The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-04-06

On the 28th the Maryland House of Rep
resentatives passed a bill prepared by the
Knights of Labor to prohibit the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad Company from
compelling its employees to join the relief
association.
ON the 2sth a uniform system Of returns
to be annually made to the Interstate
Commerce Commission was adopted by a
convention of railroad auditors and comp
trolers held in Washington.
BEYOND giving permission for the
licensing of the brewing and sale of malt
beverages, the Dominion Government has
declined to interfere with the PrOhibitory
Liquor law in the Northwest Territory.
On the 2Sth the international Range As
sociation, in session at Denver, Col,
adopted a resolution amending their con-
stitution so as to give individual member
ship, after which recess was taken to
allow the members to qualify themselves
under the changed constitution.
AT the trial Of exclusion house officials
in San Francisco a sensation was caused.
One of the defendants confessed to a con-
spiracy by which a large number of ro-
turn certificates were fraudulently secured
and taken to China and sold to would-be
immigrants.
On the 29th the New York jury in tha
case Of Lawyer Sewell, who was charged
| by his cook, Ellen Foye, with assault, rem
| dered a verdict in favor of the defendant,
and awarded him $500 for counsel fees.
AT several points on the Upper Mis-
/ souri,, great floods, caused by ice gorges,
are driving settlers in the bottom lands
from their homes.
THE Burlington & Missouri Railroad
/ Company, by decision Of the Land Com
missioner, are deprived of 260, $40 acres Of
valuable lands, selected contrary to the
/ terms Of the grant.
! On the 29th dispatches from all parts Of
the State of Alabama reported floods and
washouts, with much damage. All rail-
/ road travel was suspended.
BUSINESS men throughout the country
! generally observed Good Friday by the
! closing of boards of trade and CONNER
cial chambers.
AT Madison, Ca, "Bil1 Indian" a full
| blooded Cherokee Indian, has a claim
on some property there, which, if he can
get proofs, viii net him 5000.
AT Boston, on the 30th, William D. Poole
was indicted by the grand jury for en-
bezzlement. Poole was at one time chief
deputy United States marshal.
! On the 30th Frederick A. Markley, of
Coshocton, o., committed suicide so that
his five children could get possession of
his property.
WHILE trying to escape from deputy
sheriff and posse, on the 30th, Gather
| and killed.
On the 30th the House committee on in
| valid pensions, appointed a sub committee
to consider the various pending bills look
ing to the repeal of the limitation clause
Of the pension act.
ON the Both DR.. Edison, of New York City,
and a staff of assistants, boarded the
steamship Brittania and vaccinated the
Italian emigrants on board, after which
all except about seYenty-ive were per-
mitted to land.
On the 3Oth a London cablegram con
firmed the report of a loan of 81, ZOO, 900 by
the British Government to the Canadian
Pacific, also a concession of So, 900, 900 to
the road for giving up its monopoly.
IT is reported that orders have been is
sued by the Russian Government for al
artillery brigades in Poland to send hall
of their reserve ammunition to Kisvehein-
if, where a flying corps is to be organized
to operate against Bulgaria.
THE February report of the Erie rail
road shows an increase of So, $50 in ne
earnings, as compared with February
1887.
IN the construction of the forts and bar
racks at PiczagOr, zirrienkir and Lucl
the Russian Government has decided TX
spend half a million roubles.
THAT one of the crew landed from tn,
wrecked steamer Canonbury, at Nan
| UuckeU, mass, was III OF cAOlera3 Was
| denied on the 30th.
AT Posen, Prussia, the military bar
racks have been thrown open for thu
shelter of people rendered homeless by tht
floods.
On the Both the marble-wOrkers' strik
at Boston was declared off by the Stat
, Board Knights of Labor.
On the 30th the French Ministry, beinl
defeated in the Chamber of Deputies, re
signed.
: ENGLISH volunteers to the number 0
: fifty thousand participated in the Easte
Monday festivities. Half that number en-
gagged in a sham battle, with Dover as tn
objective point.
AT Boston, on the 2Sth, an Eastern com
bination of manufacturers of doors, sas
and blinds, to advance prices and contro
production, was formed.