The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-07

A DENIAL is made of the reported death
from yellow fever at fernando, Fla
Mr.. Merriwether, whose death gave rise
to the report, was a victim of typhoid
fever.
THE London Times, speaking of the
fisheries question, says: Americans
have a traditional respect for legality,
and if the rights of the case be clear to
them, they are not likely to be tempted
into policy Of aggression for the sake of
either Cleveland or Blaine"
THE striking workmen on the Ashland
s. Penokee division of the Wisconsin
Central road resumed work on the 2Sth.
1t is claimed that the me citing OF
Knights Templar of Ohio at Cleveland,
most successful cOnelaves in the history
OF the order.
IT is reported that diphtheria epidem-
ic is raging at South Hadley, Mass, the
site of the Mount Holyoke female college
and seminary. Up to the 2Sth sixty
four cases and four deaths had been re-
ported.
On the 29th the Ebor handicap was run
at York, England. The race was won by
Nappa. Tommy Tittlemouse was second
and Hungarian third. There were
eighteen starters.
On the 29th the bond offerings aggre-
gated 81, 927 900, as follows: Registered
As, s. 600, at 129; registered AIS, 81, 922, :
O0O at 1918 to 10SH.
THE price of bread in London has been
advanced on account of the reported
shortage in the wheat crop.
THE fifteenth annual reunion of the
survivors of the Engineers brigade of the
Army of the Potomac was held in Elmira,
n. Y, on the 30th. Six hundred members
of the brigade were present.
IT is estimated that there were IS, 900
people in attendance at the Grangers'
exhibition at Williams Grove, Pa, on the
| Goth.
RECENT advices received from Lourenzo
Marquee a walled Portuguese town in
Africa, on the north side of Delagoa bay,
/ say that a mUtiny had broken OFT among
| the soldiers of the garrison and that
marines had been landed from one of the
war-ships to quell it Fighting was ex-
| pected.
IT is reported that British. German and
! Austrian squadrOns will make a visit
/ shortly to the principal Italian poets.
| THE papers belonging to Hoheuburg,
| the retired German officer, whol was ar
| rested at Nice, France, on the 29th, have
| been seized and translated. The present
| is the third time he has been arrested on
| charges Of espionage.
UPON the landlords agreeing to abate-
ments amounting to thirty per cent, the
/
| Kilmish, County Glare, Ireland, have
| paid their rents and all costs.
| SPEAKING of the rejection of the Fish
cries treaty by ''the rampant American
/ Senate" United ireland refers to Amer
| lea as ''the greater Ireland beyond the
| sea, whose vengeance Mr.. Balfour's CO.
erciOn policy has aroused"
On the 3Oth the Parneu defense fund
was swelled by subscriptions amounting
to $1,000.
THE off cials at the German Embassy in
Paris, becoming satisfied that the would
be assassin, GARNER, who fired a harm
| less shot at the porter of the Embassy
was insane, the incident was allowed tC
drop.
On the 30th a vessel from the West In
dies loaded with sugar, was allowed to
pass Quarantine and land at her dock in
| Philadelphia, though five deaths from
| yellow fever had occurred on board.
THE last span of the Hudson river
/ bridge at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, has been
completed.
On the 3Oth Mr.. Blaine arrived in Ban
gOr Me-, and became the guest of Con-
| gresham Boutelle, until the 3lst when
he went to Dover, where he delivered al
| address.
On the morning OF the 3lst Frank w.
Price shot and killed one of three burg
lars who were just emerging from a gro
Gerry store over which he slept in Clifton
dale, Mass.
The authorities of st. Peters burg have
warned the CrdshdOR newspaper to alb
stain from publishing any thing reflect
ing upon the government.
| THE United States has been notified o
the refusal Of China to ratify the treaty
restricting the admission of Chinese sub
jects.
ON the 31st a cargo of Cuban sugar
weighing 4, $50 net tons, valued at 5000,
600, and the duty upon which amounted K
500, OO0 was landed at Boston.
THE st. Louis Exposition opens on tht
5th
THE Alexandria (Va.) Cotton Associa'
tion's August report shows that the con-
dition of the crop is exceptionally good
Very little damage by worms or fog il
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