The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-04-18

having great success this spring
Four men were hanged in as many
cities of Pennsylvania on the 9th, three
for murder on account of women and
one for murder and robbery.
THE British steamer Majestic, Cap
tain Smell, from Liverpool, made the
quickest maiden passage from Queens
town to New York ON record, her time
being six days, teD hours and thirty
minutes.
IT is announced that the sentence on
Lieutenant Steele for striking Private
Dell P. Wild is that he be publicly rep
rimanded and confined to the limits of
his post for three months.
Mrs FERDINAND WARD, wife of the
ex-broler now in Sing Sing, died re-
Gently at Stamford, Conn.,, of infiamma-
tion of the stomach. She was thirty
five years old. She leaves a son seven
teen years old. Ward has two years
more to serve in prison.
THE shops of the Lewis & Fowler Car
Building Company in Brooklyn, n. Y,
were burned the other night The loss
was $500, 600. About 400 men were
thrown out of work.
THE passenger steamer Avoca was run
down and sunk in the English channel
recently by the steamer North Cambria,
which was badly damaged, but managed
to reach Dover. No lives were lost
TROUBLE is brewing in the coke re-
gions of Pennsylvania that will probably
result in concerted strike. Operators
are cutting down expenses
THERE is great stagnation in the
worsted trade at Norristown. Lees
&c Sons, of the bridgeport mills, have
laid off between 500 and 700 hands in the
last few days.
THE Archer Investigating committee
at Baltimore Md, has made the discov-
cry that in addition to the S13S, 900 of
coupon bonds which State Treasurer
Archer disposed of for his own account
over $50, 900 of registered bonds are
missing.
A SENSATION has been created in
Vienna by the discovery that the enor-
mously valuable baton presented to the
famous Marshal Radetsky in 1850 has
been stolen from the military museum.
JAMES SPEED, one of the wealthiest
cattlemen of Southwest Texas, was shot
and killed by John Tomerlin at Moor
station, three miles south of San An
tonic, on the International & Great
Northern railway. The dead man was
a brother of President Lincoln's Attor-
ney-GeneraL
DURING the celebration of mass in the
Catholic Church at Broniscwitz Hunga-
ry, the edifice caught fire and was
burned to the ground The congrega
tion became panic stricken and ehoked
the exit Two persons were killed and
several injured
THE Masonic grand lodge of Iowa de-
MES that Judge Preston's decision at
Cedar Rapids was in favor of the Cerneau
Masons.
JAMES KELLY and Michael Feeny,
two convicts at Sing Sing, n. Y, beat
and bound keeper the other day and
made their escape. They were recap
tured several miles from the prison by
the guards.
EMPLOYEES of the Green Point iron
works, New York, to the number of
1000 walked out the other day. The
firm had disagreement with the Cen.
trail Labor Union.
Hon. p. w. DAVIS a member of the
Legislature, was cowhided by Editor
Harper, of Elberton, Ga, recently.
Also, a delegation of citizens notified
Davis to resign his seat and skip, which
he did. Davis and Harper had married
cousins, and gross misconduct on the
part of Davis caused the community to
act.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for
the seven days ended April 10 numbered
209. The week previous they were zoe