The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-08

TIE headless body Of John Mattein, an
italian, as found by the New Orleans
police, on the 9th, hidden in the garret of
q tenement house on BienvilIe street He
is supposed to have been the victim Of
vendetta.
J. W. GRIFFITHs, a young man employed
in q real estate Office at Omaha, Neb.,
quarreled with Henry Flowers, a colored
porter at the Kelley Hotel, on the 2Tth.
and, drawing a revolver, shot and killed
him. Ho claims to have acted in self
defense.
GEORGE FOSTER, Of Tuscaloosa, Ala, a
wiGower of two years, shot himself dead
on his wife's grave on the 9th.
WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT's steam yaent
Alva arrived at Nice, France, on the
9th.
A DOZEN fremen were buried under a
falling floor at fire in Milwaukee, Wis,
on the night of the 2Sth. All were quite
seriously, and two or three fatally, in
jured.
THE Opposition press of Mexico have
ceased their attacks upon the financial
policy of the government since Senior
Dublan, in whom they have implicit con-
fidence, has resumed control Of fiscal af-
fairs.
IT is reported that the Car is scandals
lied by the irregular lives of his brothers,
and has ordered Grand Duke vladimir to.
resign his commandership of the guards.
THE Inevitable crank turned up at Wash
ington, on the 1st. having urgent business
with the Presideut-elect. He variously
styled himself General Judge II. Davis, +"
''The Great North American Basso Pro-
fundo," ''The Welsh Bard" and ''The
Lion Soloist of America"
THE German supplementary army esti-
mate of Il, 49,, ,3O4 marks will be raised by
loan provided for by bill introduced
in the Bundesrath on the 1st.
STEINETz, the champion chess player,
played simultaneously against nineteen
persons at Havana, Cuba, on the 28th, and
won all the games.
Or the eighteen forts designed to sur
round Bucharest, ROumania, eleven are
| ready to receive their armament of Krupp
| guns, which are now arriving.
THE family of Ernest Hudson, consist
| ing of himself, wife and seven children,
were drowned while attempting to ford a
creek near New Earl, Tenn, on the 9th.
/ Two thousand furnacemen of the Ten
nessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company's
furnac at South Pittsburg, Tenn, struck,
the 1st, against q reduction of ten per
cent. in their wages.
| 1T was reported at st. Petersburg, on the
| 1st, that the Afghans were advancing upon
| the frontier from Herat, and that the EmiT
of Bokhara was preparing to attack them.
Russian new spapers are filed with ar
| ticles advising war.
Mr.. w. K. VANDERBILT, of New York
City, is seeking to lease for the season
| the Duke of Sutherland's London resi-
| dence.
| Or the 2Sth, Hon. John B. Laidly,- con-
| fined in the Charleston wv. Va.) jail to
re cover from the effects of protracted
| spree, cut his throat with piece Of glass
| broken from his cell window, inficting
| probably fatal wounds,
JOHN w. LTNCK, the Republican mem
Der of the Indiana Legislature, who struck
Mr.. Willard (Dem.) under the impression
that the latter had insulted his colleague,
was, on the 2Sth fined $3.50 and suspended
| for the remainder of the session.
] On the 2Sth two thousand furnace men
/ in the MahOning and Shenango valleys, in
| Ohio, accepted ten per cent. reduction
in pay.
AN increase in the public debt, amount
to Sc, 443, ,334 occurred during February.
/ on the 2sth, John Kramer, Of Des
| Moines, Ia, suicided with strychnine.
Mrs. AsPELNIRE. aged fifty, of Creston
Ia, was frightfully burned, on the 2sth
while a tempting to light a fire in a gaso'
line stove.
ANTHONY LAREE, who has only been il
this country four months, fatally stabbed
his nineteen year-Old wife at Paterson
| N. j., on the lst.
AT the State oratorical contest at Mount
Vernon, Ia. on the 2Sth o. r. Patrick, oi
! Parsons College, won first honors; G.
G. Stookey, of Iowa Agricultural College,
second, and E. s. Ames, of Drake Uni
versity, third. The Interstate contest
viii be held at Grinnell, Ia, in May.
''PoP' LLOYD, whose true name was
Thomas Winn, and who was said to have
been a buccaneer in the old days, was
! buried from the Jerry McAuley Mission
New York, on the 28th. He was a very
| wicked man and was converted at the
Mission about four years ago and haC
been a fixture there ever since.
HENRY ANGLES, the fireman on the st
Louis express, who was injured in the
wreck at st. George, died at his home il
! London, Ont, on the 1st. 80
II. F. TAYLOR, the attendant who killed
| a patient in the insane asylum at Pontiac
Mich, in self defense, recently, was &C
quilted on the 1st.