The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1888-02-03

Duncan & Co. have been closed by the
sheriff to satisfy a Judgment of $4,000
The works have been running steadily
for three years. About one hundred men
will be thrown out of employment by the
failure.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made with
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
says United States Treasurer Hyatt, so
as to have by the end of the month a sup
ply Of one, two and five dollar silver csr-
tificates sufficient to meet in part the
present heavy demand for small notes in
business centers.
THE late Norquay Government defal-
cation in Manitoba is said to amount to
over 500, 900.
On the night of the 25sh two persons
| died of starvation in Bellevue Hospital,
New York; Peter Flynn, aged sixty six,
who deliberately starved himself to death,
and Francis SteGfenbach, aged seventy,
\ who was without food and too proud to
/ ask for aims. They were too far gone to
recover before their condition was disc0E-
cred. HE -5a..at... ...-....sv
| THAT the effect of the government to
/ secure a loan is o raise funds for war
| like object is denied by Russian papers.
/ On the 25.h the lockout at the Central
/ Glass Works of Wheeling, w. Va, was
! ended by the decision of the arbftrators
to whom it was referred in favor of the
| operatives.
ON the 2Jth tho celebrated trosting
/ stallion Happy Medium, valued at SO, 600,
! died at Lexington, KY. He was fOaled in
! 1863 Thirty-nine of his get have records
: of 2:30 or lower. He was owned by Gem
/ eral w. I. Withers.-
THE official announcement is made by
the German War Minister that $50 000, ,00)
marks is the amount of the new military
loan needed.
/ On February 10th special elections are
/ to be held in Manitoba, in order to low
the new Ministry to secure, if possible, the
! endorsements of their cons tituents-
FoR the twelve months ended I ecsm-
Der 81, 1887, the total value of the Imports
of merchandise were SOS, ,S07 ,311, against
1858, 429. .1S9 for the saIirs time in 1896. The
values of exports for the same period s
were S715, 1926, ,053 and. $713,40 O21, respect
| lively.
OK the 26th the Freen1an's Journal, at
| Dublin,s prin ted a three column list oC
| prosecutions and convictions had undea
the Coercion law SINCE il was pas sed il
| Ireland. 1t is rather startling array uC
look at, when one remembers that the
Coercion law. has been in progress only
about nine months. 70 rr.
For the year 1887 the balance Of trade
with the world was in favor of the United
States to the amount of $6,5l3 SAT.
The delay in the payment of theft
claims against the Government has
greatly exercised the. Choctaw Indians.
On the 9th another contingent of Irish
leaders were convicted under the Crimes
act.
On the night of the 27th the first storm.
ing of the third Ice Palace at ST Pau'r
hIinn., was a great success. The weather
was beautiful and mild, the thermometer
marking p deg. above.
I ALL overtures of compromise coming
from the Dominion GoverRmeRt at ONa-
wa is rejected by the new Ministry III
Manitoba.
ON the 27th Judge Colt, in the Federal
Court at Boston, decided that the prepa-
ration of a punched strip of paper foruse
in the orguine tie is not an infring g0ment
of musical copyright
On the 9th four hundred minors EN-
ployed at the First National, Bonnie and
Iron King mines at Ir0nvood, Mich.
struck for three months tack pay. Az
merchants have r@aHsed~to furnish the
men with groceries and provis ions.
ALARM is professel by the English 7 a
pers a t tho gigantic sums asked for tht
new German Military bill, and say wal
or financial disas ter, or both, confront
Germany.
a DECISION has been arrived at by the
Swiss Bundesrath to expeI Hunt and
Schroeder, the alleged German polio,
spies, without further proceedings. It
was proved at the trial that SCHROEDER
has been paid fifty dollars month by the
German police.
On the 9th reports from various points
in New England show that all railroads
are suffering much trouble in the opera
tiOn of he trains, owing to snow-drifts.
The storm has been the severest ever
known. The highways are blocked and
snow pillow and engines are stalled.
On the 27th Mrs. Meckie l.. Ravson
, was arrested in Chicago, Charged walk
/, I cpmplicity in the attempted assas ina
tion of her BANKER husband bv her son
!, and was released on bonds of s. 600 Sh5
rdicules the Indictment, and Chains il !
the outgrowth of au attempt to force he
10 compromise the divorce proceedings
I against her husband.