The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-17
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Lake Erie & Western railroad at
Passaic on the 9th. Thomas Hart aged
81, was instantly killed, and Prof.
Dunn, Thomas Hill and John O'Keefe
were seriously, though not fatally,
| hurt.
SOME consternation has been caused
at Lisburn, a fourishing town in the
north of Ireland having intimate con-
nections with Belfast. by the discovery
OF leper among the paupers of the
town.
The German government is preparing
to prosecute any trader who may be
found responsible for creating a corner
in corn.
Ex-CONGREssMAN JOHN B. PACKER,
of Pennsylvania, died of heart disease,
at Sunbury on the 7th.
MIR GLADSTONE went to Hawarden,
on the 9TH, to attend the funeral of his
son.
w. /. HARRIS, widely known as a
writer on base balland other sporting
topics, died at his home in New York,
on the 9TH, of consumption.
RIoTOUs strikes have occurred among
the reapers at Velletri, an agricultural
town about 21 miles from Rome.
Troops called out to subdue the rioters
killed two and wounded several of
them.
FOREMAN VIM. G. BERG and his helper,
James Quinn, were caught in a huge
clay crusher at Ewarts tile works at
Akron, o., on the 7th, and horribly
mangled. Quinn died within a few
moments and Berg cannot possibly re-
cover.
A MOB of negroes attempted to lynch
a fellow-negro, James Davis, at Bel
field, Va, on the sth, but were pre-
vented by white citizens. Davis is in
| Jail on charge of numbering another
negro.
By direction of the president. Sec
ond Lieut.. Eugene T. Wilson, of the
First artillery, has been detailed as pro-
fessor of military science and tactics
at the Ohio state university at Column
bus.
HIGH officials near to the person of
the czar are said to believe that the
Russian autocrat contemplates visiting
/ Paris during the coming autumn.
| Two FREIGHT trains on the Cleve-
land, Canton & Southern railroad col
llded near Newburg, o.. early. on the
morning of the Sth, and a number of
cars were smashed into kindling wood.
Five men were badly hurt, two of them
probably fatally.
MRS POTTER PALMER, of Chicago,
was granted a private audience with
Mime. Carnot, wife of the president of
the French republic, in Paris, on the
6th. BY special invitation Mr. and
Mrs. Palmer occupied the presidents
private box at the opera.
THE steamer Australia from Honolulu
brings news that George McFarlane,
half-owner of the Waikapee plantation,
has brought suit against the Hawaiian
Commercial Co., of which Claus Spreclz-
els is president, for taking forcible and
illegal possession of the plantation.
One million dollars damages are
claimed.
THE wheat crop of the state of Wash
ington is said to be in danger of partial
destruction by gophers and squirrels.
THE report of the board of visitors.to
the United States military academy has
been submitted to the secretary of the
navy. The board in its report recon-
mends that the age of admission be
fixed from Is to IS, instead of 10 to 20,
as according to existing law. The Off
GERS in charge of the academy, the re-
port says, are able and deserve the
highest commendation, but the odious,
brutalizing and un-American habit of
hazing has not as yet entirely disap-
peared from the academy.
THE German government has in
formed M. Ribot, French minister of
foreign affairs, that the relaxation of
the passport regulations for Alsace-Lor-
raine, ordered at the time of the recent
Swiss railroad disaster in order to ena-
bic the friends and relatives of the dead
and wounded or missing to seek for the
victims, has been made permanent
On the 9th Secretary Foster directed
the reinstatement of James c. Wins
well, examiner of silks in the ap-
praiser's Office at New York. Mr..
Winswell was suspended by Appraiser
Cooper on the charge of undervalua-
ton of silks An investigation by
treasury officials disclosed the fact that
the charges were groundless.
THE first certificate of admission
which Yale ever granted to wom-
an was received by Miss Irene w.
Colt, of Norwich, Conn.,, on the Sth.
Prof. Seymour, of Yale, notified Miss
Colt that she had passed the examine
ton satisfactorily and would be ad-
mitted.
CHRISTIAN DAHLEN, prominent citi-
zen of New Britain, Conn, fell under
the wheels of train at New Haven, on
the 9th, while attempting to alight from
car while it was in motion. His
breast was rent open, and his heart and
lungs torn from his body.
THE German steamship Cleopatra,
which recently struck sunken rock
in the Straits of Magellan. was stranded
TO prevent her from sinking. The pas
sengers and crew were saved. The
steamer will be total loss
COUNT MICHAEL Platter. n wealthy
Russian land owner, was murdered and
robbed, on the sth, while travelling on
an express train of the Warsaw a. St.
Petersburg railway. No arrests have
yet been made.
MITCHELL Bros planning mill, yard
and eighteen dwellings, together with
Is, 600, 600 feet of lumber, at Jennings,
Mich. were burned on the night of the
6th. The loss Is placed at S200, 900; in
surance, SIS, 900. The cause of the fire
is unknown.
EXPERTS FAUNcE AND BROWN, ap-
pointed TO examine the books Of the
Keystone and Spring Garden banks of
Philadelphia, were at the treasury de-
rartunaut In WASHINGTON ON the 9th