The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-24

IT is stated that the Turks are massa-
creing Christians on the frontier of Mon
| tenegrO.
M1NNEsoTA's Drunkards' law has gone
| into effect. 1t provides that whoever be-
| comes intoxicated by voluntarily drink
| ing intoxicating liquors shall be deemed
! guilty Of the crime of drunkenness, and
| upon conviction thereof shall be pun
| tshed by fine and Imprisonment.
THE Terra Central Sugar Grinding
| Factory, at AEapzanillo, Cuba, was burned
| on the 18th, loss, $40O,OOO.
THE British House of Commons, on the
18th, rejected Mr.. LabOuchere's motion to
abolish hereditary sittings in the House
Of Lords.
THE Pope became suddenly indisposed
on the 18th.
AN Anarchist Republican conspiracy
has been discovered at Succia in Valencia,
Spain, among the peasants. The plot was
to seize the town, on the 18th, and sack
the houses Of the wealthy. The police
and soldiers arrested a number of the
cOnspirators. Firearms were found in
their possession and many also had pass
ports to South America.
TIE reports of the COMMITTEES of the Sa-
moan conference on the questions of
land tenure and the government of the
| islands were presented to the full body
on the 18th. The latter report was ap-
| proved with the exception Of few de-
| tails which were left over for discussion
at the next meeting Of the conference.
| THE Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Com
| pany's dep6t warehouse at Norfolk, Va,
was burned, on the 18th. The loss on the
| building and freight is estimated at 800,
| O00 The building, a wooden structure,
| was nine hundred feet long. The origin
| Of the FIRE is unknown.
THE late Duchess Of Cambridge left an
estate valued at about E22O 900. Most Of
her fortune was devised to the children
Of her daughter. the Duchess Of Teck.
ON.the 10th Stewart Brothers Packt ng-
house, at Council Bluffs, Ia, was burned,
with a quantity Of cured m eats. Loss,
$780, 900; insurance, 500, 400.
TIE manufacturing company occupy
ing three large wooden mills at Kensing-
ton avenue and Huntington street, Phila-
delphia, indefinitely suspended on the
nth. The concern employed about three
hundred men. Competition in trade and
low prices were the causes. The liabili-
ties will reach nearly $3.50, 900; assets,
100000.
A DISPATCH from Breslau, Germany, of
| the l7th, says that a conflict occurred
| between the military and the strikers
near there. The troops fired upon the
| strikers, killing a number OF them.
JUDGE JOHN l. MILBURN, of the st.
| mdTy-S COdALy OEpuduS' COuTJ db LEON
| ardtOwn, Nd, was struck Nv lightning
and killed on the 10th.
GEORGE HowERY, q wealthy farmer Of
| Shelby County, Ind, was arrested, on the
18th, and taken to Nashville on a warrant
charging him with being one of two men
who passed over 500 in counterfeit aves
and tens in the latter city.
The worst hail-stOrm that ever visited
Central and Northern lows was expert
enced on the 10th, lasting but two or
three minutes. Many of the stones were
larger than hens eggs. They cut the
leaves and small limbs from trees, dam
aged vegetation, and caused great loss to
greenhouses and windows.
A CoNFERENCE of Austrian AMI Hun
| garian sugar merchants was held at
| Trieste on the 11th. Resolutions were
| adopted urging the government TO With
draw from the London sugar bounties
| convention.
| POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER ad-
| dressed over three thousand OF his Phila-
! delphia-employes on the evening of the
/ 18th. He talked to them for over half an
| hour, receiving frequent Outbursts of ap-
| plause. The occasion was the second an
nual distribution of the profits of the
| immense establishment among its en-
| plOyes.
| TnE delegates to the Presbyterian Gen
/ eral Assembly in New York City were
| rendered reception, on the night OF the
| 10th, at the Metropolitan Opera House by
| the Presbyterian Union of that city.
| There was music, luncheon and speaking.
| Governor Beaver Of Pennsylvania and
| others delivered addresses.
A SERIOUS fight occurred near Beverly,
! w. Va, on the 18th, among about forty
! Italian laborers on the West Virginia
| Central railroad extension. Three men
| were shot and badly wounded; two were
| severely stabbed, and others were cut
| beaten, bruised by stones, etc.
THE Parneu Commission resumed its
| sittings on the 18th. Father O'DOnovan,
| Of Tully, ireland, testified that the Moon
| lighters of that place were opposed to the
| National League.
| NELSON COL.BkRT (cOlored), who MUIR
! dered Philip Wentzel, superintendent Of
| the Columbia street. car stables in Washs
| ington, in October last was hanged al
| the District jail on 18th.