The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-02
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


OK the 21st Ex-Congressman w. C..
Whitthorne of the Seventh Tennessee
district died at his home in Columbia,
Tenn, aged 66 years. Mr.. Whitthorne
had been in bad health for several
years.
FRED KAMNERER, a wife murderer
overcome with remorse and goaded on
by the certainty that he would be
hanged, took his own life in the county
Jail at Cleveland o., on the 21st.
The crisis in the Italian cabinet is in
of opinion in the ministry, on levylng
fresh taxes made necessary by the in
creased cost of the army and navy.
Miss ELIZA BUTLER the youngest
daughter of United States Senator M.
c. Butler, of South Carolina, died of
nervous prostration at the Highlands,
in North Carolina, on the 21st, after a
very short illness.
WILLIAM s. HIGeINs, who caused the
death of "Aunt Tillie" Hunter, an aged
negress, by setting her clothes on fire
with q lighted match in Milwaukee
saloon, September, IL, was, on the 22d,
held for murder.
THE banking fraternity of London
has been startled by the announcement,
made public on the 21st, that the Lon
don & Westminster bank had been
robbed of large parcel of bills re-
mitted from country banks, aggregat-
ing over million dollars. No clew to
the thieves. iaa ~
THE trial of the Hoplins-Searles
will case was begun at Salem, Mass,
on the 22d. All of the contestants were
present personally or represented by
distinguished counsel.
THE correspondent of the London
Standard at St Petersburg says that
the Russian government has accepted
79H as the price for the new loan Of
20, 900, 900 rubles.
A FALSE report that Carl Schurz had
been bequeathed 81. 900, 600 on the
death of his mother, was promptly de-
MED by Mr.. Schurz. His mother died
Gfteen years ago.
THE st. Paul (Minn.) schools have
been closed on account of the excessive
heat.
THREE men committed suicide in the
Cleveland (O.) jail within week recent
ly.
THE bank of England shipped $780,
900 in gold to the United States on the
e2d.
Mr.. M. M. EsTEE, of San Francisco,
who was the chairman of the Chicago
convention which nominated Gen. Har-
rison for the presidency, and subse-
luently one of the delegates on the
{, - ~ d.
American congress; who is lawyer of
prominence, and in some respects the
foremost republican on the Pacific
coast, is to be given place in the cabi-
net.
AT the close of business, on the 23d
the treasury department had redeemed
e16, 622, $50 four-and-a-half per cent.
bonds, and continued $24, 97O, $50 at 2
per cent
THREE boys, ranging in age from IL
to Is years, were killed at the Chicago
stock yards, on the 23d, while stealing
q ride on Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne g.
Chicago train. They boarded a car
loaded with lumber at Valparaiso, Ind.
and while it was being switched the
lumber slid upon them where they
were concealed between the piles and
crushed them to death.
A wELL-KNowN Boston playwright
has presented to Capt. A. @. Anson of
the Chicago national league baseball
club, a plan to write n play founded on
baseball. and has suggested that An
SON play the role of hero. The latter
seemed to fall in with the idea.
Gov. CAMPBELL of Ohio states that
he has paid the indebtedness for which
he was sued by P. w. Huntington,
banker, and in proof of this exhibits
receipt. The governor claims that it
was scheme to get snap judgment on
him.
A DEATH from supposed cholera oc-
Cured in London on the Esd.
A cGLD wave with hail has damaged
fruit in the vicinity of Paris.
THE bank of England shipped $780,,
900 in gold to the United States on the
23d.
REV. DIR. S. BURCHARD was reported,
on the Esd, as being dangerously i'll at
his clearinghouse in Saratoga, N. Y,
and but slight hopes were entertained
of his recovery. His ailment is peri
tonitis in an aggravated form. Dr.
Burchard will be remembered for his
utterance during the Blaine-Cleveland
campaign, which is popularity supposed
to have lost to Mr.. Blaine the prize of
the presidency.
MRS. ZERELDA WALLACE, mother of
Gen. Lew Wallace, who has attained q
national reputation as a.pulpit lecturer.
was taken suddenly i'll while delivering
I'm address at the Methodist church in
ILL.,, on the evening of the
Esd, and at last accounts was thought
TO be dying.
CAPT. JOHN LIGHTFooT died at Bloom
ington, ILL.,, on the night of the 23d.
He was one of the five men who organ
lied Post of the Grand Army of the
Republic at Decatur, twenty-five years
ago, and one of Che committee who
drafted the first ritual. He was captain
Of Co. A, One Hundred and First Illi-
nois infantry. He was born In Ken
tucky in 1914.
The Grant triplets-Ma atthew A. DAN
iel A.. and William Accelerated their
seven tieth birthday anniversary at Tor
Conn, on the 23d. These three
men are, as far as can be ascertained,
the oldest triplets in the world
Mrs. INEVITABLE STRATToN DAYTON,
104 years old, rode in carriage twenty
five miles, over one of the most hilly
and rocky roads in Connecticut, recent
", and at the end of her journey de-
clared with vigor that she never enjoyed
a ride more in her life.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, was visited by