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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-05
LOCAL COERCION.

whe Situation Of Affairs ln Newfoundland
; Becoming More Complicated than Ever
The Local Coercion Bill Forced
Through the LesIslature-Great Indig-
nation Among the People Over the
CowardIy Back-Down Of the Delegates.
ST. JOHNS, N. f., May 27.-The
house of assembly met ON Saturday for
the purpose of passing local coercion
act, identical with the imperial act,
with the exception of provision that
10 shall be enforced one year only. The
provision is considered a blind. Nor
inc, one of the delegates to London,
protested against passing the imperial
act. He arrived on Wednesday on the
Allan steamer from England, and
made long statement on Friday night
before both houses of the legislature
with closed doors. The anti-coercion
members protested against keeping the
public out, but were outvoted.
AT the close of his speech Morine
gave notice that he would introduce a
coercion bill. The rules of the as
sembly having been suspended, the bill
was rushed through its first and Sec
ond reading, and afterwards passed tho
committee stage. Morine, styling him
self the leader of the opposition. was
unable to get a single member of his
party to follow him. The government
party, which few days ago passed
resolutions denouncing local coercion
and repudiating the delegates unau-
thorixed proposals under Whiteway's 3
threat of dissolution, voted to give the
officers the right to remove persons and
property of every description on the
so-called French shore, enforcing the
modus vivendi and accepting the lobster
arbitration.
Great Indignation prevails at this re-
versal of policy by the delegates. Most
fourteen voted for and five against CO.
ercion in the assembly, out of thirty-six
members. The position the people gen.
orally take is that if coercive measures
be adopted the imperial authorities
should bear the expense and assume
the responsibility and odium of cutting
down the halyards from the fiagstaffs
of the colonial building.
The government created sensation
by discharging seven of the Fortune
Bay prisoners. One of the ringlead-
ers, Hynes, is TO be tried for carrying
bait to st. Pierre. Stewart, the ring
leader, is still at large.
Since the agitation commenced pub
lie Indignation has never been so in
tense as at present. The Daily Colo
mist, voicing public sentiment, says that
the back-down is cowardly and con-
temptible, Newfoundland being
scourged with scorpions and by maslxe
executioners for the purpose of making
her accept confederation.
At the request of English liberal
leaders the assembly late Tuesday
night recommitted the local coercion
bill for the purpose of enacting that it
be enforced till the end of 1898, instead
of one year.
On division in the assembly, held
again with closed doors, three govern
ment members, Study, finance minis
ter, Dowd and Duffy, voted with the
anti-coerclonists. Strong Indignation
and disgust are expressed at the star
chamber proceedings of the legislature
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-05
NEW ORLEANS coNsPIRAToRs.

Indictments NOlle-PrOssed and Informa-
tions Filed.
New ORLEANS, May 31.-The indict-
ments found by the grand jury against
Bernard Glaudi, Chas Granger Emile
Bagnetto, Thomas McChrystal and d.
C. O'Malley, for bribery of jurors in
the Hennessy case, have been nolle-
pressed by the district attorney. The
indictments were regarded as not suffi-
ciently specific
Information was then filed bg the
district attorney against each of the
above-named parties. Granger is
charged with having offered $500 to
Alphonse Laberre. Cooney and Nc
Chrystal are charged with having
promised Frank Gormeley to provide
for his family during all the time he
might serve as juror in the Hennessy
case. Bagnetto is charged with having
offered 500 to David Bohage. and Bern
hard Glaudi with offering $500 to Henry
b. Atwood. O'Malley is charged with
having feloniously counseled and pro-
cured the said felony.
Fatal Wreck Caused by n Burned Trestle.
WINNIPEG, Man., May S0.-A freight
train went through a trestle on the
Canadian Pacific at Revel Stroke. Six
teen cars and the locomotive were hurled
to the bottom of the creek. Fireman
Irving was killed outright and Engineer
Morris leg was broken. Brakemen
Jameson and Tenny were also injured,
the latter seriously The unfortunate
men were three hours under the wreck
age before they could be released. The
accident was caused by the trestle burn
iur out.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-05
FRIGHTFUL COLLISION,


