The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-02-06

IT is said that Senator Quay is about
to break his long silence by speech in
the Senate in reply to the various
charges of corruption and criminality
which have been so freely made against
him.
J. II. BUTLER, the night elevator man
in the Omaha (Neb.) Bee building, was
found dead in the elevator, on the Goth,
having been crushed in the shaft
THE Paris Rappel announced, on the
29th, that the committee on pardons
had pronounced in favor of committing
the sentence of death passed upon
Michael Eyraud, the murderer of Goutfe,
to one of imprisonment for life.
News reached Columbus, Ind, on the
29th, of the wholesale poisoning of the
family of Nicholas Miller near Edin-
burg, from eating head-cheese. Eight
members of the family were taken vio-
lehtly sick two hours after eating it,
and were saved only by prompt medical
aid.
CHARLES MILLER, clerk in the mail
ing division of the st. Louis post-ofice,
was arrested, on the evening of the
Goth, by Inspectors Dice, Freeman and
Williams, on a charge of rifling letters.
He had been connected with the de-
partment for three years.
BRIGADIER GENERAL MERRITT rel
ceived dispatch at st. Louis, on the
Goth, from the commander at Fort Sill,
1. T, stating that the Kiowas had been
informed by message from their Sioux
friends IN the Northwest that the Mes
siah was false prophet, and that the
Indians of that region had ceased to
have faith IN him.
SUIT has been begun in the Jennings
County Qnd.) Circuit Court against w.
III. Shuck, ex-county treasurer, to re-
cover $4,2O9, the amount of his alleged
shortage after deducting $4,000 paid
over by him on demand.
CONSTABLE RIoRDAN, of Bean Bios
som, Ind, has got himself in a queer
legal predicament In serving a war
rant levying on horse owned by man
named Parsely he took the horse first
and made levy by serving the warrant
afterward, and now Parsely has had
him arrested for stealing the horse.
T. A. MANN, leading citizen of Min
den, Neb., is a fugitive from mob on
account of terribly manning COW
which he owned. The animal injured
his little boy, and in his rage he placed
the animal in closed stable and sawed
her legs off. A crowd of angry citizens
chased the man from the town and Off
GERS of the law are looking for him.
THE business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
seven days ended on the S0th, number,
for the United State, 27s, and for Can
ada, ~, or a total of 800, as compared
with a total of $50 the previous week.
For the corresponding week of last
year the figures were 291, representing
246 failures in the United States and As
in the Dominion of Canada.
THE announcement of Secretary Win
dom's death caused deep sorrow in the
American colony in London. Flags on
the Legation building were displayed at
half-mast.
TWELVE THOUSAND Chilian troops
sent against the insurgents have gone
over to the enemy.
THE wife of the American sculptor
Ball died in Flore nee, Italy, on the
SOth
a FINANCIAL panic prevails in Buenos
Ayres.
Two MASKED men entered San Fran
cisco grocery store, on the 3Oth, and
with drawn revolvers ordered the four
occupants to throw up their hands.
The command was obeyed, and one of
the robbers took about $500 from the
till, with which they made their es-
cape.