The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-08
THE WEST,

JAMES A. DRAPER, one OF the proprietors
OF the Empire soap works OF st Louis,
disappeared last week while on his way
East to visit his father at Pawtucket, R L
Word has been sent to police headquarters
that his travelling bag has been found on
the steamer Rock Island, OF the Stoning-
ton line. It is now believed that he com
mitted suicide by throwing himself over
board in the sound.
The Grand Opera House at Duluth,
Mimi, and adjacent buildings were burned
on the 2sth. Loss, 500. coo.
GEORGE W. DOHNER s. Co, dealers in
glassware and croekery, at 1s4 and 1856
Wabash avenue, Chicago. have made a
voluntary assignment. The company's
liabilities are $42, 900, and the assets the
same.
THE Grand Opera House at Duluth,
Mimi, aud adjacent buildings were burned
on the 2sth. Loss, 800. 600.
THE wall OF the burned Opera House at
Duluth, Mimi, fell on an adjoining
building and killed a merchant named
Chamberlain. Another man was supposed
| to be in the ruins of the crushed building,
which Immediately took fire.
! JOHN E. SULLIVAN. county clerk of Ma
rlon County, Ind, has failed in his private
business. He claims that the expenses Of
the campaign two years ago bankrupted
| him
IT is reported from Chamberlain, OAK,
that the Indians from the Lower Brule
and Crow Greek agencies are preparing
| petitions to be sent to Washington asking
that the lands be opened to settlement.
| SEVEN residences, two livery stables and
two business houses were destroyed by
fire at Marietta O., the other morning.
Loss, $4,000
Two school children named French were
/ frozen to death twelve miles eastof Hitch
/ cock, Oak, during a recent cold snap.
/ They had attempted TO reach home with
/ an elder sister unaided and were out all
/ night When discovered the two children
were dead and the sister badly frozen.
A STRONG anti-Pinkerton police bill has
been introduced in the Illinois Legislature
/ by Representative O'TOole.
The Phelps Clunie recount in the Fifth
I California district has resulted in fixing
the majority for Clunie, Democrat at 30.
! AN epidemic of typhoid fever is raging
In Lake View and other suburbs along the
Michigan lake shore to the northward in
/ the direction of Edgewater, near Chicago.
MRS. MECKIE RAwsoN, the wife of the
millionaire banker, who in open court shot
his lawyer nearly to death was acquitted
on the ground of insanity at Chicago on
the S0th.
THE latest phase of the fight between
! Governor Church and the Dakota Legis-
/ lature Is the proposal that the Legislature
/ repeal the laws creating the Offices OF
Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General and
| Railroad Commissioner.
/ THE lockout OF the 1000 miners near
Spring Valley, ILL.,, has ended in a victory
for the companies, the men conceding the
right OF their employers to hire and dis
! charge men as they pleased.
COLONEL PRoUTy, the veteran Kansas
newspaper man, died in Topeka ON the
/ Slst. He was born in New York State
July 81, 1883 and set type in the Herald ol
1 Freedom Office at Lawrence, Kan.s at the
time Preston B. Plumb was foreman.
THE National Furniture Manufacturers
| Association at its annual meeting at Crane
Rapids, Mich, refused strongly 70 or.
ganize q trust
JOHN II. SUBLIvAE, county clerk OF In
dianapolis, Ind, who failed for $T5, 600 re
Gently Is missing, and is supposed TO be il
Canada His flight was occasionsd by thS
discovery that be had issued fraudulent
warehouse receipts. for large consign-
ments Of poultry, produce, etc