The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-21

THE Spanish Government will be rep
resented at the Berlin labor conference
by Senior Moret and two experts.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY WIN
DOM, Solicitor Hepburn and Special
Agent Okie, who made the investiga-
ton of Castle Garden year ago, APP
peared at a Joint meeting of the House
and Senate committees on immigration,
on the 18th, and explained the reason for
the transfer of the immigrant station
from Castle Garden to Bedloe's island.
GENERAL ELPHINsToNE, the comp
troler of the Duke of Connaught's house,
hold, was washed overheard from the
deck of steamship off Teneriffe on
the 18th. His body was not recovered.
For striking an old squaw in the head
with an axe and cracking her skull,
while drunk, a Sioux buck named
DIRTY Foot" was seized by crowd and
thrown into a fire, and repeatedly
pushed back when he tried to escape,
until he was burned to a crisp.
THE water in the Mississippi river
overhowed the levee in front of New
Orleans, on the 18th, and for awhile
threatened great damage to the Crescent
City.
An adverse report was made to the
House committee on banking and cur
rency, on the 18th, by a subcommittee
on the various bills for the issue of frac-
tional paper currency.
THREE persons who had participated
in the recent anti-government demon
stration at Johannesburg, in the Trans
vaal, and in hauling down the flag of
the republic, have been sent to Pretoria
on a charge of treason. As a conse-
quence great excitement prevails
throughout the republic.
THE French Government has deter
mined to occupy the Dahomian province
of Whydah on the African slave coast.
p. 7. BARNUM, sailed from South
hampton for New York on the 18th.
THE Gar is very unpleasantly reflect
ed upon by the continental press for the
persecution of the Princess Dolgourika,
the morganatic wife of his late father.
THE number of miners who perished
in the recent Morsa mine disaster at
Glamorgan, Wales, is definitely placed
at eighty.
TWENTY THOUSAND men employed as
engineers in Northeastern England have
organized strike for shorter hours.
THE striking weavers at Gablong,
Bohemia, became riotous on the 14th.
The local police were powerless to with
stand them and the military was sum-
moned.
HOLDERS of ninety-five per cent. of
the Indebtedness of Henry S. Ives &
Co, have consented to settle for five
cents on the dollar. 1t is expected that
the consent of the five per cent will
soon be secured.
SEVEN men, part of gang engaged
in removing an obstruction from the
track of the West Virginia Central rail-
road in a cut between Chaffee and
Blaine, on the 14th, were buried alive
by great landslide, and four of their
number were taken out dead.
ALEXANDER DOYLE, of New York, was
the successful competitor for the design
for the monument to Henry w. Grady,
to be erected at Atlanta, Ga.
THE late VIM. Bucknell, of Philadel-
phia, left his entire estate of several
million dollars to his children. 1t was
expected there would be large bequests
to CHARITIES.
The General Term of the Supreme
Court of New York decided, on the 14th,
that pool-selling on races was legalized
by act of the Legislature in 1887.
KING HUNIBERr has donated the sum
of 5000, 900 for the purpose of erecting a
monument to the memory of the Italian
patriot Giuseppe Mazzini.
MENoTTI GARlBALDI has resigned as
q member of the Italian Chamber Of
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