The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-08-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE steamship Montreal, Of the Do
minion line from Montreal to Liverpool,
was wrecked recently on Belle isle. The
passengers and crew we're saved.
THE arbitration committee of business
men, to whom was referred the wage dis
pute in the Streator (nL) coal fields, rem
dered a decision, fixing the price to be
paid workmsn at 72& cents ton. The
demand of the miners was for so cents.
The prisoners confined in Fort San Juan
De Ulloa at Vera Cruz, Mexico, recently
revoIted against the officials. The troops
on duty at the fort shot twenty of the
prisoners and que'led the uprising.
THE Galveston News has published the
last OF it's crop reports. The reports were
almost unanimous in chrOnIcling the best
corn crop for years, while the yield for
other grain was fully up 10 an average.
The cotton crop was splendid one.
THE report of Captain Shepard, COM
manding the revenue steamer Rush, in re-
gard to the British sealer Black Diamond,
which was mailed at San Francisco, has
been received at the Treasury Depart
ment Acting Secretary Batcheler re-
fused positively to give it to the press,
but admitted that it confirmed substau-
TALLY the newspaper reports concerning
the seizure.
A DISPATCH has been received at New
| York police headquarters from Detective
Phil Reilly, dated Panama, announcing
that he had given up all hope of recaptur-
ing Bushnell, the defaulter and that he
was on his way home alone.
A LOSS of about $3.50, 600 was caused by a
| fire which start ed the other night in A. G.
Trentman's building, on Calhoun street.
Fort Wayne, Ind.
On the night of the 9th the Rio Grande
! Western train No 3, known as the Modoc,
was held up near ThOmpSon's Springs by
train robbers. Efforts to break into the ex-
press car failed, and they secured only
/ about $1,000 and some jewelry from the
| passengers.
THE committee to report on the books of
/ f. II. Stedman, county treasurer. of Des
| Moines, Iowa, report deficit of S11, 800.
! THE wreck of the steamer Montreal in
! the straits of Belle Isle was due to an ice
! berg, which forced the steamer aground
The finding of the dead bodies of Ollie
! Jones, his wife and two other persons was
J reported from Corvallis, small
] town in BUtterrot valley, in Western
| Montana a young girl, who had been
/ shot in the hip was also found on Big
| Hole mountain. All of them had been
/ shot in the back.
| EBEN S. ALLEN, president of the Forty
/ second Street Car Company, New York.
has been arrested for forging certificates
| Of stock for about 700 shares. The amount
| of his dedication is stated to be SIPS 900
or S1S0,o0o. The money was probably
/ sunk in a worthless fire escape patent
A DETERMINED effort is being made in
| Chicago to abolish the illustrated police
| newspapers.
| BENJAMIN F. SPANDAUER. who was the
principnl witness against Mrs. Surrat
| hanged at Washington in 1868 on the
/ sharge Of conniving at the assassination
/ of President Lincoln, died recently in the
/ Maryland penitentiary.
THE annual convention Of the American
/ Catholic Total Abstinence Society G losed
at Cleveland, o., on the sth. Rev. J. NJ.
| Cleary, of Wisconsin. was elected presi-
/ dent.
THx Columbus Iron Company, of Ian
] caster, Pa, recently posted u notice of
! an increase from $500 10 So 81 for pudding
and other wages in proportion, thus keep
/ ing the promise made four months ago
4 that when trade grew better they would
advance wages to the old standard