The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-21

IHE Will or the late Carl rosa, OF Lon"
don, has been entered for probate. The
instrument makes bequests aggregating
ELS, ,0O0
THE steel torpedo depot ship Vulcan
was launched at Portsmouth, England,
on the 18th. She is the largest vessel the
British Government has ever built.
LORD ADELBERT PERRY CEcILs the evan
gelist who was drowned at Picton, Ont,
on the 18th, was brother of the present
Marquis of Exeter and distantly related
to Lord Sails bury.
THE Iowa State Normal School gradu-
ated fifty three students, on the 18th, a
gain of tweHty-one over last year.
A CALL for a Territorial convention in
Oklahoma has been issued, signed by
Mayor Dyer of Guthrie and a committee
of citizens. The convention is to begin at
Guthrie, Wednesday, July II.
WIN. SEMPLE, the we'll known dry goods
merchant of Allegheny City, Pa, died on
the 14th. aged sixty-two. MFR. Semple had
been engaged in the dry goods business
in Allegheny since 1S4S, and was largely
| interested in a number of railroads,
| banking institutions, etc. He had amassed
fortune of about S3, 900, 900.
THE period Of mourning prescribed for
the late Emperor Frederick of Germany
expired on the 18th.
IT is probable that a date will soon be
fixed for the marriage of Prince Leopold
of Prussia and the Princess Louise of
Schleswig- Holstein, which was indefi-
nitely postponed when Emperor Freder-
| ick died.
THE Prince of Wales, ,on the 18th, visited
the British American Home in Paris, sup
! ported by the Christian societies. He ex-
pressed himself as highly pleased with
the institution, and particularly eulogized
Mrs. Lewis, through whose instrumental
ity the home was founded.
THE Lord Provost of Edinburgh has re-
fused to confer the freedom of the city
upon Mr.. ParnelI on the occasion of the
visit of the Irish leader in July. The SEN
| ior magistrate present at the ceremony
| will therefore officiate.
! A BANQUET was given. on the evening of
| the 18th, by the executive of the Paris Ex-
/ ibition. Among the $50 guests were sew
eral Cabinet ministers and many diplo-
mats. General Franklin, the American
/ Commissioner to the exhibition presided.
ADvICEs from Malone and other points
| in New York as far east as Champlain,
say that the report of the powder explo
sion at Brookville, Ont, on the 14th was
| distinctly heard at those places.
The Comptroller of the Currency, on the
/ 18th, declared a second dividend of ten per
| cent in favor of the creditors of the FL
! thirty-five per cent. on claims proved
amounting to 50, $50, ,29S. The bank failed
June 20, 1887.
THE ship builders in Great Britain
have never been so busy as at present
| They are so hard pressed that many of
them are absolutely refusing all orders
| for new vessels.
| A SCOTLAND YARD detective is said to
/ be in New York watching developments
in the case Of the murdered DR.. Croniu
| and the men under arrest there charged
| with completely in the crime.
PATRICK A. WARD, president of the
Irish American Republican Club of In
dianapolis, and a prominent Clan-na-
| Gael man, committed suicide, on the 18th
| by taking prussIc acid.
KING LEOPOLD of Belgium is seeking
/ to interest American capitalists in the
| development of railways in the Congo
country.
THE fatalities resulting from the Ar
magh (Irelaud) railway disaster, reached
iseventy- six, on the 14th, thus exceeding
the number lost in the wreck of the Tay
bridge several years ago, which hereto
/ fore ranked as the most terrible in the
history of the United Kingdom, by two.
On the 18th. Edward CrawIey and an
/ other man known as the Australian, -
were burned to death in a fire at Lead
! vile, Col, which resulted from drunken
! orgie.
THE New Hampshire Republican caucus
| chose w. E. Chandler as the party nom
/ inee for United States Senator on the
| 18th.