The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-05-09

PowDERLY. of the Knights of Labor
is out with his views on the eight-hour
movement. He thinks good deal Of
the profit-sharing scheme.
THE body of Z. ID. Walker, editor of
the Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York,
has been found floating in the Roanoke
river in Virginia with his hand grasp
ing fishing rod.
The forebodings concerning labor
demonstrations of the 1st Of May were
quite unnecessary. In the United States
carpenters struck in few cities and
peaceable demonstrations took place,
the most notable being the one at Chi
cago.
THE public debt statement showed a
decrease during the month OF April OF
81, ,636,90l
A MISPLACED switch at Castroville
Col, caused the wrecking of freight
train and the death of fireman. The
engineer stuck to his post and was not
hurt.
BY an explosion of natural gas in a
cracker factory at Fort Wayne, Ind,
the building was wrecked and one man
fatally hurt.
DURING the labor demonstration at
Pesth, Hungary, on the 1st a riot oc-
Cured at the rolling mills. The mob
was charged by the military and several
persons received bayonet stabs.
EXCITED French workingmen on the
Place de la Concorde, Paris, ere
charged by a squadron of cavalry OF the
1st. Several were wounded and many
were arrested.
A HURRICANE passed through Bloom
ing Grove, Tex, on the 1st. Many resi-
dences and the Baptist Church were de-
molished.
Two little girls were struck by an ex-
press train while playing on the rail
road track at Norwood, Ont One was
killed and the other fatally injured.
CHARLES f. WRIGHT, who shot and
killed Sheriff Marshall and Deputy
/ Thurber at Bensonia, Mich, last Au-
gust, has been sentenced to life impris-
onment for the crime.
The Baptist and Catholic churches
and the Catholic parsonage at West
Boylston, Mass, were burned to the
| ground recently.
THERE was a report that the Wells
Fargo messenger on the Southern Pacific
| train had been robbed of S45, 600 at
Eagleville, Tex.
AN Israelite named Solomon is charged
with robbing the Bank of Bengal of
$3.50, 900.
THE theft of the Jewels of the Duchess
of Edinburgh is stated to be an ire
parable loss.
By collision at railroad crossing at
Lima, o., recently an engineer and two
tramps were killed.
THE Merchants Bank at Atlantic, n.
j., has suspended.
PASSENGER tickets from Kansas City
to ST. Louis were selling as low as S3. so
on the I'd.
AT Chicago George Sleaver is seeking
to establish common law marriage with
Alice NJ. Case in order to get divorce
recorded. This is the first instance
where a man has sought to establish the
fact of such a MARI age, though several
women have done so.
A CoMNnssARY of police, accompanied
by a number of gendarmes, went to the
house of a Russian jew in Sofia, Bull
garia, to search for seditious documents.
! The jew resisted and procuring re-
volver shot and killed the commissary.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended May 1 numbered
211, compared with 21s the previous
week and pa the corresponding week OF
last year.
STRIKES in Chicago planning and iron
mills and reaper works were declared
on the 2d for the eight-hour day. The
master carpenters, it was reported, were
ready to make the concession.