The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-09-12

TIE New York Equalization Board
has announced the assessed value OF all
real and personal property in that State
to be S3, 6S3, 653, ,O62.
JACK CROCKETT, aged nineteen, a
bill-poster, was killed at Des Moines,
Ia. on the night of the Sd, while on top
of a building witnessing fireworks
display. BY some mischance he caught
hold of a live electric-light wire and re-
ceived a fatal shock. His hands were
burned in terrible manner.
IN response to dispatch from the
New York State Board of Arbitration as
to existing trouble, a subcommittee OF
OF the Brickmakers' Association called
on the board, on the 4th, and stated
that they had nothing to arbitrate and
that they proposed to run their yards
and employ whom they pleased with
out any dictation. The board said they
would get the statement of the walk
ing delegates and transmit it to the as
sociation.
LEMUEL n. JAYNEs, a nurse at Belle
vue Hospital, in New York, was arrested,
on the Sd, for dosing patient to death
with carbolic acid, which, he says, was
administered by mistake.
JUDGE EDWARD +. MOVES, of Cincin-
natl, dropped dead in the street, on the
4th, Just after leaving the Supreme
Court room. where he had just heard an
injunction case.
THE American Social Science Asso-
citation met in Minneapolis, Mimi, on
the 4th.
The Panama Railroad Company hav-
ing agreed to pay their laborers the
former rate of wages, the strikers re-
turned to work on the 4th.
THE steamship City of New York
sailed from Queenstown at 2:45 p. M,
on the 4th, and tho steamship Teutonic
followed fifteen minutes later. There
were large number of bets made be-
tween passengers on the two vessels as
to the result of the race.
IT was reported in Constantinople, on
the 4th, that body of Armenians had
crossed the frontier from Persia to as
sist their prosecuted brethren in Tur-
key.
THE Navy Department, on the 5th, is
sued advertisements for bids for the con-
struction of three steel tugs. These are
| the vessels for which bids have once
! before been advertised and received,
| but found to exceed the appropriations.
The Department has, therefore, ma
terially modified the requirements un-
der the present call.
A DISPATCH from the city of San Sal
vador says that General Ezeta is en-
gagged in forming a legal government
for the Salvador Republic, preparatory to
demanding recognition from foreign
powers.
THE Socialist congress at Bilbao,
ended with little result The eight
hour scheme is looked upon with small
| favor by Spanish workmen.
STANLEY is enjoying himself in the
Alps and has gained greatly in appetite
and strength. He has climbed the Forno
glacier.
Mrs. WILLIAM ROBINSON, of Port
| Huron, Mich, has married her adopted
son, George Robinson. This makes his
foster mother his wife; his grandmother
his mother-in-law, and his foster sis
ters his step-children. Being the legal
father of his wife's children, he is his
own legal father. He is twenty-three
years old and she is forty-three.
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country, during the seven days
ended the 5th, numbered, for the United
States, 167; and for Canada, Sc, total,
2OS; compared with 1S9 the preceding
week. For the corresponding week last
year the figures were pol, representing
ia failures in the United States and
| 27 in Canada