The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-11-22
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| tSburgh, Ia, Jne EreedOm kIa.) re-
finery and the Craig pipe line to the
/ Washington (Pa.) oil field. The Globe
/ refinery is one OF the largest in the
country, and being independent has al
ways been a big thorn in the side of
/ the Standard.
HENRY w. CHAmBERLIN, of New York
! City, president of the Chamberlin Man
ufacturing Works and prominent busi-
ness man and Mason, died suddenly on
the 9th.
c. HUDSON SMITH, pastor of the Pill
| grim Church of Dorchester, Mass,
whose mysterious disappearance last
spring, subsequent discovery in San
| Francisco and return to his pastorate in
/ the fall formed fruitful theme of gos-
sip and wonderment, has again disap-
| peared, without giving any intimation
of his intended departure or leaving any
clew by which to trace him.
FIVE of the crew of the steamer Au-
gusta Victoria were locked up in the
Hoboken IN. j. Jail, on the 9th, for
mutiny. They refused to do duty on
deck in rain-storm after passing Sandy
Hook unless they were paid double.
THE centennial anniversary of the
appointment of Bishop Carroll, the
first Catholic Bishop given to Amer
lea, was celebrated with imposing
grandeur at Baltimore on the 10th.
A COLLISION between a freight and
gravel train occurred five miles west of
! Altoona, Pa, on the Sth. Nine men
were killed and about fifteen injured,
humber Of them fatally.
THE Yale-Cornell football game, on
the 9th, resulted in favor of Yale, 70 to
o Harris, of Cornell, was badly injured,
and one Yale man was carried off the
field also seriously hurt.
THE body of State Treasurer VIM. B.
| Hart of Pennsylvania laid in state in
the Capitol at Harrisburg, from IL a. m.
to p. m, on the 18th, after which the
funeral cOrtege proceeded to Harris
! burg Cemetery where tho interment
took place with military honors.
| MATTHEW SULLIVAN, a lineman en-
ployed by a Brooklyn telephone COM
pany, while walking on the tracks of the
Union Elevated railroad, on the 9th, was
| struck by train and precipitated to the
street. His skull was crushed by the
fall, resulting in instant death.
ROBERT BONNER has purchased the
| great three-year-old Sunol of Senator
| Stanford, of California, at price which
the latter declares is the greatest ever
paid for horse in this country.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND assisted in
laying the cornerstone of the Thomas
jefferson Clubs new building in Boer
um Place, Brooklyn, on the 18th. The
clubhouse is to be the local head
quarters of the Democracy.
Two HUNDRED weavers at the Berk-
shire Manufacturing COmpany's mills at
Frankfort, Pa, struck, on the 11th, be-
cause of a notice of a reduction in
wages.
THE Catholic Congress in Baltimore
began its sessions on the 11th. The
delegates to the number of about 1900
assisted at a solemn pontifcal mass in
the morning celebrated by Archbishop
Corrigan of New York.
MIR. PORTAL, British agent at Zanzi-
bar, has received a letter from Henry
NJ. Stanley wherein the explorer states
that he hopes to reach Zanzibar about
the middle of January.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, on the 18th,
signed and issued the proclamation de-
claring the Territory of Washington to
be State of the Union.
THE Broadway Railroad Company of
New York, from which the city now re-
ceives about $40, 900 per annum IN rent
ais, has offered to guarantee that the
payments on this account shall not be
less than $3.50, 600 per annum if the city
will allow it to use the cable system in
stead of horses as motive power.
THE schooner Mary Jane Lee, from
Rockland for New York, hme-laden, ar
rived at Booth Bay, Ne, on the 10th
with her cargo on fire.
A SESSION of the Legislature of Mon
| tana has been called for the Esd by
Governor Toole.
DISPATCHES from South Africa report
the prevalence of famine as the result O.
drought throughout the Transvaal. The
situation at Johannesburg is critical
and breadstufs are selling at famine
prices.
THE number of persons examined fol
the naval service during the past yea
| was 10, 600, and of this number 3,914, o.
more than one-third, were rejected 70
| physical disqualificatiOns. The mum
a | Der rejected for color-blindness wa
= 1,3OO, a ratio of 133 in a thousand.
( THE entire Republican State ticket il
a Iowa, except the Governor, is elected
Y Senator Allison's reelection is also as
a sured by joint majority in the Leg
r. islature of six-the House being tie.
I LOUIS SCHAEFER, prominent resi-
|
out the United States for his prominenc
in Liberal religious circles, died, on tn
f 18th, aged seventy-four.
!, MORE than sixty prominent Bou
n langists were arrested in Paris, on tn
: 18th, for connection with the attemp
l. to hold a Boulangist demonstration i
: the Place de la COncorde.
r, CALVIN $. BRICE, chairman of the Ma
It tional Democratic committee, has ar
g nounced that he will be a candidate 70
q the United States Senatorship frOT
Ohio.
THE hands employed on the stear
?, craft on the Thames river in England
g struck ON the 18th.
l. THE Bulgarian Sobranje in its ad
g dress in reply to the speech from tn
It throne, on the 18th, expressed the hop
h that the suzerain power will take th
!, initiative in recognizing Prince Ferd
1t nand as ruler of Bulgaria.
e The English Court of Queens Benc
e has rejected the application of s
Charles Russell for the canceling {
4 the decision of the lower courts pos
/ poning Parnell's libel suits against tn
5. ! Times.
= The directors Of the Northern Paetf
railroad declared a dividend, on the 12tl
IA of oDa nor cont on Drpferred stool