The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-05

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was buried on the 28th, aged one hundred
and eight years. He carried a pike in the
Irish rebellion of 1913, and came to this
| country seventy-five years ago. His first
vote was for Andrew Jackson and his last
for Cleveland.
SECRETARY TRACY, on the 29th, indorsed
! the report against the extension of time
for the completion of the gun-bOat Petrol,
submitted by board consisting of Chief
| Constructor Wilson, Chief
Melville and Captain Harrison, of the
Steel Inspection Board.
EIGHT Democratic inspectors were re-
moved, on the 29th, from the special GUS
| toms agents. department of the New Y Ork
/ Custom House.
No OREDENCE is given in San Diego,
| Cal, to the reported fight between Amer
| leans and Mexicans at the mines in Low
| er California, and no details have been
received.
| IT is probable that American pork viii
! be excluded from France.
! A NAVAL commission was at New Or
leans on the 28th, seeking a site for
navy yard.
! O'DoNovAN RossA has issued a call for
| a convention of the friends Of Ireland to
devise means to overthrow the English
/ Government.
! NICHOLAS NJ. BELL, superintendent of
/ the Foreign Mail Bureau, Post Office De-
ment, has resigned.
N. T. ROBINSON, Of Virginia, chief law
clerk in the Office Of the AttOruey-Gen
eral resigned on the 29th.
Two HUNDRED weavers of the Berkeley
! Or. L. mills struck, on the Doth, on ac-
count Of a change Of speed involving q cut
in wages.
DISPATCHES received from Auckland,
on the 3Oth, state that a terrific hurricane
had swept over the Samoan Islands and
| neA ar.ia ne
Vandalia, Trenton and Nipsic, and the
German war vessels Olga, Adler and
Eber. Four American officers and forty
six men, and nine German officers and
eighty-seven men were drowned.
THE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail
way Company viii reduce hours of labor
| of shOpmen, bridgemen and carpenters,
after April 18, from ten to eight hours a
day, with a prOpOrtionate reduction in
| wages.
THE mill operatives of Manchester. N.
H, voted, on the 29th, to ask for half
holiday on Saturday, and appointed a
committee to wait on the agents of the
various mills and present their demands.
IT is said that Lord Randolph Churchill
occupies the position of a man without a
party, being rejected by the Tories and
distrusted by the Liberals.
THERE is a hitch in the negotiations
looking to the formation of the proposed
National Salt Syndicate, and many manu-
facturers are apprehensive that it viii
fall through.
THE Dublin Freeman's Journal says the
appointment by the United States of the
hunted outlaw, Patrick Egan, to such al
important post as the mission to Chill, is
a striking comment on the conduct of the
English Government.
} Mr.. THAYER, the new Minister to the
| Netherlands, took the oath of office at the
State Department on the Goth.
AT the Office of the Reading Coal and Iron
Company in Philadelphia it is stated that
the increase in the output of coal for the
next two years will be at least 2,000,00
} tons. This will be done through the four
new cOllieries that are being sunk and the
rehabilitation Of old mines that have not
been worked for several years.
On the 29th, in proceedings in New
York City for an accounting between @
/ r. Griggs and c. K. Garrison, judgment
} was entered in favor of ble Garrison es
, tate against Griggs for 3, 1871 Tn,
litigation arose from disputed ownership
of the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad.
THE published statement that Patrick
Egan is not citizen Of the United States
is without foundation. Mr.. Egan be.
came a naturalized citizen in Lincoln
} Neb., on the 2Oth of February, 1888.
ARTICLES of incorporation wer
filed with the Secretary of State o
Colorado, on the 2Sth, of the Colorado
& Pacific railway. The capital stool
! is 100000. 1t is proposed to bull,
l from Grand Junction, Col, to the pOin
I where the Colorado river empties into tn
Gulf of California, and thence to Sal
Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles.
: IT is proposed to confer the freedom o
the city of Edinburgh Mr.. Parneu. I
, majority of the Town Council favor tn
proposition.
JOHN FLEMING, an inmate of the Michi
| gan City Ind.) prison, has been returned
-, to KokOmO for trial for the murder o
!, Sheriff Robert Jones of Grant County.
THE Irish leaders of the Commons an
the Parnellite counsel have held q confer
ence and mapped out plan of campaig
to be put into execution when the com
. mission reOpens.