The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-09-11

IHE North German Gazette and 9th
er German papers say the Dardanelles
affair is purely a British question, the
other powers being only secondarily
concerned
Gov. AND Mrs. CAMPBELL of Ohio, ar
rived in New York, on the Sd, and went
to the Fifth Avenue hotel for the gov
ernor TO rest from the fatigue of his
journey before going to the seashore.
THE hoisting machinery in the shaft
of the Stockton mine, about thirty
miles from Salt Lake City, Utah, was
burned on the I'd; loss, $50. No
lives were lost, the miners escaping by
another outlet.
THREE more British Columbian seal
poachers, the Sapphire, Carmelite and
Wallis, returned to Victoria, on the Sd,
after having made big catches They
were warned off Behring sea by her
majesty's ship Porpoise.
THE price of bread is raising in Lon
don. and the working classes are al
ready beginning TO feel the pinch of
distress consequent on deficient har-
vests The advance so far is a half
penny on the quartern (four-pound) loaf.
PRESIDENT GOMPERs of the American
Federation of Labor has extended an
invitation in behalf of the trade unions
of North America to the trades union
congress now in session at Newcastle
on-Tyne, England, to hold an interna-
tional trades union convention in Chi
cago during the summer of 1898.
ADvICEs received from Guatemala
say that the election excitement there
is intense, and it is feared no election
can take place, in which case President
Barillos will hold over. In such an
event he may declare himself dictator,
which will not only cause complica-
tions in Gu uatemala, but in all Central
America
REV. CHARLES PERCIvAL, of Racine,
Wis, one of the prime movers in the
reform crusade, has incurred the bitter
enmity of the saloon men, and has
been anonymously warned to beware
the fate of Rev. Geo. c. HaddOclx, who
died martyr to the temperance cause
at Sioux City, Ia, and whose remains
are inferred at Racine.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER of the CEN
sus bureau, who is now giving his en-
tire attention to revising the fiscal CEN
sus reports, says that he expects to
have the first five hundred pages of the
eleventh census ready for the public
printer on the 18th. He expects to
have several completed volumes ready
for congress in December.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the seven
days ended on the 4th, number, for
the United States, 1917, and for Canada,
90, or a total of 217; as compared with
n total of 226 for the previous week.
For the corresponding week of last
year the figures We're eos. representing
I67 failures in the United States and Sc
in the Dominion of Canada.
SIXTEEN Swedish and Norwegian
workmen were blown to atoms by the
explosion of +. a. Reynolds & Co. IS dy-
Mantle factory near White Pigeon,
Mich, on the Sd. The concussion in
White Pigeon was terrible, and the
citizens were badly frightened. Goods
were thrown from the shelves, the
cupola of the Lutheran church fell, and
the walls of several buildings were
cracked and damaged.
ORDER was not restored in Valparaiso
until the streets had been strewn with
the bodies of over 200 incendiaries and
rioters The procurator-iscal Fas, who
caused the execution of Cummings and
two others in connection with the plot
20 blow up the torpedo boats Lynch and
Condell, was taken out and shot, as was
also Leon LAWN, editor of Ell CONNER
clio, who was caught in the act OF dis
tributing incendiary pamphlets
THE reciprocity treaty between San
Domingo and the United States took
effect on the 1st, and is said to be one of
the most favorable yet made. The
treaty removes entirely for this coun-
try the heavy duties heretofore imposed
on more than 3S per cent. of the export
trade of tie United States with San
Domingo; it reduces by % per cent. the
duties on 2S per cent. of the trade, and
hereafter we shall have the decided adj
vantage over competing countries.
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AN arrangement has been made be-
tween the United States and Germany
by which the latter country revokes
her DEGREES excluding American pork,
in return for which the duty on beet
sugar will pot be restored. The agree
ment not only provides for the admit
tance of our pork into Germany. but
also affords to the United States the
same schedule with reference to our
farm products as that enjoyed by Rus
sia.
Two Americans, MessrS Thornton
and Strong, have contracted with the
Nicaraguan government to build rail-
road from Menagua to Metagalpa, via
the town of Rio Grande, distance of
about 200 miles The government
cedes 2,000, 900 acres of land, with the
privilege of using the government rail-
road tracks from Carinto to Mono
tombo. Other valuable concessions are
included. The line will run through a
rich coffee region.
CERTAIN dresses imported from
Paris for Mrs Astor and held at the
New York custom house. which Mrs.
Astor declined to interest herself in on
the ground that the consigner had et-
tempted TO defraud her as well as the
government, were sold ct auction by the
nsssahal Oh the Isl