The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-19


compartment of the steamship Chilian,
on the 18th, after she had cleared from
New Orleans for Havre. Her cargo con-
sisted of 1890 bales of cotton and 10000
bushels of bulk corn.
AN explosion Of molten metal occurred
in Todd & Co.'s foundry at Youngstown
o., on the 18th. Frank and Geo. Bryant
were horribly burned and their recovery
is doubtful. Six other employees were
more or less seriously injured.
ONE of the gas wells near Tif1n, o.,
which was drilled about year ago, and
developed a capacity of 100000 cubic feet
daily, suddenly increased is flow, on the
18th, to 2s, ,O0O, 900 feet, throwing over 200
feet of the casing from the well, and doing
consider able other damage.
THE st Gamer City of Chester, from New
York, which arrived at Queens town on the
night Of the 18th, reported having passed,
on April 8, in mid-ocean, the Danish
steamer Danmark, from Copenhagen for
New York, The vessel had been aban-
doned and was in q sinking condition.
She had apparently been in collision.
/ Her bow stood high out of water, while
her stern was sunken almost below the
level Of the sea.
THE Navy Department has instructed
the commandant of the New York Navy
Yard to furnish the custodian of the Gus
| ton-house with q sufficient amount OF
| bunting and flags to decorate the public
| buildings in New York City during the
inaugural Centennial ceremonies. Sail
ors will also be provided to render as
sistance in arranging the decorations.
| In recent debates in the British House
of Commons the governments position in
regard to its alliance with Germany to
suppress the African slave trade has been
sharply criticised. 1t is asserted that Bis
marck is simply using England's iniu-
ence and prestige in the East and In Afr1cs
to help repair some of the blunders made
in those quarters by German officers an(
representatives.
THE court, in the Western Union Tele'
graph Company's application against th'
New York City Subway Commission, de-
cided against the Western Union on th'
18th.
THE house of W. P. Wood, two mile
from Clayton, Ca, was burned to tn
: ground early on the morning of the 18th
and Mrs. Wood and her five children wer
I burned to death. Mr.. Wood, who is a car
penter, was absent from home. The fir
, is supposed to have been communicate
, to the house by burning leaves.
/ OVER 700 hands were thrown out Q
work by the destruction of the Plane
e Jute Mills, of Brooklyn, on the 18th.
q In concluding his address before th
ParnelI Commission, on the 18th, S
- | C01rleS Russell Sd1Q bno COuIb W c@S VI AZ
: the history of the Irish revolution, and b
IL asked for it a fair and generous consider
alton.
i LYMAN E. KNAPP, of Middlebury, "
: was, on the 18th, appointed Governor
Alaska; James p. Luse, of Dakota, to |
II register of the land office at Rapid Cit.
- Oak, and Thomas M. Reed, Jr., to be re-
lister of the land Office at Seattle, w. +.
III AT four O'Clock, on the morning OF {
T. 18th, an attempt was made to blow !
N Jerry Driscolrs saloon in Dublin Gulc
is Mont. A couple of sticks Of giant powd
, we're placed under the building and e
ploded by a fuse, badly wreckiug Il
a. building. Two men, who were sleepI
70 in the store, were slightly injured.
l. man named Tom Mccarthy, who had
r grudge against Driscoll, has been arres
O. ed.
A MAN supposed to be Salzman, W
10 murderousIy assaulte4 Mrs. Muller
eT Irvington, N. J., few weeks ago,
eo captured near Barnegat, on the 18th, 81
us taken to Newark for Identification
ge w. h. II. SMITH has been appoint
ID, chief clerk of the naval bureau or stea
MT engineering, vice Julius j. Feeks, 7
signed. Mr.. Smith was the lmmeol'
no predecessor of Mr.. Feeks, and went Q
OK after service of twenty-three years
~ the bureau.
ng THE Secretary of the Navy has REFER
as to a board consisting of Chief Construc
as Wilson, Engineer in Chief Melville a
:, Captain Howison, the application OF I
DO Union Iron Works of San Francisco
Oh an extension of time under their contF
-. for the construction of Cruiser No. ..
Il. DURING a thick fog, on the morning
az the 18th. the steamer Conanicut, runn
~. ~. from Newport to jamestown, R. l.,
~ ashore on the rocks in the outer harb
uo ne making a large hole in her. The pass
W gers were landed in the tug Fairy.
-. "a wrecking schooner went to the assistal
- -. of the disabled steamer.
ng ON 'no - s,l1,' 1arenen and Hamb
-. for New Y ork.
Dlo @ A CYCLONE struck the mining town
In0 BeidIer, O., on the 18th, demolishing
re- dwellings. William Lewis twelve-ye
NY old daughter, was caught in the ruins
la e.1 fatally injured Others were badly