A Bad Wreck on the New Jersey Central
Road-A Brave Engineers Effort to Save
His Train-He was the Only One Injured,
the Passengers Escaping with a Bad
Shaking Up.
ELIZABETH, n. j., May 3O-One of
the worst collisions which has ever oc-
CURED at the Union crossing of the
New Jersey Central and the Pennsyl-
vania railroads took place yesterday
afternoon at about 3 o'clock. The ac-
cident, although occurring at a most
dangerous point, resulted in no loss of
life. The only person seriously injured
was an engineer--who was badly
scalded. The passengers escaped with
only 4 severe shaking up.
The collision was between the Phila-
delphia fast-line train on the Central
railroad and a freight on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad Engineer Copson of
the passenger train saw the freight
train in time and applied his air brakes,
but they failed to work. Seeing that a
collision was inevitable, the fireman
Jumped and escaped unhurt, but the
engineer remained at his post endeav-
oring to stop the progress of his train,
until it struck with full force against
one of the moving freight cars. The
force of the collision threw the engine
over on its side, carrying Engineer
Copson with it.
Itwas thought at first that he had
been crushed to death, but in a few
minutes he was taken alive from his
perilous position and removed to hos
pital. He was terribly scalded. There
was great excitement among the pas
sengers, but none of them were seri-
ously injured, though few suffered
from shock and bruises. None of the
crew of the freight train were injured.
The tracks of both roads were blocked
for nearly three hours.
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TENNESSEE STATE NEWS.
weather and Crops.

NASHVILLE, May 31.-The Tennessee
veather-crop bulletin for the week end
ing Saturday, May 80, issued by the
meteorological department State Board
of Health, cooperating with the United
States Signal Service, is as follows:
The rainfall during the week was be-
low the normal. Good rains fell in a
few sections, and light rains in most
parts of the State on the Goth and 27th.
In some counties fair rainfall is re-
ported; in others a mere sprinkle. Gen.
orally the rains were light and local in
character. The temperature was below
the normal for the last week in May,
and the percentage of sunshine was
about the average.
The distribution of rainfall was very
abnormal; at only few stations were
reported anything like good shower,
but these were beneficial to the extent
of affording at least temporary relief to
suffering vegetation. In few counties
it was sufficient to be of substantial
benefit, but in most parts of the State it
was very light, and in many localities
there was not sufficient to break the
effects of the drouth, which is beginning
to seriously affect those crops which
heretofore have maintained a favorable
status of growth. This is true of
wheat, corn and potatoes.
Wheat continues to promise a good
yield, notwithstanding the adverse con-
ditions of dry weather, rust and the at
tacks of insects, which are probably
local in character. In most counties re-
ports indicate large yield, dependent,
of course, on the weather during the
period of harvesting. The drouth will,
in many counties, undou btedly cut tshort
the development of the grain, striking
it, as 1t does, in the period between
bloom and ripening. Harvest will be-
gin in a few days. Corn is reported
growing we'll, especially the early plant
ings, but beginning to need rain for fur
ther healthy growth.
Cotton is in bad condition, with poor
prospects. In many places, owing to
the influence of low temperature and
drying winds, the crop is dying out, and
the stands are SO poor that farmers are
blowing up their fields and planting
them In corn. 80
Tobacco is variously reported. In
some portions of the districts there
were good local rains sufficient for sit
tings, and quite a large proportion of
the area was set out but in many
localities in these counties and others
there was scarcely sufficient rain for a
season and but little was set.
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THE CITY OF ISABELLA.

