The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-08-09


throughout Switzerland and the streams
are beyond their banks.
KANSAS CITY won ball game at Balti-
more on the 1st.
THE Chicago worlds fair committee
held a meeting recently and elected
Mayor Cregier president. Two hundred
representative men were present and an
executive committee was appointed.
THE Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company has
voluntarily increased the wages of its
puddlers fifty five cents day.
THE treasure, footing up about 5000, 900,
lost on the steamer Granada off the west
ern coast of Mexico, has been recovered
IT is reported that cattle are dying at
the rate of forty or fifty a day from
splenetic fever in the Texas Panhandle.
w. j. JOHNSON & Co, leather dealers Of
Boston, have assigned with 500 0C0 direct
and $40, COO contingent liabilities. The
assets are said to be ample.
ABRAHAM FINKBONE, aged twenty six,
accused of arson, hanged himself in the
Jail ut Reading, Pa, the other night.
THE latest effort of Ives and Staynor,
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail-
road manipulators, to secure release from
the New York Jail has failed.
ELEVEN business houses in FennvilIe
Mich, were destroyed by fire the other
night, causing S35 coo loss. A tramp's
Two cases of giant powder exploded in
pit No 6 at Marquette, Mich, recently.
Two men and three boys were killed.
WORKMEN succeeded in opening the gate
of the Feltville dam near Plainfield n. j.,
which had been closed for years with
weeds, etc, and the threatened danger of
a break of the embankment was passed.
A PASSENGER train left the rails on the
South Park (Col) railroad and fell down
I.
and the fireman was seriously hurt. Sew
eral passengers were injured.
A CLOUDBURsT on the 1st did consider
able damage at Watkins Glen, N. Y.
A RAILROAD deal was reported by the
Chicago Times by which the Chicago &
Alton would purchase or lease the old
Kansas Pacific track to Cheyenne. Itwas
not thought likely, however, by the gem
eral public that the Union Pacific would
lose control of its terminal at Kansas
City.
MANDAN, Oak, was devastated by fire
on the afternoon of the ID
TREASURER COLEMAN, recently default
ing in Warren County, o., is $4,000 short.
REV. SAM SHARPE, a colored preacher,
of Lebanon, KY, has been killed for liv-
ing with another mans wife.
A QUARREL over a hog worth So has
caused an armed feud between the Smiths
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended August 1 numbered 21O,
compared with 216 the previous week and
216 the corresponding week of last year.
ABOUT a third of the coke workers of
the COnnellsville region in Pennsylvania
are on a strike for higher wages.
THE miners of Durham, Eng, have
voted by a majority of one to accept the
10 per cent advance offered by the mine
owners.
NEWS from Gunnison, Col, recently was
that the Utes were off their reservation
and were intimidating settlers.
THE price of The Angelus'-580 $50
francs-has been paid to the French Min
ister of Fine Arts, and Millet's picture
will soon be brought to America Several
European artists expressed the opinion
that the picture was any thing but the
grand work of art as generally thought.
a SOUTH BOUND train on the Delaware
e Hudson went through an open switch
at KenwOod Junction, II. Y, recently.
Thomas Commit, a passenger, was killed
and five persons were more or less injured.
SOLICITOR SCOTT, of the Pennsylvan q
| road, denies that the company has insti-
| tuted proceedings against the South Fork
[ Fishing Cub, of Pittsburgh, fer damages
| caused by the Conemaugh foods.
c. NJ. HULL, editor of the Bolivar Coun-
! ty Democrat at Rosedale, Miss, was killed
the other day by L. A. Weissinger, editor
of the Bolivar County Review, at that
place. The Review was lately esta blish ed
and the two editors had engaged in a bit
| ter personal warfare in their respective
columns.