The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-12-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
C@DllsA from Various Sources
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

has never accounted for.
THE Navy Department ISSUED an order
on the 2d detaching Ensign John j..
Knapp, Fifteenth lighthouse district at St.
Louis, and ordering him TO prepare for sea
service.
TIE will of james Gordon, wealthy re-
tired Cincinnati merchant who died re-
Gently, which was probated on the I'd, be-
queaths 5000 to the Home Of the Friend
less, and like sum TO the COlored Orphan
asylum at Cincinnati.
EXPRESS MESSENGER FOTHERINGHAM's
bail was fixed by Judge NOrmile at St.
Louis at s20,0OO
THE late II. NJ. Hoxie by will leaves all
his property TO his wife
MEssRs MORRISON and Carlisle have de-
cided to push tariff bill in the next Con-
gress.
MRS. GEO. II. RICE, sister Of 'Doc' Will
son, denies his stsry that he is a son Of
Millionaire Moen
JUDGMENT was rendered at Boston on
the 3d against Ben Butler in favor of the
Soldiers Home for over $4,000. He will
appeal
COMPTROLLER DURHAM has decided that
Mr. Cox, late Minister TO Turkey, is enti-
tied 10 the salary as Minister and Congress-
man up TO the time of his reelection to
Congress.
Two Republican officials were arrested
in Orange County, Ind, on the Sd, charged
with using money at the last election.
WIN. KNAPP, af GrOveton, Ind, applied
10 the Government for back pay as a sol
dier, and is now locked up as a deserter
during the war.
THE board Of directors of the Sedalia,
CMo.) University refused to accept the
resignation of Rev. Mr.. Edmonson, presi-
dent of the faculty.
THE Secretary Of War, by direction Of
the President, has ordered Lieutenant A.
w. Greely to take charge of the Signal
Office during the temporary absence of
General Hazen, the chief signal officer.
REPRESENTATIVE JAMES, of New York.
has secured the Endorsement Of various
prison reform associations and philan-
thropic organizations for his bill to estab-
nsh "a National penitentiary and will en-
deavor to secure its passage this winter.
THE Presidents rheumatic leg was
worse again on the Sd, 50 that he was con-
fined to the private apartments of the
White House, and did not receive visitors.
He suffered severe pains in the tendons
running from the calf of the leg up Ander-
meath the knee, and has so far been unable
10 find any remedy that would quite meet
his case
CHARLOTTE SMITH wants to be chief of
police of Washington.
on the 4th Michael j. Hess, a laborer,
jumped of the Brooklyn bridge and won
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without apparent injury.
OK the 9th the econd session of the
Forty-ninth Congress convened.
THE late President Arthurs will was
filed for probate in New York on the 4th.
With the exception Of a few minor be
quests, his estate is left TO his two chill
lren
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was no better on
the 4th, and continued to deny himself to
callers, remaining in his room. His at
tack is mainly confined to his knees, and
ls quite severe.
ON the 4th Mrs. Louise Parker and Mr.
Eugene Oudin, who take the parts re
spcctively of the hero and heroine in the
opera of Josephine Sold by Her Sisters"
with the McCaull Opera Company, were
married in Detroit Mich
THE official canvass of Michigan, jus {
completed, shows that $50, $50 votes were
cast for Governor at the late election, of
which Luce (Rep.) received lS1, ,414; Yaple
Fusion), 114,O42; Dicl1ie CPro) ., l79; scat
teriug 100. Luces plurality, 1892.
OSCAR WILDE is aesthetic no longer, and
has discarded ''smals" Since his mar
riagc he has grown positively fat
ON the 4th Henry Groves, Congressman
elect from Perry County, Ind, was thrown
from his carriage and was so severely in
iured that his recovery is very much in
doubt.
HON. ADRIAN -. HEWITT lnuOESeS MOTIF
sons Tariff bill. and says he will again
vote for it's consideration in Congress.
The report of United States Treasurer
Jordan states that the receipts of the
United States Treasury for the year were
SI2,T4Q,OC9 greater and the expenditures
S1T,T43. .196 less than last year-increase in
net receipts, $50, ,492, ,s25
OK the 5th Rev. II. II. Haweis astonished
his audience in st. Brides Church London
nv gr1RspGgipp n hprpGinG a
them from the pulpit.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the I'd the Cass Drug Company's store,
Of Eau Claire, Wis, was burned Loss,
s3O.OO1; insurance, S33OOO DIR. Day, who
had an Office on the second floor of the
building, loses $1,000; insurance, $1,000
The fire started from the furnace.
Ok the 2d Patrick Riley, William Nc
Carthy. Hugh McGmty and Henry Nci
hauscr were terribly burned in the con
verting department Of the Edgar Thomp
~sou steel Works at BraddoCl5s, Pa, by the
accidental lowering of the converter
Riley and Mccarthy may die, but the
others win recover
THE Detroit Pipe Foundry WORKS were
burned on the Sd, with a loss of S101,0o0.
THE Turner's of Chicago protest against
tho prospective execution of the con
demned Anarchists
JAMES n. SrRATTON, a lawyer of Mt
Holly. N. j.. committed suicide on the 3D..
SEVERAL arrests have been made at New
York for attempts to tamper with the Nc
Quade jury
Two residents of Brussels, Belgium
have been charged with the recent rob
berry of the mail-car on the Ostend eN
press.
MRs. ELzABETu WORDEN died at st
Joseph, No. ON the Sd, from the effects o
ann 1yrartlpGR a quplsnhinp. taken to AlIaN
pain.
ARNoLD's Touring mill at ST. Cloud
Mimi, was wrecked and burned by an cX
plosion ON the night of the 2d. Loss $50,
300; insurance. $4,000. Gus Krause, thC
night miller, was badly burned, aud viii
probably die. Twenty thousand bushels
OF whcat were burned.
OS the 4th Sylvester +. Martin, fugitive
couutCrfciter from Kansas, was captured
in Indiana.
ON the night of the 3d burglars robbed
and burned the residence of Il. NJ. Hulz'
at Nccuah, Wis destroying 5000 wortl
of property TO secure fifty dollars.
FIRE destroyed Herzogs opera house a
Washington, ID. C., better known as Lin
coin Hall ON the 9th.
EARLY on the morning Of the 4th. a ter
riblc fight occurred near ChuHcothe, be
tween four policemen and "a party Of banl
robbers, in which two of the burglars an,
three Of the officers were shot The rob
bers escaped for the time being.
THOMAS II. HARRY, of Humboldt, Nev
blew out the gas i'm a Jersey City IN. J.
hotel room on retiring, and when found o
the morning of the 4th, was thought 10 b
beyond recovery.
OK the 4th three dwelling houses locate
over the Fairmount COlliery at Cork Ian
near Pittston. Pa. went down with crasl
the ground beneath them giving wa!
The inmates barely escaped with thei
lives.