The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-07-06

IT is given out from Republican sources
that the actual work of the coming cam
paign will begin early and be red hOt
throughout
AT Canton, O., Enlen Loutzenholder,,
who mysteriously disappeared from his
home several weeks ago, returned, on the
| 27th, ragged and dirty. He says he was
chlOrOformed and carried off by tramps,
| who held him, and a number OF other
| boys, kidnapped like himself, &C house in
the woods near Altoona, Pa, for ransom
He managed to elude the vigilance Of his
captOrs by fsighing sleep, and escaped.
THE Pitts sburgh (Pa.) iron and steel
manufacturers gave notice to their GUS
toners, on the 25th, that no orders would
be received after the 30th, and that none
would be taken which could not be filled
| by that time This is indicative that they
regard a shut down inevitable.
AT New London, Conn, on the 2Sth, the
New Workers won the twO-mile race in
the Harvard Columbia contest.
AT Ell Paso, Tex, on the 2Sth, newSwas
/ received that a band of Apaches is abroad
/ in Southern Arizona marauding and
numbering the whites.
| ON the 2Sth the annual regatta of the
/ Eastern Yacht Club was sailed off
! MarbIehead, Mass. The race was won by
/ the Volunteer.
! THE London Daily Ne,0s says that the
| French Government has bought Maxim's
new repeating gun, which fires sixty
rounds minute.
THE French copper syndicate recently
| purchased the output for three years Of
/ two Of the principal copper mines in
Japan, comprising seven eighths Of the
! entire Japanese output.
| SUIT has been commenced at Chicago by
/ ]. b. Mayo and Franklin Spencer, stock
/ holders of the American Exchange Ma
tiOnal Bank, against David w. irwin to
| compel him to refund the bank S399- eco
/ The suit is an outgrOwth of the cele brated
/ June wheat deal in 1887, which wrecked
the Cincinnati Fidelity Bank and H. L.
\ Harper.
A DISPATCH from Elma, a small station
\ on the Western New York & Pennsyl-
! vania railroad, on the 2Sth, states that a.
| negro farm hand had murdered his wife.
| Great excitement prevailed in the neigh
| borhOod and there was some talk of lynch
| ing.
A NEWPORT CKy.) inventor claims to
have produced a smelling furnace by
/ which he can produce from common clay
/ aluminium 95A per cent. pure at a cost Of
/ one dollar a pound, while the present cost
! of aluminium is one dollar an ounce.
THE new building erected by u. U. Mills
on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital, New
! York, as a training school for male
nurses and presented to the city by that
! gentleman, was accepted by Mayor Hew-
itt on the 2Sth.
THE Spanish Cortes has rejected, by a
vote of 134 to SO, proposals to increase the
duties on foreign agricultural produce
and cattle.
MANUFACTURERS of looking glass plates
were heard by the Senate cOmmittee on
ways and means, on the 28tb, ,iinloppOsitiOn
| to the proposition to put German looking
glass plates on the free list.
JOCKEY WOODS libel suit against the
| was decided on the 29th- Woods sued for
E5, 900 and the jury brought in a verdict Of
| one farthing.
The Treasury Department has decided
| to allow cattle imported &rom the Hawaii
an islands for immediate slaughter to be
admitted without undergoing quarantine,
| in view of the possible profitable trade in
| their expectation, and from the fact that
no cattle diseases are known to exist in
the islands.
AT Green's Island, Me-, c. A. Russ &
Co., granite contractors, shut down their
works on the 2Sth rather than accede to
| the demands of the workmen for a MONTH
ly pay day and new scale of wages.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the last conference
| between the iron manufacturers and tho
| scale committee of the Amalgamated AS
sociation of Iron and Steel-wOrkers prior
to the expiration OF the present scale,
| was convened at p. m. on the 29th.
After a brief conference, the meeting ad.
jOurned without effecting a settlement OF
the wage question for the next year.
IT is reported that Cuba is still over
run with bandits who prey upon rich
planters. At Ahrens, near Cienfuegos,
| Daniel Cueto, a rich planter, has been
kidnapped. His family has been advised
that he will be held until S12, 900 in gold is
paid for his ransom. Marcial Ochanez, a
noted bandit belonging to Garcia's band,
has been captured.
On the goth the SandOwn Park (Londonl
first summer meeting was held. The
race for the Electric stakes, plate OF
two hundred sOvereigns, for three-yea
olds, was won bv Mr.. r. Beck's bay colt,
Bullion; Hazlehatch second, and JugglaR
/ third