The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-09-06

THE Embreeville Iron Works and 45,.
600 acres of timber and mineral laads
situated near JOnesborO, Tenn. have
been sold to Englishmen for $100 900. The
furnace has been out OF blast since 1873.
WIN. J. Fry a young man who was sent
to the Allegheny County (Pa.) Jail for
drunkenness, was found dead in his cell
on the morning of the 505h Just over
the heart were several holes made with
lead pencil which was found, broken
and bloody, in his pocket.
THE German powder factories are all
at work night and day turning out the
new smokeIess powder for the army.
They are also crowded with orders for
the Austrian and Italian governments,
both of which have adopted the smoke
less powder.
By the late storms in the district of
Waksyama, Japan, ten-thousand people
ps-i5hed and twenty thousand were
rendered homeless. The loss Of prop
erty was enormous.
INTENSE excitement prevails amongst
the Americans residing in Shanghai,
China, in consequence Of news received
from Pekiu that prominent Chinese Of
fcials have petitioned the government
for the expulsion Of all Americans from
the country. 1t is reported that Prince
Chua, the father Of the Emperor, is ad-
A COLLISION occurred on the night of
the 18th, on the Central Vermontroad near
Middlebury between a passenger and a
livestock train. Several persons were
killed.
A MOB of about 800 men visited the
Fayetteville Is. c. Jail, on the night Of
the 29th, and after shooting John Turner,
the negro who murdered Chas. Walker
at Rush Run, July 4, took him out and
hanged him.
LEWIS Bros & Co., of New York and
Philadelphia, on the 30th, offered their
creditors 6218 cents on the dollar, aud
asked that they be given eighteen months
in which to make the settlement.
THE strike of cigar makers in Ell Mo-
| delO factory, jacksonville, Fla, ended, on
the 30th, the men agreeing to return to
work and submit the question of the
method of payment to arbitration.
THE social democratic societies Of
Switzerland are holding meetings daily
| in all the cities and demanding of the
| government that its action in creating
/ the office Of public prosecutor be submit
/ ted to n vote of the people. It is not un-
| likely that the Federal Council viii be
| compelled to vie d to this pressure.
Jos. II. REALL, of New York, the au-
/ thor of the Oleomargarine law which
/ consumed so much of the time of the
/ II VI " -AluJl COu9ICSSJ NCuG AZ LOCI
/ Park on the both, to urge the President to
! call an extra session Of Congress to con-
| slider the Worlds Fair question.
EDWARD SPENCER, who was shot by his
| step~father, Scott Standiford, at Van
| Bibber's station, Nd, because he refused
| to bring the latter a drink of water, died,
on the 30th and Standiford was rear
rested and placed in the Hartford County
| Jail on the charge OF murder. Spencer
was twenty years of age.
PEOPLE from all over Northern Vir-
| ginia focked to Mannasses on the 30th, tc
participate in the dedication of the mouu-
ment to the memory of the Confederate
dead. The orator of the occasion was
Senator John w. Daniel.
! PORT HURON, Mich, is surrounded by
! forest fires and considerable damage has
! been done, with promise of still more
/ disastrous results if the drought which
/ has lasted two months should continue.
| THE steamship Columbia. of the Ham
| burg American line, which arrived at
! New York, on the 18th, broke the record
/ from The Needles to Sandy Hook. Time,
| 6 days, IS hours aud 20 minutes.
TIE peace convention closed its three
| days session at New London, Conn, on
4 the 3Oth. A message was sent to the G..
A. R. at Milwaukee conveying cOngratu
| latiOns. 1t was resolved to build peace
/ temple in which the principles of arbi-
tration shall be taught.
Mrs. W. E. CHRISTIAN, nee Julia Jack :
son, only child of Stonewall Jackson.
| died at Charlotte, n. c., on the 3)th, after
two weeks illness Of typhoid fever.