The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-03

A COMMERCIAL treaty between Ger
many and Austria has been agreed
upon.
The grip is losing its hold on New
York city.
THE local-option license bill was
killed in the New Hampshire house, on
the Goth, by vote of 126 to 143.
THE statement that the Portuguese
authorities in south Africa have pro-
claimed a state of siege in Manicaland
is not credited in London. On the con-
trary, the announcement is semi-offi-
cially made that the Portuguese gov
ernment desires to maintain the modus
vivendi and TO avoid in any way inter
fering with the British South African
Co., or with subjects of Great Britain
stationed in Manicaland.
LOCAL trainmen report that while
Engineer Burke was dying in the Mil
waulxee wis. hospital he repeated con-
stantly in his delirium: ''My Godl Some
one has cut the air brakes" They also
say that a much larger sum of money
was lost by the express company than
was admitted, and intimate that the
wreck on the Chicago S5 Northwestern
near Racine, on the 25th, was planned
by robbers.
THE German government is perplexed
over the Austrian demand for discrim-
ination in favor of Austria-Hungarian
cattle, and hesitates to come to a decL
sion on the subject, as to yield may in
volve Germany in commercial difficult
ties with Russia and America.
Gov. PATTIsoN of Pennsylvania de-
cided, on the 27th, to issue writs for the
extradition of James Hughes, grand
master workman of the assembly of
garment cutters, wanted at Rochester,
n. Y, on charges of extortion and con-
spiracy.
A BILL was passed by the Maine house
of representatives on the 27th, provid-
ing that no person shall be allowed to
vote who can not read and write his
name.
THE government has been granted
three months extension of time in which
to introduce testimony in it's case
against the Bell Telephone Co.
Mrs. CATHARINE TUCK was burned
to death, on the 27th, in a fire which
completely destroyed her house at
Jaynesville, Me.
THE Berlin bourse is disturbed by ru-
mors of movements of Russian troops
on the Austrian and German frontiers
The men employed in paving the
streets of Boston have been granted a
nine-hour day by the contractors.
The Boston Car Spring Co., with a
factory at ROxbury, Mass, went into
insolvency on the 27th.
AFFAIRS are rapidly reaching a crisis
in Sligo, Ireland, when bloodshed will
be unavoidable
Bishop RYAN is sick at the Providence
hospital in Washington, ID. C.
JOHN BRoDERICK, a New York letter
carrier who supported his sisters, COM
mitted suicide, on the 27th, by cutting
his throat with a razor. He was
obliged to lay off one day recently on
account of sickness, caused in great
part by cigarette smoking, and it is
supposed he was temporarily insane
when he took his life.
SENATOR WALTHALL and ex-Gov.
Lowry, of Mississippi have accepted in
vitations to deliver orations at the un-
yelling of the confederate monument
at jackson, Miss, on June 3.
THE capture of a gang of counter
feiters at Dobria, in Posen, on the 27th,
viii probably lead to the uneartbing of
an extensive nihilistic plot.
A BUTTE (Mont.) all-night saloon was
raided, on the night of the Goth, by
masked robbers, who forced the bar
tender to open the safe and give them
81, 100 belonging to worlmen who had
left it there for safe-keeping.