The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-07-24

4 THE British steamer COnfGsby, from
Marseilles, has been wrecked near the
Island of Cheduba, in the Bay of Ben
gal All on board were saved.
A TERRIFIC storm struck West SUI
perior, Wis, ON the 10th, lasting about
thirty minutes, during which four
story hotel was razed to the ground
and other buildings badly wrecked, six
persons killed by falling debris and a
number injured.
ABOUT 100 members of the Georgia
Weekly Press association arrived in
New York city, on the 10th, for few
days outing and to see the sights of the
metropolis A number of ladies accom-
panied the party.
CORONER LEVY OF New York city de-
cided that he would act on the advice of
Attorney-General Taber in the Smiler
case. He has fully concluded to let the
matter drop, so the body of Harry
Smiler will be permitted to rest undis-
turbcd.
AN Ottawa dispatch says a sensation
has been caused by the discovery that
Sir John Macdonald in his will be-
queaths his capital stock in the Cana
dian Pacific railway TO his wife. The
fact that the head of the government
which gave the company about $780,
600, 900 of public money had a block of
its stock in the name of a New York
broker skaters the idea of the personal
probity and poverty of the old man.
THE situation in the Mile Lacs res
ervation is serious, and if prompt meas
ures are not taken there is liable to be
bloodshed. The land has been declared
open for settlement. and three towns
have been organized with full boards
of town officers, but the Indians are
ugly and threaten to kill the first white
man that attempts to cut hay on the
reservation.
j. III. KENNY, of Boston. president of
the order of the Reliable Fellowship,
an association organized under the laws
of New Hampshire, on April l last, is
said to have Disappeared with the en-
tire funds of the order, amounting to
nearly So, 900. The losers are almost
wholly poor women and few men.
and the loss will average about $40 for
each.
a SEVERE wind and rain-storm, ac-
companied by considerable hail, struck
the city of st. Cloud. Mimi, on the
10th. The hall-storm only lasted ten
minutes, but many window panes were
smashed. In the township of Luxem-
burg the grain in the path of the storm
for a distance of five miles was de-
stroyed.
AN explosion of 200 pounds of nitro
glycerine which blew S. J. Bigley, the
driver, the wagon containing the explo-
sive and team of fine horses to atoms,
occurred at Washington, Pa, ON the nth. !
Bigley was 40 years of age. and leaves
a widow and several children
THE Canadian gulf fisheries are
total failure this season, at least so far
as the northern shore and the Magdalen
islands are concerned.
EDWARD GRIPPER & Sons, corn fac
tors of Manchester wharf, London,
failed on the 17th.
On the evening of the 18th, Edward
d. Wolf, Clarence Murphy, Edward
Duggan and William Mcdonald, rang
ing in age from 16 to IS years, went out
in a sail-boat at Halifax, N. s., and have
not since been heard of. 1t is feared
that their boat was capsized in squau
and that they were drowned.
CHARLES LIVERPOOL, of Washington,
d. c., one of the crew of the United
States survey steamer Endeavor, was
drowned in theoharbor at Nantucket,
Mass, on the nth, while bathing by
the steamers side. He became ex-
hausted, and before assistance could
reach him went down. The body was
recovered