The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-05-18

ON the 10Th, among the D1l1S approved Dy
the President, were the following; To
authorize the city of Chicago to erect a
crib in Lake Michigan for water works
purposes; to amend the act authorizing
the Postmaster -Genel III to adjust certain
claims of postmasters for loss by burg
larry, fire, ETC.; authorizing the erection Of
a public building at Lancaster, Pa.
on the 10th the following bonds were
offered to the Government: S3,520,000 reg
istered As, at I27 to 1918; $4,000 coupon
As, at I27 to 127A<; S11O, 500 registered 45<s,
at 1OT% to los; S57, 900 coupon Is, at 107z
to 1879; of which $4,000 registered AIS
were accepted at 107S.
THE stOppage of work in q Minnesota
quarry, it is reported, will prevent the
completion Of the Chicago Auditorium in
time for the Republican National conven-
ton.
IN Washington delegates from the
WOOI-Growers' associations of Ohio, In
diana and Texas are lobbying against the
free-wool clause in the Mills Tariff bill
on the 7th the steamship Bolivia, which
left New York Ap-.ii 10th, with party Of
Mexican pilgrims on board, bound for
Rome, arrived at Naples.
IT is announced that the trotting match
for the Sportsman's stake Of $4,000, with
81, 600 entrance fee added, to take place at
Rochester, n. Y, on July 4, is off, Mr..
Hamlin, owner Of Belle Hamlin, declining
to nominate that horse.
A REDUCED condition of winter wheat
in the Central States, as a result of low
temperature and deficient rainfall is
shown by the Department of Agriculture
May crop report, issued on the 10th.
On the 9th the Progressive Cabinet
Makers Union of New York City placed a
boycott on the Pioneer, an Anarchist pa
per of Chicago, because it allowed itself
to be frightened into keeping its actions
within the law.
On the 11th advices from Rio Janeiro
stated that the Brazilian Chamber of Dep
uties had passed a bill for the immediate
| abolition Of slavery.
1T is stated that the proposed opening
Of the great Sioux reservation viii be of
| no present benefit to wOuld-be settlers,
/ as three years must elapse before the
necessary signatures by the Indians, sur
veys, etc, can be completed, after which
| only hOmesteaders can occupy it.
In order to put a stop to the admission
| Of Chinese immigrants to the colony the
] Government of New Zealand has adopted
| the novel expedient of prOclaiming all
! Chinese ports as infected.
| IT is said that the Mexican Secretary of
| War has notified army officers along the
| border that hereafter the penalty of death
will be imposed for crossing over into the
/ United States with troops and interfering
| with the affairs of citizens of a friendly
nation.
AT Newport, KY, the new barracks will
be named Ft. Hancock, and viii be used
as a resting place for troops that have
| been on active duty.
AT the meeting of the National Assem-
bly, of Retail Lumbermen at Davenport
Ia, recently, officers were elected as fol-
/ lows: President, J. p. Smith, Of Fowler,
Ind; vice-president, J. R. Cunningham,
of NOrborne, Mo-; secretary and treas
urer, w. G. Wright, of Chicago.
On the 11th it was stated that the Ne
vada Bank of San Francisco would soon
| be reorganized. 1t was said that the new
| president would have $500, 900 of the stock
and the new cashier $250,000. Flood and
! Mackay will assume ali bad debts, and
| win take the shares not subscribed for
Fair has received all the money he put il
after the wheat deal, amounting to g,
600.
IT is reported that the House committee
! on Pacific railroads has decided to formu-
late bill dealing with the Indebtedness
of the Central Pacific railroad to the Gov
ernment. The Union Pacific bill, already
reported, will be taken as a basis for the
committees work.
IN the vicinity of Waterloo, Ia, up to
the 10th, rain had fallen on fifty cOnsecu-
tive days, the rainfall being over seven
inches. The precipitation was general all
| over Northern Iowa.
On the l1th the Secretary of the Treasury
sent to the House a communication re-
commencing that $4,000 be appropriated
to supply q deficiency in the salaries Oi
government store-keepers and gaugers.
ON the 18th Mayor Smith of Cincinnati
issued an order to the superintendent OF
police of that city, that officers be in
structed to arrest on the spot, in their re-
spective districts, all aloon-keepers
found violating the Owens law.
THE Fisheries treaty has been passed by
both houses of the Newfoundland Legis
lature.
1T is said that the peoplS of Buffalo, N
Y, are disposed to hold the natural gai
company responsible for all damages Oc
casiOned by the series of explosions which
took place in that city on the 10TH