The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-28
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

man, died at his home in Elmira, n. Y,
| on the night Of the 18th. He was un-
| doubtedly the heaviest man in America,
| weighing at his death $40 pounds. He
was born in England, and was about forty
years of age. He was q blacksmith, and
worked at his trade up to three years ago.
THE jury in the case of w. e. Howard,
of New York City, rendered a verdict, on
the 18th, of guilty of grand larceny in OBJ
tanning Sc, 500 from the Electric Sugar
| Company by false pretenses. Sentence
was deferred.
AT Gastein, Germany, on the 18th,
monument to the memory of Emperor
William L of Germany was unvailed.
WILLIAM E. CHANDLER, Republican,
was reelected United States Senator
from New Hampshire on the 18th.
TRE announcement made, on the 18th,
that President Harrison intended to APP
point Rev. NJ r. Meminger as postmas-
ter at Charleston, s. C., caused much
comment. Mr.. Meminger is a son of G.
G.. Meminger, who was Secretary of the
Treasury of the confederacy.
| GEO. RYER, or Indianapolis, secretary
Of the Western Shooting Asso ociation,
while out hunting, on the 18th, fell from
fence and accidentally discharged the
contents of his gun into his chest. He
died instantly. He was once a German
Methodist preacher, but had become a
disbeIiever. His family are distinguish
ed and wealthy.
ELABORATE preparations are making
for laying the foundation stone of
statue Of Emperor William 1. at Metz, on
the 30th, which ceremony Will be per-
formed by the Kaiser.
LATE dispatches on the morning Of the
10Th stated that destructive ire was rag
ing in Jersey City, n. J., and that the en-
tire fire department had been called out.
The fire menaced manufacturing and ship
; ping interests.
THE New York Central freight house at
Buffalo, n. Y, was entirely destroyed by
} fire on the 18th. A number of the in
mates were severely burned, loss, abo ut
$4,000.
! on the 18th Attorney General Miller
received the resignation of George a.
Allen, United States attorney for the
, Western district of Pennsylvania.
w. II. DERBY, former cashier Of the
Mutual District Messenger Company of
I Boston was, on the 18th, sentenced to
three years. Imprisonment for embezzle-
5 ment.
4 THE National Association of Stove
Manufacturers of the United States as
| sembled in semi-annual convention at
, | Saratoga, n. Y, on the 10th, with seven
a | ty-five delegates in attendance.
. THE graduating exercises of Smith Col
. lege, at Northampton, Mass, took place
: on the 18th. The graduating class num-
bered fifty young ladies from different
sections of the country.
THE Paris Soliel says that the German
3 Government has made demand upon
: France for compensation for the arrest
q of the alleged German spy, Lechm er, who
s was captured near Belfort on Wh5tsun-
q day. The French officials declare that
me documents found on the person of
. Lechmer abundantly justified his arrest.
r SENATOR MANDERsON, of Nebraska, who
: | has long drawn a pension for a gun-shOt
ha civ war has
a discovered that under the law he is en-
r. titled to an increase of pension with II,
900 arrearages.
EDWARD B. Cox. a we'll known pOliti-
1t clan and bOok-keeper of New York City,
?, was committed to the Tombs, on the 10th,
n to await the action of the grand jury on a
le charge of embezzliug 81 900. Cox's pee
m ulations extend over q period of three
le years.
THE Treasury Department, on the 10TH
rejected the appeal of the Central Stamp
L ing Company of New York for the allow
10 ance of a drawback imported dr
IS plates used in the manufacture of various
Is articles intended for expectation.
u THE mayor of Belfast, Ireland, cableC
u to General Hastings at JOhnstoWn, on the
18th, TO draw upon him for the sum OF
ia e5OO as an installmont of the citizens re-
Mt lief fund for the Conemaugh food suffer
\. ers.
- THE second section of mail train No. Z
W. | west bound, on the Pan Handle railroad
,d | was wrecked, on the 18th, while pasing
New Cumberland Junction, two mile
east of Steubenville, o. Two person
l. were killed outright and eight injured
On four of them seriously.
o. GENERAL LUCIUs FAIRCHTLD, of Wis
IS. | eonsin, notified the President, on tn
be 10Th, that he accepted the appointment Of
re the Cherokee Commission.
THE Senate committee on Indian af
j. -.n1nai ir
y man, will start West early in July to re
sume its investigation into the conduct c
~ Indian traders.
gu Mr.. THOMAS POWER O'CONNOR testife
- before the Parneu Commission, on tn
~ goth, that the turning point of the agra
-N' rian struggle in Ireland was the reJee
is ton by Parliament OF the bill to com
ne pensate tenants for the improvement
st made upon their holdings. Disturbance
ii thereupon began, and the tenants wer
he | compelled to combine.
a THE management of the Nottin gha1
IN. colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarr
Coal Company, on the Goth, discharge
Is all the Polanders and Hungariaus EN-
a. ployed in the mine, to the number {
N nearly three hundred. a notice was ais
ns posted that in future none but English
% speaking and experienced men would /
~ employed.
me THE monument at Omoroy Japan,
ia the American corvette Oneida, sunk
ton | Toxic Bay,in 1870, was strewed with fOv
i've ors on Decoration Day by detail of We
on Grams from the flagship Omaha.
and FIRST LIEUTENANT o. II. CARTER, Of &
on | Engineer Corps, against whom charges
the malfeasance in Office have been mad
has been ordered from Savannah, G,
where he has charge of the river al
the harbor improvements, to Fort Flinc
the Fla, on temporary duty, pending an i
ion vestigation Of the charges by Inspecto
ex- General Hughes.
an FIVE bodies were recovered from {
tate drift near the Jobnstown bridge on
re- 2Oth-three women and two children
badly decompOsed and unrecog0izab
One OF the women held the bodies Of (
.sI two children, aged about six and fOurteC
- | clasped in her arms.
- RHODE ISLAND voted, by. a large malC
llns ity, on the 20th, to repeal the prohibito
~ amendment to her constitution. I
-i tue amendment was adopted in 1886, by "
of Is, 113 to $3.50.
TIE death of Joel Parker was q
tho nounced on the New York Stock /
80 change on the I9th.
: "a The municipal authorities Of Paris &;
- n garden party in the Pare MOnceau,
! - the Goth, in honor Of the committees Of
- exhibition and the exhibitors. Thi