The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-29

HERR PAL1rscHAK has been appointed
Austrian Consul at New York to succeed
Hugo Fritsch.
THE question OF opening the Oklahoma
lands to settlers by the Presidents procla-
nation is being urged by Secretary Noble
and discussed by the Cabinet. Meanwhile
the President hesitates, because of the
danger of the Indians getting liquor too
easily under existing conditions. A str1n-
gent order against trespassers has been
issued to the troops.
A NEW YoRK CITY sTeet-car horse at-
tackled with blind staggers, on the 22d,
Jumped through the plate glass window
of a Broadway clothing store. He was
soon afterWard shot by policeman.
THE spread of the native insurrection in
East Africa has been checked, and the
German Company is collecting duties in
the harbors Occu pied by the rebels.
HON. STANLEY MATHEWS, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court OF the
United States, died in Washington at
Ave minutes past ten O'Clock on the
morning of the 22d.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL CoRvETO, italian
Under Secretary for War, has been chal-
| lenged to fight duel by Signor Cavllott1,
member of the Chamber of Deputies.
| The affair grew out Of personal dispute.
Mr.. REDMoND's motion in the British
| Commons, on the I'D, to reduce Attorney
! General Webster's salary was rejected by
a vote of 286 to BOG.
! THE position of Supervising Architect
| of the Treasury has been rendered to
James II. Windrim, of Philadelphia.
THE aged widow Of the late Cyrus w.
Field received a fracture of the shoulder
blade in a fall at National City, Cal, on
the 2Ist. A fatal result is feared.
THE Congregational Church of Dubuque,
Ia. will celebrate its semi-centennial in
| May next.
TUN1s LIABLE, the Paterson IN. J.) Ia
| borer, who barbarously cut up his young
wife and is now in Jail awaiting trial for
| murder, has confessed the bloody deed.
He took her life while in fit of jealousy.
He says he is CHAD he killed her, and
wants to hang as soon as possible.
JAMES N. TYNER, on the 21st assumed
his duties as Assistant Attorney-General
for the Post-Ofice Department, relieving
Judge Bryant.
TIM AND PETE BARRETT the murderers OF
Street. car Driver Thomas Tollefson, In
Minneapolis, Mimi, July 26, 1887, were
hanged on the 22d.
THE livery stable belonging to Gordon
s. Warner, at Newport Neb., was burned
on the night of the DIST J. B. Gordon
one of the proprietOrs, and eight horses
persisted in the flames. The fTe IS sup
posed to have been Of incendiary origin.
THE famine which prevails in the prov
be increasing daily.YThe number of deaths
from starvation is appalling, and many
persons have committed suicide to escape
certain death in a more painful form.
AN epidemic of scarlet fever is raging
among the Russian families near Park
stone, Oak. Although more than score
{ of deaths have occurred, the afflicted
families have refused to employ ply
sicians.
3 Sioux CRY 80, will hold it's annua
q. corn festival this year as usual.
I DIR. WILLIAMS, of Mount Carmel, Pa
was. on the 22d, reported in a critical con
dition from blOOd-pOisOning caused b.
the bite Of a child suffering from diph
o liberia, whose throat he was examining.
= TIE President on the 22d, com
muted the death sentence pronounce
e against Albert Green (colOred), of tn
s District Of Columbia, to imprisonment TO
,, life.
81 A CHILD of Edward Dunbar, of Sout
= Bend, Ind, has died, and two others ar
Il at the point of DEATH from eating MOI
phlne pills, which they found on tn
: floor.
10 THE American pilgrims left Rome fc
P Alexandria, Egypt, via, Naples, on th
2 25th. They will reach Palestine In Hol
= week
10 PRoF. r. BISHOP and wife, of Oxfor
o., celebrated their goden Wedding c
= the 21st.
ID HENRY VILLARD's proposed electr
, light trust is said to have fallen thrOug
A REDUCTION of five cents per ton
~ coal-miners' wages in the Pitts burgh al
III Hooking Valley districts has,been ordere
to take effect May 2.
'n CHARLES NJ. HENDLEY, for many yea
g. official stenographer at the White Hous
a. has been appointed private secretary
" Secretary Window.
le THE City Hall building at Dover, N. T
~ containing the police station, city clerB
'4l Office county commissioners office, reg
ter Of deeds, police court rooms, al6e
Ie manic and council chambers, offices
l., Board of Assessors, Board Of Supervise
nu and city messenger, High School Cadet
d, armory and the City Opera House-t
~ last with a seating capacity Of 10OO-w
ny destroye ed by fire on the morning OF I