The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-17

VOL. XXIV.-NO.
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary of Important Events.
COUNT ToLsroI Russian Minister of the
Interior died on the sth.
on the 9th the coal beavers Of Ashland
Wis, struck Tor higher wages,
THE President on the 7th. appointed
Frank w. Palmor,ot Chicago,to to be Public
Printer.
GENERAL WILLIAM =. HARSEY, the
noted Indian fighter Of a past generation,
died at Orlando, Fla, on the 9th, aged
eighty nine years.
THO. ROOSEVELT. OF New York, and
Frank Thompson, Of South Carolina, have
been appointed members Of the Civil.
Service Commission.
TWENTY FIVE acres OF small buildings
at Moreland, a suburb OF Chicago, was
swept by fro, on the sth, and seventy
hye families rendered homeless.
TIE President, on the 9TH, appointed
Arthur l.. Thomas, Governor; Elijah
Sells, Secretary Of state, and Ellsworth
Daggett surveyor-General,o of Utah.
THE Find!oy (O.) Goblet works, said to
be the largest establishment Of the kind
IN the United States, were burned, on tae
9TH throwing 800 persons out OF employ
mgnt. The total loss is Sl25,0O0.
WALKER BLAINE stated, on the 10th.
that there was absolutely no truth in the
published report that the Danish Govern
ment had protested against the appoint
ment OF MIR. E1ander as Minister to Dem
mark.
THE indicted members Of the Jersey
City,N. j., Board of Public Works, Messrs.
Kern, Hilliard, Watt and Reynolds, COM
monty known as the big Four" were
placed on trial, on the 9th, charged with
mnlfeasance in Office,
REPRESENTATIVES, OF the Scotch Irish
citizens OF the United States met at Col.
umbia, Tenn, on the Sth, and organized
the Scotch Irish Association. Ex.0ov-
ernor Proctor Knott, OF Kentucky, deliv-
cred the opening address,
The Interior Departments on the sth,
instructed Inspector PickleF, at Oklahoma
City, Okla, to notify settlers that sales Of
town lots by town-site companies or other
private individuals or organizations are
worthless under the law.
THEoBoRE wLDmAN, Of Now York City,
who was secretary of biographical
Union No. from 1894 to 1855, is said by
an expert who has examined the books to
be between $1,000 and s., ,090 short In his
accounts with the Union.
THE Edward Ran Shoe Company. OF
hoe UFr
was organized in 1887 under Maine laws,
and with a capital stock Of S25O,OOO. The
cause Of the assignment was an attach
ment by a small creditor.
COLONEL +. c. LovELAND has been an.
pointed to succeed General SiegeI as PEN
sion agent in New York, Colonel Love-
land formerly held a position as special
agent in New York City, but was dis
missed by Commissioner Black.
HENRY GEonGE consoles himself for the
indifference of the masses in the United
states by the attention which he has rec
Ceired in Great Britain, where the halls
have proved TO small to hold tho audi
ences that nightly aook to hear him.
THE new suspension bridge at Niagara
Falls, to replace the one carried away by
a cyclone last winter, was opened tuE
travel on the 7th. The bridge, which was
feet wide and 1917 feet above the water.
The Department OF state has been In.
formed by our Minister at Paris that the
French Government in reply to a request,
had choerfully granted permission for tbs
ehirty marines sent out for thot purpose
10 guard the American section of the ex-
hibition,
F0RTY-sIx Of tho striking street-car
drivers Of Rochester, n. Y, united I'm a
petition, on the Sth, to be taken back into
Uhe employ of the company, thus pruc-
tically ending one OF tho longest and
most expensive strikes in the history Of
that city,
THE Commandaut Of the Boston Navy
Nard has been directed 20 fire a National
salute atsunrise, on June II, the anniver-
sRry OF the battle Of Bunker Hill, and,
should hC consider It proper and expe-
dent TO direct the marines to take part
in the parade.
IRA w. HOPKINS, Of Maiden, Mass,
whose coat, containing personal docu-
ments, was found in the railroad wreck at
Hamilton, Ont, Is safe at home. He in
tended taking the Inflated train at Chica-
60, but missed it. His trunk, however,
went forward.
A SUIT against Adam Badeau, ex-Cou-
sui 60 Havana, who figured a claimant
FOR compensation as the alleged author OF
Grants Memoirs, has been filed in New
York by the Government to recover
money which il is claimed BadeRu appro-
priated while in office.
EMMA ABBOTT, the prima douna, has
contracted with a Philadelphia firm for a
monument to her late usband, Eugene
Wetherell, to cost $4,000. IL will be
erected az Gloucester Mass, and will be
6fty-four feet high and composed of va
rious species OF marble.
The body Of Thomas Downs, a promi-
nent Democratic politician, who had been
mysteriously missing for more than a
week, was found floating in the lake at
Cleveland. o., on the Sth. Inability TO
procure employment is supposed to have
caused him To commit suicide.
@
is expected that the President will
soon be called upon to deCid a dispute
between the Interior Department and the
Civil-Service Commission as to which IL
entitled to dispense the patronage of the
Census Bureau, numbering three thousand
clerks, besides local superintendents.
News was received, On the 9TH that
Rev. Father Damien, who for the past
sixteen years had devoted himself to
labors among the lepers at MolaS,
Hawaii, died at Kalawn, April 10, OF
leprosy, contracted in the performance OF
his duties. lie was Belgian by birth.
The Comptroller Of the Currency, on
the 9th, forwarded to san Francisco divi-
dend checks amounting to S2S7,j09 for tho
payment of the first dividend Of sixty
Eve. per cent. on claims proved against
the California National Bank of San
Francisco which failed December L, lsSs.