The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-08-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

politician, widely known on the Pacific
coast, died at San Francisco on the 21st.
THE funeral at Hastings, Neb., on the
| 18th, Of the late Jas. s. Laird, Member Of
Congress, was the most largely atten ded
| of any ever held in Western Nebraska
| The services were conducted by James
G. Tate, chaplain of the State Senate,
and Governor Thayer and staff attended.
The procession to the grave was two
miles long.
JOHN L. SULLIVAN arrived in New York
! City, on the 10Th, and was at once taken in
| charge by Wakeley, Johnston and others
| Of his cronies, and proceeded to have a
good time.
on the Goth Past Master Grand Com
mander VIM. H. Peckham, Thirty third
degree, resigned his membership in Ger
neau COnsistOry No. l, Thirty second de-
gree, of New York City, thus severing his
connection with Scottish Rite Masonry,
| because Of the affiliatiOn of the Supreme
| Council Of that body with the Grand
| Orient Of France, which does not recog-
| nize the existence Of a personal God, and
| is consequently under the ban of non
| Masonic intercourse.
| a RECEPTION was held at the Vatican,
on the 18th, the anniversary of the Feast
| Of st. Joachim, the fete-day of Pope Leo
| XIII. The visitors were entertained by
His Holiness in his private library.
| JOHN SIMoNEs, a ten-year- old boy of
| Dubuque, Ia, recently witnessed a para
| chute descent from a balloon, and thought
he would initiate it. He secured an UNI
brella, and going to the top of the house,
| spread his umbrella and made the leap,
/ landing on the ground with both arms
| broken, his head badly cut and otherwise
| injured.
| THE New England Cracker Bakery in
| New York City caught fire in the base
/ L, Il
/ Gated to the first floor. On the floor
| above over sixty girls were at work.
| They we're panic-stricken, and for a time
it was feared that they would perish.
| The flames below were fortunately quick
/ ly extinguished aud the girls escaped
| without injury.
BERT MILLER and John OIcott ten
| year-Old sons of prominent men at POme-
roy, Ia, were smOthered to death in a bin
of fax in the elevator at that place on the
! 18th.
BIDS for the construction of q post
Office building at Bridgeport, Conn, were
| opened at the Treasury Department on
the Goth. d. j. Curtis, of Springfield
Mass, was the lowest bidder, at SOL, 200.
BOND offerings and acceptances at the
| treasury, on the goth, aggregated $4,000
AS follows: $1,000 registered As at 128,
und So 900 coupon 4]5s at 1863.
IT is understood that the report of the
court of inquiry which investigated the
/ mishap to the cruiser Boston in New
/ port Or. l. harbOr, exOnerates Captain
/ O'Kane from all responsibility, the ves-
| sci having struck a sunken wreck not
| down in the regular charts.
| THE first State nominating convention
pf North Dakota met in Fargo on the
| 21st. Judge COchrane was elected tenn
| porary chairman and II. A. Libby, tenn
| pOrary secret tary.
| NUMEROUS severe hailstorms are re-
| ported from different points in Austria.
| Many people have been killed and much
| damage has been done to property.
THE Keystone Furnace Company of
| Reading Pa, operating two large fur
naces with a capacity of 450 tons per
| week, made an assignment on the 2lst.
DIR. e. PARSONS, said to be the oldest
practising dentist in the United States,
| died at his home in Savannah, Ga, on
the 21sL DR.. Parsons was born in
| Northampton, Mass, in 1896, was educat-
ed in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, and
| had practised in Savannah since 1913 He
| invented O number of instruments used
by dentists.
The abandonment by the British Gov
ernment of the Tithes Recovery bill is
| followed by a vail of despair from the
clergy in Wales, who have been for years
in condition bordering on destitution,
owing to their inability to enforce the
payment of their tithes.
| BOND offerings and acceptances at the
| treasury, on the 21st, aggregated SOL, 10),
as follows: $450,O00 registered 4 at I28,
and 1901, 100 registered AIS at S106z5.
WHILE speaking in a session of the
| Grand Lodge /. o. o. +. at Rome, Ca, on
the 21st Colonel Adolph Brandt fell dead
of apOplexy. He was a prominent law
yer of Atlanta and was we'll known
throughout the State OF Georgia.
THE creditors OF the LaMay Company,
of Lynn, Mass, dealers in stoves, hard
ware, etc, on the 21st accepted a secured
offer of fifty cents on the dollar, payable
in nine months.
THE Pope, on the 21st received Able
| Won Schrader, hitherto professor of
theology in the Cologne Seminary, who
has been transferred to the Washington
University. His Holiness expressed him.
self as gratihed that Able Won SchradsT
ad accepted the post in America.
ABOUT 400 cigar makers are on strike at
Jacksonville, Fla, for a change in the
/ system of paying wages. Both sides are
firm, but the strikers are said to be with
out funds.
IT is thought that Hon. John A. Kas-
son, of Iowa, is the mostformjdable can
| didate for the Russian mission. 1t is of
| the hrst-Class and pays $1,000 annually.
Besides this mission that of China, SI2,
900 year, Corea, $500, and Bolivia
| Persia and Siam, So 900 each, are vacant
IT is said at the State Department tha
no more diplomatic or consular appoint
ments can be expected until about tn,
middle of September.
A CRANK arrived at Washington a few
days ago from Massa achusetts. desiring t,
see the President He insisted that a Law
had been enacted requiring him to marry
all the women in the United States, anC
he desired the President to use his infU
ence to have the law repealed.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL GREENwOoD, Sr., o
Sheepshead Bay, n. Y, eloped with hi
daughter in-law, but was arrested. Tn
Captain is over seventy years Of age, AT
buried his wife only three weeks ago.
A TRAIN containing select party o
| excursiOnists, composed Of members o
the City Council, the Board of Publi
| Works. representatives Of the Cham be
Of Commerce and the very flower Of tn,
business and professional men Of Kuox,
vile, Tenn, 1he guests OF the Knoxville
Cumberland Gap g. Louisville Railroad
Company on the first train over thei
newly completed road, went through
tTestie at Flat Gap creek, twenty thre
miles from Knoxville, on the 22d, an,
three Of their number were killed ant
thirty -eight seriously injured.
john OCOSNOR, aged eighteen years
a porter on the propeller Chicago, feI
| overheard at Buffalo, y. Y. on the - Z