The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


the hotel insisted upon his changing his
quarters.
THREE men, Michael Flynn, Patrick
Ratchford and Martin Reagan were killed
by a fall of coal in the Hyde Park shaft at
Scranton, Pa, on the 1st.
A DRUNKEN man was picked up by the
New York City police at Grand street and
Bowery, on the Both, and $1.971 was found
in his pocket. He was too drunk to give
his name, and was locked up.
THREE persons were killed and eight
injured by an explosion in the Recklin-
husenhaus colliery at Dortmuud, West
phalia, on the 1st.
HERR KOLIsCH, the famous chess player
of Vienna, died on the 30th.
E. 8. LACEY, of Michigan, the new
Comptroller Of the Currency, took the
oath of Office at the Treasury Departs
ment on the 1st, and entered upon the
discharge of the duties of his position.
THE reduction in the public debt, dur
ing the month Of April, amount ed to S13,-
081;234, and for the ten months of the cur
Iont fiscal year to $50, 979, ,228.
IT is charged that two young men, lear
Somerset, Pa. on the 1st, hanged their
father and then shot their step mother, in
order that they might secure possession
OF their fathers property.
THE London Stock Exchange was closed,
ON the 1st, owing to its being q semi
annual settling day at the Bank of En-
gland.
The greatest parade of the series that
has been held in New York in honor of
the Washington inaugural centennial
was the civic display on May 1, in which
eighty thousand men participated. The
States; the nationaIities, the trades and
guilds were well represented. The whole
parade was one vast panorama of the his
tory and progress of our Nation for the
past century. President Harrison and
other distinguished citizens reviewed the
parade.
POSTMASTER VAN Corr, of New York as
sumed the duties of his Office on the Ist.
THE Butler Club of Boston, on the 1st,
celebrated by banquet the twenty-sev-
6nth anniversary of the occupation of
New Orleans. About seventy-five guests
attended. General Butler spoke feeling
ingly of the honor done him, and paid
glowing tribute to Admiral Farragut, by
whose cooperation and daring efforts the
victory of New Orleans was won.
MARGARET BREsNAHAN, aged forty five,
was struck and killed by train at Law
renee, Mass, on the 1st.
HERREN RICHTER AND RICKARr, on the
1st, protested against the summary dis
missal of the German Landtag.
CAPTAIN MURRELL of the Missouri and
his officers and crew were banqueted in
Baltimore, Md, on the 1st, and presented
with medals in recognition of the rescue
of the Danmark's passengers. J. W. Gads-
den, of Philadelphia, created diversion
by presenting a check for s., 800, cOntri-
buted in the latter city, the money to be
divided between the officers and crew,
with promise of merit-medals to follow.
TIE British House of Commons, on the
lot be hi tn TO
urban lease-holders the power to purchase
leases.
THE Plenary Congress, in session in
Vienna, adjourned, on the ID, amid cheers
for the Pope and the Emperor.
THE Comptroller of the Currency, on the
1st declared final dividend of 15% per
cent. in favor of the National Bank of
Henrietta, Tex, which failed July %, 1887.
The Erie canal was formally opened at
midnight of April 80, and eighty-two
boats cleared from Buffalo. This was a
much smaller number than usual.
On the Both +he Catholic congress
Urged the Vatican to support the move-
ment making to dissuade people from en=
igrating to America and Australia:
A GRAND reunion of veterans Of all g.
A. r. posts in the vicinity of New York
City, was held, on the 1st, in honor of
Commander in Chief Warner.
in Chicago, on Centennial Day, by an An
archist displaying a red flag from win
dow. The emblem was torn down: and
the crowd had secured rope to lynch the
man when he was saved by the police.
IT is learned that a terrible riot recently
occurred at Guanajuata, capital of the
Mexican State Guanajuata, in which many
were killed and wounded. The regular
troops were called out and they fred into
the mob until the ground was wet With
blood and cdyered with dead and dying.
AURELIUs PAYNE, sixty-two years old,
active as a kitten, took unto himself his
eighth wife at Ft. Wayne, Ind, on the 1st.
The last Mrs. Payne is twenty seven.
COLONEL CHAs. w. WILDER, died in
Boston, on the I'd, aged ninety years. He
was one of the oldest and best-known
tobacco merchants of Boston; had been
an alderman, State Senator and Quarter
master General of militia, and was
prominent Mason and founder of the
Central Club;
DURING the Whitsuntide recess Mr..
Gladstone expects to enjoy a yachting
cruise in the waters of Great Britain with
party of friends.
THE demand of the carpenters Of
Quincy, Mass, for ten hours pay for
nine hours work has been acceded to by
the master builders,
FATHER BoNtFAoE chief Of the Bava.
rian African missionaries, and Sister
Benedicta;who were captured by the Arab
BdshiTi dnd aft5rTard released, are at
Augsburg, Bavaria. The latter has re-
entered the convent, and will not return
to missionary labors, but Father Boniface
will, after securing recruits, return to
Africa and continue his work.
THE Dominion Parliament was pro-
rogued, on the 2d, by Lord Stanley, Gov
ernor- General, after a session Of over
three months; which was in many respects
one Of the most important of the present
ParliaTneHh
RETURNS OF the commerce Of the Suez
canal show that seventy eight per cent.
Of the ships passing through the canal are
British.
THE dynamite factory at Odell, near
Hastings, N. Y, was blown up at noon,
on the "a, just after the wdrkmen had left
The building. The powder 'bouse hleH up
first, and the factory, containing half
ton of dynamite, followed.
THE British Government, seeing no hope
for the passage Of the Sugar bill. have
virtually abaLdoned II.
PURSUANT to their agreement, the
union carpenters of Lawrence, Mass,
numbering about three hupdrEd, le.s work
at FIVE c'cioCk. on the 1st pending a set
tlement in relation to their demand for
nine hours for a days work.
THE post-office at Plainfeld, n. J., was
entered by burglars, on the night of the
1st, and the place ransaoked. The amount
Of plumber occurred by the robbers can
not be estimated; but Il Il Thought 10 be
considerable.
REV. RICHARD A. O'CoxxoR was, on the
1st consecrated Roman Catholic Bishop
Of Peterboro. Ont. by Bishop CIeary of
Kingston. There were present Bishops
Duhamel Of Ottawa and Fabre Of Mon =
treal; Bishop Walsh OF London, Bishop
Foley of Detroit aad Mgr. Legare, Of
Quebec.
THOUSANDS Of carpenters ard workmen
lined both Broadway and Fifth avenue,
New York. on the I'd, and the work of