The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-04

THE National Bankers Association met
in annual convention at Kansas City, No.
on the 25th.
THE fast mail train on the Mobile 6,
Ohio road was held up the other morning
by robbers at Buckatunna, Wayne County,
Miss, and the mail car rified.
LEWIS Bros. & Co., the dry goods COM
mission merchants of New York, have
made their formal offer to their creditors
TO compromise at 57H cents on the dollar.
This is 71s cents more than they and the
assignee thought they could pay when
their schedules were filed.
ELIZA Cook, the English poetess, died
on the 25th. She was born in 1918
THE men employed in ParnelPs quarry,
Ireland, threatened to strike recently be-
cause Of an obnoxious foreman.
THE boiler at the sawmill of Pritz Bros,
Berlin, Pa, exploded recently. John
Pritz, Edward Pritz, Oliver Ross, David
Ross and David Baker were instantly
killed. Two brothers named Brant were
badly injured.
Sol PURNELL, a negro was hanged re-
Gently by mob at Winona, Miss. He had
assaulted white girl.
THE jury in the Ives case at New York
disagreed, standing ten for conviction
and two for acquittaL He was remanded
to the TOmbs for new trial.
IT is reported that Christians in Crete
are being fogged and tortured and wom-
en- subjected to gross indignities. A
Greek gunboat has been dispatched to
Crete to put a stop to outrages.
A RACINE, Wis, special says: Rev. A.
F. Packepe, a Lutheran minister who
came here tive years ago, has absconded
with portion of the money raised to
build new church. He caused a split in
the cOngreg cation shortly after his arrival
ALONG the line of the Mississippi Cen
tral the whites are organizing in oppo-
sitiOn to the blacks, already organized. A
grave state of affairs exists.
A MISS GLEASON was killed and Mr.. and
Mrs. Gale were seriously injured by their
carriage being struck ny a freight train
recently at Hardin, near Greeley, Col.
The schooner Alpha, of Port Townsend,
Wash, is thought to have been lost at
sea.
FIVE hundred men working on the Bay
de Chaleurs railway, in Canada, have
struck for several months back pay,
amounting to $4,000
BLISS & Co.'s syrup factory at Kansas
City, No, was burned out early on the
morning of the 27th. Loss, $4,000. In
surance on contents, $4,000.
A BRISK snow storm prevailed on tn,
Goth in Northern and Western Wisconsin
Two miners were killed by black damn
in an abandoned shaft near Pottsville, Pa.
| recently.
EMERy's large soap factory, Ivorydale
| o., was DESTROYED by fire the other night
causing S125, 600 damage
| The Temple OF Heaven at Pekin, China
| containing the great throne of the sacred
| dragon, has been destroyed by fire.
THE n. Latin and Rand powder mill a
| Cressona, Pa. blew up recently. The ex
| plosion was terrific in force William
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were killed and a number of other work
| men injured.
! By the collapse Of an unfinished hous,
| in Milan, Italy, i've persons were kille,
Nnd twenty injured.
THE first convention of the Union Pro
hibitory League of Pennsylvania, a non
partisan scheme, having for its purpos
the suppression of the saloon outside o
party lines, was held at Harrisburg, Pa,
on the S6th, with about 100 delegates il
attendance.
The fifth annual convention of the Ger
man American technicker verein was il
session IN Washington.
AT the business meeting OF the societ,
Of the Army OF the Tennessee held at Gin
cinnati on the 26th, officers were electe
as follows: President General w. I
sherman; recording secretary. Colonel
81 Dayton; treasurer, General Force
corresponding secretary, General A. Hick
/ enlooper.
| The fourteenth annual convention c
/ the American Bankers Association ad
iourned at Kansas City, No, on the 26tl
1 The following officers were elected
Charles. Parsons, Of St Louis. president
Morton Mcdichaels, of Philadelphia, frs
vice. president; George F. Baker, OF Ne
York, treasurer. William B. Greene, c
New York, was elected secretary;
V. Reiger, Of Kansas City, was made vice
president for Missouri and J. r. MUlvant
Of Topeka. vice. president for Kansas