The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-01


THE convention OF the American Tariff
Reform Association began at the Madison
Street Theater, Chicago, on the 18th. The
secretary read letter from President
Cleveland.
THE election for the late Congressman
Burnes' seat in the Fourth district Of Mis-
souri, came Off on the 18th. Returns indi-
Gated the election of Booher and Wilson,
Democrats, for the short and long terms
over Posegate, Republican.
BISHOP G. I. BEDELL, of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Northern Ohio, who
has been i'll for over a year, has been
stricken with paralysis at Nice, France
J. Il. SALISBURY, a Chicago letter car
rier has been arrested and has confessed
having opened letter containing a draft,
forged the payers name and secured the
money.
CONGRESSMAN LAIRD, of Nebraska, ex-
poets to be able to go to Washington
shortly, his illness having almost worn off.
FLATHEAD Indians in Flathead Lake
valley, above Helena Mont, were re-
ported threatening grave trouble because
j. E. Clifford, of Demosville, killed one of
their number 1t was reported that Cliff
ford and one other had been killed
THE Myers Opera House at Janesville,
Wis. the handsomest theater in WiscOn-
sin outside of Milwaukee, was destroyed
FoUR San Francisco policemen have
been indicted for receiving bribes from
keepers of Chinese gambling dens.
A CABLE car containing scores of pas
Eengers was struck square in the middle
the other night at Chicago by a locomo-
tive and hurled at least one hundred feet
Only one person, woman, was fatally
injured.
CHARLES J. HULL, a Chicago millionaire,
f-NA L.
Helen Culver He had no direct heirs, but
his next OF kin will contest the will.
THE Interstate Commerce Railway As
sociation (the ''gentlemen's agreementh)
was organized at Chicago on the 21st
Considerable skep:icism existed as to its
continuance. The membership is composed
OF eighteen out of twenty Western
roads.
WHILE two girls, Milue and Winnie
Peterson, were returning from school re-
Gently in the northern part of Aitkin
County, Mimi, they were attacked and
completely devoured by timber wolves, a
few scattered bones and shreds of cloth
ing alone remaining as the horrible testi-
mOny of the children's fate.
A GENUINE blizzard ragged in Dakota and
Minnesota to as far south as Kansas and
Missouri on the 21st and 22d.
Forty EIGHT children ranging in age
from eighteen months to three years died
in and about Wabash, Ind, in the past two
weeks from diphtheria aud membranous
Group. Not victim escaped.
JAMES M. LANE, county treasurer Of
Pickaway County, o., has absconded with
defalcations reported running all the way
up to 500, 0O0 He was patron of bucket
shops.
THERE viii be no war between citizens
and half-breeds in Rollette County, Oak.
The entire matter of taxing the half breeds
has been submitted to the Government
and both parties seem inclined to abide
the decision.
A WARRANT was issued at Indianapolis,
Ind, on the 22d for the arrest of Colonel
w. w. Dudley, of the Republican National
/ Committee.
Miss MINNIE MARSEALEs, a young lady
/ of Norwalk, o., died in a dentists chair
/ tho other day. She had taken chloroform
pre- paratoIy to having her teeth drawn,
( and il caused her heart to cease beating.