The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02

THE Inman ine steamer City of Paris, a
sister ship to the City of New York, built
by the Messrs. Thompson, Of Clydebank,
was Launched on the 23d.
THE Berlin Post declares that Russia's
relations with Germany have continued of
an entirely satisfactory nature ever since
the Emperor's recent visit to St. Peters,
burg.
IN a riot at MOy, Ireland, recently
between Orangemen and Nationalists the
police charged the mobs with bayonets
and dseveral were injured by thrown stones,
SEVERAL thousand miners of Yorkshire,
England, have struck and many more are
expected to follow. Coal, in consequence,
has advanced from thirty to forty per cent.
in price.
THE Neue8te Ndcbr5cbten publishes
sensational article in relation to Wurtem-
burg court scandals. 1t denounces the
favoritism shown by the King of Wurtem-
burg to three Americans, who, it says, by
means of spiritualism, have gained an
enormous influence over the invalid
monarch, which they are using for black
mailing purposes.
THE people of Victoria, B. c., have en-
tered complaint with the Canadian De-
partment of State of poor mail service be-
tween Victoria and San Francisco.
DISPATCHES from Wady Halfa state that
the White Pasha with large force is still
in the Bahr-eI- Gazelle, and that troops
from Omdurman are marching to oppose
him.
TEN cases of smallpox have been re-
ported at Keswick a small village in the
northern part of York County, Ont. The
place has been quarantined.
Tue cOlliery owners of Lancashire, Eng,
have begun to yield to the demands of
their men. .
IT is stated that the three Americans by
whom the King of Wurtemburg has re-
Gently been greatly influenced are Jesuits
and that the King has become Catholic,
the ceremony Of baptism having been per-
formed secretly. $3.50
NJ. DE GIERs, the Russian Foreign Minis
ter, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary Of
his entrapce into public life on the 25th, at
st. Petersburg.
Two beautiful daughters of a game
keeper have been found in a forest near
Leskau, Moravia. The breasts of one of
! the girls was severed, while the other
was pinned to the ground with a spike
driven through the abdomen. The motive
of the crime was supposed to have been
| jealousy.
| A CLUB house in Moscow, Russia, col
Elapsed the other day, and a large number
| of inmates perished beneath the ruins.
| Sixteen dead bodies were recovered.
+ Much resentment was reported as being
felt in Servia against King Milan, who
| had obtained a divorce from Queen
/ Natalie. It was thought the x-Queen
would be guest of the Czarina at st.
I Petersburg.
I THE Franco Chinese commercial conven-
tion passed its first reading in the French
Chamber of Deputies without debate.
GERMAN courts have declared illegal the
/ am baY T0V ia5- r
/ said the Emperor himself was in favor of
the book circulating in Germany.
FIRE in Chatham, Ont, the other morn
ing destroyed a planning mill and car
riage and harness shop, causing S62, 900
| loss.
THE Emperor of Germany sent a per-
sonal telegram to M. de Giers, the Russian
Minister, cOngratulatiug him on the ff-
1 tieth anniversary of his entry into public
life.
| Holm BURG, the retired German officer
| who was arrested at Nice while mailing a
Lebel cartridge on the charge of being a
| spy, has been sentenced to imprisonment
/ for five years and the payment of a fine of
I 81 200, and he will not be allowed to stop
in France for ten years from the expira-
| tiOn of his sentence.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended October % numbered
,254, as against 224 the previous week and
! 216 the corresponding week last year.
THE schooner Caldwell, of New York, is
reported lost in the Caribbean sea, with
probably the loss of nineteen lives.
IT is stated that several lines of Amer
| lean goods have been boycotted in China,
petroleum and -four being the principal
articles. The Chinese Times contains g
letter from Pekin officials threatening re-
taliation for the passage of the Exclusion
I. act.
THE new English salt trust has put the
price of common salt from go cents to -. q
per ton and lump from $500 to 1915.
THE Babylcnan exploring expedition Of
the University of Pennsylvania, which
left Philadelphia last summer, has beer
J wrecked in the Grecian Archipelago. None
of the scientists were lost or hurt.
THE Russian papers denounce the di.
| vOrce procured by King Milan, of Servia
as illegal, and all uphold Queen Natalie's
! DrOteStS,