The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-20
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERsoNAL ANo oENERM-


the receipt of number OF subscriptions
from Australia for the benefit of the
London strikers. He said that the work
men of America had forwarded senti-
ment and sympathy enough to encircle
the globe if it were committed to paper
but not single cent to relieve the wants
of their fellow wOrkmen.
ARGUMENT was begun in the United
States District Court Of California, on the
10th, on the matter of Federal jurisdic-
ton in the Nagle case.
A FEW flags were displayed at Newport
RI, on the 10th, and a salute was fred
at noon in observance of the anniversary
of the victory Of Commodore o. II. Perry
on Lake Erie. --
THE time of the New Mexico Territorial
convention, on the 95h, was occupied in
discussing articles presented by the COM
mittee on executive affairs. A cOnstitu-
tional provision that five years after the
adoption of the Constitution no pers on
unable to read or write the English Ian
guage shall exercise the right Of suffrage
was offered and referred to the commit
tee on elective franchise.
RICHARD FITZGERALD was arrested at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 10Th, charged
with the murder OF his wife, while he yet
stood on the brink Of her grave, at the
close of the funeral ceremonies.
THE sile-wheel steamboat Theodore
Weems was burned to the waters edge,
on the 10th, at her dock in Baltimore,
Md. No lives were lost.
THE sudden attack of virtue which
seized the Sultan of Turkey, recently,
when he summoned a horde of Witnesses
from Armenia to testify against their
cruel tyrant, Mossa Bey, has subsid ed.
MOssa Bey sent an immense sum of
money to the capital and the prosecu-
ton has been allowed to quietly drop out
OF mind. The witnesses, many of them
poor Christian are still in Cons tantino-
pie in a destitute condition and without
means to return home.
DETAILS of disaster wrought by the
great storm of the 10th and 11th on the
Atlantic coast continue to multiply. At
least one hundred lives were lost; scores
Of vessels were stranded or driven to sea,
and houses, crops and orchards innu-
merable were destroyed.
TIE Earl OF Zetland, who has been ap-
pointed VicerOy of Ireland, viii take the
oath OF office at Dublin Castle, on the
1st and viii make his state entry into
Dublin on December 1.
THE Brussels Movement Geographiuue
says that Stanley is marching to the
coast with Mombassa as his objective
point.
A. B. TAPPAN was, on the 11th, elected
grand sachem of Tammany Hall, in place
of Sheriff Flack, resigned
MRS. DR.. MARY JONES, proprietress of
a woman's hospital in Brooklyn, has sued
the Eagle of that city for SI50 900 dam
ages for libel, the alleged libel being the
publication OF charges Of malpractice,
murder, forgery, conspiracy and larceny
in connection with the treatment of pa
tients in the hospital.
AMONG the DasseD GERS aTriviOo from
Europe by the steamer City of New York,
on the 1ith, were Senator Sherman and
Chauncey NJ. Depew.
LAST winter was hard one for the In
dams in tho far North, owing to the alb
sence os the reindeer and the impossi-
bility Of hunting the moose successfully
in the absence of snow. Ten persons
starved to death at Fort Wrigley, n. w. T.
JOSEPH T. KELLY, son of Banker Eu-
gene Kelly, of New York City, was blown
from O train during the heavy gale of the
10Th, while attempting to pass from one
car to another, and was killed. He was
on his way to Orange, n. J.
IT Is learned from st. Petersburg that
the Car has ordered an immediate in
crease Of rolling stock on the railways in
the southern portion of the Russian En-
pire, and more especially on those on
the Austro- Hungarian frontier.
THE Czarina will accompany the Gear
on his visit to Berlin, which will occur
on the 29th.
Mr.. EDISON started from Paris for Ger
many on the 1Ith.
THE United States Senate committee
on relations with Canada began its pub
lie hearing in Boston on the 11th. The
witnesses examined favored reciprocity
and future annexation.
Four hundred miners at the Morris
Ridge cOliery, near Mount Carmel, Pa,
struck, on the 11th, to compel the opera
tors to observe the Semi Monthly Pay
law and to reduce the price OF powder.
EMPEROR WILLANII win visit KRnigs-
berg at the end of this month.
TWENTY years ago a suit was COM
menced by A. SimpIon, claiming $40, 000
damages from the city of Dubuque, Ia,
for ,respassiug on his property. During
the long interval he had never been able
to get his case up for trial until the 10Th.
The original papers were musty with age.
Four men employed in the California
Sash and Blind factory at San Francis =
CO, were instantly killed, on the 11th, by
the explosion of one of the boilers.
Twenty others were seriously injured.
DETECTIVE GEO. E. WILLIAMS is in Win
uipeg Man, working out some impor-
tant clews in connection with the CrOnin
murder case.
ARCHBISHOP CRoKE and Mr. Parnell
held conference in Dublin, on the 11th
over the new Tenants League. Impor-
tant results are expected to flow from the
conference.
THE rate committee Of the Southern
Railroad & Steamship Association de
cided, on the 18th, that no advance in
tariffs would be made at present.
SINCE Mr.. E disOu's departure from
Paris it has become known that during
his stay there he donated ten thousand
francs for the poor of the city.
Mr.. TANNER handed his resignation as
Commissioner Of Pensions to the Presi-
dent on the 18th. 1t was promptly but
xii lily accepted.
TIE City Of Liverpool on the 18th, voted
$500, 600 for the construction of isolated
petroleum depots, with a capacity Of 19,
900 tons
The fifty American workingmen sent
abroad by the Scripps League to investi-
gate the condition os European working
on the steamer City OF Rome. They
bring copious notes OF what they have
seen abroa that is new or peculiar.
GEORGE W. Tow vLY, a wall-known con-
tractor Of Plaiud FL I, =. J., shot himself
dead in his barn on tIe I1sh. Financial
embarrassment is assigue1 as the cause.
He leaves a wife aud four children,
SENATOR JOHN c. SPooNER. of Wiscon
sin, who with his family has been several
weeks Mt his old homo in Hudson, is
quite IN of low malarial fever
IWp deplOrable condition of the agrl