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

AT Sharon, Pa, the furnace employees
struck, on the Sd, for an advance Of twen-
ty-five cents per day.
On the 4th the California delegation to
the National encampment G. A. R, at
Columbus, o., reached Portland Ore,
where it was joined by the Oregon dele
cation and proceeded eastward to meet
the Washington Territory delegation at
Tacoma.
THE casting of the prov of the new
United States cruiser San Francisco has
been removed from its bed, and found to
be complete success. It was made by
the Union Iron Works of San Francisco.
THE telegraph operators along the line
Of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
railroad, it is said, have been notified to
sever their connection with the Order of
Railway Telegraphers or vacate their po-
aitiOns.
THE bark Jacobini. from Colon, is de.
tanned at Quarantine at New Orleans
with her captain and all her crew down
with chagres fever. Her second mate
! died on the voyage.
On the 9th there were 145 yellow fever
! patients at Camp Perry, near Jackson
vile, Fla. Five had been returned to
Jacksonville for characterization.
| IN BlackfOrd County, Ind, plowing for
fall wheat has almost ceased on account
of continued dry weather, but indications
| On the night OF the 9Th general frost
! prevailed on low lands throughout
| Cheshire County, N. II.
! CHICAGO St Paul, Pittsburgh and New
| York capitalists, it is said, have formed a
1 rice trust.
THE latest news fromJacksonville, Fla,
! continues to be the worst news. The
yellow fever is spreading rapidly.
THE Sauerkraut Trust said to have
been organized in St Louis, to control
the trade in that commodity, is the latest
thing IN trusts. The pickel- makers are
thinking of following suit
THE number of new cases OF yellow
fever reported at Jacksonville, Fla, for
| the twenty hours ending at six
O'Clock on the 9th, was forty six, with ten
deaths.
ON the 9th an entire family was found
dead in house at Bayard, Fla, ham,
let on the Jacksonville & ST. Augustine
railroad. 1t is not known what caused
their death.
A DECREE, removing the quarantine
upon all vessels arriving in Panama from
Chilli, and giving free pratique to all, has
been issued by the Governor Of Panama
THE spinners in the Narragansett mill
at Fall River, Mass, went on strike on the
9th, against working overtime to make up
a few lost moments.
AN inquiry has been ordered by the
French Government into the reported
transportation OF slaves in dhOws carry
ing French colOrs. Should the reports
prove true, the authorities are deter
mined to put stop to the degradation Of
the French flag by Arab slave traders
| JACKSONVILLE (FIa.) refugees will not
be allowed to enter Tennessee without q
clean bill Of health.
THE remains OF forty six citizens who
fell in the revolution of 1S4S we're recently
! in
a large metal coffin in the Central Come
terry.
UP to the 7th the State Department had
received no intelligence of the alleged
attack by natives on the American Con-
sulate at Canton, China
CONSIDERABLE damage was caused by
heavy rains, on the night of the 9th, in
Sioux Falls, Oak, and vicinity.
SOME boys were chased by a crocodile,
which had evidently escaped from i'm
| prisonment while swimming in the Hud-
son river near Troy, N. Y. The reptile
was captured.
On the 7th Mayor Hewitt Of New York
received 81, ,O6) 35 in subscriptions for the
aid of the fever-stricken inhabitants OF
Jacksonville, Fla.
PoRTIoNs of Massachusetts and Ver-
mont were visited by destructive frosta
on the night of the 9Th. Ice formed in the
former State
IT is reported that the epidemic of dys :
entery at Presque Isle, Mich, which has
, been raging for weeks past, with over 2)0
cases and eight deaths, has about ex.
hausted itself.
A RESOLUTION favoring the exclusion
from Great BritaiA of semi-pauper immi-
! grants unless they are skilled workers Oi
some kind, was passed in the Trades Con-
, gress, which assembled at Bradford, En-
! gland.
| On the 7th thirty silk weavers who ar
Z rived at Castle Garden were detained fol
examination under the Contract LabOl
Z | law.
The Secretary of the Treasury ha
e formally awarded the contract for tn
erection of the Brooklyn Post-office t,
Bernard Gallagher for $500, 600.