The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-14

CONGRESSMAN SCOTT, OF Pennsylvania
has decided to accept the unanim Gus
nomination for recollection to Congress
rendered him by the Democrats, on the
9Th
A WASHINGTON dispatch says that the
early resignation of Secretary Whitney
is looked for among high Government
officials.
ON the 9th Dr. H B. Deals was horse
whipped by DR.. McKone, rival hospital
physician, at Washington, for criticism OF
the latter's treatm snt of hospital cases.
THE President signed the Naval ApPro-
priation bill on the 7th.
A GERMAN squadron has been ordered
to Athens to salute King George on the
twenty-fifth anniversary Of his access
sion to the throne of Greece.
THE announcement Of the betrothal OF
the Duke OF Sparta, the son of King
George, to Princess Sophie Of Prussia,
has filled Greece with JOY.
AFTER his attack at the Gilmore Gar
den meeting, on the 9th, Judge Thurman
slept we'll all night and awoke much re-
freshed in the morning.
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STOwE was
reported seriously i'll at her summer
residence in Sag Harbor, N. Y, on the
7th. She is in her seventy y-seventh year.
OWING to Teemer's inability or Unwill-
ingness to secure backing for a race with
Nfi.
ter claims the title of champion of Amer
lea.
On the Tth Secretary Lamont refused to
affirm or deny the statement credited to
| ex-Representative Burleigh, of New Y FORK,
that President Cleveland had determined
to modify his position in regard to a re-
/ duction of the tariff to conciliate the pro-
| tectionist wing Of the Democratic party.
On the 9th Minister DENLY telegraphed
from Pekin, China: Treaty postponed
! for further consideration"
| President HILL of the st. Paul, Min
neapolis & Manitoba railroad, knows how
] to do the right thing. He made his daugh-
/ ter Mary, who was married, on the 9th, to
/ Mr. Samuel Hill, of Minneapolis, a we'd
] ding present Of S200,000
on the 9th General Horace Eldridge, a
prominent Mormon, aged seventy-two,
died at Salt Lake City, mourhed by three
wives and numerous posterity.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
| IT Is reported that forty-six people were
| drowned and 190 houses destroyed in a
| by a terrific storm at ToRushima, in the
\ province Of Ava. on the 4th ult.
NEAR Dummy Light, Lake Erie, Captain
| Henderson of. the schooner Colonel Cook
| and his wife were drowned, on the Attn, by
the capsizing Of their boat in which they
were about to leave fthe schooner, which
/ had sprung leak.
ON the Sd H. A. Gillner, q farmer living
near Columbus, Ind, was arrested on the
charge of forging the name of a wealthy
farmer, Levi Boyer, to two notes amount
| ing to $3.50. 1t is said that GIllner's for
geries win exceed 81, 900.
BERNARD REXROTH, who claimed to be q
soldier under Napoleon in his campaign
in Russia, and to have participated in the
disastrous retreat from Moscow, died,
on the 2d, in the Lehigh County (Pa)
/ Aims House. He had been q peddler in
this country for fifty years.
AT Tiffiu, o., a practical joker painted
a sleeping mans face with marking
paint, a few days ago. The caustic in
the mixture burned deep lines in the
mans face, and may cost him his eye
sight.
In mad panic at Coney Island. N. Y,
on the night Of the Sd, at the de-
struction by fire of the pyrotechnic spec
tacle OF the great ''Fire Of London" {
number Of persons were trampled under
foot and several were seriously injured
In a collision between two expr esi
trains between. Marseilles and Turin,
France, on the 9th, twelve persons were
killed and large number injured, man!
Of them fatally.
WHILE making frantic effort to save
Mrs. Grant of Winnipeg, Man., wa
burned to DEATH on the 4th.
SECRETARY LIST of the Duckworth Build
ing Association, of Cincinnati is said t.
be a defaulter 20 the extent of $40, 900 o
more, which he has spent in fast living
He has fed.
FIRE destroyed the greater portion o
the village Of Cattaraugus, N. Y, on tn
5th.
IN jackson County, Ind, on the 5th,
threshing- machine boiler exploded on tn
farm OF VIM. Bennett, causing the dealt
OF three men and the serious injury o
FIVE others.
SEvENTY-FIvE men were thrown out o
employment by the burning of the Dewe,
Stave Company's factory, at Hoyt's Cor
ners, o., on the 5th.
GENERAL WILLIAM TERRY, the com
mander OF the famous StOnewall brigad
at the close of the late war; was drowned
on the night Of the 9TH, near Wythevill6
| Va, while attempting to ford n creek in
! buggy. The creek was swollen by Tecen
rains and swept the horse from his feet
PRAIRIE fires have caused great damag
! in Edmunds and Mcpherson counties
Oak The FIRE burned strip twenty fiv
/ miles long and three miles wide. A larg
number Of farmers have lost their entlr
crops and farm buildings.
, / PHuLP A. HUBER, who stole 500, 900 frol
!, the Adams Express Company at Sanbury
\ \ Pa, has been sentenced to three years
= impris onment.
WHILE attending travis on the Gran
I Fbanks Duncan McDougall and John Til
belts, of the crew Of the schooner F.
Smith were lost. on the 7th by the car
sizing of their boat.
> OK the night of the 9th a young ma
" named George Schon was instantly kille
by jumping from a moving train at L.
compton, Kas.
MISCELLANEOUS
= On the 4th the schooner Adele Thacl
n era was reported off the Capes Of Mary