The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-10

THE new form of debt statement is
sued on the 1st shows that the increase
of the public debt during the month of
June, less cash i'm the treasury, amount
ed to 81, 9g9. 1872. Total cash in the
treasury, S745, ,349, 751.63. The bonded
debt decreased ~, 21S, 666. 20.
A TERRIBLE tornado swept over the
Crefeldt district of Rhenish Prussia on
the 1st- In the town of Crefeldt booths
and hall which had been erected for
the use of a rife meeting, together with
fifty houses, were destroyed. Many
persons were killed and injured.
The Pail Mall Gazette wants the
British government to censure the Duke
of Cambridge for smoking in Kew
gardens against the rules
vEsUvIUs has renewed its volcanic
activity, and the torrent of lava rush
ing down the mountain side is rapidly
increasing in volume.
SECRETARIES FOSTER and Rusk left
Washington, ON the I'd, for West Vir-
ginia, to spend the Fourth of July with
Mr.. s. b. Elkins.
ON the I'd, $500 iron workers of
Glasgow, Scotland, struck against a
proposed reduction of per cent. in
wages.
HENRY BRABHAM, the negro who so
brutally murdered Jns Mecca, an Ital-
ian, in Charlotte, ". c., on the night of
April IL last, was hanged, on the 1st,
in the corridors of the Mecklenburg
county Jail. Through his spiritual ad-
wiser he confessed he murdered Mecca
TREASURER NEBEcKER issued his
statements of assets and liabilities, on
the I'd, under the new form adopted by
the department. The total assets are
stated at sos, 143, 30S and the total liza
bilities at $51, 249, 400, leaving cash
balance of $153, s93, s09. The assets are
made up of the following items: Net
god, S117, ,667, 722; net silver, $17, ,264, 500;
treasury notes on hand, 50, 76 5, 1858; net
United States notes, 81, 601.744; trade
dollar bullion, $4, S4S, 203; fractional sill
yer and minor coins, $19, 9S2, ,0O3; nat
ional bank notes, $5,655, 174, and de-
posits with national banks, S28, 35S, 500.
A DISASTROUS storm swept over Ran
som and Sargent counties, s. D., on the
I'd, completely destroying nearly 10000
acres of growing crops. In Miller
township there are ZOO acres of grow
ing wheat ruined and in Kingston town.
ship roo. Whole farms in Ransom coun-
ty have been devastated by the terrific
storm of hail and wind which swept
over it.
THE ST. Louis Republics Holy Land
tours contest resulted in the selection
of Rev. DR.. Cave for the tour of the Holy
Land and Father Brennan for the tour
of Europe. Rev. DIR. Matthews, the third
on the list, will also be presented with
a tour by the promoters of the contest.
The votes of the three were: DIR. Cave,
$50, ,S73; Father Brennan, 116, COS; DIR.
Matthews, 7a.141.
A STATEMENT prepared at the treas
ury department shows there was a net
decrease of 1910, 954 in the circulation
during the month of June and net de-
crease of 81, ,036, ,504 in the money and
bullion in the treasury during the same
time,
ARGUMENTS were made, on the Cd, in
the Few Tails murder trial at Sturgis,
S. d., and the case went to the jury in
the afternoon. After being out two
hours the jury returned a verdict of not
guilty, and the white men charged with
numbering Few Tails were set at. lib
erty.
JUDGE JAMES NJ. LOVE, of the United
States district court for the southern
district of Iowa, died at his home in
Keokulx on TIE evening of the I'd.
Judge Love was born in Virginia in
1919, and has occupied position on the
United States bench since 1855.