The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-10-14

SSow fell at several points in New
York on the 9Th.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYsoE, poet lau-
reate of England, died at bis home as
| AldwUrth, Sderey, Mt a. IN. of the 9th.
He had steadily failed since his malady,
influenza. took an acute turn, and oy=-
ing to his advanced years recovery was
out of the question.
Or the 9th Peter Rerthiume, 35 years
old, lineman for the United Lines
Co., of Springfield, Mass, was shocked
to death while making a cut-out at the
top of a high pole. He grasped both
ends of live wire and received 1900
volts.
Oh the 9th all the street-car eonduc-
tors and motormen of Memphis, Tenn,
struck for an increase in wages from
| fourteen TO eighteen cents an hour
One of the strikers attempted to shoot
non-union conductor.
The steamer Norman and the steam
barge Republic collided at ST. George
Flats, Sault Ste Marie, Mich, on the
9Th. The Norman was cut down to the
waters edge ten feet back from the
stem. The Republic was crushed
| twenty feet back from the stem to her
bridge, but proceeded on her trip.
A FLYING column of 1000 men sent
out under Col. Lockhart to punish the
Black mountain tribes in Simla, British
Indies, captured Baio without losing a
man.
THE granite manufacturers of Boston
have decided to offer the cutters the
same terms as those offered by the
manufacturers of Barre and Quincy,
Mass.
On the 9th an Oxford student, named
Brice, shot himself dead, because he
failed in his examination,
T. DESPERATE battle has taken place
at Los Tequas, small Venezuelan
town on the railroad to Valelcia, equi-
distant from that place and Caracas.
Six hundred men were killed and many
high government officers were cap
| tured.
CREPo has announced his determine
tion to enter Caracas.
0N the 9Th the Allen line steam ship
State of Georgia. from Montreal for
Aberdeen, with flour, cheese, butter
and lumber, besides 500 cattle, went
] ashore in the st. Lawrence river, near
Cape La Roche, and may prove total
/ loss.
A DECISIVE battle has been fought in
Dahomey, in which the rebellious ma
tives were defeated and 1000 of their
warriors killed, among them twenty
Amazons. The loss to the French
troops is given as eight killed and
thirty-three wounded.
An attempt was made, on the 7th, to
blow up non-union boarding house
in Homestead, Pa, with dynamite.
No one was hurt, but the house was
badly damaged and the occupants
were greatly frightened.
HUGO LoEwY, the Berlin banker who
was convicted of fraudulent practices,
has been sentenced ito term of two
and a half years imprisonment, and to
pay a fine of 1000 marks.
JAMES LINDSAY, of Blythebourne, n.
Y, quarreled with his wife, on the 9Th,
and went out and threw himself in
front of an approaching train and was
instantly killed.
A DEMONSTRATION of Chicago work
ingmen the day preceding that set for
the Worlds fair dedicatory exercise is
said to be among the probabilities.
Two NEW cases of cholera were re-
ported from Ironton. near Tonaw anda,
N. Y, on the 7th, and the excitement
there was tense.
A TRIP to Niagara Falls and Lewiston
marked the close of the formal pro-
gramme of the second real estate con-
gress, which ended its session in Rtlf-
falo, n, ", on the 7th.