The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-09-11

| THE steamer w. w. Corcoran, fc1
many years the only means of travel
between Washington city and Noun.
Vernon, was burned o the waters edge
on the Sd. She was valued at S45. 0Oc
and was insured for S35, 900. A colored
boy. cut off from escape. jumped over
board and was drowned.
THE congressional ;unta of Chilli ar.
rived at Valparaiso from Iquique on the
steamer Arequipa, on the evening OF
the Cd. They were received with ma
tional salute from the shore batteries,
music, fireworks, etc. The British W al
ship Champion was declSed out in bunt-
ing and her yards manned in honor o1
the occasion.
THE Chilian congressional junta hav.
| ing declined to give guarantees for fan
trials for the political refugees on board
the American and German war ships in
the harbor of Valparaiso. it was decided
by the German and American admirals
to convey them to friendly territory,
probably Peru.
THE secretary of war, upon the re
quest of Secretary Rusk. has issued
orders that no cattle from the Cherokee
strip shall be permitted to be driven
north of the quarantine line, but that
all such cattle must go south on the line
established by the department of agri-
culture.
THE sale barns of DIR. N. P. Valerius
& Co., importers of horses, at Water
town, Wis, were burned on the Sd.
The loss will reach S65, 900, with insur-
| ance of $50, 900. The horses burned in.
cluded several valuable Clydesdales re-
Gently imported from Scotland. Not
one was saved.
THE New Orleans overland express
was stopped four miles south of Modes.
TO, Cal, ON the evening of the Sd, by
| two masked men. Detective Lowe
Harris was shot and seriously wound
ed. The robbers were frightened of
before they got anything.
THE marriage engagement of Miss
| May Mortimer Talmage, the second
daughter of Rev. DR.. Talmage, to Mr..
Daniel d. Mangam, Jr., a wealthy
young grain merchant, is announced.
The marriage will take place in the
early winter, and will be the first cele-
brated in the new Brooklyn tabernacle.
MRS. MARY BUTCHER died at Atlantic
Highlands, N. j., on the Sd, aged 1O4
years and 10 months She was born
near Port Monmouth, N. j., had been
married three times, but is survived by
only one son, T. 7. Rogers, now beyond
the prime of life.
JERRY THOMSON, a notorious ''rus-
tier" and two companions were caught
changing brands on cattle in Custer
county, Mont, and were all hanged to
the same tree. This is the first lynch
| ing of cattle thieves in Montana for a
number of years.
WHILE attempting to cut an electric
wire on a pole thirty feet from the
ground, on the 4th, Chas. Welch, of the
Edison Electric Illuminating Co., of
Lancaster, Pa, was transfixed with
$500 volts of electricity. He shot
downward from the bar on which he
sat, but his body was caught on a wire
underneath, from which he hung un-
conscious in the air. He was rescued
from his perilous position and will re-
cover.
A CHIMNEY fell of it's own weight
through the roof of an old four-story
frame building in New York, on the
4th, crashing through all the floors.
The building was used as Chinese
| opium den and two of the inmates
were slightly injured.
CANovAs DEL CASTILLO, prime min
lister of Spain, called ministerial coun-
Gil, on the 4th, to discuss the Catalonian
agitation against the reciprocity treaty
with America.