The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-01-13

on the night of the 4th the annual l.all
of the British Minis ter was given at the
legation in Washington, and was attended
by nearly every one prominent in society
at the capital
The Newark IN. J.) Shoemakers' Union,
numbering several hundred members, las
decided to withdraw from thu Knights Of
Labor. The reason assigned is bad man
agement on the part of the National aud
local leaders.
MANY of the farmers of Northwestern
Iowa are in bad shape, caused by the
scarcity of cars for the shipment of eur
plus produce, their mortgages and notes
being due.
ON the night of the 4th a mass meeting
under the auspices of the Reading strikers
was held at Philadelphia, and res olutions
were passed denouncing the Reading
management for employing Pinkerton's
detectives charging it with impeding
the traffic of the State by refusing to meet
its employees amicably, and calling on all
merchants and business men to boycott
the rOnd.
THE Reading railway strike is already
producing a coal famine in Pennsylvania.
On the 9th Senatorial elections were
held in France. The Republicans appear
to have lost ground.
AT Czernowitz, an Austrian town, a
Russian spy, with maps and cOmpromis-
ing documents in his possession, has heen
arrested.
THE opinion is expressed by the Mayor
Of Newark, n. J., in his annual message,
that few funerals are needed in the
directory of the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western railroad.
A GALL for its sixth annual meeting
has been issued by the United States Law
and Order League, to be held in Philadel-
phia on February q and y next.
OVER the refusal of the turf dealers to
furnish the police with supplies, trouble
has been caused at Kildysart, COunty
Glare, ireland. The police, on being re-
fused, forcibly seized what they needed.
AN order has been issued by the Secrs-
tary of the Navy for the United States
! ship Iroquois, at San Francisco, to pro
ceed TO Humboldt Bay, California, for
/ the purpose of blowing up the wreck of
the schooner John Hancock reported as
I being a dangerous obstruction to naviga-
/ tiOn.
! ADvTCEs have been received from Mas
! sowah, so says a dispatch from Rome, to
| the effect that Ras AIula has offered to
/ Join the Italians with 10000 followers on
/ condition that he be created King of
| Abyssinia in the event of the defeat of
| King John.
! On the night of the 4th Sam Fike, the
| city dog-catcher at Albuquerque, N. M,
( died in frightful agony from hydrOphO-
bia. He was bitten few weeks ago, and
became so bad on New Years day that it
was found necessary to incarcerate him
in cell in the county jail to prevent him
from doing bodily injury to those around
| him.
! THE owner of the RUNAWAY" New
| Brunswick timber raft, which recently
| created a s'reign of terror" on the high
! seas, SAYS there will be no moro timber
RATS of thai kind built.
In the river coal mines in Pennsylva-
! mia a general resumption of work will
! probably take place this week at the adj
vance in wages demanded by the miners.
/ The resumption will give employment TO
nearly five thousand men.
| ON the 9th the hands in one small cigar
/ factory in New York struck on account of
4 a reduction Of wages. The reduction IS
! general and other strikes are expected.
| It is thought not improbable that three
thousand hands viii be out within a few
days.
ONE of the most widely-knOwn grain
merchants in Buffalo, N. Y, E. B. Wilbur,
has gone to Canada. Tuscott & Heath
field are out $4,000, and S. $. McCrea,
freight agent of the Grand Truak, is a
loser to the amount of $4,000, and num-
ber of others are said to be out various
| amounts.
FLORA SAMUELs, a dealer in groceries
and jewelry, is missing from her home in
Utica, N Y. She is supposed to be in
Canada, and is wanted forgery.V Mrs
Samuels has also left debts behind heI
amounting to about $1,000. She is the
mother of a large family.
A TELEGRAM OF the 9th from the Russian
frontier states that eight Nihilis is, ,lmclud
ing the Cossack Tschernoff, cOnd emned
to death for making an attempt upon the
life of the Gear during his visit to- the
Don Cossack country, were hanged Gt st.
Peters burg.
On the 9th three Reading colliGEie3
with a capacity of 500 cars per day, were
at work. They can employ 1920 hdg1ds
1t is not believed that any considerable
portion of the miners employed by in d.
vidual operators at the advance will IA
fuse to cut coal if handled by non-uniO
railroaders.