The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-06-14


Johnstown, Pa, has been recovered, and
reveals the fact that forty-four of the
guests and employees of the hotel lost
their lives in the late food.
INTENSE excitement prevailed in Paris,
on the 7th, over the latest seizure OF
Boulangist documents, which are said
TO be extremely compromising in their
nature.
QUEEN VICTORIA, accompanied by Prin-
cess Victoria of Prussia, left Winds or,
on the 7th. for Balmoral.
IN response to a communication from
the municipal authorities of Edinburgh,
Scotland, asking him to name a day on
which he could accept the freedom of
that city, Mr.. ParneI1 has written that he
will be able to visit Edin burgh on July 20.
THE striking seamen and fremen in
Liverpool, on the 7th accepted the terms
offered by the shipmasters, and resumed
work.
1T was stated. on the 7th, that Governor
Beaver would call an extra session of
the Legislature to take action for
the relief of the food sufferers of the
Conemaugh Valley. General Hastings
says the State Of Pennsylvania ought to
appropriate two million dollars to aid in
the work of rehabilitating JOhnst town and
the other devastated towns Of the Cone
maugh Valley.
THE London Times in an editorial ar IT,
Gle says: "While thankful for our own
| immunity from calamities of material
| greatness like the JOhnstown floods and
| the Seattle fire, we can not forget that in
sorrow and suffering, which make the
whole world akin, our American brethren
are entitled to special activity and SYM
| pathy from ourselves"
] AN English schoOlmaster named K neel-
| ing, while travelling on the Northwestern u
railway, on the 7th, with his sweetheart,
Miss Lester, the principal Of a school at
| Devices, shot the woman and threw her
| dead body out of the window and then
/ committed suicide.
| LATEST accounts from the cOnfiagratiou
at Seattle, w. T., on the 9th, place the
| loss somewhere between 81 100000 and
| O,OOO, 900.
WIN. WHITE, the counterfeiter recently
| arrested at Waterloo, Ia, with a large
amount of 'green" in his possession,
/ pleaded guilty in the United States Court
at Fort Dodge on the 7th. Judge Shiras
promptly sentenced him to two years in
the State penitentiary and imposed a
$1,000 fine. This was Whites second Of
fense.
The Pope has received a letter from
| Emperor Francis Josef of Austria ex-
tending to His Holiness his sympathy in
the affair of the Bruno statue.
THE Pontiac, Oxford & Port Austin
! railroad, which runs through a section of
country in Michigan that has not yet re-
| covered from the disastrous forest fires
of several years ago, has been sold at
mortgage sale for $780, 900. The pur-
chaser was W. H. Murphy, who repre-
sented the bondhOlders.
THE municipality at Cork, ireland, on
| the 7th, passed resolutions expressing
! sympathy with the sufferers by the Johns
| town foods.
THE latest reports from Crete show
| that complete anarchy reigns on the isl
| and. Murders and Outrages Of all kinds
are of daily occurrence, and go unpun-
ished.
THE Katrina again beat the Shamrock
in the race at New York on the 7th.
MR.. AND MRS. CHARLES SONNIJoRN, old
andi respected citizens, were knocked
senseless, ON the 7th, by an electric current
while they we're returning from La Porte,
Ind, to their country home during q
severe thunderstorm Mrs. SonnijorI
can not recover, but the old gentleman
rallied, and the physicians think he may
live.
THE sixth annual commencement of the
Brazil Ind.) High School occurred on the
night of the 7lh. The class numbered
fourteen, of whom twelve read essays.
| STEWARD SMITH of Her Majesty's ship
COmus who fed from Halifax, n. s., re-
Gently, being guilty of forgery and EN-
bezzlement in connection with his vessel
accounts, was arrested in Boston on the
7th.
FIRE at Livingston, Ala, on the 9TH
destroyed fifteen buildings on the W es
side of the public square; loss no
stated.
A PRIVATE telegram from Bellefonte,
Pa, says over million dollars damage
was wrought by the storm in Centel
| County. A large number Of lives were
| lost also.
SUICIDES have become alarmingly fire.
quent in Vienna Of late, no less thai
forty three cases of self murder having
| been reported for May.
A FIRE broke out, on the 7th, among the
bales Of cotton which had been takeI
from the Cunard Line steamer Scythie
| and placed on the dock at Liverpool
Sixty bales were damaged by fire anC
| water.