The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-24

On the 14tb the Clyde steamer Seminole,
from Jacksonville, Fla, for New York,
which was detained at Quarantine for
over thirty hours, was released, and al
lowed to proceed to her dock. The health
officer reported no symptoms of fever on
board.
THE amount appropriated for the in
crease of the navy by the House Naval
Appropriation bill Is S5, 100000
A LONDON dispatch states that it is said
that the London Times counsel will claim
that as the Times neither holds property
or resides ia Scotland, ths Scottish courts
have no jurisdiction of the Parnel libel
suit
ACCORDING to advices from Victoria, B.
C., the reports of Indian troubles on the
Skeena river have been greatly exagger.
ated.
A DECISION has been rendered by the
supreme Court Of w Washington Territory
that Woman Suffrage in that Territory is
unconstitutional
TIE municipal authorities Of Charles
ton, S. e., on the 18th, ordered a rigid en-
forcement of quarantine regulations
against all Florida points.
On the 10th and 17th the international
| executive Sunday-school committee were
in session at Chautauqua, n. Y.
On the 18th, what appeared to be a
dynamite bomb of the Chicago Anarchist
pattern was picked up in front of the Gin
cinnati Freie PFesse.
ALL Pullman cars on lines south of
Savannah, and all sleeping cars belong
ing to that company which had been in
Florida in the past twenty days have been
sent to the shops for fumigatiou.
IN Central Iowa railroad traffic was i'm
peded and a vast amount Of damage done
to property by recent storms which as
sumed almost the proportions of water
spOuts.
A NOTICE was issued by the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad Company on the 10Th, an
nouucing an advance on its Western lines
in dressed beef and livestock rates to the
| East.
| 1T is said that the proposed prosecution
of the notorious White Caps Of Harrison
] County, Ind, is frowned down by the peO-
/ pie of the communities in which tAe out
| laws raids have occurred, who declare
| that worse evils exist in the s tate claim
| ing the attention Of the Governor, and
/ that criminal cases in that county are
/ almost unknown.
| WHILE Inspe ctor Steers and number
/ of New York City policemen we're march
/ ing in the. funeral procession of the late
! Captain Mcdonnell, on the 10Th, they
were overcome by heat and the parade
! was abandoned.
! The Western Associated Press held It's
| annual meeting in Detroit, Mich, on the
I
| of business was reported.
PERMANENT injunctiOns against forty
| seven Dubuque Qa) saloon-keepers
| were ordered by Judge Lincoln on the
| 10th. Tie defendants will appeal to the
| State Supreme Court.
| REPORTS received from thirty nine
/ towns in Northeastern Nebraska, show
/ that the small grain is a bad failure.
/ On the nth four new cases OF small pox
| and several suspected cases were report
| ed at Buffalo, N. Y.
UPON investigation the Iuter-State
/ Commission failed to find any sufficient
! reason for a change in the rates com.
| planned of by the Boar of Trade of Lin
! coin, Neb., against the Burlington & Mis-
souri, River Railway Company and the
| Missouri Pacific Railroad G ompauy.
On the 18th it was reported that the
! French employers had determined to Of
| fer an advance in wages in order to cad
| the great strike in Paris.
! THE general feeling in Jacksonville,
Fla, on the 18th, was growing more cheer
/ full every hour, and it is believed that the
energetic measures taken toward distn-
/ lection have been successful, and that
the yellow fever Is now uuder control
AROUND Montpelier, Ind, the farmers
| are panic stricken. owing to 81 break, on
/ the 18th, in powerful gas and oil gusher
we'll which saturated the fields and out-
standing crops for half a mile around
with oil 1t is believed that the striking
of a match would fire the whole district.
IT is reported that the Sultan of Zanzibar
has officially transferred the administers
ton Of the coast line to the German COM
pauy, whose hag jointly with the Sui
tan's, has been raised over Fourteen
ports.
THE English COnserya tives, it is report
ed, contemplate raising fund to gaarB-l-
tee the London Times against loss in its
defense of the Pdrnell suit
| THE anti French tone of the remarks
| of Emperor William at Frankfort on the
Oder, receive very uufavorable comments
from the English press.
AT the close of business, on the 18th,
the surplus in the United States Treasury
was $113, 600, 900.