The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-20

THE attendance at the Nebraska State
Fair, on the 18th, was something over
forty thousand. The largest trades pa
rade ever witnessed in the State took
! place in the evening, aud great enthu-
siasm prevailed.
THE Danish Government has received
warning of the arrival in Denmark OF
several noted Nihlists, and great pre-
| cautions are therefore being taken to
prevent the carrying out of any plot
against the Car during his visit.
THE Mansion House committee an
nounced, on the 18th, that the feeling on
both sides of the great strike was becom-
ing moro amtcable, and that only extra
neous que tiOns prevented an immediate
ending of the strike. 1t was hoped that
the causes of difference would be entire
ly removed and a satisfactory settlement
reached on the 18th.
THE first snow of the season fell at
Hope, Oak, on the 18th.
THE steam barge Albert G.. Gowen,
loaded with lime, took fire at her dock at
| Cleveland, o., ou the 18th. 1t was impos =
sible to extinguish the flames, and she
/ was tOWed out in the lake and scuttIed.
/ She was valued at S24O0), and insured
/ for 500 COO. The cargo was worth 81, 900.
| DURING the celebration of a reli giOus
| festival at Robtatt, India, the Mussul-
| mans and HindOOs became involved in
religious disputes which led to rioting.
| The police were compelled to interf ere,
! but before they succeeded in quelling the
/ disorder many Of the rioters wer shot by
| the officers.
THE Wyoming Constitutional cOnven-
| ton, on the 18Th, adopted a chapter on
| county organization. There was a big
/ fight on fixing minimum valuation for
new counties. The sum was placed at
! s., 100000.
THE Sons of Veterans, in session at
/ Paterson, n. j., on the 125h, elected G. Z
! Griffen, Secretary of State of In diana,
! Commander-in-Ch Chief of the National E n
campment for the en- suing year.
THE British brig Angola, from Turks
/ Island for Boston, was abandoned, on the
! 10Th, ia latitude 1886 north, Iongituds
! 71.3) west, totally dismantled. The
steamer Prussian rescued the crew and
landed them at iladelphia on the 13 tn.
THE seventy fifth anniversary of the
bombardment of Fort McHenry, near
Baltimore, Md, by the British and the
! repulse Of the latter, was celebrated by a
counterfeit re- e-engagement on the
night of the 18th. The Unite States
war-ships Pensacola, Ossipee and Yam
| tic took part in the engagement.
| THE attorney for a number OF Chinese
| claimants residing at Portland, o re-,
has filed suit in the Federal Court there
against L. LeOng TSlng, Chinese Consul
General for $17 900 indemnity claims
which, it is alleged he appropriated to
! his own use.
WHILE Prime Minister Crispi was
! driving in Rome, on the 18th, a stone
thrown by man on the roadside struck
him in one of his eyes, infiictiug pain
full but not serious wound. The assail-
ant was arrested and found to be a luna
| tic.
THE steamship Chattahoochie, of the
/ New York & Savannah line, bound for
/ the 18th, for coal and provisions. Sh c
| had been blown out of her course by the
gale, and her prolonged trip had ex-
hausted her supplies.
| AID VICES from Zanzibar state that the
native village Of Keendutschi, whose in
habitants supplied the insurgents with
| arms, has been destroyed by Captain
! Wissman's police.
! BY the capsizing of a sail-bOat in the
harbOr at Baltimore, Md, on the 18th,
/ Philip A. Sparrow, a locomotive engin-
| ecr, was drowned.
/ EMPEROR WILLIAM will stop to pay
| vi sit TO King Humbert at the Italian re-
sort Of Monsae on his way to Athens.
SENATOR VOORHEES,, of Indiana, had so
far recovered from the effects of his re-
cent illness, on the 18th, that no alarm
whatever was felt as to his condition.
! THE Dutch cattle dealers have decided
| to boycott the London companies, and to
| transport their supplies in their OWE
| steamboats, direct to Rotterdam.