The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-11-29
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

prisoners in Crete confined for political
or semi-poitical Offenses. This action
is said to be result of the recent visit
to the Turkish capital of Emperor Will
lam of Germany.
ANOTHER female writer, Miss Eliza
/ beth Bisland, started overland for San
Francisco, on the 14th, with the inten-
| tiOn of travelling around the world in an
opposite direction from that taken by
| Nely BLY,. She will leave San Francis
co for Yokohama on the 21st, and ex-
poets to reach New York City in seven
ty-five days.
FINANCIAL confidence in Brazilian Sc
curities seems not to have been much
shaken by the turn taken by affairs in
the South American empire, and the
falling off in prices was much less than
might have been expected.
SPEAKING of the probable result of
the late election on Prohibition in Iowa,
| George DobsOn, the leading Republican
candidate for Speaker of the House of
| Representatives of that State, says: Il
| do not think there is any prospect for
repeal. The Republicans have a work
| ing majority in the Senate strong
enough, l am sure, to avert the disas-
ter. Prohibition is the settled policy of
| the State and of the Republican party"
DANIEL FARRELL, of Philadelphia,
| died of hydrOphobia, on the 18th, the re-
suit of bite on the little finger of the
left hand by mOngrel cur.
DPHTHERIA has become epidemic in
Berlin, and many parts of the city are
| quarantined.
w. j. ARKELI, of Philadelphia, has
offered 500, 900 per annum for the privi-
lege of printing advertisements on the
back of postage stamps.
A MAN was caught by the Frankfort
| Germany police, on the night of the
| 10th, in the act of numbering a woman
| in the street, la Jack the Ripper. The
| body of his victim was horribly mutt
lated. The prisoner gave the name of
| Bender. which is believed to be an alias.
| NJ. FLOQUET was, on the 10th, elected
president of the French Chamber of
Deputies receiving 3S2 of the 400 votes
recorded.
THE late Emperor Dom Pedro of Bra
zil, together with his Prime Minister,
were ordered to leave the country,
and sailed for Lisbon on the 18th. Sew
eral other members of the imperial gov
ernment have been arrested and inn
prisoned.
Emperor William will visit Spain.
DIR. MOZART JENKINS, of Trenton, N.
| J., who was called, on the 10th, to visit
Mrs. Della Parnell, reports that he found
| the mother of the great Irish leader in
actual distress for lack of the necessaries
| of life.
A COLoRED man was found dead in
| Richmond, Va, on the 18th, in a box
car containing bales of wool which
was loaded and sealed at st. Louis about
nine days before.
A DISPATCH from Zanzibar, on the
| 18th, reported the burning of the camp
of Lieutenant Ruck, of DR.. Peters ex-
pedition, by the natives.
MGR. SATALLI has reported to the
Vatican that Catholics in America are
| opposed to governmental representation
at the Vatican, preferring to deal di-
rectly with the Holy See, but he be-
lieves that the difficulty is not insur-
mountable.
| INSPECTOR BYRNEs will investigate
the report that every fifth man on the
New York police force is either an An
archist or a Socialist, as stated in an in
terview by Sergeant Oliver Tins on the
18th.
knowles, TAYLOR & KNOWLES
China Works at East Liverpool, o., the
largest in the country, were totally de-
strOyed by fire on the 18th. The loss
will probably reach $500, 600; insurance
not more than $780, OOO Several per-
sons were injured in escaping from the
| works.
THE Interna tiOnal Congress recOnvened
in Washington, on the 18th, Secretary
Blaine presiding. There was not full
attendance, the Brazilian delegates be-
ing unavoidablY absent.
REV. FRANK RODGERs, of Orange, N.
J., who had been in Colorado for his
health and was returning home, died in
his berth on the Atlantic express just
before reaching Altoona, Pa, on the
18th.
J THE members of the Irish National
I League in Philadelphia propose to ex-
tend financial relief to Mrs. Della Par
nell.
DON PEDRO and his family go into
perpetual exile, their absence from Bra
I'll being regarded by the leaders of the
new republic as essential to the peace
, and welfare of the government
l. THE dead bodies of a family, consist
ing of father, mother and three sons
> were found in an unused well near Fog
! gla, italy, on the 18th. A family living
in the vicinity have been arrested or
suspicion of having committed the mur
ders, and it is generally believed thai
the murdered ones are the victims of &
D vendetta.
THERE is no decrease in the wheat
? movement in the Northwest. On the
4 contrary, the movement from country
e points to Duluth and Minneapolis, for the
< week ended on the nth, was nearly
7 400, 900 bushels heavier than for the
previous week. The receipts of the tive
points aggregated 8, 497, ,94s bushels, o
which 1878, 1s7 bushels were at Duluth
3 and 2, ,219, 761 bushels at Minneapolis.
GILBERT PIERCE was, on the 18th
made the unanimous choice of the Re
c publicans Of North Dakot fer Unite'
3 States Senator. On the same day tw'
ballots were taken for the second Sen
ator without result.
a SERIOUS freight wreck occurred il
y the Wichita canyon, Indian Territory, OF
: the Denver, Fort Worth & Texas rail
way, on the 18th. A flange of one of tn,
engines driving wheels broke, and th
4 engine and FIVE cars were thrown from
c the track. Engineer Wilmarth AM
/. Brakeman Wiers were instantly killed