The Report of Exploring Party of
Naval Oh1cers that Recently Visited the
the Site of the Old City of Isabella,
Founded by Columbus, Received at the
Bureau of American Republics = The
Game Not Worth the Candle.
WASHINGTON, May 2s.-The report of
an exploring party of naval officers
that recently visited the site of the AM
cient city of Isabella, founded by Col
umbus, has been received at the bureau
of American republics. Under instruc-
tions from the ommander-in-chief of
the United States naval forces on the
north Atlantic station. Com. Convers of
the United States steamer Enterprise
detailed Lieut.. C. P. Colvocaresses and
DR.. M. III. Simons and Naval Cadet NJ.
M. Taylor to proceed from Puerto
Plata, San Domingo, the site of the
settlement, for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the general condition and ex-
tent of the ruins and of reporting as to
the desirability of removing any por-
ton of them for exhibition at the
Worlds fair in 1898.
The exploring party visited the ruins
on May IA accompanied by a guide.
They found evidences of a settlement
covering two acres of ground, but be-
yond traces of stone walls and pile of
masonry a few feet high, that was
pointed out as the remains of a fort,
the party discovered little of interest.
In his report Lieut. Colvocaresses
says that the settlement was made by
Columbus in 1893, but fever, dis
content and mutiny brought about
depopulation in two years ut is a
historical fact" says the lieutenant,
s'that Isabella was not the first attempt
at settlement made by Columbus,
Hayti having been partially settled by
him during his first voyage"
Concerning relics for exhibition the
exploring party has this to say:
OF the surface remains at Isabella, it is our
opinion that there IL nothing that is of suf-
ficient interest to be removed, except, per-
haps, the few blocks of cut limestone; and
there is nothing that would convey an idea
of the architecture and workmanship of the
buildings erected by the first settlers. lt
does not appear 20 US that any extended ex-
cavations would be rewarded with better re-
suits Isabella was occupied for only about
two years by the original settlers. The
rough and unfinished character Of the work
is manifest in the ruins, and further re
search could accomplish nothing more than.
perhaps, to determine more clearly the
ground plan of the place.
1t is probable that, in view of the
tenor of the report, no further action
will be taken in the matter of removing
the ruins to Chicago
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-05
THE BEHRINo SEA.

Engsand's Proposed Action In Regard -
the BEARING Sea Matter Severely Criti-
cised ~ the sealers. who Openly Pro-
pose to Evade the Law-It Would Make
Much Trouble for the United States
WASHINGTON, May 31.--Conside rable
interest is being manifested here over
the proposed action of the British gov
ernment to prohibit British subjects
catching seals in Behring sea during
the coming season. This proposition,
cable dispatches say, has caused great
excitement, and sealers are openly pro-
posing to evade any restrictive law that
may be enacted on the subject. The
feeling among the London and Liver
pool merchants, outside of the Ameri-
can company, is reported very strong
against the proposed measure, and the
government is freely denounced for
what they claim is a cowardly surren-
der to the United States.
Should the proposed law pass, and
the sealers carry out their avowed in
tention TO disregard the law and capture
seals whenever and wherever possi-
bic, it will give the United States con-
siderable trouble in protecting her in
tercSIS IN BenrlnS Sea- 10 pIOtcCb
American interests in Behring sea will
require several more vessels than have
usually been sent to those waters, as it
has been proven heretofore that the
revenue cutters Bear and Rush are in
sufficient 10 afford protection under the
present law, and if the proposed closure
law is passed it will probably double
the work in this direction. The Alert,
Thetis, Marion and Mohican are now
at San Francisco and are about the
only vessels of the navy available
for the service, and will probably be
sent to the seal islands should the ne
cessity arise. The other vessels of the
Pacific station, the San Francisco, Bal
timore, Charleston, Iroquois and RAN
ger, are at present scattered at points
some distance from San Francisco, andit
would require some time to recall them.
1t is doubtful if they could arrive in time
to be sent to Behring sea on this duty.
No definite arrangements have been
made, however, as it is not certain
what steps the British government will
take.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-05

LONDON. May S0--The election for a
member of the house of commons to I'LL
the seat for the northern division Of
Buckinghamshire, left vacant by tha
expulsion of Capt Edmund H. Yer
ney. who was recently sentenced to
one years imprisonment for conniving
at procuration, resulted in a victory for
MIR. Leon, Gladstone Liberall, who
received Sob votes against 1852 cast
for bis conservative. opponent, Hon.
Evelyn Hubbard. In the preceding
election. Capt. Verney Gladstone.
Liberal) received 4 s5b votes as against
s,ei7 given AT. Hubbard.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-05
A Startling Find.

CINCINNATI, May 2s--A patrolman In
making his rounds, yesterday morning,
went into an unoccupied house on
Clark street and was startled TO find in
one of the rooms thirteen boxes of par
lor matches and seven and one-half
pounds of gunpowder. The house be-
longs to Nathan Simon, of 252 West
Sixth street The stuff had evidently
been left in the house to await an OPP
portunity to set it of. Simon has no
idea who the villains are who arc at
tempting to destroy his property. Last
month two attempts were made to set
Gre 70 the place,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-05
A Fatal Gas Explosion.

