The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07


Minister to Spain, took place at Washing
ton on the 3Oth. The crowd was small but
select, and the goods sold readily at fair
| prices.
COLONEL STOEFFEL, formerly military
attache of the French Embassy at Berlin,
was expelled from Alsace on the 30th ult.
THE friends of John Bright, the English
economist, arc much panied that the Glad
stonians have selected Lord Compton, re-
/ Gently defeated in the HOlborn district Of
Finsbury, to contest his seat after his
death, which they assume to be only a
question of a few days.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
VAUBECoURT, a village near Nancy,
France, was destroyed by fire on the 27th.
Thousands of persons were rendered
homeless and absolutely without shelter.
A BOILER in a chair factory at Cochran,
Ind, exploded on the 26th, killing Will
lam Bencke, John Stark and William
Matthews, Jr., and severely injuring Fred
Bruce, the engineer. The factory was
wrecked.
OK the 27th Jaye Eye See, the famous
gelding, owned by J. L. Case, and valued
/ at $4,000, was discovered in pasture at
Hickory Ridge Farm, near Racine, Wis.
The animal had stepped upon a piece of
glass or other sharp substance, and sew
/ cred the artery Of the left hind foot, and it
! was feared he could not recover.
GRANT MCPHERSON, a junior clerk in the
/ New York Post-ofice, appointed three
mouths ago, has been arrested for steal
ing letters. Nine letters were found on
his person when taken into custody.
THE wreck of the Philadelphia steam
collier Allentown has been determined
beyond doubt by the washing ashore at
| COhasset, Mass, of timbers, spars, life
| preservers, steamer furnishings, chairs,
etc, marked ALLENTOWN"
1T is reported that the British ship The
/ Douglas, Captain Belts, from Martin
I Island, British America, June -, for Ham
/ burg, found cred of the Island Of Drexel,
in the North Sea, and that two of the crew
were drowned.
OK the 9th q farmer by the name of
Delaney was murdered at Kilkenny, Ire
land.
On the morning Of the Doth burglars en-
tered the post-ofice at Chiffon, Wis, blew
open the safe and secured SlO4 in cash and
800 worth of stamps.
ON the 9th the steamship Nacoochee,
Captain Catharine, from Savannah for
New York, with cotton and oranges, went
ashore on Core Beach, twenty five miles
northeast of Cape Lookout. The crew
were saved.
DURING a general fight which followed a
Thanksgiving Orgie, among a number of
her relatives and friends, Mary COnnen,
aged forty-two, fell or was thrown from a
fire-escape of u New York tenement and
was killed.
DURING q Thanksgiving celebration by
the Hudson Guards at Manhattan Park,
near New York City, the explosion Of a
can of powder caused severe injuries to
Edward Schenck, Henry Holzapfel and
Geo. Smith, and resulted in a fire which
partially destroyed the shooting pavilion.
On the Goth John B. King, a young law
student, was shot and killed near a saloon,
ON the streets of New Haven, Conn.
CHARLES T. WINCHELL, treasurer of
Sphinx, Oak, has left for parts unknown,
and is a defaulter. A letter was received
by his deputy, on the Both, evidently
mailed at or near st. Paul, saying that he
is short in his accounts -and-h had not the
courage to face the music. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
JoHN BOWMAN, the wealthy ex-brewer
of Marshall, Ia, who was recently en-
Joined by the United States District Court
from selling liquor in the original pack
age and fined 81 ,O0O has been committed
to Jail for disObeying the injunction.
THE Aird Works at Titusville, Pa, were
burned on the Both. An explosion Of gas
was the cause. Loss, 5000; insurance,
SG1 900.
WILL SCHRIEBER, teller of the First Ma
tioual Bank of Columbus, Ind, has gone
to Canada, carrying with him So 500 of the
banks money, which he distracted from
the safe ON the 2Sth ult.
A DUEL between NJ. Paul Deroulered
and NJ. Reinach, editor of the RepUbHqUe
FRANCHISE, took place near Paris, ON the
SOth ult. Pistols were used. Four shots
were exchanged, but neither combatant
was hurt.
IT is stated that a large number of reg
isterod letters from Western Canada and
the United States have been missed ut
Ottawa, Ont, and that there has recently
been Wholesale robbery of the mails GO
ing into that city over the Grand Trunk
railway.
THE house of Mrs. Julius Beck, of Plain
field, N. j.. was totally destroyed by an
incendiary fire on the 3Oth. Loss, Sl1 600
1t had first been robbed by the incendia-
ricS.
THE schooner Dallas Hill, of st. John,
N. B., was wrecked on Heron Island in the
late storm. The crew are missing, and are
supposed to have been lost.
a GANG of Italian laborers who were
digging "A trench for "a sewer in Philadel-
phia, ON the 3Oth Ult., were caught under a
caving bank. one man was killed, auoth-
er fatally injured, and the others suffered
fractures of limbs.