The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-08-02
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

sale Of their entire African belongings
to an English syndicate.
MRS. JOHN MACKEY, with the De Cas- |
trOs, of New York, sailed from England, |
on the 23d, for America, on visit to her /
husband.
LATE advices from China say a recent |
fire at Luchow destroyed $1,000 houses. |
Over /, 200 persons were burned to death, |
and 400 others were killed. Nearly 17O,- |
600 people were made homeless, and at /
last accounts were camping out without |
shelter, and were dying at the rate of 100 |
a day from want anl exposure. The au- |
thorities were providing for their necessi- |
ties as far as possible.
THE trials of Messrs. BOulanger, Dillon |
and ROchefOrt, in the Senate Court have |
been definitely fixed for August 8.
THE Fourth Of July was celebrated at
Yokohama. Minister Swift gave a re-
ception, which was attended by all native
and foreign notables, and the American
and other men n-Of-war in the harbOr fred
s0lutes.
A NEW trust called the Knickerbocker
Bean Company was announced in New
York City on the 23d. 1t proposes to
supply all the saloons in the city with
materials for lunches.
REV. CROssLET, prominent in mission
ary work in China, died June q, on ship
board between Shanghai and Tien-
Tsin.
THE German press devOurs every scrap
of information from Paris about BOu-
LANCER. All agree that the brave Generals
chances for success in the coming cleo
tiOns are not injured by his Indictment,
to which they attach no Importance.
THE Austrian infantry has been in
creased by an addition of 5000 men, rais-
ing that arm of the service to war footing.
FOrty-t three regiments of cavalry have
been reduced by thirty six men each.
WAYNE WHITTIER, aged twenty years,
was arrested, on the 24th, while attempt
| ing to wreck freight train on the Read
| ing & Columbus road near Ephratah, Pa.
| He was committed to prison for trial.
THE steamer Bertha, from Ounalaska,
/ brings confirmation Of the report Of the
| loss in the Arctic ocean of the whaling
! schooners James n. Hamilton, Otter and
Annie. The vessels carried about sixty
| officers and men.
| ANDREW f. CRUTCHFIELD, editor and
| proprietor of the BaltimOrean, a society
and literary weekly published at Balti-
| more, Nd, died, on the 9th, aged about
/ sixty years. Mr.. Crutchfield was a ma
/ tive of Richmond, Va, and was WELL
/ known throughout the State.
| EMPEROR WILLIAM will attend the Wag-
| ner festival which opened at Bayreuth
on the 21st and is expected to arrive in
| that city about the middle Of August
! Apartments are being prepared for him.
THE impediments and annOyapces to
! which the German authorities are sub
/ jectiug all travel and traffic across the
| Swiss frontier are becoming harsher
| every day. They now insist upon opening
| and examining all postal packages going
| to or coming from Switzerland.
/ COMMISSIONER GILvEY, of the New York
| City Board of Public Works, on the
9th removed Thos. Connolly, the time
keeper who it was said blackmailed
| Hugh Cullum, the army veteran who
committed suicide recently.
THE party of American workmen who
are being sent to Europe by the Scripps
Newspaper League to represent America
at the Paris Exposition, left New York on
the Anchor Line steamer City of Rome on
the oath. The party will visit the princi-
pal towns in Europe, and will return in
September.
SECRETARY WINDOW was the guest of
Postmaster General Wanamaker at Jen-
kintown, Pa, on the 24th.
FRANK SUTTON, guest at the Grand
Union Hotel, New York City, was found
dead in his room, on the morning of the
24th, from gas asphyXiation. Ii is sup
| posed he committed suicide.
Mr.. Patrick EGAN, United States Min
lister to Chilli, arrived at Callao, Peru, on
the 1st and proceeded on his journey on
the 9th.
the oath. King Alexander, his son, met
him, as did also the Regents, members OF
the Cabinet and foreign representatives.
THE report Of the committee on judici-
ary to the North Dakota Constitutional
3 convention provides Cor a Supreme COur
, with three judges, and six judicial dis
tricts, with a judge for each.
GEO. w. CHILDs, of Philadelphia, has
received from Colonel Fred Grant Min
lister to Austria, a contribution Of S142
from the people of Carlsbad, $40 from
Mrs. U. s. Grant and $40 from himsel
! for the Johustown sufferers.
! THE strike among the lasters at th'
Athol (Mass.) Shoe COmpany's factor!
| ended, on the oath, by the lasters return
l ! ing to work at an advanced price list, t.
@ hold good until Mr.. Breeds return from
b Europe about September 10.
q THE trial of Mrs. Maybrick on thu
{ charge of poisoning her husband will
p, commence at Liverpool on the 31st 81
y Charles Russell has been engaged for tn
defense, his retainer being 500 guineas.
, THE Secretary of the Navy, on the 25t
=, awarded the contract for furnishing AZ
tons of steel for the new cruiser Maine t,
3 the Linden Steel Company Of Pitts burgh
Pa, for S34 753.
THE United States ship GaIena wa
: docked at New York, on the 25th, for th'
purpose Of being cleaned. She recenu
returned from Hayti.
= THE Postmaster Gen eral is going to TT
1 to popularize the Postal Guide, by the in
It , sertion, commencing with the Angus
e / supplement, OF matter OF interest to al
o patrons of the post-ofice.
= THE Interior Department. on the 25tI
1t issued warrant for $4,000 to the dele
$ gates from the Pottawatomie band of In
dians, being ten per cent of au old claim
10 the amount OF which was appropriated t
IS the band by the last Congress.
o A NUMBER Of the wealthiest and best
n known citizens of New York met, on tn
d 25th, at the mayors Office, and discusse
IS plans for a Worlds Fair, which it is pro
lt posed to hold in that city in 1892.
l. Mr.. LORING, the new American Minis
ter TO Portugal, presented his credential
in to the King at Lisbon on the 25th.
IA TIE board of officers to examine appl
,r cauts for appointment as superintend
a ents OF National cemeteries met
n Washington on the 25th.
a The funeral OF the late Joan ). Mul
"A | ply, the celebrated trainer and driver
= trottiug horses, took place from S
Jerome's Roman Catholic Church, Ne
York City. on the 10Th, and was largel
ce attended by prominent horse fanciel
th | and sporting men. Robert Bonner an
a | Gabe Case were among the pall- bearer
en IT is currently reported in New Yoi
ne that the failure OF Lewis Brothers & c,
,u | which startled the commercial world, q