A fatal gas explosion occurred in
shaft No. at the Pratt mines at Bir-
mingham, Ala, few days ago, caus-
ing the death of ten negro convicts and
Carpenter Tom Moore (white). 1t was
caused by negro convict miner enter
ing a deserted gas chamber with a
lighted lamp. Nearly everyone was
killed outright or suffocated by the
after-damp. When the news of the
catastrophe reached the opening, Assis-
tant Superintendent J. j. Moore, who
is brother of Carpenter Moore, one of
the killed. and Mining Engineer Ram
sey entered the shaft and went to the
rescue, but upon reaching the spot both
Moore and Ramsey were soon overcome
by the gas and were rescued with some
difficulty.
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NTlsceIlaneous.

{ n e e II
JUDGE THOMAS BERRY died last week
at Gallatin, after an Illness of few
days. Heswasin his S5th year and was
man remarkable for clear intellect
and physical health. He was a native
of Sumner County and known through
out the State on account of his devotion
to Andrew Jackson's memory and his
perfect acquaintance with past politic al
events.
THE granting mill of the Sycamore
Powder Company, in Cheatham County,
was blown up last week. Mr.. ID. c..
Gallon, foreman of the works, was
standing in the door at the time, and re-
next day. There 1000 pounds of pow
der in the building. The cause of the
explosion is unknown The granting
mill was destroyed, but no other build
ing was injured. a
A GREAT many of Milan's- leading cit
izens attended court in Trenton last
week. The members of the West Ten
nessee Fair Association were as body
indicted for allowing gambling on their
grounds. A great many have been
forced to pay out from SO to $50 for
turning wheel of fortune which was
on the streets for several days. The
members of the Fair Association are go,
ing to fight the Indictment.
A DEMAND has been made by Chair
man Young, of the Board of City As
SCISSORS, upon the secretaries of the
various building associations of Chatta-
nooga, for statement of their cash
loans, with view to municipal assess
ment of the same. There are, in round
numbers, 100000 loaned by the local
associations, and at the S1.S0 levy the
city will receive 81, 900. The assessment
will be fought in the courts, the organi-
zations believing themselves exempt.
REAR ADMIRAL S. p CARTER, retired,
died at Washington last week. He en-
tered the naval service as a midshipman
in 1910 from Tennessee, became com
modore in 1878 and retired with that
rank in 1881. Subsequently, in 1882, by
special act of Congress he was promoted
to the rank of admiral on the retired
list. His record of service was peculiar
in that during the late war, because Of
his familiarity with the Tennessee
country, he was detailed from the navy
to the army and as a result of good
service became brigadier-general
THERE have been shipped from Milan
this season about 5000 cases of straw
berries and about 1000 cases sold and
consumed there, making the seasons
crop in and around Milan about 10000
cases. These netted the growers about
$4,000, and with money paid to pickers,
etc., makes a total of over $40. 600 put in
circulation by the product, which will
be equal to nearly 500 bales of cotton.
The season is about over, as the prices
do not justify shipping.
CHANCELLOR ALLISON, OF Nashville,
last week, decided the case of Mrs.
Mollie McTeer, of Knoxville, against
the Merchants and Traders Produce
Exchange. This was suit instituted
by Mrs. McTeer under the gambling act
TO recover about $4,000 which her hus-
band lost in dealing in futures with the
defendants agent at Knoxville. The
bill of assignment made by the defend
ant some months since was attacked as
fraudulent and void, and all these
points were sustained By Chancellor
Allison, who gave o decree for the
amount lost during end since the Mentb
81 August. 1852,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-05
The ChicIkamauga National Park.

The Chickamauga National Park
commissioners, who were met with
fancy prices for the land needed-say
an average of 500 an acre or 5000, 900
for 1000 acres required by the govern
ment-settled upon an average of S2O
or $40, 900 in all. That offer was made
the other day to the various property
owners, and if they refuse it the Fed
eral court at Atlanta, Ga, will be Pc
titioned to condemn the property, on
which the price fixed will be much less
than the commission offers, as the tax
assessments are ridiculously low.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-05
Gave Her Father Poisoned Soup.

