The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-05
GENERAL.


MALIGNANT typhoid fever was reported
prevalent at Kingston, Ont.
A FORCE under Colonel Graham has to-
tally defeated the Thibetans at Jelapa
Pass, capturing their camp. Four hundred
ThibeeRAs weres killed or wounded. Col
onel REWnhead lost his right arm and
nine 'SeRpys were wounded. Colonel
Graham was advancing into Thibetan
territory.
A LATE dispatch from Zanzibar saws
that three men were killed by natives at
Kellivi. The Germans killed ten of their
Rssailants. The insurgents seized the
town and rehoisted the Sultan's flag. IL
is reported that all Germans in Lindi have
been murdered and all the Europeans on
the coast are in imminent danger.
THE French court has adjourned the
hearing on the petition to wind up the
business of the Paris American Exchange
to enable the concern to gointo voluntary
liquidation which will be arranged under
the supervision of the court.
THE French wheat harvest is declared
by the French grain congress to exceed all
expectations.
SEVEN hundred italian laborers created
riot In the village of Sawyerville, Que,
near the Hampshire line recently, in which
five persons were killed. The Iaborers had
been defrauded by contractors who had
prevailed, the place being pillaged and the
rioters threatening to cross into the United
States.
IT is reported that an extensive con-
spiracy between ticket agents and con-
dnctors has been discovered by which the
Union Pacific has been greatly defrauded.
1t is claimed that one conductor held up
as many as sixteen tickets on q single
trip, which were returned to a confederate
ticket agent for resale.
In shipment of wool from Canada to
| Philadelphia which was seized recently
were found several fine English blankets
on which heavy duty is exacted.
| TIE Spanish Government has ordered
| the construction of six cruisers and four
| torpedo boats.
| CAPTAIN ANGUS HOLMES, of the schooner
| Eddie Pierce, laden with $40, 900 worth OF
| sardines from Eastport, Me-, for New
| York, was drowned during the recent gale
off Cape Cod aud the vessel was aban'
| doned.
| THERE was another cut all around II
| east bound passenger rates ON the 9th
| and the figures were: st. Louis to New
/ York via Vandalia, S14.5O: Bee Line, S13
/ Wabash, $12; Ohio & Mississippi, 81.
! FIRE in a hotel at Cronstadt, Russia, the
/ other day caused the deaths of fourteen
| persons.
| ADvICEs have been received from SamoS
that the partisans of King Malletoa have
/ had an engagement with the army o
! King Tamasese and that the lat er's forces
were totally defeated. King Tamasese'i
| army was under command of the German
| officer Brauders.
EIGHTF cases of dynamite exploded on
wharf at Carthagena, Spain, recently, do
ing great damage. Nobody was killed.
TWENTY Y-FIvE thousand British mner
| have decided to strike October % unless
general advance of 10 per cent. in wage
should be made.
MICHAEL DAvTTT's Irish Woolen Com
pany has declared a dividend of seven pc
cent.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for tn,
seven days ended September 27 num
bered for she United States, 1856; Canada
"a; total, 220; compared with 228 the pre-
vious week and 1917 the corresponding weel
of last year.
4 THE st. Louis, Arkansas & Texas rail
road has been sold to Russell Sage.
THE race for the settling championship
between Peter Kemp and Hanlan wa
rowed on the Paramatta river at Sidney
N. S. w, on the 2Sth aud was won b.
Kemp easily by ten lengths.
Two Austrian officers who ascended tn
Mangart mountain in the Tyrol withou
guides fell over a preeipice during a 70
and one was killed.
REPoRTs from the Peace river district
in the extreme British Northwest, stat
that the Crees, Beavers and Chippew
Indians are starving to death because q
the scarcity of small game. .CannibalisI
was reported in one instance.