The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-28

LORD SALISBURY denies that the Brit
ish Government intends to hand over te
the Beers the control of Swaziland.
IsHAK KHAN is at Bokara with largo
force equipped with repeating rifles
and artillery ready to invade Afghan
istan-
JoHS ID. SPREcKLEs says the proposed
reduction of duty on sugar will kill the
beet-sugar industry of California.
Two blocks of buildings and the Elgin
House in La Villa, suburb Of Jackson
Vile, Fla, were destroyed by fire early
on the morning of the 20th- Loss,
s125, 900. Many Of the tenants escaped
in their night clothes
THE Belgian Minister of Husbandry
has refused to consent to tax upon
grain imports.
YELLOW fever has broken out at
Campinas, and Sia Paola, Brazil.
THE Massachusetts, Legislative COM
mittee on woman suffrage reported
bill, ,on the Goth, giving women the right
to vote in municipal elections.
THE work of distributing provisions
and supplies among the destitute min
ers at Wilkesbarre, Pa, was actively
comme need on the goth.
QUEEN VIcToRIA has donated a cup
valued at 100 guineas, to be raced for
next summer under the auspices of the
Albert Yacht Club.
GENERAL CAPRIvI not only succeeds
to the German Chancelorship, but to the
presidency of the Ministry.
THE New York Court of Appeals, on
the 21st, affirmed the decision of the
lower court in the case of VIM. Kemm-
Ter, sentenced to be executed by elec-
tricity.
BESIDES a comprehensive military
and naval knowledge, General Won
Caprivi, the new German Chancellor, is
we'll versed in modern languages, his
tory and political science.
The resolution recently introduced in
the House by Representative Boat
ner authorizing the Secretary of War to
purchase 2,500 tents for the homeless
people in the flooded districts of the
Southwest and appropriating S25, 900 for
the purpose, was ordered reported favor
ably by the military committee on the
21st.
MORE than two hundred moonshiners
have established a fortified camp in
Franklin County, Va, and openly defy
the Federal authorities. They have
over one hundred illicit stills in opera
ton, and are producing thousands of
barrels of illicit whisky.
MAJoR-GENERAL GEORGE CROOK, in
command Of the military Division of
the Missouri, died suddenly, on the
morning of the 21st at the Grand Pa
cific Hotel, Chicago, of heart failure.
He was in his sixty-third year.
A REMARKABLE feature of the minis
terial crisis in Germany is that there
has been no organized effort of public
opinion to induce Prince Bismarck to
stay in Office.
COUNT VoN MUNSTER, the German
Minister to France, it is said, will sue
ceed Count Herbert Bismarck as For
eign Minister.
THE English colliers are greatly
elated over the successful issue of their
strike.
GENERAL VoN CAPRIvI, the new Ger
man Chancellor, had conference with
Prince Bismarck on the 21st
EMPEROR WILLIAM, in company with
Empress Frederick and other royalties,
received the Prince of Wales on his ar
rival at Berlin on the 21st. AS the
Prince stepped from the railway car
riage the English anthem was played
by the band.
The House military committee has
ordered favorable report on Repre-
sentative Bowden's bill authorizing the
construction of hotel for colored peo-
pie on the Government reservation at
Fortress Monroe, Va.