The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-06-28

THE failures for the week ende1
June 81 Dun's report were 22s in the
United States, against pa last year,
and 81 in Canada, against 25 last year
CLEANING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended June 21 showed an average
increase as compared with the corre-
spending week last year Of %. 0; in New
York the increase was 30.1; outside
New York, 1872.
REV. FRANK king. colored, of Port
land, Ark, became infatuated with
Deacon William Toney's wife and
trouble arose between them. When
they met on the street recently the
preacher shot Toney in the abdomen.
He was locked up, and after dark a
mob of infuriated negroes repaired to
the locl1-up, took King to tree and
lynched him.
THE bank at Rainy Lake, Mimi, was
robbed recently by two masked men.
One engaged the cashiers attention
while the other came up behind him,
hit him on the head, stunning him.
About So. 600 was secured. There was
no clew to the robbers.
JAMES SAUNDERS, a negro living about
IL miles from Port Gibson, Miss, killed
his wife because she accused him of
brutality to his daughter by former
marriage. The brother of the muir
dered woman, with about 200 blacks
and fifty whites, went to Saunders
house at night and lynched him.
NEAR Tunnelton, w. Va, on the 21st
lightning struck dynamite magazine
and an awful explosion followed. Sew
eral persons were killed and much
property was damaged.
MRS. SANFORD GILLIs, wife of we'll
to do farmer near Shellsburg, Ia, poi
soned herself and three of her children
and all four died. She was known to
be insane.
A DISASTROUS freight wreck occurred
on the main line of the Baltimore &
Ohio Southern railway near Bedford,
Ind, recently. A through freight
train jumped the track, fourteen cars
were ditcned and four tramps were
killed. Three car loads of cattle were
crushed to death.
FORTY thousand dollars worth of Sc
curity, purporting to be backed by the
credit of Los Angeles, Cal, that were
ing financial houses of the east, were
pronounced to be forgeries. The bonds
purported to be sewer and public inn
provement bonds bearing interest at 10
per cent.
THE discovery has been made that
myriads of grasshoppers are dying
near Brighton, Col, and there seemed
to be promise that the pest would be
wiped out by means of some unknown
disease or agency.
THE Usage Indians have always dis
liked the negro race and kept them
out of their reservation as much as
possible. They have now determined
to be rid of them for good, the national
council recently having passed the fol-
lowing: THAT from and after the
passage of this act the negroes resid
ing within the Usage nation shall be
ordered to get out. Any citizen of the
Usage nation shall be subject to fine
of $50 for the employment of any negro
on this reservation" The attorney
general of the nation has issued a
proclamation that this law will be en-
forced on and after July l.
EARLY on the morning of the 10Th
while Alva Reidel, Hattie Reidel and
Hattie Litz were at work in laundry
in Chicago, one of them saw a white
draped figure before the window AMI
ran shrieking for help. After short
time the figure again suddenly ap-
peared and with an unearthly groan
glided into the darkness. The three
girls swooned and when found half an
hour later were still unconscious.
Physicians say that AlYa Reidel will
proba bly, die. There is no clew as to
who perpetrated the ghostly trick.