The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-09-11
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the appropriation. President Palmer
will surrender his salary of S5,O0O;
James A. Mckenzie, vice-chairman of
( the executive committee, will be denied
n salary of equal amount, and George
Mills, chief clerk TO director-General
Davis, will have to forego a salary of
e3, 600. Retrenchment will also be made
f, I'm other directions.
The small steam barge jerks, loaded
with stone for Lake Erie ports, was
run into by the steam barge q. w.
Morley, near Billiards. reef, Detroit
river, on the 1st, and sent to the bot
tom. The wife of the captain of the
jerks and the engineer and fireman
were killed in the collision.
A LANDSLIDE which is settling
across the Lienzer gorge in the valley
of the brave in Austria, is forming a
great lake, which threatens to divert
the course of the river and do incalcul-
able damage.
ALL the hospitals in Valparaiso are
| full of wounded soldiers, and private
houses are being used temporarily. 1t
is estimated that there are 1000
wounded men now in that city.
MISS ELIZABETH HANEY, a young
woman of Washington 'city, committed
suicide, on the 1st by jumping into the
Patomac river while suffering from de-
lirium brought on by illness.
THE monthly debt statement, issued
from the treasury department on the
1st, shows reduction in the debt dur
ing the month of August amounting to
s., ,5S1, ,s95.
A BILL, which will undoubtedly pass,
has been introduced in the Georgia
legislature pensioning all INDECENT con-
federates to the amount of 500 per
year.
CORONER HANLEY of New York and
his deputies began the inquest on the
victims of the Park place disaster on
the 1st.
THE property of the Balmacedists
will be confscated to pay off the paper
issue of the late Chilian dictator. The
banks have been temporarily closed for
the inspection of their books in order
to ascertain the amounts held to the
credit of Balmaceda and his satellites.
A PASSENGER train was derailed at
6wingless station, Cal, on the 1st. by
the spreading of the rails. The engine
and four cars were wrecked, and Postal
Clerk Quinby was killed and several
others were severely injured.
The ninth international congress of
orientalists was opened in London, on
the 1st by DIR. Taylor, of st. Johns
college, Cambridge. Owing to illness,
the marquis of Dufferin, to whom the
duty had been assigned, was unable to
be present.
EDWARD LINN, member of the New
York produce exchange, committed
suicide In his room in a Jersey City IN.
J.) hotel, on the I'd, by shooting him
self in the ear. The effects found upon
his person indicated that his financial
affairs were all right, and no cause can
be assigned for the deed
AN attempt was made by an unknown
person to wreck a crowded passenger
train, on the Flint & Pere Marquette
railroad in Michigan, on the I'd. A great
heap of stumps and rails were piled on
the track at a point where there is a
high embankment, but the obstruction
was discovered IN time to prevent a
serious accident.
THE Denver & Rio Grande express
train, No. 4, bound from Salt Lake
City to Denver, was held mp by seven
/
o'clock H. m. of the 1st, and the con-
tents of the safe-about So, 900 in all
taken. The engineer and fireman
were also robbed of their watches, but
the robbers did not molest the passen-
gers.
Miss BETTE WERwoOD died at her
home in Sconondoa, Oneida county, N.
", on the I'd, at the age of 100 years,
months and days. She was a little
woman, about four feet four inches
tall, and weighed about eighty pounds.
THE twenty-first anniversary of the
battle of Sedan and the overthrow of
Louis Napoleon occurred on the I'd.
The German government will sell
the royal timber cheap to the poor for
fuel.
ELEVEN boarders in Visalia (Cal.)
boarding-house were taken suddenly
i'll, recently, from eating ice cream,
] found, upon investigation, to contain
croton oil, which it is supposed an ex-
boarder, who had been.turned away for
drunkenness. had mixed. with the cream
before it was frozen.
THE first 100 pounds of sugar made
under the sugar bounty clause of the
Mckinley tariff bill, was shipped, on
August "a, from Chino, Cal. to Hon.
John w. Mason, commissioner of inter-
nal revenue at Washington.
RICHARD NASH, of Philadelphia, en-
gineer ON the fast Reading express,
while on the lookout, on the I'd, was
struck by some obstruction near Ore
vile station, Pa, by which his head was
severed from his body. The mangled
remains hung out of the cab window
for some minutes before the fireman
discovered the accident.
SECRETARY RUsK is confident that
he will soon be able to extend our m ar
ket for corn by introducing it into Ger
many for use as an article of food in
the place of rye, the crop of which, in
Germany. is this year exceedingly
short. To this end, he has instructed
his corn agent, Col. C. J. Murphy, now
in Europe, to proceed at once to Ber-
lin, and lay the matter before the Ger
nan government
THE schooner PANAMA, from Mar
shall islands for San Francisco, has
been wrecked on the Hawaiian reefs
All on board were drowned, including
the crew of seven men, Capt George
D. Livedale, of San Diego, Mrs. Live
dale and the captains three children.
THE treasury department has ordered
the immediate erection of fog signal
on Seal Island rock. California.
On the Sd Secretary Foster appointed
Henry ckbridge commissioner Of