The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-23

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mill Of the Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Com
pany, which had been idle for several
weeks, resumed work.
IT is reported that the Washington
aqueduct investigation has unearthed
thoroughly organized conspiracy to de-
ceive the inspectors and defraud the Gov
ernment.
TIE British Government has. asked
for vote of e., 900, 900 for the purpose Of
extending the Ashbourne act
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
| authorized the American National Bank
of Sioux City, Ia, to begin business with
a capital of $4,000.
THE Supreme Court OF the United
/ States has decided that the proceeds of a
/ life Insurance policy can not under any
/ circumstances, be diverted from the
| beneficiaries named to the use of credit
! ors of the deceased
THE Harvard Foot Ball team have no.
| tilted the Yale club that they will play
nowhere but at Cambridge this year.
/ IT is said that the Producers Protec-
| tive Association, organized at Bradford,
/ Pa, one year ago to curtail the output of
crude petroleum, will on the last of the
/ present month, wind up its affairs and
! dissolve.
ANOTHER papal rescript has been re-
ceived by the Irish Bishops ordering them
to actively execute the instructions con-
tanned iu former rescript
In Russian Government circles it is
| emphatically denied that the recent
changes in the organization OF troops in
Western Russia have a warlike intent
The only object sought is to preserve a
military balance as compared with the
! forces maintained by neighboring powers.
THE London Tines Zanzibar corre-
spondent telegraphs, under date of the
| 18th, that the southern mail brings news
that the ports are filled with insurgents,
and that the antiGerman feeling is una
bated. The burning of Minengeni
| Tunghi is confirmed. The Governor of
| Mozambique is preven nted from returning
to his capital by a hostile chief on the
zambesi.
PAPERS by DR.. Merriam, DR.. Shufeldt
and Mr.. Whitmer Stone were read at a
meeting of the American OrnithOlogical
Union at the National Museum in Wash.
ington, on the 10Th.
THE Pasteur Institute in Paris was
formally opened in the presence of Pres
ident CaruOt, several government minis
ters, foreign ambass adors and the Rus
sian Grand Dukes, who are visiting the
city, on the 14th. NJ. Pasteur received an
ovation from the people present.
! IT is reported that the new Russian loan
of SOC, 000, 600 francs has been concluded.
1t is intended to devote $40, 900, 00) francs
of it to the conversion of the loan of 1877
the balance of 200, 600, 900 remaining at the
disposal of the government
ON the 10th the spinners at the Robson
mills, at Fall River, Mass, quit work
claiming that the agreement made last
winter to advance their wages has not
been fully carried out
THE Dublin CORES pondent of the Lon =
don Nei0s writes his paper that nothing is
known there of the reported papal re.
script on the Irish question. The arch
bishop has received nothing.
Or the 900 non Episcopal ministers IL
Ireland (incuding Presbyteriaus, Bap-
lists, Methodists and Congregationalists
S64 signed the anti HON Rule address
to Lords Salisbury and Harrington. Oh
the 126 composing the minority who re.
fused to sign the address, eight only were
Home Rulers.
IT was rumored on Wall street, on the
10Th, that an agreement had been deter
mined upon for the settlement of tht
| truuk-line freight war. 1t is understood
that when this settlement is made al
iron clad agreement VIII be entered int
so strong that no company will care K
break It
Much to the disappointment of Canadian
contractors, who are prohibited from com
peting for Government work in the Unit et
States, the Gallays Ripids contracts
! amounting to SSOO,O0), and the Sault Ste
Marie canal contracts, 81, 81, 900, hav,
been awarded by the Dominion Govern
3 ment to a syndicate composed largely o
, United States contractors.
t On the night of the 10Th tho severes
3 gale of the season was experienced a
D Sault Ste Marie, Mich. The weather wa
bitterly cold.
J THE Ottawa (Ont.) Government refuses
I | to permit prospective Mormon immi-
Q | grants from Utah to take their pOlyga'
a / nous wives into the Northwest Territory
The Berlin Post says: "The increase o
! Frances military force brings us neare
. to war. This increase is being made at
t rate with which the peace powers ar
$ scarcely able to keep pace. The sam
remark may be applied to Russia, tn
increase of whose military strength ca
2 ! NOT be axnla ainnd as n dafnnsiNa measure.