The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-02-16

Larry CRAvENs, one OF the oldest anu
best citizens of Obion County, died last
week. He served as deputy sheriff
almost continuously since the war, and
made most efficient officer.
Tony CRAIG, one Of the leaders in the
citizens forces In the late miners war
at Coal Creek, was tried last week for
the murder Of a negro, whom he killed
during the time, and sentenced to
twelve years in the penitentiary.
AT an entertainment at the home of
George h. Swift, in District No. IA OF
Montgomery County, one night last
week, Swift and his grown son, Joseph
B. Swift, bad an alteration over some
trivial matter, when the latter drew a
knife and stabbed his father fatally
just below the heart.
LEWIS B. CARTER was buried at Fall
con last week, having lived 90 years,
90 of which he passed in McNairy
County. His mind remained good till
death. He had never worn glasses, and
his hearing was unimpaired. Until a
year ago, when he received injuries
from fall, he was able to do good work
On the farm.
THE citizens OF Humboldt have closed
a contract with C. r. Camp of Chicago
to have series Of Northern honest ex-
ers to stop of two days each month, be-
ginning in March and continuing for
twelve months. Mr.. Camp proposes to
bring out from the North a class of peo-
pie who are desirous of buying farming
lands in the South. The party will stop
only in Obion and Gibson counties in
Tennessee.
THE jury in the celebrated Woods
murder case, which was tried at Somer-
Vile last week, brought in verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree,
with mitigating circumstances against
John McCully and Alf Chambers. This,
the darkest murder that was ever per-
petrated in Fayette County, occurred at
Hayes bridge, over Wolf river, near
Moscow. John Perrill, another one of
the murderers, is in Jail awaiting his
trial. Bob Burnett, the fourth one of the
murderers, has not yet been, caught.
THE United States Court of Appeals
met at Nashville last week in the suit
Of the United States against w. J. Hill,
sheriff of Davidson County, for the es-
cape Of Boalen, the mail robber, from
Jail there several years ago. Judge Barr
reversed the decision of the district
court, which dismissed the suit on Hills
demurrer, and held that the case must
go to trial. He also held that if Hill
was not liable for damages in the sum
claimed, be was liable for the 81, 900 ex-
pended by the government in effecting
the capture Of Boalen.
L.ScHoFIELD. the first man to make
iron rails in the South, died last week,
aged SO years, at his home near Chatta-
nooga- He Vas born in England he
early emigrated 90 America, and was
associated with Peter Cooper, who oper-
ated the first locomotive in the new
world, and Abram Hewitt of New York.
in the firm of Cooper, Hewitt & Co., mill
men at Trenton. ". J., in 1858. He
engaged in the rolling-mill business in
Michigan, and in 1859 moved to Atlanta.
There he made much of the steel armor
used in constructing cruisers for the
Confederate army.
The Phoenix Grain Company Is the
name Of a new enterprise just started at
Union City. The concern is in full
operation and is turning out about three
car loads of feedstuff daily, and a ready
sale is found throughout the South.
The capital stock is SOS, 900, and gives
employment to about fifty men. The
mill Is running day and night, and 1t is
almost impossible to I'll orders.
The following old citizens OF McNairy
County have died within the past six
weeks: T. Is. Cox. John ID. Newell,
Elijah Combs, Mrs. Rebecca Cox, Alex
ander Whitesides, OF Adamsville: Wells
Clifton, Rose Creek; Turner Wisson,
Chewalla; - Carter, Falcon w. G.
Hamilton, Adamsville.