The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-01
THE VEST

THE 300 coal miners at Boonesborough,
Iowa, have struck against a reduction of
half a cent per bushel in their pay.
The Grand Opera House and adjacent
buildings were burned at St. Paul Mimi,
on the 2lst. Loss, about $3.50, 900.
FIRE in ST. Paul. MIMI, recently did
$50 600 damage to the Berrisford Baking
& Confectionery Company's building and
stock.
The Kansas Legislature has chosen
Preston B. Plumb to succeed himself as
United States Senator.
THE crematory which was recently built
in ST. Louis burned on the 22d. The loss
was estimated at $20,O The fire is sup
posed to have caught from the furnace
utilized to reduce the dead to ashes. A
body was being cremated when the fire
was discovered.
MISS COFFIN, the eccentric young Gin
cfnnati heiress, who had annoyed Kyrle
Bellew, the actor, for some time past, has
been taken to the Middletown On. W in
sane asylum.
f. w. RosENTHAL & Co., carpet dealers,
of st. Louis, have failed with $50, 900 liza
bilities and much smaller assets.
THE business portion OF the village
of Matamora, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire
the other day. Loss $50, 900.
W. D. WAsHBURN was elected Senator
by the Minnesota Legislature on the 23d,
notwithstanding charges of corruption and
bribery in manipulating the Republican
caucus, the investigating committee de-
claring that improper influences had not
been used by Washburn or his opponent
Senator Sabin.
SEVEN Mormons Of st. John, Ariz., have
been arrested on account of timber frauds
and three because OF land frauds. The
Mormons who control the region were
greatly excited.
JUDGE WILSON, of the circuit court at
Geneva, ILL.,, has refused TO grant new
trial to Bauereisen, the alleged Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy dynaIniter who was
recently found guilty and sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary,
MRs. Lou WRIGHT, married woman,
was whipped by Whitecaps the other
night in Monroe County, Ind.
THE rebellious Polish priest Father
Kolasinski, has established his indepen-
dent church at Detroit, Mich, aud re-
Gently administered the first communion
to 265 girls and boys. Tho ceremony took
place in a chapel fixed up for the occasion
in a back room in his house. His follows
ing is said to be 1000 families strong.
CHARLES LUMsDALLER, formerly a
wealthy farmer near Fergus Falls, Mimi,
was arrested at Port Townsend, Wash,
recently charged with having poisoned his
wife last spring.
THE Oregon Legislature in joint session
has declared Hon. J. N. Dolph elected
United States Senator to succeed himself.
A BOUT GOO families were elected from
Oklahoma by Lieutenant Macomb re-
Gently. The boomers had gone in from
Texas.
ONE man was fatally aud three seriously
I injured by the falling Of the walls of a
/ building which was being torn down in
/ Cincinnati recently. The driver Of the
patrol wagon had leg broken.
A LARGE oil can exploded in the base
ment of the Belvidere block at Milwaukee,
Wis, the other night, and after the fire
was extinguished it was found that John
/ M. Clements, twelve years of age, was
/ burned 10 a crisp and his brother James
so badly injured that he would die.
THE Union Pacific road has withdrawn
/ its circular announcing a change in the
/ Louis IN fun possession Of its five-cent diff
/ ferential. and continues the alleged dis
4 examinations against Chicago.
! IT is stated that the soldiers have once
more cleared Oklahoma OF boomers .
! The last 'round up'' numbered 5000 per-
| sons.
] REv. BOYD VINCENT was consecrated as
assistant Protestant Episcopal Bishop OF
/ Ohio at Cincinnati on the 25th.
In the Indiana Senate the Democrats
unseated Carpenter, Republican, because
of charges of bribery. His opponent was
not given the place.