The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-08-02

infantry or that State.
AN effort was made in the Washington n |
Territory Constitutional convontiou, on
the 2G n, TO abolish the veto power of the
Governor, but it failed.
JAMES G.. BLAINE, Jr., was fireman on
the train on which his father and party
returned TO Bar Harbor from their visit
to Senator Hale, at Ellsworth, Ne, on the
23d.
WESLEY EIKINs. eleven years old, Of
Clayton County, Ia, has confessed that
lie lilied his father ana step-mothcr, the
former with gun and the latter with q
club.
OK the 26h Scripps' League Workmen
expedition to tho Paris Exposition was
heard from by means of homing pigeons.
All were well, and were enjoying the
voyage.
TIE Columbia, a new ocean steamer,
has broken the record from the ''Needles"
TO Sandy Hook, 31O0 miles. Time, six
days, twenty hours and thirty-seven
minutes.
A VERY heavy rain fall, on the night of
the 22d. general throughout the State of
Colorado, wrought much damage to
crops and fences, railroad and other
property.
Tue joint commission at Bismarck.
Oak, that is striving to arrange salts
factory division Of the property of the
Territory, practically agreed on re-
port on the 2Gth.
ON the 2Gth Frank Blouut, colored, was
legally hanged in the jail-yard at VAL
dosta, Ca, and Tom Bowling, also color
ed, was executed according to law at
Baton Rouge, La.
THE two New York houses which have
practically controlled the manufacture Of
bed quilts and comforters, have pooled
their issues and Will advance the price
about twenty-five per cent
CHARLEMAGNE TOWER, the noted capi-
talist, mine owner, railroad director and
lawyer, died, on the 25th, at his summer
residence in Waterville, n. Y, of paral-
ysis, at the age of eighty-One years.
On the 23d the committee on executive
and pardoning power reported TO the
Washington Territory Constitutional
convention, among other things, pro-
viso that the Governor shall be Ineligible
for the Office Of Senator
Mrs. GERTRUDE DRIGGs, wife of Nell
son briggs, the captured counterfeiter,
OF Cincinnati, gave bonds, on the oath, in
the sum of $4,000, for her appearance on
August >. Her husband was returned to
jail being unable to give bond.
AFTER a long discussion, on the 26th,
the Montana Constitutional convention
voted down tho clause in the Suffrage bill
providing that after five years only Citi-
zous shall be entitled to vote, declara-
ton of intention not to be held sufficient.
FIRE in the mammoth six-story build
lug Of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Company in Topeka, Kas., on
the 2Gth, caused 50 0l0 damage to the
building besides a loss of valuable pa
pers, records, etc, that can not be esti-
mated.
MUCu of the money required for the
projected tast steamship line from Mon
tauk Point, l.. T., to Milford Haven, Wales
will be supplied by European capitalists
among them being the ROthschllds ant
Sir William Allan, of the Allan line o
steamers,
THE Vienna Freie Presse believes tina
Englaud's position in Delagoo bay points
To a desire to annex the whole TERRITORY
from the cape TO the Congo, and reco m
mends that the matter be brought up a
the forthcoming African Congress TO D
held at Brussels.
THE Pail Mall Gazette prints an inter
view with a representative Of Mrs
was formerly q laundry woman, boarding
house keeper, etc, and asserting that sh
was the daughter of highly -educate'
American army officer.
A AREPREsENTArIvE of an English syn
dicate has been eudeav0riug to secur
options on the business of Macy q Co.
Altman & CO., Stern Brothers, and Simp
son, Crawford a Simpson, leading DIR.
goods houses of New% ork City, but in al
cases has been refused.
THE German Admiralty have uucovere
perfect nest of corruption within tn
navy department. involving many hig
officials. \ number of naval officers wer
arrested, on the Path, in Berlin and q
Kiel ON the charge of wholesale bribery
one of these on being taken into cu5tod
shot himself dead.
XGNA PITCHER KING, n lawyer and reo
estate dealer OF Ann Arbor, Mich, VIII
tor twenty years has been treasurer o
the fund for superauuuated professor
OF the University OF Michigan, is an em
bezzler to an amount estimated to b
fully $4,000. King has turned over to tn
trustees property worth * 0J).
A PARTY of explorers in Nebraska ur
earthed fifty skulls and two hundre
headless skeletons in Chalk Bluit, aooJ
ten miles east of NanktOn, Oak, on ii
e5th,which local physicians pronounce
be the remains of white people, chi
dren and adults. Indications are tn
they have been buried forty or fifty year
THE Secretary of the Treasury, on Il
o5th. instructed the collector of custom
at New Orleans to allow the twelN
Chinese coolies detained there uud
the Chinese Exclusion act to procet
via the Southern Pucihc railroad q
tourists, in accordance with rece
decision rendered by the Attorney Gel
eral.
THE Ohio Prohibiuouists, in conventtC
at Zauesville, on the 25th, nominated q
following State ticket; J. b. Helwlg Il
Governor; J.. b. Logan, of Alllanc
Ifeutenaut- Governor; Gideon I. Stual
OF Newark, supreme Juige; d.
Trowbridge, Toledo, State Treas urer, al
j.. J. Penney, Ashtabula, Attorney &c
cral.
THr Pesther Lloyd asserts that Prin
RismarcE's anuulmcnt of the treaty WI
Switzerland is FAR from constituting
settlement ot tho controversy betwe
the two countries, and says that soi
pronounced action viii probably be tax
iv Germany when Emperor William ]
turns from his yachting tour.