The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-31

TEE Burlington railroad has sueceeded
I'm obtaining an entrance into St. Louis BY
contract with the Wabash railway.
JUDGE THURMAN was at Detroit, Mich,
on the 2lst, and took boat ride on Lake
Erie.
TIE large new brewery Of the Hermann
Berghon Brewing Company at Fort
WAYNE. Ind. was on FIRE on the morning
Of the 22d. The buildings cost $2OO,O0O ana
had only recently been finished.
GENERA CROOK, commanding the De-
partment II the Platte, has sent OUT oe-
tachment of troops from Fort Mckinney,
to investigate the reported insubordlna5ion
Of a party Of thirty young bucks from
Pine Ridge agency.
TIE Republicans Of the Ninth Indiana
district have renominated Hon. Joseph b.
Cheadls for Congress.
RECENT reports say that the White Caps
Of Indiana have determined upon disband-
ing because of the discovery of their Sc
crets by the authorities.
CAPTAIN KINNEY, head Of the Bald
Knobber organization, was killed at For
sythe, TaRey County, Mo, on the 2Oth by
William Mills, Jr., the anti-Bald KnObber
leader.
THE queer discovery has been made in
Chicago that the captured opium smng-
gler, Gardner, added to his enormous
profits by cheating his customers. One Of
his trunks contained tin boxes soldered
like opium cans, but containing in reality
only little blocks of wood cut so as to fit
snugly in the pretty tin boxes.
TEXAS fever is playing havoc among the
native cattle near Decatur, H. and is
spreading fast.
THE Berghoff brewery at Fort Wayne,
Ind, was destroyed by fire the other morn
ing, caused by an explosion IN the malt
room. Loss, 100000.
JUDGE THURMAN delivered his first great
speech Of the Democratic campaign at
Port Huron, Mich, on the night OF the 22d.
He mot with an enthusiastic reception.
The speech was strongly free trade.
THE cOasting steamer City of Chester
was sunk in collision with the steamship
Oceanic at the Golden Gate, San Fran
cisco, in fog on the morning of the 22d.
Thirty-four lives were thought to have
been lost
THE Democratic convention az Jefferson
City on the 22d nominated Mayor d. r.
Francis, of st. Louis, for Governor of Mis-
souri. Mr.. Francis was born in kentucky
on October /, 1850, consequently he is but
thirty-seven years of age.
NICOLo FEAnIENETTA was hanged legally
at Buena Vista, Col, recently for the muir
der Of Michael Casey at Granite, in March
last
GENERAL MANAGER STONE, Of the Bur
fington railroad, denies the report that he
Is to be deposed and his place taken by
Holdredge.
ADvICEs from Standing Rock give in
formation that the Sioux Commission is
meeting with marked success in getting
Indian signatures to the bill to open the
Sioux reservation for settlement,
FATHER WILLIAM MCMAHON, pastor of
ST. Bridget's Church, Cleveland, o., has
been appointed National treasurer of the
American Catholic Total Abstinence So
ciety.
SOME men recently arrested at Denver,
Col as gold coin cOunterfeiters turned out
TO be only confidence men, who used a trick
box in casting money.
The W hitting paper mill at Neenah, Wis,
was on fire recently. While watching the
flames, fourteen persons lost their lives
and many others were seriously wounded
by the boilers exploding and scattering
the walls into fragments. The loss was
| 500, 900.
THREE boys were shot and seriously in
/ jUred near Kenosha, Wis, by the acci-
dental discharge of a shotgun.
| NEARLY a block of business houses in
/ Clinton, Ind, burned recently, causing
| heavy loss.
THREE unmarried men, Jacob Hubinge
/ Henry Schmidt and Louis Weerne, were
drowned recently while crossing Saginaw
| river, near Bay City, Mich, by the capsiz-
/ ing Of their boat.
! AN explosion of twenty thousand pounds
| Of black powder occurred in the drying
/ house Of the Giant Powder Company, nea1
/ West Berkeley, Cal, the other day. Two
white men and three Cinnamon were
] killed.