The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

ut Louisville, near Canton, o., on the
18th, Lawrence and Edward Streb, Can
ton business men, and two Catholic or
phans named Seifert, whom the Strebs
had adopted, were struck by the limited
express, and all were instantly killed.
CALVIN S. BRIcE, of Ohio, has been
elected chairman Of the National Demo-
cratic committee.
NEWS has been received at the Depart
ment of State which would seem to in
dicata a somewhat serious state of affairs
at Port-au- Prince, Hayti. The Boston
has been ordered to sail for that port
Immediately.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN, arrested in Chi
cago for alleged completely in the Cronin
murder, applied for habeas corpus on the
18th. Judge Tuley reserved decision.
On the 18th the Bell Telephone Com
pany declared a quarterly dividend of
three per cent, and recommended the is
suing of y, ,50O,O 900 additional stock
THE steamer City of Sidney arrived at
San Francisco on the 18th, bringing the
intelligence that the inland city of Lu
Chow, China, was visited by disastro
Ere not long since in which ten thousand
lives were lost.
A LONDON dispatch of the 18th stated
that the Berlin correspondent of the
Times was informed that Germany had
Withdrawn her insistence upon the pun
ishment of Mataafa, and that the path
was thus smoothed for American ratifica-
ton of the agreement.
A NEGRO named Caffee has been arr
rested in princess Anne County, Va,
charged with setting fire to the residence
of Rev. F. G. Clarke, near London
Bridge, several weeks ago, Causing the
loss OF five lives.
A ZANZIBAR dispatch states that a let
Fov- 10
December .. He was then at Uriva and
was soon to return to Victoria Nyanza.
Sickness and lack of provisions had
greatly reduced his forces.
THE Cut Nail association met at Wheel
ing, W. Va, on the 18th, but could arrive
at no decision.
STEPS are being taken in the City of
Mexico to raise funds for the relief of the
JOhnstown (Pa.) sufferers.
Bob YOUNGER, the celebrated Missouri
outlaw, is said to be slowly dying in the
State prison at Saltwater, Mimi.
THE trial of the eight-inch carriage,
built for the Navy Department by the
Pneumatic Gun-carriage andPowder Com
pany of Washington at the South Boston
Iron Works, was made on the 18th. The
test proved satisfactory.
FOREST fires northeast of Duluth, Mimi,
in the VermilliOn Iron Range country,
are again uSTCely burning.
JAMES MCGRADY, a brakeman on the
New Jersey Central railroad, was found
dead, on the morning of the 18Th, at the
foot of the railroad embankment near the.
station in Scranton Pa He was twenty
two years old.
The Comtoir d'Escompte has been fully
reorganized in Paris, and NJ. De Norman
die elected president.
IT was reported in Berlin, on the 18th,
that the German Government will not
break off diplomatic relations with Switz-
erland on account of the expulsion from
that country of the German police in
spector WOhlgemuth. 1t was the con-
census of opinion that the incident is
closed, but that Germany may perhaps
apply vexatous measures in regard to
frontier regulations.
LIEUTENANT HEATH, of the United States
ship Vandalia, died at Mare Island Ma
tional Hospital, in San Francisco, on the
18th, of pneumonia, the result of cold
contracted during the Samoan disaster.
The striking seamen on the River Clyde,
on the 18th, seized and burned a van en-
route to the Anchor Line Company's
sheds containing provisions for the inn
ported labOrers at work there. Strikers
to the number of 5000 congregated
around the harbor.
FRANK TEMPLEMAN, who was convicted
in New York City recently of felony in
accusing Inspector Byrnes and District
Attorney Fellows of being in cons piracy
10 defraud the city treasury, was, on the
18th. sentenced to State prison for three
years and nine months.
A LONDON dispatch of the 18th stated
that it had been learned there that the
members Of the Clan ma Gael who signed
the majority report finding DIR. Cronin
guilty of treason and sentencing him TO
be removed" were James J. Rogers, of
Brooklyn; P. A. O'Boyle, of Pittsburgh,
Pa; Christopher F. Brynes, of Saxson =
vile, Mass; John d. Mcmahon, OF Rome,
N. Y.
A MORA (Minn.) dispatch of the 18th
stated that an Indian outbreak had oc-
Cured at Millie Lac Lake, in that State.
Six settlers were believed to have been
killed. The Indians are Chippewas, who
assembled to hold an annual dance.
State and Government troops will be hur q.
ried to the scene. The last census gives
the number of Indians on the reserva-
tion at >, 800.
STEVE BROWN, a Vermillion County
| (Iud.) farmer, pleaded guilty to man
slaughter, on the 18th, and was sentenced
20 seven years in the peniteutiary. Brown
afterward attempted to commit suicide by
| swallowing the pulverized powder of a
| looking glass with the quicksilver. He
| killed tramp in cold blood.
SMALLPOX and yellow fever are raging
| in a virulent form. not alone in Rio Ja-
neiro, Brazil, but through all the cOun-
| try within two hundred miles of that city.
The death rate for three days at Santos
was seventy per cent.
On the 10Th, the President made an
/ other trip down the Potomac, in POST
| maste General Wanamaker's yacht
/ Restless.
THE works of the Canada Powder Com
| pany, twenty seven miles east of Brock
vile, Ont, took FIRE aud blew up at seven
| O'Clock, on the morning of the 14th,
| The explosion was terrific, killing a num-
| Der of horses and sheep and smashing
/ many plate glass windows in Brockville.
| Fortunately the wOrkmen had not yet re-
/ ported for duty,or there would have been
| q heavy loss of life
| TIE Dakota law increasing the liquor
/ tax is now in force. The retail liquor Ii
| cense has heretofore been 500 per an
mum. Under the new law the lowest ia ]
that can be imposed is 500, and may be
i placed as high as Sl,6)0, at the option Of
1 the county com missioners.
TIE International Typograp aphical Union
/ has decided to establish home for indi-
/ gen. printers near Colorado Springs,
/ Col, the citizens of that place having Of
| fered o donation Of eighty acres OF land
for that purpose.
CHARLIE MoRICH. nine years old, ot
| Cincinnati, was fatally burned by the ex-
/ r,r,sfnr, ~ tho toni - GA eeIiva efOya rr