The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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! about fifty in number had luncheon al
/ IDeLnOHfco's, in New York city, on the
23d after which they held their annual
meeting and reelected Mrs. Grover J
CleHeZand as president TIE reports I
howed the college to be in a 1ourishing .
condition.
SEVERAL carloads of supplies for the
Auherers from the Dakota 6res have been
sent from Black Hawk County, Ia. o ne
car was filed with seed corn and another
contained smaller grain, etc.
THREE men were drowned in the lake
foar miles west Of GrayIing, Mich, on the
21st. Nobody knew who they were or
where they came from. They were Ash
ing in the lake when their boat capsized,
! and that Is all that is known. The bodies
were not recovered.
PATRICK CARROLL, q shoemaker, aged
twenty-six years, jumped from the
Brooklyn bridge into the East river on
the 23d. He was picked up by tug, and
on reaching the shore was arrested and
taken to a hospital.
A PORTRAIT by Menim of Chief Justice
! John Marshall, the gift of Mr.. Justice
! Bradley, of the United States Supreme
! Court, was formally presented to the
District Court at Trenton, N. j., on the
23d.
GENERAL STEINsDoRF. a retired officer
of the Bavarian army, died at Munich on
the 23d, at the advanced age of ninety-one
years.
Mr.. JOHN DILLON, en- route to Australia,
paid visit, on the 23d. to Arab Pasha,
the Egyptian rebel, who is confined to
certain limits. on the island Of CeyIon.
THE National Socialistic ommittee have
issued an address bearing upon the cele-
bratiOn of the Washington Inaugural Cen
tennial. They point to various respects
in which the ideals entertained by the
founders of the republic have not been
realized, and deprecate the prevailing
| tendency to suppress this side of the
| picture and to unduly emphasize the more
obvious facts of increased population and
wealth.
THE Supreme Court of New York, on
the 23d, appointed Mr.. Augustus Stein, of
New York City, receiver of the Tona-
wanda Valley g. Cuba railroad, to sue
ceed General Bird w. Spencer, resigned.
THE Minneapolis street-car employees
strike was declared virtually ended, on
the 23d, by serious breaks in the ranks of
the strikers.
AT the fair for the benefit of Catholic
orphans opened in the City of Washing
ton, on the night of the 23d, Cardinal
Gibbons delivered the opening address.
COLONEL DAN LAMONT was, on the
24th, elected secretary of the New York
Loan and Improvement Company, in
ISRAEL FELLOWS, of Peabody, Mass,
fell in fit from his wagon, at Tapleyville,
on the oath. His horse became fright
ened. and kicked him in the head, crush
ing his skull and killing him instantly.
A NUMBER of Southerners residing in
Harlem, n. Y, met, on the 23d, and or
| ganized a society under the name OF
/ 1.-THE Harlem Southern Auld Lang Syne
| Club" The constitution provides. among
/ O4I, 70. he
by banquet Of January 19, the natal day
Of General Robert E. Lee.
In the last two years the South has
/ raised over fourteen million bales of cot
/ ton cover one billion bushels of corn NEAR
| ly hundred million bushels of wheat, and
a hundred and sixty million bushels of
oats, the total value being over 81. 600 000,
OOO, which is far in excess of the value of
the SOuth's agricultural products in any
two consecutive preceding years.
THE Austrian peso has been adopted as
the legal tender of the province of
Mozambique.
AN application by Anthony COmstOck,
Of Brooklyn, for membership in U. S.
Grant Post, G. A. R., was rejected, on the
23d, thirty y-seven black-balls being cast.
THERE is much excitement in Parkers-
burg, W. Va, over the refusal of the
County Court to license liquor saloons.
A loss of $25,000 year in taxes will re-
suit. Forty saloons are affected.
JAMES ILEY, charged with highway
robbery, and James Smith, alias Morris,
broke Jail at Youngstown, O., on the
night Of the oath. They cut their way
through the roof and dropped into gar
den thirty feet below.
ALBERT E. Holt, aged thirteen, of Law
renee Mass, was examining gun, on the
oath, when the weapon was accidentally
| discharged, the ball passing completely
through his head and killing him in
! stantly.
THE New Hampshire Sons of the Revo-
! luton effected permanent organization
| at Concord on the 24th.
LYsANDER B. RANDALL, aged thirty
seven, of Bangor, Me-, was found dead on
the morning Of the oath. He had commit
ted suicide by strangulation. A note was
found on his person saying "Rum did it."
JOHN MAYS and wife and James Nj.
Linderman, a boy of twelve years, were
killed at Newport, five miles south of
Wilmington, Del, on the oath, by a train
on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti-
more railroad.
1t is estimated that two hundred per-
sons were injured in the street-car riots
/ in Vienna on the oath.
/ FULL returns from all cities and towns
/ Of Massachusetts show the majority
against the prohibition amendment in
the election, on the 23d, to have been A.
A99.
/ GENERAL BoULANGER arrived IN Lon
don from Belgium, on the oath, and was
received at the railway station with min
| gled cheers and Kisses. He took quarters
at the Hotel Bristol.
SECRETARY BLAINE was suffering from
/ lumbagO, on the Path, and was unable to
attend to official business.
MURAT HALsTEAD was much improved
II the oath, and all fears of fatal termi-
alton Of his illness were allayed.
/ THE Vanderbilt roads east of Chicago
/ on May win abandon a great proportion
/ of their Sunday freight business.
The chief feature of the o hio Grand
/ Army encampment at Dayt on, on the
/ oath, was the parade of the eterans, fol-
/ lowed by number of carr iages of Gener-
/ al officers Of the war, the rear being
i brought up by ex-President Hayes and
General Alger. 1t was clang Of bands,
martial music and bugle calls, the col
umn with difficulty working its way
| through the streets packed with specta-
tors.
AT the conference Of the National Re-
form association at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the Path, a resolution was adopted re-
/ questing President H arrison to mention
Christ in state papers, especially thanks
/ giving proclamatiOns. The conference
was attended by over one hundred prom
| inent ministers and others from all parts
/ of the u mite d States.
SINCE its formation the Whisky Trust
has paid out 81, ,S00, 900 in dividends, be-
sides accumulating a cash surplus Of $780,
600.
CHARLES SIXTH, son of w. J. Smith, OF
/ Monmouth, ILL.,, was killed, on the 24th,
] by kicking colt He was a graduate Of
/ Abingdon College, and was recently
/ licensed a Methodist minister.
/ TIE great Rockaway Hotel at Rock
! away Beach, n. J., erected several years
/ ago at a cost Of over one million dollars,
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