The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-10-04

The New York State Prohibition
Convention was held on the 26th and a
State ticket was nominated.
DETAILS of recent anti-Jewish riotino
at NowmoiskOwsk, province Of Ekaterino-
slav, have been received. Only a synagogue
and three Jewish houses escaped demolition.
! Two hundred families were rendered home
\ less. Order was restored after five rioters
| had been killed and thirty arrested.
A RUMOR was circulated in London
on the 9th that John Stewart Parnell had
been shot at Dungannon, County Tyrone,
| Ireland.
| EXTENSIVE forest fires were raging
on the 9th in the mountains contiguous to
the Salt Lake Valley, Utah.
| THE Corean Embassy were on the
9th rendered the freedom of the City Of
| New Y ork by Mayor Edison. One Embas-
sador made brief reply of thanks for the
cOurtesies extended them during their visit.
He said it far exceeded their expectations.
He hoped the two people might henceforth
be as one people. The Embassy were then
driven across the Brooklyn bridge
! WHILE the barge RaynOr was cross
ing Saginaw Bay on the 9th the lift broke,
letting the boom fall, instantly killing a
/ sailor named John Linn. He was twenty
two years old, shipped at Alpena, hailed
from Ashtabula, o., and was on his first
trip.
The English weavers' strike at Ash
ton under-Lyne is settled.
THE Black Flags are reported retiring
before the French forces in Tonquiu.
TURKEY threatens to restore order in
Bulgaria if matters grow worse.
THE Journal de So. Petersburg re-
CARDS the situation in Bulgaria as danger
GUS.
THE New York Democrats nominated
Isaac H. Maynard for Secretary of State
on the 9th.
THE coal miners strike in the Con-
neIsviIle, Pa, district threatens to be-
come general.
AMERICAN exhibitors at the Vienna
Electrical Exhibition have taken three di-
plomas.
THE report that French operations in
Madagascar are to be renewed is discred-
tied in Paris.
THE Inauguration of the National
monument to Germany took place on the
9th near Bingen on the Rhine.
a PAPAL ambassador is on the way
to inquire into the rapid spread of Free
masonry among Canadian Catholics.
The New York newsdealers have
| struck against the reduction ir the price of
metropolitan newspapers because it cur
| tails their profits.
THE Algerian chieftain, 81 Sliman,
was recently assassinated at banquet, to
which he had been invited by two other
chiefs.
JOHN A. MCCALL was elected
President of the National Association of
Insurance Commissioners in session at
Columbus, o.
THE Maryland Republicans on the
27th nominated Hon. Hart B. Holton for
Governor. The platform declares in favor
of reform in the oyster service.
THE mangled remains of James Nc
Gaff, engineer on the Nashville & Decatur
Road, were found on the track on the morn
ing of the 27th near Nashville, Tenn.
THE schOOners HallOran and Pilot
collided on Lake Michigan on the Goth.
Both were badly injured, the Pilot being
barely able to reach Milwaukee and the
other reported still adrift in the lake.
JUDGE RAY, of Indiana, law clerk of
the POst-ofice Department at Washington,
resigned on the 9th.
EEHE Louisville Colored Convention
adjourned on the 9th after the adoption of
an address.