The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-09-18
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


was drunk and tried to kill the officer
who was going to arrest him.
The first carload of this years raj
sins was shipped from Fresno. Cal,
on the 7th, for New York.
JAMES BOYD and ]. C. Elsass, of
Waynesburg, Stark county. O., were
asphyxiated in a room in the hotel
jefferson in Toledo on the morning of
the 9th. Boyd was dead when found,
but Elsass will probably recover.
LOUIS LAUER, the German charged
with the murder of the Bushenhagen
couple at Bloomfield, Conn, committed
suicide by hanging himself in his cell
at Hartford on the Sth.
The republican agitation in Corruna,
Spain, is becoming quite serious. The
mob now defies the civil guard.
The Massachusetts, state prohibition
convention met in Worcester, on the
9th, with good attendance.
INFLUENZA is raging at Kharl1of,
Kief, Karson, Warsaw and elsewhere
in Russia
THE railway postal clerks have de-
cided TO hold their next convention in
Washington.
JAMES E CUTTER has been arrested
charged with plotting to murder Mr..
Rowe. his brother-in-law. a wealthy
manufacturer of Haverhill, Mass He
was betrayed by his confederate. Rob-
berry was to have followed the murder.
THE walls of foundry in the city of
Leeds, England, collapsed, on the 9th,
and two children were instantly killed.
Two others were removed from the
ruins in a dying condition.
THE republic of San Salvador was the
scene, on the 9th, of violent seismic dis
turbances, resulting in the loss of many
human lives and the destruction of mil
lions of dollars worth of property.
Some entire towns were DESTROYED.
This is the third time within less than
forty years that San Salvador has suf-
fered in this way
AT the close of business, on the Sth,
the treasury department had extended
SPA, ,O50, 35S four-and-a-half per cent.
bonds and redeemed 50, 943, 75O.
OFFICIAL recognition of the Chilian
junta's government by the United
States has been made, both by Minister
Egan and Admiral Brown. The United
States flagship San Francisco. on the
charge of twenty-one guns This was
returned in a similar manner by a shore
battery.
ALEXANDER PORTER, of Decatur
county, Ind, died, on the 9th, on the
farm that he entered from the govern
ment, near Columbus. He was the old
est white man in the state, and also the
oldest white man born within the pres
ent limits of Indiana.
A DISPATCH was received at the
Worlds fair headquarters from the head
quarters of the Texas State Fair asso-
citation, on the 9th, saying: ''One hun
dred Thousand Texans protest against
the Sunday closing of the Worlds fair.
The day of fanaticism is passed"
80 THE American Tin Plate Co.. with a
capital of nS30O, 900. has been incor-
porated at Indianapolis, Ind, for the
manufacture of tin plate and sheet iron.
The plant will be located near Elwood,
Ind. The directors of the company in
ciude several we1l-known Ohio and In
diana capitalists.
THE squadron of evolution is to be
disbanded. The Petrol. one of the
smaller vessels, will be sent to the
China station, and the Yorktown viii
go to the Pacific coast for general serv-
ice there. No changes in commanders
is contemplated
SECRETARY BLAINE's residence in
Washington is being put in order for his
return to the capital, and orders have
been given Co have it ready for the re.
- ception of the family not later than DC
tober /.
bishop LEONARD, of the Protestant
Episcopal church, has changed the sen
tence OF Rev. Howard MacQuearY, OF
Canton, o., TO perpetual suspension fol
heresy unless he recants.
SENATOR AREII4ANo, one of the most
prominent. members of the Mexican
congress, who is in San Francisco, say:
the report that Minister Romero is tC
be recalled from Washington is ridicu
crlous. "Mexico has no other mar
who could fill the place as WELL" ht
said. He understands more thorough
ly than any one else the exact relation:
between the two nations. President
-Diaz likes him and likes him where ht
fs.'' y.
A. WEBSTER, proprietor of the Acorr
house at Coquille, Ore, killed Georgs
Fales, a waiter, during a quarrel, or
the 9th, about seventy-five cents which
Fales claimed was due him.
ALEXANDER & SoN, corn brokers ot
Threadneedle street, London, failed, or
the 10th. with liabilities amounting Il
G.. $50. 90s, and only e27, $40 assets.
Two d EsPoNDENT ones ended theil
lives at Niagara falls on the 10th. One
was a man, the other woman. They
were strangers. The man selected
Luna island as a place to end hi:
troubles. The woman leaped to deatl
from Prospect point. before the eyes o.
hundreds of people. The identity ol
neither of the parties has as yet beer
established.
THE subscription lists kor the relic.
of the sufferers by the Park place dis
aster in New York were declared closed
ct meeting of the relief committee or
the 10th. The total sum received was
e27,535. The committee reported thai
out of sixty-three families investigated
forty-seven required help.
FIFTEEN archbishops and bishops oi
the Catholic church have accepted in
vltations to be present at the celebra
ton OF the jubilee Of bishop Hennessy,
Of the diocese of Dubuque, Ia, which
occurs September so and October /.
Among them are Archbishops Ryan of
Philadelphia. Feehan OF Chicago, and
ireland Of st. Paul.
THE Maumee Valley Monument asso
ciation celebrated the seventy-eightl