The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-09-06

THE coroner's jury in the case OF tkq
Gumry hotel disaster at Denver, Col.
say that the testimony was so conflict
ing that it was impossible to fix the
responsibility for the disaster upon
any one person, but that the owners.
Peter Gumry and Il. c. Greiner, were
blamable for requiring their engineer
to work sixteen hours ont of twenty
four, and for employing an inexperi.
enced engineer. whose habits were dis
sipated and unreliable.
JAMES f. Joy. 81 years old, and the
oldest member of the Detroit mich.
bar, in some way lost his footing on
4 the gang PLANK of pleasure yacht, on
the Goth, and stepped off into the river.
Mr.. JOY would probably have drowned
had it not been for the promptness and
| bravery of Judge Dickinson, of Ten
nessee, who gallantly leaped into the
water and supported Mr.. Joy until the
officers and crew of the yacht came to
his assistance.
OK the goth terrible explosion was
reported from Lafayette township, in
the extreme western portion of Allen
county, Ind, in which two men were
killed. John Flaugh was at work in
his fathers sawmill with another en-
ploye, named Phaial, when the boiler
exploded and hurled the men across
the building into the yard. Both were
killed.
The drug with which Howard Pite-
eel is believed to have been killed be-
fore his body was burned in the big
stove in the Irvington cottage, Indian
apolis, was found on the 29th. A part
OF bottle of cyanide of potassium was
found buried in the barn.
OFFICIAL. reports show that there
were 10000 deaths from cholera in
Pel1in during the month of August. O
WM. A. HARPER. of Butler county.
confined in the Allegheny county Jail
in Pittsburgh, Pa, on charge of as
sault and battery preferred by his
wife. committed suicide, on the GOth,
by jumping from the top tier of cells
to the stone floor As feet below. He
struck squarely upon his head, and
death was almost instantaneous.
ADvIcEs from Behring sea bt the
steamer Bertha, arrived at San Fran
cisco on the 3Oth, report the whaling
catch as follows: Newport, whales;
Rosario, 4; Jesse III. Freeman, l. VIM.
Baylies, &; Mary d. Hume, 5; Wander
er, 1, and Triton ..
The keeper of the Brough light
house, Orkney islands. telegraphed, on
the 5Ot' that the Norwegian steamer
Ansga. had been lost on Lowther
rock. Six of her crew were saved, and
seven were missing.
THE Paris Estafette protests against
the action of the English and Ameri-
can newspapers in denouncing the sem
tence imposed on ex-United States
Consul Waller. and says Waller ought
to have been Immediately shot for his
treachery.
LOUIS WIILICH, one of the best
known German poets and journalists
in America, died in St. Louis on tho
SOth. Deceased's full name was Louis
Which Won Poellnitz, his family be-
longing to the German nobility. He
was plain man, however, and in this
country was always known as Louis
Willich.
BY the new Ontario game law the
close season for deer is from November
Is, 1895, to November 1, 1896, and no
moose, elk, caribou or reindeer shall
be hunted before October 25, 1900.
Hounds found running deer in tho
close season may be killed by and per-
son on sight. No more than two deer
shall be taken in one season by one
person. The provisions for the pro-
lection of smaller game are corre-
spondingly stringent.