The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-15

THE strike OF the bakers at Pittsburgh
and Allegheny, Pa, that was expected to
occur on the 4th, did not materialize, the
employers conceding the demands Of the
men.
OK the 9th the LondoE Standard said
that the Irish Land bill had been aban-
dOned by the government, and that a land
commission to continue in session for
three years will be substituted.
AT Dubuque, Ia, the Union printers on
the Times are out on a strike. A hand
bill set in the job-rOOm was Inserted in
the paper, on the Sd, and the printers de-
mand that all advertisements shall be set
in the composing-room.
IT is reported that the japanese Gov
ernment will take in hand the work of
improving the harbor of Yokohama on
an extended scale.
THE annual convention of the American
Bankers Association viii be held at Gin
| cinnati on Wednesday, October g. next.
AT Hampden Park, on the 5th, the Sec
Ond days shooting in the revolver match
between Ira Paine, of Providence, R L,
and Frederick E. Bennett, of Boston, re-
suited in victory for Bennett, who scored
/ 5S7 points to Paine's 879.
IN the London Stock Exchange, on the
] 9th, a semi-panic occurred in diamond
mine stocks, owing to the refusal of the
| banks to make advances, taking shares as
security. The stock of some of the mines
fell FIVE points.
! OK the 9th the straw goods trade Of
/ New York was treated to a surprise by
| the announcement that the II. o. Barnard
/ Manufacturing Company, one of the larg-
! est houses in the trade, had asked an ex-
| tension from their creditors. Their state
ment shows liabilities of $500, 900, and as
! sets of S4S8, 600.
On the 7th the twelfth annual COM
mencement exercises of the Princeton
! (Ind.) High School were held in Euterpe
Hall. The graduation class was COM
| posed of eight pupils, six young men and
two young ladies.
On the 7th the bond offerings aggregat-
ed $751; 600, as follows: Coupons As, $16,
600 at 12s; regular AS, $105, 900 at I28, $50,
900 at 127, s., 900 at 12615; registered AZ IS.
/ $4,000 at 1867. The Secretary of the
! Treasury accepted S35, 900 registered A
per cent. bonds at 1868 in two items of
$4,000 and $4,000 respectively.
IT is said that the experiment of intro
ducing New England methods of fishing in
Puget Sound is proving to be eminently
| successful.
AT Milwaukee, Wis, in the opening
meeting of the National Driving Club, OF
the 7th, Cypress won the free -fOr-all trot
ON the 7th the race for the Doncaste1
(England) Spring Handicap Plate, 6
straight mile, resulted in a dead heat be-
tween Lord EIlesmere's Felix and LORD
Alington's King Fisher. The stakes were
divided.
THE accounts of Colonel W. II. Webster
late treasurer of Merrick County, Neb
have been found S34, 600 short. Webster
offers to turn over all his property
amounting to $4,000.
In London the recent meetings of tenn.
perance people to protest against thu
compensation portion of the government
| county programme have opened the
eyes of those who have sneered at thu
cOldwater fraternity to the fact that they
are not a mere handful of fanatics, but
numerous, respectable factor in the make
up Of the great city's population.
A MOTION was passed by the Italian
Chamber of Deputies, on the Sth, abolish
ing capital punishment.
| DURING the seven days ending the 8tl
business failures aggregated: For thu
United States, 2O7, and for Canada, %
or a total of 235, as compared with a tOta
of 205 for the previous seven days.
IT was expected that the whole line o
| the Nicaragua canal would be located b.
the 10th, including the complete throug
surveys of the two possible locations OF
the east end, known as the slower route,
surveyed by Commander Luu in 1927
and the upper route" surveyed by MI
MOnveal in 1885.
On the Sth bond offerings were: S13T, 90
registered As, at 127 and 1277s; S249, 500 regis
tered AIS, at 127 and 1874. Total offerings
1896 500, of which the Government ac
cepted $4,000 registered As, at 127; Sc, 90
registered AIS, at 1O7. Total, $4,000,
. IT is said that the Austrian budge
, soon to be submitted, will show an in
creased expenditure of 5000, 600 horins.
THE petition of the Italian Bishops
asking that the article in the Penal Cod
{ bill imposing penalties on the clergy 70
q ! abuses committed in the exercise of thei
- functions, be eliminated, was rejected b
{ the Italian Chamber OF Deputies, on th
/ Sth..
f On the Sth the New York State Senat
j committee chosen to investigate the meth
e ods Of the aqueduct commissioner, re
{ | snmed their work left off ON April 2S