The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-06-22

IT is said that at least twenty of the
forty-four military graduates at West
Point will be placed on the additional list
waiting for companies.
For the week ending June 9 the prog
ress of the manufacturing industries of
the country, as reported to the Nelo En-
teTprise, New York publication, shows:
Seventy-four manufacturing companies,
$27, ,534, 900; q mining companies, S25, 025,-
600; 63 mills, etc, 81, 500, 900; railroads,
81, ,3OO,OO0; Is bridges, $1,025, 900; 81
churches, 81, 115,OO0; waterworks, 81,
216, TIA; 222 buildings, $7S3, 200; 9 electric
light companies, S957,OOO; gas COM
panies, S238, 900.
On the 18th timber boom in the st.
Louis river at Colquet, Wis, gave way,
hberating $50, ,0O0,0 900 feet Of logs.
On the Snyder farm, in Henry town.
ship, near Findlay, O., on the 18th, c. c.
Harris drilled into an oil we'll which
filed an 500 barrel tank in three hours,
at which rate the well will produce 6,400
barrels per day, making it the largest oil
well yet discovered in any field.
THE roads leading out of Pittsburgh,
Pa, threaten lively rate war to the Ma
tional convention at Chicago.
In the Chickasaw Nation large numbers
of negroes are preparing to migrate to
! Oklahoma, where they will acquire land
titles and engage in farming. They are
| prohibited from enjoying land rights in
| the Nation.
AT Helena, Mont, we'll authenticated
rumors are ahCat to the effect that Re-
publican daily morning newspaper is to
be established there, and issued within
the next thirty days.
THE discovery Of four cases of smaH-
pox in the town has caused much alarm
| among the denizens of Haverstraw, n. Y.
| ACCORDING to the recently published
| statistics of the Stock Yards Company of
| Chicago and of the Board of Trade, the
| Chicago, Burlington g. Quincy railroad
| maintains its lead on all other lines in the
number of cars of livestock and grain
brought to that market. This fact lndi-
| Gates the rapidity with which the road
! must have recovered from its recent labor
! troubles, and furnishes additional evil
dence of the efficient manner in which the
/ management handled the recent strikes of
| employees on its lines. Evidently, from
a business standpoint the road is in able
| hands.
| On the 18th the bill to aid the Worlds
| Exposition and Permanent Exhibition of
the Three Americas, to be held in Wash
! ington in 1892, and carrying Il P~eliminary
/ appropriation of $4,000, was fa%orably
| reported to the House.
| AT Berlin, on the 18th, the International
| bicycle races attracted large number of
| spectators. Herr Lehr, of Frankfort, the
/ winner Of the EmpsrOr's prize, and now
champion Of Europe, fell in the race, but
/ was not much hurt.
| On the 14th the Secretary Of the Treas
ury recommended an appropriation of
! $500 for an electric plant in the military
/ prison at Fort LeavenwOrth, Kan.
On the 14th the German steamer Pemp-
| tos, from Singapore, with a number O1
| pilgrims on board, which was reported
overdue at Jedda, and which it was feared
was lost, arrived at Alden in tow with he1
shaft broken.
AT MitchelIstown, Ireland, the tenants
on the estates of the Countess of Kings
ton were granted a reduction of twenty
per cent. in their rent, on the 14th.
! ACCORDING to the report of the State
| Board of Equalization Nebraska has 4, 9O2
| miles of railroad, of a total assessed val
uatiOn of a trife over $29, 100000.
THE political leaders Of Germany are
| censured by Austrian journals for ''wor.
rying the Emperor into a relapse"
! SwINToN's English History has beer
excluded by tho Boston School Board
from use in the city schools, on the
ground that il treats the subject of the
doctrine Of indulgences in a manner un'
fair and offensive to Catholics.
NORTHERN MINNESOTA andfDakota re
ports indicate that the storm of the nigh
OF Uhe 1oLn was severe anu Ihe lOsSe'
heavy. At FOrman, Oak, the storm ap
preached the magnitude of a tornado
traversing the country from northwest t.
southeast. Several buildings were blOwl
down and one or two were destroyed b,
lightning.
On the 18th Right Hon. VIM. H. Smith
government leader in the House of Com
mons, announced to that body the new
of the German Emperor's death, and CAV
notice that, on the 18th, he would move a
address of deep sorrow at the calamit
3 which had overtaken the royal family an
people of Germany.
AT Fall River, Mass, the America
Mills were struck by lightning on tn
night of the 10th, and totally destroyed b
fire. Loss, $50, 900.
RAIN fell continuously for thirty-fou
hours at RushvilIe, Mimi, on the 18th an
14th.