Louis HILL, son of I.M. HILL, on Court street, Memphis, accidentally shot another lad named Edward DEDRICK on the 12th inst., while carelessly handling a pistol. No hopes are entertained of the wounded boy’s recovery. The boys are between nine and twelve years of age. Source: Bolivar Bulletin, January 20,
Miss WILKINSON, residing with the family of G.W. NEWBERN, Esq., while driving a rather fractures horse attached to a buggy in which she was sitting, on Tuesday last was thrown to the ground and sustained injuries of quite a serious nature. The buggy was considerably wrecked. Source: Bolivar Bulletin, September
Mrs. Susan E. JONES, daughter of John KIRK, Esq., and wife of W. A. JONES, died suddenly at her fathers residence in Memphis on the 20th from the effect of chloroform which she had inhaled. Deceased was highly esteemed by all who knew her. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County,
We are pained to learn that Mrs. Mariah MARBERRY, wife of P. H. MARBERRY, Clerk and Master of the Obion Chancery Court, was accidently killed on the 27th January 1867 by the falling of a limb from a tree (Dyersburg Gazette, 2 Feb) The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.),
Heavy Loss – The Memphis cotton mills, situated on Wolf river, a short distance north of Memphis, were burned down on the night of the 13th. Loss $202,000; insurance of $90,000. The owners of the mills were J. W. PAGE, Esq., George H. CHECK, Esq., and W. B. WIGGS, Esq.
It is our painful duty to chronicle another terrible railroad accident, this time occurring on the Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad. The train which leaves the latter city at 4:30 pm, and known as train No. 2, ran off the track two hundred yards north of Budd’s Creek. The engine
Capt. Thomas R. POLK, a worthy descendent of the POLK family of Tennessee, and one of the best citizens of Moorehouse Parish, says the Monroe Telegraph, was thrown from his horse on the morning of the 25th and died in a few hours. The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.),
A few days since, a young lady, a daughter of one of our best citizens, came very near meeting with a most serious occurrence. She was seated in a buggy when a horse, attached, became frightened near the depot and started off at a break neck speed. Mr. Tom JOYNER,
On last Tuesday, as the last Mississippi Central train was leaving Madison County, a young gentleman, Art ANDERSON, attempted to get off and fell to the ground in such a way as to allow the wheels of the cars to cut off his legs from his body. Mr. ANDERSON is at Medon
Yesterday, one week ago, during the thunder shower that visited this vicinity, the house of a freedman, surnamed JOE, was struck by lightning and somewhat “bursted up”. The electric current struck the weather boarding, passed to the inner side, embraced a gun that was leaning against the south-east corner, which
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