The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-11-01


fenced on the 21st, at Aachen, for snug
Cling corn into Germany. Their opera
tions during the past year aggregated
hundreds Of tons Of grain.
AN old lady, born under the admins
tratiOn of President Washington. who
is now nincty-three years of age, has
1ust filed an application for pension as
the widow Of soldier of 1912.
GERMANY has proclaimed a protector
ate over the East coast Of Africa from
WitOo to Kismaya, conditioned upon the
consent Of the chiefs there to be given.
The rights Of all foreigners are reserved
under the proclamation.
SIR EDWARD WATKINS, who is at the
head of the company organized 10 erect
a structure in London which shall out
EiGel Einel himself, has issued a circu-
lar Offering $50 guineas for designs for a
tower 1850 feet in height.
THE man Cole, the first Of the prison
ers tried at Marysboro, Irel and, for the
killing Of Inspector Martin, was, on the
22d, found by the jury guilty of man
slaughter. Father McFadden and tho
others accused viii probably receive the
same verdict.
NJ TRANTwEuER, chief engineer of
the Brunig railway, has applied for a
concession from the Swiss Government
for an underground railway up the jung
frau mountain. 1t is proposed to reach
the summit Of the mountain by means
Of tubular tunnel.
IL speech at Cincinnati, on the 25th,
Senator sherman said that the next
Congress will undoubtedly institute
some action tending toward the unioz
Of North Central and South America
into solid phalanx Of republics, com-
mercially and politically.
THE Brooklyns won the fourth game
in the worlds championship series from
the New York base ball team, on the
2Sd, by a score of 10 to z, in six innings,
the game being called on account of
darkness, thus scoring three out of four
games played mp to that date.
TIE Oxford Copper Company obtained
an attachment in the Supreme Court OF
New York City, on the 23d, against the
property in that State of the Paris So
ciete Des Metaux, which organized the
late corner in copper, on a claim for
S25O'oOO for non-fulfllment of contract.
OK the ODD Mayor Grant of New York
City issued an appeal to the citizens of
that city for subscriptions to the Worlds
Fair fund, declaring that every days
delay endangered the success of the
project, and pointing out the advantages
to accrue to the city from the exposi-
tion.
IL his great speech at Southport, on
the 23d, Hon. William +. Gladstone was
greeted by house crowded almost to
suiTocation. lie spoke of the struggle
for home rule in ireland as being as de-
serving as the late strike of the London
dock laborers Of public sympathy and
support.
PENSION COMMISSIONER RAU,I is en-
titled TO a pension as a wounded soldier
OF the late war, but has never filed an
application. While his case would no
doubt receive careful attention at pres
ent from the pension officials, he has no
idea of trying to get place on the pen
sion list.
MUNICH, Bavaria, has Jack the
Ripper" mystery quite as profound rs
that OF Whitcchapcl, London. Two
girls were found in that city, on the
morning of tho 21st, with their bodies
mutilated in manner to lead to the
suspicion that the London ficnd had
started on his travels.
ApvIcEs from Apia, Samoa, report the
occurrence Of a battle on the Island OF
Savoii between the forces of Malietoa
and Tamasese. A thousand mon are said
TO have been engaged, but it is not
known which party was victorious.
Several arc said to have been killed and
a large number wounded.
THE Nihilists are again active in st.
Petersburg, and the city has been flood
ed with their revolutionary proclama-
tions- The police are entirely at a loss
70 explain how these documents are
printed or distributed. 1t is asserted
that the printing is done in Paris under
the protection of certain high govern
mont officials tainted with revolutionary
doctrines.
GENERAL IGNATIEFF arrived in Rome,
on the 22d, on a special mission from
Russia 20 the Vatican. bearing an auto
graph letter from the Gar accepting the
arbitration of the Pope on the Balkan
question, and leaving His Holiness free
to convoke a congress or adopt any other
course which, in his Judgment, will lead
TO the establishment of q modus vivendi
between Russia and Austria.
GovERNoB FowLE OF North Carolina
oponed the Eleventh Annual Colored
state Fair at Raleigh, on the 2Sd, by a
speech to a large audience OF negroes,
in whose behalf and protection, should
it be necessary, he pledged the whole
power OF the State. He spoke OF the
happy condition of the Southern negroes,
and said his auditors we're as happy as
any people on the face of the earth.
A MAN giving the name Of Charles
Harris, who was arrested at Reading.
Pa. on the 25th, for forgery, and who
admits his guilt, is supposed TO be Tas-
cott the Chicago murderer. He has all
the scars and wounds the bad teeth,
facial characteristics, habits, etc, men
toned in the description of Taseott
Tascott is described as a guitar and
mandolin player, and among the pris-
oner's effects is a guitar and some either
strings.
THE opening OF the German Reichs-
tar. on the 22d, was an unusually tame