The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-08-23

THE light offerings of bonds have re-
suited in a steady increase of the treasury
surplus, which, accorning to the Treasur-
er's statement, now amounts to $40, 800, 600
being the highest point reached since
October last The pension payments for
August are estimated at S13 600 600 and the
surplus viii be reduced accordingly.
THE trial of John L. Sullivan. the
pugilist commenced at Purvis, Miss, on
the 10Th.
IT is rumored that an important agree
ment has been entered into between En-
gland and the Shah by which the passage
of British troops through Persia will be
permitted.
A TERRIFIC cloudburst occurred at Pat
erson, N. j., the other morning. Streets
were washed out, cellars flooded and the
sewers choked so that the waters spurted
out of the manhOles.
AT curve on the Reading railroad near
Hamburg, Pa, the Williamsport express
ran into the rear end of a freight train
standing on the track. Seven cars of the
freight train were completely wrecked.
JANIS D. LEARY, the ship builder. of
New Y ork, will soon build a timber raft
in British Columbia and tow it to- San
Francisco. He was the builder of the two
Joggins RATS, one of which broke up
on the way to New York from Nova
Scotia.
The price of pig iron at Pittsburgh has
been advanced 81 per ton because of the
high prices of coke and freight transpOr-
tation.
THE Monon railroad has made cut in
Grand Army rates to Milwaukee to one
cent mile.
THE American branch of the High
Court of Foresters severed its connection
with the parent organization in England
at Minneapolis, Minn., on the 10th. The
name adopted was the Ancient Order
of Foresters of America"
A GAS explosion at Grand and Clinton
streets. New York, caused the fatal in
jury of two or three persons and the Sc
riOus injury of quite a number of others.
A crowd had been attracted watching
operations to discover leak.
SULLIVAN, the pugilist was found
guilty at Purvis, Miss, the 10Th.
JUDGE FIELD was arrested in the United
States Circuit Court at San Francisco on
the 10th for the killing of Judge Terry.
He was arraigned before Justice Sawyer,
who released him on a S., 900 bond.
THE pressmen employed on the New
York World struck recently for better
wages and new foreman.
THREE passengers were instantly killed
and many others injured by an accident
on the West Pennsylvania road near
Freeport, Pa, recently.
WILLIAM SPRY, a Mormon Elder, has
been arrested at Chattanooga, Tenn, on a
bench warrant issued by the United States
Court, charging him with bigamy and
adultery. Spry was in charge of the Nor
mon prOselyting in the South.
In the United States Court at Austin,
Tex, Gus Wilke ard Abner Taylor pleaded
guilty recently to the importation of
skilled laborers from Europe to work on
the new capitol and were fined 81, 900 and
costs in each of sixty-four cases.
EBEN S. ALLEN, the former president of
the Forty-second street railway, New
York, who was convicted of fraudulently
issuing the company's stock, has been
| sentenced to fourteen years at hard labor
/ in the States prison. The prisoner had
entered plea of guilty.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's repor) for the
seven days ended August Is numbered
| 213 compared with 2 1 the previous week
! and 219 the corresponding week of last
year.
AN attempt to wreck an excursion train
near Cambridge, Nd, recently, failed be-
| cause the engineer was running slowly al
| the time.
THE new cruiser Boston's damage by
running aground off Newport, r L, is
| quite serious, extending over a space Oi
| thirty-six feet long.
WILLIAM TRAINER, the young man who
entered Broker Leib's Office, 269 Broad
way, New York, a few days ago, pointed
| a pistol at him and demanded his money
and fred at him when he refused tC
| comply, has been sentenced to fifteen
| years and six months in the State prison.