James Jackson, u prosperous and con.
tented farmer of Jackson county, Ga,
has pretty daughter Fannie. Fannie
continued to keep company with a
young man of whom her father did not
approve, and to give force to his disap-
proval gave her severe whipping. The
next day Fannie made soup for her ia.
ther, and put Rough on Rats in it.
Fortunately she gave the old gentleman
too much, and the doctors may save his
life The girl may be prosecuted.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-05
A Small Battle.

At Calera, Aha, Sam Ingram and Joe
Allen, prominent farmers, met in the
road and opened fire on each other.
Allen was soon joined by his brother
Bob and Ingram by his father and three
brothers. In the battle with knives and
pistols which followed Fred Ingram,
Henry Alexander, Joe Allen and Bob
Allen were fatally wounded.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-06-05
Knew where He Got That Hat.

Knew Where He Got That Hat.
The following is a copy of a letter
written by colored preacher in Florida
to a firm of white neighbors who had
given him hat:
Messrs. -: The conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church will convene on the
20th Sirs, confessing your kindness as do,
l needed a plug hat very much and did not
see how I could have purchased the said
hat, and also a suit for conference, so your
kindness that 1 have the pleasure of ac-
knowledging here, meets my wants in toto
gus, and do say that feel under many
thankful obligations to you. Had you asked
for financial retaliation would have been
unable to respond, and could only hope
you three gentlemen q happy life on this
low ground of sorrow, and when called from
labor to refreshment and from thence to re :
ward, clothed with the divine attribute of
God, and successful, every virtue ready for
the llfe- boat out on the sea and Dared to the
celestial harbor, where rustlers cease from
troubling and the weary are at rest.
Ever hoping to remain yours most respect
fully and humbly, servant of Christ.
j, w. WALKERS,
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A Contractors wife KiIs Herself

At AvondaIe, Ala, Mrs. Chas. Nor
gan. the wife of prominent contrac-
tor. suicided by blowing her brains out
with revolver. Dependency.
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Married to = Chinaman,

Charles Hong, Chinese laundryman,
CT Paducah. KY, and Miss Lula Mathis,
white. were married at the residence OF
to brides mother Ia that city.
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A Big Cargo of Rice.

The Spanish steamship Antonia ar.
rived at New Orleans a few days ago
from Hiogo, Japan, with %, $50 sacks OF
uncleaned rice. This is the first cargo
of the kind ever received at New Or
leans, and was sent as commercial
venture If successful other shipments
will follow and other seaports exploited.
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SOUTHERN oLEANlNGS.
a. RemarkabIe Document.

In looking over the records in the cir
cult clerks Office at Princeton, Ky., re-
Gently, a remarkable document was
found, which appears to be the last of
the kind ever issued in the United
States. 1t is judgment bearing date
of December 9, 1865, and rendered in
suit against Gen. John Wad-
lington, at one time a very wealthy
man, ordering the sale of certain
slaves belonging to his estate.
It will be remembered that on Decem-
Der 1s, 1865, just nine days after this
Judgment was rendered, Secretary OF
State Seward issued proclamation,
saying that three-fourths of the states
had adopted the Thirteenth amend
ment, and thereafter slavery was abol-
lshed in this country. 1t is probably
the last judgment for sale of slaves
ever ordered by any court in the United
States. It was never carried into exc
cution,. however, as the commissioner
returned the writ to the court, having
been cut off by the proclamation of the
secretary of state.
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Leapcd to His Death.

w. j. Artley, of Suwanee, Tenn,
aged 20. jumped from the iron bridge
over the Tennessee at Chattanooga,
Tenn, and was killed, falling 100 feet.
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A CoIored Girps Awful Fate.

At Shreveport, La, Jane Ware, col
ored, 16 years old, was driven on tho
railroad track at the point of pistol
by John and William Anderson, ,colored,
and was held there until a train came
so near that it was impossible for her
+o esoane and she was killed
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A Biz Judgment,

Hope & Co.. of Amsterdam, Holland.
have won their great suit against the
state of Louisiana, involving four
million dollars in bonds.
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He Kisses the Girls.

Atlanta, Ga, has Jack the Kisser,
who INDUCES his osculatory propensi-
ties on young women without consent,
when they are strolling in the evening.
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Clayton Lloyd, a convict at Pratt
mines, in Alabama, was shot dead by a
guard while he was trying to fire the
prison in which 400 prisoners were