The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-02-21
THE Sultan of Zanzibar died suddenly

THE Sultan Of Zanzibar died suddenly
on the 18th.
WHILE returning from a visit to rela-
tives in a carriage, on the 18th, farmer
William III. Marsteller and wife were
struck by passenger train on the Pitts
burgh, Youngstown 81 Ashtabula road,
at Grand Crossing, o., and killed. Their
remains were horrible mutilated. The
vehicle was completely demolished.
CORONER LEWIS, of Phillips County,
Col, on the 18th, committed Sheriff
Witherbee and his brother, together
with George Payne and Swan Nelson, to
Jail for a term of four months. They
were convicted of being implicated in a
White-Cap outrage at Holyoke last De
cember.
BY an accident on the Philadelphia,
Reading & Atlantic City railroad neal
Camden, n. j., on the 18th, seven men,
all Italians, were badly injured.
AN English syndicate has purchased
the mills of the Central Rubber Trust,
of Trenton, N. J. There are seven
Trenton companies in the Trust, and
the amount involved is over So, 900, 900.
A PARTY of Europeans, consisting of
Messrs. Rogue, two merchants of Hal
dhong, Captain Z. Rose, and the Messrs.
Roque's compradore, were captured by
band of pirates in Tonquin, last
month, and Captain Rose was murdered.
THE House of Representatives, on the
18th, passed unanimously the Senate
joint resolution recognizing the United
States of Brazil.
THE nomination of Daniel Dorchester
to be Superintendent of Indian schools
was confirmed on the 18th.
Miss AMY FOWLER, the young En-
glish woman who is going to devote her
life to the care of the lepers at Molokai,
was rendered a reception at the resi-
dence of Richard f. Downing, in Brook
lyn, on the 18th.
THREE contested election cases were
decided by the election committee of
the House on the 14th. Strict party
votes were developed on two of them,
and in the other the case of Thrett
against Starke, from the First dis
trict of Alabama, a pra ctically unani-
nous vote in favor of the sitting mem
Der was cast.
A BANQUET was rendered to the Off
GERS of the American squadron of evo-
lution by Vice-Admiral Bergasse du
Petit-Thouars, Commander of the Fifth
maritime arrondissement. on the night
of the 18th, on board of his flagship at
Villa Franche. The civil and military
authorities of Villa Franchs and Nice
were present
THE medical examination proved that
the Sultan of ZaIz'bar died from sun
stroke.
AT the request of Mr.. Hirsch, United
States Minister at Constantinople, who
has undertaken to right the wrongs of
two American missionaries, the Sultan
has had Moussa confined, not in damp
and loathsome dungeon, but in his own
palace, the abode of the Commander of
the Faithful.
Mr.. RoBERI GARRETT, the ex-presi-
dent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
has been removed from his country seat,
"Uplands, near Baltimore, Md, but to
what place is not known.
SWITZERLAND has accepted the invi-
tation of Spain to take part in the con-
ference to be held in Madrid to devise
measures for the protection of industrial
property.
LOUIS RUBENsTEIN, the champion
fancy skater of America, won the cham
pionship of the world in st. Petersburg
on the 18th.
AN international regatta, to which all
leading amateur and professional oars
men of the world will be invited, will-be
held at Port Huron, Ont, in August,
following the proposed big regatta at
Duluth.