The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-08

his royal patient a six-year-old lad on
whom he had performed the operation Of
tracheOtOmy year ago. A 'fellow feel
ing" made the Emperor 'swondrous kind.'
he loaded his little visitor with presents
and invited him to call again.
TEE Senate bill TO revive the rank of
General Of the Army was passed by the
| House on the 1st. 1t was soon after
signed by the President who Immediately
sent the nomination of Philip Hen ry
Sheridan for the position to the Senate.
| The Senate confirmed the appointment
and notified the President of its action.
| During the afternoon Senators Hawley
and Henderson called and placed the
Generals commission in the hands of his
wife.
A BANQUET and reception in hOnOr of
President CaTnOt was given by Baron
/ Won Mehrenheim, the Russian Ambassa
! dor to Paris, on the 31st. All Of the Cabi-
/ net Ministers and many prominent states
/ men aud diplomats were present.
On the 31st General B. f. Butler put
/ himself on record as a Sherman mana
/ William Tecumseh Sherman man. He
/ said General Sherman would prove a sure
winner if run by the Republican party;
/ and that he possess a safe counselorin his
brother John.
! On the Ist the nomination of Mr. Fuller
i 20 the Chief Justiceship was again before
/ ~
/ no conclusion was reached.
OK the 1st Emperor Frederick wentfrom
Berlin to Potsdam, on the yacht Alexan-
/ dria- He was enthusiastically cheered by
the populace. The trip seemed to do him
/ good.
| JOHN BR1GHT's chanc es of recovery are
/ spoken of discouragingly.
/ The newly appointed Governor General
| OF Canada Lord Stanley, expresses conf
/
he has no preconcelved ideas of policy to
force upon an unwilling people.
| IN his speech in the French Chamber OF
! Deputies, on the 31st. NJ. Goblet, in reply
to an Interpolation regarding the Tisza in
| cident, limited at a line drawn beyond
| which none OF the enemies Of France
/ would be allowed to go.
On the 3lst Colonel Aaron X. Dunkel of
| Pennsylvania, ex-State Senator and ex-
Secretary Of Internal Affairs, died at
Philadelphia, aged fifty-one years.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT New Lexington, o.. Smiths Opera
| House, the Catholic Church and st. Alloy
sius' Academy, were unroOfed by the ter
| rife wind-storm that occurred in that
town on the 28th.
AT Hillsboro, o., Hon. John T. Hughes
was fatally injured and his wife seriously
hurt by being thrown from their buggy
which strucS that town on the 2Sth.
ON the 2Sth c. SchOenet, a cigar maker,
was murdered at Minneapolis, Minn.
AT Wellsville, N. Y, on the 2sth, twenty
business houses were Unroofed by Q
cyclone.
OK the Goth, Chamberlain, the Monticel-
10 Und.) murderer, was taken from the
Wabash Jail aud spirited to the State
penltentiary at Michigan City for safe
keeping. 1t was feared that an effort
would be made to lynch him.
AT Lyons, Pa, on the Goth, the dead
body of Brakeman Jas. 3. HunsbergeT
was found on the top OF q car. 1t is sup
posed he was killed by lightning during
the awful storm Of the previous night.
WHILE fording Sappa creek, in Furnas
County, Neb., on the 2Sth, the bed of a
wagon containing a farmer named Album
and his family foated from the truck and
| capsized. A four-ye daughter OF
the farmer, and Bertha Burger, an orphan
child, were drowned.
AT Ralston, Tenn, a young man named
Spier was shot and killed, on the 3Oth
by two men named Arnau and Coving-
ton.
AT Trenton, N. j.. p. S. Moore, editor
of the Ringoes Monitor, a religious paper
was arrested On the Both for stealing
horse from Rev. Charles w. Pitcher, oi
the RingCes Presbyterian Church. Moore
attempted TO jump into the canal when ar
rested, and has since threatenedto commit
suicide. He admitted the theft, and has
been expelled from the church.
AT Wyandotte, Mich, on the 1st an
explosion from an unknown cause oc.
Cured in the Eureka Iron works, by
which three employees lost their lives.
AT Bristol, Pa, on the 1st, Mrs. ElleI
Martin and her siXteen-y -yeCr-Old daughter
were struck by n train nd instantly
killed.
IT is reported that w. II. Moore, cashier
and general manager of the Bank OF
Socorro, N. NJ, is short in his accounts
, and has gone to Mexico. The bank hats
closed its doors. The amount of tn,
defalcation is not known.
DURING a gu arrel with his wife, on tn
? 1st, John NJ. Scott, molder, of r eading
Pa, cut her throat, and then drew tn,
blade Of the same weapon-a large butch
er knife-across his own throat. Both arr
in critical condition.
On the 31st the boiler of the steame
Fulton exploded whit The steamer was il
, the gulf, at the mouth of the Mississippi
river, instantly killing the pilot, Edwar
Perkins, fatally wOunding Captain W. Il
Riddle and two colored deck hands, an
demolishing the boat.
ON the 31st Brakeman Wolf was lille,
and Conductor Everett seriously injuret
in wreck on the Philadelphia & Read
Z ing railroad near JShamokin, Pa. Fort!
y cars of merchandise were smashed t
4 | pieces.
!, Eat Sharon, Pa, Samuel Clark, in a fit c
r drunken frenzy, on the Soth, fired into
r room containing three ladies, shooting hi
: sister in-law, Mrs. James Clark, in th
Z side. She was found, some time after, i
her own room, dead,
r ON the S1st the body OF Miss Adele Men
n ard, of Minneapolis, Mimi, who com
: mitted suicide, on the 2Sth, because he
q father had whipped her, was found float
ing in the Mississippi river.
j. MusCELLANEOUR.
f MAYOR HEWITT reviewed the RiChmon
g (Va.) Grays in New York, on the 2Sth.
v On the 2Sth a snow -stO-m visited Kirk
wall, Scotland.
q Ir is said that the Mashinntnn nevsna