The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-13

THE largest bar of gold ever cast in the
world was turned out at the United States
assay office at Helena, Mont, recently.
1t weighed 800 pounds and was worth a
little over 100000
THE Mexican Government has revised
article OF its customs tariff, wherein liv-
ing animals are made free of duty, and
has imposed heavy duties on imported
Sattle, swine, sheep, mules and goats, a
measure that can not fail to have a most
disastrous effect on the business of sup
plying Mexico with meat from the United
States.
MAX JACOBSON, son of an Austrian
Count but a man with a bad crimir al rec
ord, has been arrested in Chicago for en-
bezzlements from the Fidelity & Casualty
Company of Chicago. The amount stolen
was large. Jacobson had been general
western manager.
THE South of Ireland mackerel fishery
this year is declared failure.
ORE assaying SO ounces of silver to the
ton, and considerable gold has been struck
at a depth of 100 feet in the Eastern View
mine atSan Pedro, N. NJ.
The Government of San Salvador, Cen
tral America, has obtained a loan of
E3)0,0O0 in London for the purpose of ex-
tending its railroad system.
THREE sealers have arrived at Victoria
B. C., with over 3, 500 sealskins on board.
They reported that they saw nothing of
he United States revenue steamer Rush.
II. p. FERRY, a telephone lineman, was
instantly killed by an electric shock from
a wire on a street in Buffalo, N Y, the
other day.
JACOB SCoLE was smothered to death in
Purcel's grain elevator IN Chicago re-
Gently by the giving way of the door of a
bin.
THREE brakemen have been killed iD
the past week by low bridge near Brin~
deld, o. rs removal has been ordered
TWENTY -FOUR pr. soners from the Indian
Territory, all sentenced to long terms,
have been placed in the Ohio penItentiary.
THE officers of the Treasury Department
are considering the advisability Of chang
ing the present form of the debt state
ment so as to restore the $780, 600, 600 fund
held for redemption to the column of
assets where it stood before the change
made by Treasurer Jordan.
HEAVY frost fell. throu ghout the North
west on the night OF the 4th.
THE anthracite coal mine, No 2 OF the
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company at
Scranton, Pa, caught fire recently. Ef-
forts to subdue the fire were unsvailing.
FIRE in Laird. Norton s. Co.'s lumber
yard at Ninona, Mimi, recently de-
stroyed %, 900, 900 feet of lumber, 1000, 900
Shingles, a three story brick warehouse
and contents. consisting of doors, sashes,
glass, etc, together with sheds, tramways
and other property, making a total loss of
1914, ,OOo, or which the insurance was $40, :
SEQ
The town OF Tlacolula, in the State of
Hidalgo, Mex, has been entirely de-
,troyed by foods The people in the
hooded districts are in great distress.
TIE Streator (Ill.) miners have resumed
work at the reduced rate ofsT23E cents per
ton.
The Western Waterways convention at
Cincinnati adopted strong resolutions
urging Congress to improve the rivers.
sASeunku own. W oman committee suicide
at Niagara Falls the other mo. ming by
| jpmpiug into the water above the falls.
She was about twenty five years old, had
red hair and wore black dress She was
alive when she went over the falls, as
she was seen 10 raise her head