The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-08-22

AT the meeting of the National en-
campment G.. A. r in Boston, on the
18th, Colonel Wheelock C. Veasey, ol
Vermont was unanimously chosen
Commander-in-ChieE Other officers
chosen were: Richard T. Tobin, Senior
Vice-Commander-in-C Chief; George p.
Creamer, Junior Vice-Commander in
! Chief
PRESIDENT PELIEeRINI tclegraphs
from Buenos Ayres that the republic is
| firm and that the present government
will make every sacrifice to save and
| protect its name and credit.
THE Putnam County Qnd.) Farmers
Alliance has decided to boycott the
Studebal1er Wagon Works at South
Bend for sighting a, letter from its
secretary. ,I@-Ai FL 1ss-A
MIR -TURBIS. an Oklahoma claim
holder, was shot through the body, on
tho 18th, by a man who had been hifed
to cut hay on Tnrbin's land by a claim
jumper.
The next National encampment 81
the G. A. r. will be held In. Detroit,
Mich, the home of General Alger.
HALF of the town of Montier, France,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
Forty persons we're injured
The new Silver law went into effect
on the 18th. ~
THREE men and ono woman were
killed and eight or ten persons were
wounded in bloody fight between
negro laborers and a crowd of colored
gamblers at the Shelby Iron Works, in
Shelby County, Tenn, on the night Of
the 18th.
The entire plant, tools and stock of
the Bellaire (O.) Goblet Works were de-
stroyed by fire on the 14th. One hun
dred and twenty men are thrown out of
employment Loss, $50, 600; covered by
insurance.
FLORENCE SULLIVAN, daughter of
Thomas Sullivan, of New York City,
and a man named Hurlburt, of Buffalo.
n. Y, were drowned while bathing at
Spring Lake, n. J., on the 14th.
Ten persons were badly burned by an
explosion in the Kendall Manufactur-
ing Company's large soap factory at
Providence, Il. L., on the 14th.
The population of Trenton, N. J.,
which is placed at 5S, 4S4, has increased
during the last decade %. SO per cent.
THE business portion of Austin, Pa.
was wiped out by fire on the night of
the 18th.
HARRIS, Wolf s. DAVIS have tapped
an oil we'll north of the city of Findlay,
o., which is without doubt the greatest
producer ever struck. 1t flowed over
one thousand barrels the first hour, and
up to six o'clock in the evening the
production was 6,94O barrels, the first.
flow beginning at eleven o'clock in the
morning.
IN the great sculling match at Beat
rice, Neb., on the 18th, between Han
Ian and Teemer, one mile with two.
turns, best two in three, for $500, Han
Ian won in two straight heats. Time
6:29K and 6:34 1 estfFAa
THE peach crop in Southern New Jer-
sey has been a disastrous failure this
season, and the farmers are greatly dis
couraged.
Two of the Pinkerton men doing serv-
ice in the freight yards at Albany, n.
Y, were killed, on the 18th, by being
crushed between the bumpers of freight
cars they were attempting to couple.
FIRE still RACES in the Hill Farm
mine at Scottdale, Pa, whore the fire.
damp explosion occurred a short time
ago and killed thirty-one men.
TIE phylloxera has appeared in the
champagne district of France. Every
precaution has been taken to prevent
its spread.
REAR-ADMIRAL HARMONY has been
ordered to take charge of the Chicago
and the squadron Of evolution