The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-04

SEVERAL hundred BIackfest and Sioux
Indians recently held a grand ftghost
feast" at EsHt-Abraham Lincoln, Oak,
which was given by the relatives in honor
of those who died or had been killed in
battle
AT Carnegie's Edgar Thomson steel
works at Braddock, Pa, the bottom of one
of the largest blast furnaces gave way
and tons of molten metal poured forth,
injuring several persons so severely that
they are likely to die.
The Canadian Minister of Customs has
ordered an inquiry into the smuggling Of
whisky into Canada, whole shiplOads of
American whisky being brought into Can
ada by the St Lawrence route.
Two tramps recently took possession Of
the town of Holland, Iowa, intimidating
the constable and setting fire to a build
ing with a broken lamp. They then went
to Heinbeck, where they were overhauled
by the sheriff. In attempting to arrest
them Archie Neat was shot in the neck by
one of the tramps, receiving fatal in-
juries.
DIR. J. E. BLAINE, one of Englewood's
(Ill.) prominent doctors, has been arrested
on the charge of performing a criminal
operation on his niece, Mrs. Jessie H Bar
ker. The woman was said to be in crit
ical condition.
FIVE persons were lately drowned in a
shallow pond at South Watuppa, Mass.
by the capsizing of a rowboat. One at
least of the party was said to have been
drunk.
A RECENT telegram from Ensenada,
Lower California, said that city was
threatened with total destruction from
brush fires San Carlos, a neighboring
town. was reported in flames.
A FIRE at Cresco, Iowa, recently burned
twenty two business places. Loss, $5O,-
900.
CONGRESSMAN w. L SCoTT lately ad-
dressed a long letter from Erie, Pa, to
Governor Fifer, bearing on the Spring
Valley troubles, and claiming that he was
| paying for mining all that he was war
ranted in a competitive market.
| THE Utah Commission on the 9th
| passed resolutions favoring Chicago for
| the Worlds Fair.
A DISPATCH from Canaioharie. N. Y,
| said tn at frightful collision occurred on
/ the 9th on the New ork Central rail-
road, near Palatine bridge, in which the
! death list was likely to foot up twenty or
/ more.
! The dock Iaborers at Rotterdam went
out on strike recently and the cigar
makers and other occupations Joined the
movement.
AT Walker Station, Ala, the other day
Deputy Sheriff King Vann was shot and
| killed by a negro named John Steele,
whom he was trying to arrest. The negro
| was afterward captured by a mob and his
body riddled by bullets, causing instant
| death.
A RECENT dispatch from London said
| that the first consignment of Chicago
! cattle had arrived at Mains, and con-
| tracts had been made for a portion OF
90, 900 head more during October. The plan
! of shipments to the interior cities in the
| Continent was no longer doubtful
THE fourth annual convention of the
! Brotherhood of St Andrew began al
| Cleveland, O., on the 9th, with about 25(
| delegates present
NJ. MoRGANsTEIN,s secretary OF the Polish
| National Alliance and Endowment Insur'
ance organization at Chicago was reported
as having absconded.
JOSEPH c. HARVEY, a wealthy mill owne el
of Philadelphia, has been sent to the in
sane asylum through brooding over th'
burning of one of his mills in which fifteeI
persons lost their lives.
Two bodies have been taken from tn,
debris at JohnstOwn, Pa. One was identified
as that of Mrs Ed Swineford, of st. Louis
who met her death on the day express.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's repOrD for tn,
week ending September % number 1872
as compared with total of 1913 last weel
and 1913 the week previous. For the cor
responding week of last year the figure
were 22O.
THE five-story building of the Westin g
house Electric Light works at Pittsburgh
Pa, was partly burned the other night
The origin of the fire was unknown. Loss
$50, 900, fully covered by insurance