The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-28
THE WEST

THE WEST
FRANK T.. SWEENEY, fire marshal OF the
Town Of Lake, a suburb Of Chicago, COM
mitted suicide recently by cutting his
throat He was an AndersOnville prison
veteran.
THE much tangled Lindauer litigation at
Chicago has finally been put in shape for
settlement by an agreement. The present
receiver and assignee viii retire.
AN Indian Territorial convention was
/ held at Baxter Springs, Kan, on the 18TH
which was we'll attended by delegates
/ from Western cities and also by chiefs of
various Indian tribes. Strong resolutions
advocating the opening of the Territory
| were passed.
Two French hunters who left Helena,
/ Mont. October %, on an expedition up the
| Missouri river. have been found drowned
in the upper river.
CHARLES GORDON & Co, wholesale deal
ers in furniture and carpets, Chicago, have
failed with unknown assets and liabilities
THIRTEEN loaded coal cars were wrecked
near Battle Greek, Mich, recently, on the
| Cincinnati, Jackson a Mackinaw railway.
| Conductor Lincoln was fatally hurt.
MRS. ANNA SHOOTS, of GAINESVILLE, o.,
who had been on trial at Cambridge for
two weeks was acquitted Of the charge of
poisoning her little daughter. Two other
indictments for murder are still pending
against her.
AN entire business block in Iron Mount
ain, Mich, was destroyed by fire the other
morning, causing loss of $780, 900 to seven
firms.
The Minnesota official returns are: For
| Decentralization, 142, 492; Cleveland,
lOi, ,3s5; Fisk, 1871; Streeter, 1907. For
Oyernor-Nerriaal Republican, 134, ,355 F;
Wilson, Democrat, 110,251; Harrison, Pro-
hibition, 17,026; Paul, Labor, 3S5; scatter
ing, y. Four years ago Blaine's plurality
was 4l,62O; now HarrisOn's plurality Is
3s, 1O7. The Republicans gain three Con-
gressmen.
; LEE r. SANBoRN & Son, lumbermen oi
AIpena Mich, have made an assignment
, | with $40 600 liabilities.
) THE officers Of the order OF Railroad
| Conductors deny that the California re-
volt is of any Importance, and state tina
10 the new order is organized to affiliate Will
brotherhoods which believe in strikes.
- REV ISAAC EHRET, editor in chief of tn
Il Christian Standard, of Cincinnati, aud al
!. intimate friend of the late President Gar
"A field, died recently.
"a THE fire in the great copper mine a
Calumet, Mich, is out, but the shaft is sti
n closed because of gas.
= THE Ostrander Manufacturing Compan
"a of Ostrander. Wis, has made an assign
70 ment with $50 600 liabilities.
\, CHARLES WILHITE' s residence in Haugh
VILE, Ind, was wrecked recently by an ex
M plosion of natural gas and Mrs. Whit
n fatally y burned.
a. THE execution of the condemned Bal
Knobbers has been postponed to Februar
j. 10 next. Governor Morehouse ordered tt
NJ postponement at the solicitation of Judg
81 Hubbard, who tried the cases.
,is THE only request General Harrison mac
of the committee in charge of his inaug'
os ration was that the veterans of his old Il
al diana regiment should act as his bod
,vy guard.
ON PRESIDENT THOMAS, of the suspendC
" California National Bank of San Fral
m / cisco, has issued a statement, showing a
sets Of Sis, 900. He claimed the liabiliti
as amounted to the same figures.
,t THE two small children of Mrs. Sta
ma colored, living in Indianapolis, Ind, we
Oh burned to death the other morning duril
sv the absence of their mother.
DIR. :. A. RICHMOND, who murdered CO
,in onel J. w. Strong, editor of the st. JOSEF
in Herald June Is, 1885, has returned fro
Camargo, ILL.,, to the asylum at St Josep
To- Mo.
sl- THOMAS HUNTER, jaiIer of Port Tow
send, Wash. T., was overpOwered, gagg
IN. and relieved of his keys and pistols
nj five prisoners the other night before
AZ could raise an alarm. The prisoners ma
an their escape, locking the jailer in a cell.
THE six story picture frame factory
StrobeI q Co, Cincinnati, burned early
the morning of the 22d. Several hrem
zee, were killed or fatally wounded by fall
NV walls, also two bystanders. Loss, hea'
rgh The building was burned year ago.
by THE Supreme Court OF ONO mas decit
that the creditors of the late Archbish
and Purcell can not cause the sale OF the emu
Re property which was IN bis name at
ted time Of his death to pay the S3,OOO,OOO
nts held in trust for his pHrshiOuers.
BY the explosion of a boiler in Emm
the tE Scns' factory, Mount Vernon, Ind,
lite. Gently one man was killed and four fata
18th injured.
the C0RPoRAL WILLIAM WELLINGTON, tr
Ion. G, Tenth cavalry, shot and morts
wounded Sergeant James Logan at I
d i'm Grant, Ariz., recent v.