The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The 8th.
| Four Russian military officers have
wagered that they will cover the distance
! between st. Petersburg and Paris, on
horseback, within forty-five days. The
wager has been accepted, and the officers
will start on their journey some time dur
ing the month of May.
THE Austrian colony in Buenos Ayres
has sent q golden wreath, valued at 10000
francs, to be placed on Prince Rudolph's
tomb.
ALMOST the entire fire department of
| milwaukee,, Wis, was temporarily laid
out, on the 10th, by smoke from a smo1-
| dering fire in the glazing rooms of the /
Sanger & Rockwell Sash and Door fac
tory.
ONE hundred and twenty men aud boys |
employed in Clark's o. N. T. Thread |
Works in East Newark, N. j., went on |
strike on the 10th, against a fifteen per
cent reduction in wages.
THE Cologne Gazette, in an article on
the future of Luxembourg, says it trusts
! that the German habits, languages and
influences that now prevail in the Duchy
will continue to do so under the Duke of
, Nassau.
SEVERAL accidents occurred at the
, Charlottenburg Germany races on the
10th, some OF which may prove serious,
and one probably fatal. Count Heinrich
} DOhna was thrown from his horse in
hurdle race, and injured internally.
There is little hope of his recovery.
t THE Spanish Government has pur-
| chased site in Berlin and has begun
, | building palatial embassy for her rep
resentatives to Germany.
= The coroner's jury, inquiring into the
: cause of the death Of Willie Berg, who
was shot in Buffalo, N. Y, on the sth, by
his playmate Charles Muse, returned
t verdict, on the 10th, of accidental death.
/ THE anniversary of the birth of Edward
\ ~ hon INN
# was celebrated, on the 10th: by the pro-
moters of the new Hahnemann Hospital
in Rochester, N. Y, by the formal open
. ing of the hospital.
: THE Secretary of the Treasury has
y awarded the contract for excavating, con-
% creting and underpinning the Ph1ladeI-
0 phia Mint to Paul j. Essick & Son, OF
Philadelphia, for So S31.
"a THE coroner's jury that inquired into the
h death in London of the American suicide,
IS Rev. Sydney Hunt, rendered verdict, en-
a the 10Th, stating that Mr.. Hunt was tenn
70 porarily insane when he committed the
10 deed. All save the technical evidence In
the case was suppressed.
JAMES LAMEY, a foreman in charge OF
IN the iron work at the new post office, un-
On der construction at Brooklyn, N. Y, fell
e. from the second story to the basement, 9
a. distance of fifty feet, on the 10th, and sus'
1g tanned injuries from which he died short
ly after.
- DR.. CHAs. PELLEGRINI, Vice-Presiden
~ ~ of the Argentine Republic, and Mr.. w. K
- Vanderbilt arrived in Paris on the 10th.
1 The Balloon Society of Great Britain
a. has bestowed a gold medal upon Mr
- Williams, of Cincinnati, who has g1Vel
- numerous exhibitions in England or M
skill in the use of the parachute in de
a scending from balloons.
10 THE special National convention to con
,f slider the question Of consolidating the tW
r1.aN NJ i
NJ bany, N. Y, on the 10th. Commander
ara in-Chief George Marks, of Brooklyn, pre-
sided.
SIX English boys, between sixteen an
ed nineteen years old, who were brought owe
1re on the steamer Wyoming by man name
he Rev, under an agreement to work on hl
lu- ranch in Iowa year for their passag
es- money. were detained at Castle GardeI
ng on the 10th, and will probably be ser
| back.
A SECOND attempt was made, on th
ION night of the 9th. at Louisville, o., to Wrec
in the vestibule train on the Pittsburgh, Fo
m Wayne & Chicago railroad, by strappln
Ids ties to the track. Timely warning we
at given. and the train was stopped Just {
ere the locomotive reached the obstruction.
ry. THE New York Stock Exchange will
closed on Good Friday, April 26, and {
- April % and 81.
TN, A SAD accident occurred on the CHI
ork cago, Santa Fe & California railway,
re- Lorenzo, fifty-seven miles south OF Ch
VS. cago, on the morning of the 10th. Durlr
'lIh a fog an extra freight train ran into u
'or' rear of a passenger train, smashing
81, bits private coach, not a single one
S the occupants of which escaped. Fol-
S AuH people were killed and four serious
~! ou' wounded. Among the killed was yOul
"a lady on her way East to be married.
10 II HE Jury in the case of Miss L1bt
,o1' BeechIer, on trial at Omaha, Neb', tor
of 7
turned a verdict, on the 10th, OF not gun
,c.s of murder. King had lived with the WON
as his wife, but never married her, a
. iii ~ married lady at Omaha, Miss Beechl
rt,s going from Chicago to kill him.
80 THE schooner Carrie A. Bucknam
y - rived at New York on the 10th, andrepo
Sis ed that when off Saona island sne
chased by a Dominican war vessel and nj
upon. The schooner was flying the Ann
IVA lean flag at the time.
2 iva NATHAN F. DIXON (Rep.) was elect
a. United States Senator by the Rho
tho Island Legislature on the 10th
REAR R-ADMIRAL THOMAS H. PATTERs
- died at Washington on the 10th.
III . WILLIAM WHARTON, of Massachuse
the the newlv-appointed Assistant Secrets
'0O of State qualified, on the 1lth, and
sumed the duties of the position at on
the PAYMAsTERs J. r. CarmOdy and F
,lOy- Herman were, on the llth' pIaceo Oh
, his retired list of the navy.
in a Mrs NJ L. GRASTY was found DEAD
is of her residence at Danyille, Va, on
April morning of the 18th, with an empty chic
that bottle beside her. The coroner's jury q
hind it as their opinion that she took an oV
dose Of the drug, but not with suicidal
tent She had been separated from
n for husband for several months. They "
the one Of the prominent families OF that
Ia Is ton of the State.
Its THE annual oratOrical contest, on
ener- nth. for the Yale junior exhibition pr
ing a was won by John Crosby, Of MinneaP'
veral Mimi, who had seven competitors.
lctive subject was fsJohn WilmOt, second ]
of Rochester"
IT is alleged that the steady advanc
Gies- the price of raw sugar for the past
noted months has been due to the existenc
'ating a combination among Cuban produ
dis with a view to securing better terms I
cre- the Sugar Trust.
g who TIE New York Yacht Club, on the
The voted to accept Earl Dunrayen's C
y and Ienge for a match for the Americas
IS. A committee was appointed 10 aFrt
the preIilninaries which are 70 deterT
n the what Yacht shall be put toward aga
gland, the Valkyrie.
SUBJ TIE Planet Mills factory at Brook
ption, for the manufacture Of Jute bags
upon twiue. iute carpets, ETC., was totally
before stroved by FIRE at one O'Clock on
or an morning of the 18th Loss, S4O0O0O
ut will insured. or the 900 girls comprisin
lonor- night force, two were badly burned.
others escaped amid great panic and
- 4ba fusion.
N , tao @ TWELVE families were evicted fror
lans OIphert estates in Ireland on the
a4e No resistance was made.
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