The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-01-24

Word was received by the Harrison
family in Germantown, Pa, on the 10th,
that Butler Harrison who has been as
sisting his brother Alex Harrison, the
well-known artist, in his work, COM
mitted suicide recently near Dover, En-
gland.
FIRE in Willis T. Prices cotton ware
house at Macon, Ga, on the 14th, de-
stroyed about $50 bales of cotton. Loss,
S24, 600; fully insured
Mr.. STEWART, of the House judiciary
committee, was instructed, on the 10Th,
to report favorably, with some slight
notifications, the bill for the construc-
tion of two United States prisons east
of the Rocky mountains, the selection
of the sites being left to the Attorney
General. The bill appropriates $780,
600 for each of the prisons and 500, 600
additional for each for the purchase of
tools and other materials.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY was entertained
at banquet by the Khedive on the
evening Of the 10th.
THE exercises preliminary to the in
stallation of Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott as
pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
took place, on the 10th, in the Sunday
school hall of the church. The installa-
ton services proper were held in the
church in the evening.
The waters in the Conemaugh river and
Stony creek, Pa, were, on the 18th, re-
ported to be again at flood height, and
much damage was apprehended.
CHARLES CRAsIER, brakeman on the
Queen & Crescent road, on the 10th, at
Miller's, los miles southwest of Birming-
ham, Ala, was struck by the timbers of
a water tank as the train dashed by and
hurled to death. His neck was broken
and he was otherwise horribly mangled-
WILL DICKINSON, butcher at Mid
dlesborough, KY, a desperate character,
was shot and instantly killed by Deputy
Sheriff and Acting City Marshal Roger
H. Williams while resisting arrest.
INFORMATION was filed, on the 10th,
with the Health Department of Mime
sofa to the effect that farmer near Nc
Carron's Lake, outside the limits of st.
Paul, was slaughtering hogs suffering
from cholera and selling the diseased
meat for human food.
THE New York grand-jury, on the
10th, handed in an Indictment against
Major William II. Clark, of the South
ern Society, who fired three pistol-shots
at Wilton Randolph, a fellow-member,
recently.
Miss LAURA DIXON, who shot herself
in the head, at Elizabeth, n. j., died
on the 10th. She was pretty brunette
of twenty-three and was respondent be-
cause George Weimer, who had kept
company with her for long time, mar
ried another girl.
Mrs. JAMES MCNEIL, an insane moth
er at Cannon Lake, Mimi, killed two
children and fatally injured two others
and herself on the 10th.
AUTHENTIC news has been received at
Cairo, Egypt, of terrible mortality among
the natives in the Soudan due to famine
resulting from lack of rain during the
autumn.
A UNIVERSAL exhibition will be held
at Liege, Belgium, in June next, on the
occasion of King Leopold's jubilee.
A GLAss-BoTTLE trust has been formed
in London by the uniting of twenty
three firms engaged in the manufacture
or sale of glass bottles with view to a
maintenance of uniform prices.
IT has been discovered that the no.
ton guns carried by the 10, ,600-ton British
man-of-war Benbow, of the Mediterra-
mean fleet, are entirely worthless for the
purpose for which they were designed
SIDNEY DILLON, a nephew of Hon.
Sidney Dillon, of New York, accidentally
shot and killed himself while hunting
on his farm, ten miles northwest OF
Omaha, Neb, on the nth.