The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-07

MINISTER ROBERT T. LINCOLN and wife
were received by the Prince and Princess
of Wales at the Marlborough House, Lon
don, on the 9th.
THE discovery Of plots against the life
of the Car are of almost daily occur
renee, The Russian police have discov-
cred numerous societies with ramihcations
all over the continent whose sole purpose
seems to be the murder of the Russian
Emperor.
THE seditious priests Of Guanajuato,
Mexico, win be expelled and not shot, as
reported.
The Canadian Government does not an
ticipate trouble with the United States
over the jurisdiction Of Alaska waters.
CARDINAL GIBBONS has expressed him
self as decidedly opposed to prohibition
but in favor of high license.
A REPORT that the assembly of Crete
had voted in favor of the annexation of
the island of Greece is officially denied.
THE report that the British feet has
been ordered to the Behring sea was a
canard.
THE Belgian Chamber of Representa-
tives has voted confidence-78 to 32-in
favor of the ministry.
IT was recently rumored that the Mexi-
can Congress, in secret session. was dis
cussing the question of ceding Lower
California to the United States. 1t was
believed, however that the rumOr was
merely a stratagem of the Conservatives.
MANY lives were lost and an enormous
amount of property destroyed by ter
rife hurricane, which prevailed for four
days on the Australian coast
TEN thousand people have been rendered
homeless by a terrible cOnfa cation at 70
kato Japan.
7 4 i
Lord James Douglass off the Newmarket
course for deiaulting in bets.
A BANQUET in honor of Mr.. Ryan, the
United States Minister, was given in the
City of Mexico on the 30lh. Minister
Ryan responded to the toast ''The Presi-
dent of the United States" HIS speech
was vigorously applauded.
The action of the Chicago, Burlington &
Northern III reducing freight rates to the
basis of SO cents a hundred pounds from
Chicago to st. Paul on traffic originating
east of Chicago will be met by ali the
other st Paul lines except the Rock
Island.
In the British House of Commons Sir
James Ferguson, Parliamentary Secretary
to the Home Office, denied the reports
from Victoria, British Columbia, that three
men -of-war in the Pacific had been or
dered to proceed to the Behring sea to pro-
! ference by American men -of-war.
DECORATION day was duly observed on
the 30th. The occasion was seized upon
by politicians, somewhat more than usual,
to elaborate their principles. The prin-
cipal features were visits to Grants tomb
at New Y ork and the Sheridan monument
at Washington. In the South, Confeder-
ate and Federal graves were decorated
alike. President Harrison attended the
parade at New Y ork.
ONE hundred arrests have been made at
Belgrade in connection with the recent
riot.
PRINCE ALoIs SCHwARzENBURG and a
Lieutenant of hussars fought a duel near
| Vienna recently. The former was mortal
| ly wounded.
A HEAVY storm of rain and hail visited
Huaiutla, Mexico, on the 30th. The town
was inundated and almost entirely de-
stroyed. Many lives were lost The de-
struction of cattle and other property was
immense.
VIzTTELLI, the we'll known bookseller Of
London. has been sentenced to three
months Imprisonment for publishing
Zola's novels.
SEVERE storms have caused great dam
age in France and China. Many lives
have been lost.
LORD SALISBURY, replying to deputa-
tion in favor of a bi-metallic standard
OF currency, said he did not think
parliamentary decree would settle the
question but the opinion of the people,
founded on business interests, must decide
it. He hoped that the coming congress at
Paris would be really an international
one. The fiT al decision would depend on
how far the nations would CO. operate.
TRE manager and assistant Of the Bally-
mena estates (Ireland) were assassinated
recently in the public road. Ballymena is
twenty miles north of Belfast in a strongly
Protestant community.
A MESSAGE has been received in London
from General HippOlyte. the insurgent
leader in Hayti, saying that he has de-
feated Presi lent Legitme, captured Port
au Prince and proclaimed himself Provis-
ioual President.
THERE was a cave-in at the Beverly Hill
mines, at Hanley, England, recently, en-
tombing 100 miners.
THE Rock Island has given notice that
it would meet the rates of the Chicago,
Burlington & Northern between Chicago
and st. Paul.