The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-26

VOL. AAIN.-NO.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
EX-SENATOR PLATT's son has entered
General Tracy's law firm in New York
City.
THE Bank Of France, on the 21st, de
clared a dividend Of forty francs per
share.
SECRETARY NOBLE, on the 18th, received
and accepted the resignation of General
Franz Sigel, pension agent in New York
City.
FOUR men were killed In fght between
Chickasaw police, boomers and cattle
men on the borders OF Oklahoma on the
18th.
IT is asserted in Berlin that the German
Government intends, after the Reichstag
is dissolved, to prosecute the Socialist
Deputies.
TIE slav News, a paper printed IL
Pittsburgh, Pa, has been inhibited IT,
Austria, and can no longer onter that
country.
WIN. O'CoSNoR has cabled an accept
ance Of the challenge to row Searle, the
Australian oarsmau, for u, 900 a side, on
the Thames, in September.
SEVERAL Russian officers connected
with the artillery service have been ar
rested in connection with substantiated
charges Of plotting against the life Of the
Czar.
on the 10th, Secretary Window directed
that Mrs. Kate Flynn and her three infant
children, and Mrs. Margaret Cassidy,
paupers, be returned from Philadelphia
to Ireland.
TIE Cimarron and Canadian rivers in
Oklahoma are swollen and running with
great force, and it is predicted that many
boomers will be drowned in attempting
10 ford them.
FANINE prevails in the villages Of Bickse
and Bistritz, and in the Wang river
district in Hungary. Hundreds Of people
are starving aud many deaths have al
ready occurred.
THE report that yellow fever had re-
appeared at Jacksonville, Fla, was posi-
lively contradicted, ON the 10th, by DR..
Mitchell, president Of the Duval County
Board OF Health.
President HARRusoN, on the 18th, in
formed a prominent applicant for con-
Bulship that he would not be able 10 con-
slider any applications for consulships for
three or four weeks.
EIGHTEEN inches of snow fell at veta
Pass, Col, on the 10th. There was snow
ali over Southern Colorado, but out on
the plains 1t melted as fast as it feH. A
good grazing season is assured.
BISHOP O'HARA has issued a circular
letter ordering special services in oil the
Catholic churches of the Scranton (Pa.)
diocese on April 30, to commemorate the
centennial OF Washington's Inauguration.
TIE secret order Of the Golden Field
was formed at Los Angeles, Cal, recently
with the object Of seizing Lower Cali
Fornia, making it an independent repub-
lie and then seeking admission to the
United States.
THE opening of the Centennial Loan
Exhibition of Historical Paintings and
Relics at tho Metropolitan Opera House.
New York, on the evening Of the 18th,
was graced by the presence Of Mrs.
Grover Cleveland.
REYNOLDS Bros, OF Toledo, o., on the
10Th, shipped eleven oargOes of corn, ag-
gregatiug 100000 bushels, TO Liverpool
The entire fleet left together. This is one
of the largest shipments Of grain eveI
made from that port.
EMPEROR WILLIAM VIII go to Stuttgart
on June p next, TO offer his cOugratula-
tions to King Charles Of Wurttemberg al
the jubilee celebration to be held on the
-
accession TO the throne.
NEARLY 900 immigrants were landed a
Castle Garden, on the 18th, from tn;
steamers Thiugvalla, Helvetta anC
italy. The steamship Bothnia, which wa'
signaled of Sandy Hook, also had mum
Der Of immigrants on board
C. N. GREEN, travelling passenger agen'
bf the Bee Line, who returned to Kansas
City, on the 18th, from trip through
Oklahoma, says he found more than Eve
persons for every claim, ready TO cross
the lile at a moments notice.
ON the 18th, Assistant Secretary Bussey
Of the Interior Department. rendered
three decisions in pension cases in whicl
the question Of Zine of duty" was in
yolvcd. He followed the principles laid
down in the case OF Brokeushaw.
1HE Will Oh MIS- w E4a NnuOAn nAAt
Allen, daughter Of the late Commodore
Vanderbilt, bequeathos the estate, valued
mt $5,OO0,QJ0, IN six equal parts, one I,
each OF her Eve living children and on,
to the children OF her deceased son.
TIE election to fiji the vacant seat il
the British Parliament for the Cenra
division Of Birmingham, which took plac
on the 18th, resulted in the choice OF Mr.
Albert Bright by n vote of 5,dl0 to 2,56
for Mr.. Boale, the Liberal candidate.
GABRIEL DUMoNr, a prominent leader
In the Riel rebellion, has arrived at Due
Lake, n. W. T., the scene Of the battles o
1Ss5, and is addressing meetings OF half
breeds, urging them 70 press their griev
ances upon the Dominion Governments
NAN Po IKE, a Chinaman, sold abOu
seven hundred bogus passports to Nev
Haven tConn.) Celesdals who hav
friends ia China desirous Of coming Z
America. He charged one dollar each
and having thoroughly worked his iel,
suddenly departed.
THE one hundred and fourteenth ami
versary OF the battle Of Lexington, Mass.
was celebrated on the 18th. Salutes wor
fred and all church bells rung at sun
rise. About two hundred persons par
took OF nm old-fashioued breakfast, serve
in Massachusetts Hall.
THE Cherokee Commission met at tn
Interior Department on the 15th, and ha'
a conference with Secre sary Noble in re
gard 10 their duties. He explained tn
Cherokee treaties to the commissioners
aud also handed them printed instruc
ttons for their guidance.
TIE Secretary OF State has been in
formed by cable OF the death, at BreslaU
Prussia, on the 18th, OF Consul Dithmol
the United States representative there