The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-05-16

JUDGE EDWARD F. HEAD, who had
held the office of Superior Court Judge
of San Mateo County, Cal, since 1879,
died at his residence in Redwood City,
on the 9th, of pneumonia. Although
totally blind, Judge Head was recog-
nized as one of the ablest jurists of the
State.
THE members of the Senate naval
committee were taken down the Poto-
mac, on the 18th, on board the new tor
pedo boat Cushing. She ran at the
rate of twenty-seven miles an hour, re-
versed at eighteen miles an hour and
turned within her own length.
The expedition under command of
Major Wissmann, which recently left
Bagamoyo for Kilwa to make an attack
on that place, has been successful. The
place was occupied on May 4, Major
Wissmann's force meeting with no op-
position.
A MISPLACED switch threw a portion
of the south-bound express down an en-
bankment at Fountain, Col, on the 7th.
Fireman Sipes was killed The engi-
neer and the few passengers in the de-
rallied cars escaped with shaking-up.
GRAvE peculations have been discov-
cred in the customs department at
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic. The
revenue bst by the government by the
embezzloc1ents is estimated to have
reached the enormous sum of SO, 900, 600
annually.
ATToRrJ;Y-GENERAI. WATSON of Ohio
brought suit in the Supreme Court of
fhat faf on tho -fh 70 tho GfanH
ard Oil Company from doing business in
Ohio, on the ground that it has forfeited
its charter as a com pany by becoming a
trust, which is injurious to trade and
commerce.
THE ChGnango County IN. W poor
house wes destroyed by fire, on the
night of the 7th, twelve of the patients
in the iliot ward peIishing in tho
flames. The origin of the fire is sup
posed to nave been spontaneous COM
bustion.
On the afternoon of the 18th, few
hours before the Chenango County On.
W poor-house was destroyed, Deborah
Dibble, one of the inmates, was burned
to death by her clothing catching fire
from the pipe she was smoking.
THE Treasury Department decided,
on the sth, that ''coney shreds" are en-
titled to free entry when intended to be
used as glue stock.
WEII.-INFORMED horticulturists esti
mate that the peach crop of Michigan
will this year scarcely amount to a
tenth of che normal yield.
THE Georgia Temperance Association,
in session at Atlanta, on the 9th, adopt
ed resolutions requesting the Georgia
delegation in Congress to urge legisla-
tion which will give to the States the
right to control the prohibition ques-
tion for themselves, regardless of inter
State commerce.
TIE General Term of the Supreme
Court of New York, on the 9th, reversed
the Judgment of the Special Term in
equity that George Rice is entitled to the
rights of a shareholder in the Standard
Oil Trust because of his having become
possessed by purchase of certain trust
certificates.
THE defaulting ex-State Treasurer OF
Maryland, Stephenson Archer, was in
dicted by the Anne Arundel County
grand jury on the 9th.
DEPUTY MARSHAL JOHN d. DAILY capt
ured four desperate moonshiners on
Cove Creek, in Tazewel County, Va,
on the Sth.
PRAIRIE fires have burned over about
eighteen miles square north and south
of Old Mans river, near Alberta, N
w. It.
MAsURY & Sons paint-works and the
Atlantic starch-works, in Brooklyn
were burned, on the 9th, causing a loss
of SIOO 600. fully insured