger has been we'll
known character IN Chattanooga for
years.
The strawberry shipping season closed
at Humboldt last week The shipments
from that place exceeded those Of last
year over 5000 cases. There was, how
ever, less realized from the crop than
last year, owing to the continued rainy
weather which prevailed during the earlier
part Of the berry season.