The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-03
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TIE visible supply Of cotton is 2;2sI, 1Sl
bales against 2.51s,924 last year, and
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\SlSSS, ,ISS bales against 6, 5Sl ,SSS NesS Yeex
W. F. DULMAGE, crown timber inspecto
I at Rat Portage, Man, left t0Wn suddenly
a few days ago An investigation shows
him to be $50, 900 short in his accounts
TIE Bank of Montreal declared g.
straight dividend Of FIVE per cent without
\ any NO0NNs> on, Me GASn.
, \ A BIG OH we'll was struck near X4egi0D
: ! vile, Beaver COUNTY Pa, on the 25th
The oil gushed out tn q height Of II5 feet
Six hundred to eight hundred barrels is
the estimated fOW.
The King Of ROuHlanta, on the 25th, Of I
fcially announced that his nephew, Prince
Ferdinand, would be his heir, and that q
residence for him would be built at |
Bucharest,
! MESsRs. KAssON, BATES AND PHELPS,
the American commissioners to the Sa-
moan conference at Berlin, departed from
London for Berlin on the 26th.
THE Ohio Encampment G. A. R., in ses-
| sion at Dayton, on the 25th, elected Gen.
eral Samuel H. Hurst, of ChilGcothe, De-
partment Conmander, and passed reso-
lutions favoring a pension of eight dol
lars per month to every soldier, with one
cent per day per month in addition fol
| over ninety days service.
/ SECRETARY NOBLE, on the 25th, directed
an investigation of the reports that Gov
ernment officials had used their authority
as officers to secure entry to land in
Oklahoma Territory.
SEVENTY FIVE of the striking street-car
men of Minneapolis, Mimi, accepted the
company's terms, on the 25th, and went
| to work Cars were run on every line in
| the city with a full quota.
! CHARLES A. BERRY, of Maiden, Mass,
whose foot was cut off by train on the
24th, died in Boston on the 25th. The de-
ceased was employed as a drummer by
! John H. Pray & Son, carpet dealers.
On the 25tl, Secretary Of War Proctor
visited the Watervliet Arsenal on busi-
ness connected with the building of a new
gun foundry.
GENERAL MANAGER HICKsoN of the
Grand Trunk railway, on the 25th, ordered
| that no freight trains be run on Sunday,
! except those carrying livestock and per-
ishable goods. 1t is stated that the Della
ware & Hudson Railway Company is in
sympathy with the movement.
THE newly appointed Minister to Spain
ex-senator Palmer, of Michigan, was ten
dered a farewell banquet by the citizens
of Detroit, irrespective of party, on the
night of the 25th. 1t was a brilliant af-
fair, and continued to a late hour.
THE funeral of Mrs. D. c. NJ. Pierce, the
''big woman" of Dover, n. H, took place
oD the 25th. 1t required eight persons to
place the body in the casket, and all the
trimmings. handles, ETC., had to be re-
moved to allow the casket to pass be-
| tween the doors.
MARK MAGUIRE, familiarly known as
'TOppy" Mcguire, the oldest reporter on
the New York City press, died at his
home in Harten on the 24th. He was sew
| enty-five years of age. The cause of his
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! peared year ago on the top of his spine.
| He was born at sea August /, 1914.
DANIEL A. GRosvENOR, of Ohio, was,
on the 25th, appointed chief of a division
| in the Office of the First Comptroller of
the Treasury Department. Mr.. Grosve-
nor is q brother of Representative Gros-
venor.
THE acting Comptroller of the Currency,
on the 25th, declared a second dividend OF
fifty per cent. in favor of the creditors of
the Lowell National Bank, of Michigan,
which failed September II, 1888. This
makes in all ninety per cent. paid to the
creditors of the bank on claims proved
amounting to $S8, ,835.
EMMA RATH, seventeen years DID, was
buried on March % at Syracuse, n. Y.
Her father believed that she had been
| buried alive, and a few days ago he
| opened the grave and discovered that his
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| the side, the hands were over the face,
which was scratched, and great quantity
of her hair had been pulled out. The ia
| ther is almost a maniac.
THE sixteen ladies who were deter
mined upon to dance in the quadrille of
honor at the New York Centennial ball
were: Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, Mrs.
Levi P. Morton, Mrs. Grover Cleveland,
Mrs. Oracle King, Mrs. Alexander Van
Renssaler, Mrs. w. Bayard Cutting, Mrs.
William Astor, Miss Cora Livingston,
| Mrs. Newbold Norris, Mrs. Elbridge 7.
Gerry, Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler, Mrs.
| Buchanan Winthrop, Mrs. Stuyvessant
Fish, Mrs. William Jay, Mrs. 8. v. B.
Cruger and Mrs. Alexander s. Webb.
IT is said that the Stewart will case will
probably be settled by a compromise.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN stated, on the
25th, that he expected to fast one hundred
days.