The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-08-19
THE commissioner Of nalrevcnue

THE commissioner of internal revenue
decided that the various bichloride Of
gold Institutes In this country must
take out government retail liquor IL
censes, involving an annual tax of $25,
and they have all submitted to the rul-
ing, including the leading one at
Dwight, Ill,
HUGH RIDDLE, chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific Railway Co., and ex-
president of the corporation, died at
his residence in Chicago, on the night
of the 10th, of heart disease. He was
exactly 20 years of age. having been
born August II, 1892, at Bedford, n. Y.
EDWARD PARKER DEACON has been
offered pardon from prison if he viii
leave France and not prosecute his
wife for divorce, and has declined the
offer.
Miss LIZZIE BORDEN was arrested at
Fall River, Mass, on the evening of the
11th, on the charge of having muir
dered her father and mother, who were
found some days previous horribly
butchered with an AK or hatchet, hav-
ing previously been poisoned.
BosToS was selected as the next
meeting place for the triennial Knights
Teinplar conclave, to be held in 1893.
Ar its business meeting in Helena,
Mont, on the 18th, the national en-
campment Sons of Veterans elected
the following officers to serve the en-
suing year: Commander-in-chief,tM Mar
vim +. Hill, Michigan; senior yice-com-
mander, George w. Politt, New Jersey;
junior vice-commander, John w. Mil
ler, Montana.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
seven days ended ON the 18th, number
for the United States, 169. and for
Canada 90; or total of 1s9, as COM
pared with 1s4 for the previous week,
and 227 for the corresponding week of
last year.
IN Vienna, on the 18th, Johann
Singer. a clerk who had been out of
work for some time, killed the woman
with whom he had been living, their
three children and himself, by starting
a charcoal fire in the room where they
slept.
THE figures on South Dakota's pros
pective yield, given out by competent
men, are simply astounding, ranging
from 10000, 900 to 500, 600, 900 bushels of
wheat, besides immense quantities Of
other grains
HERR WOLFF, the defaulting Berlin
banker, was sentenced, on the 18th. to
ten years imprisonment at hard labor.
Dittmar, also a defaulting banker, re-
ceived the same sentence.
THE Horton company of Chicago has
offered the Worlds fair directors ST.
500, 900 for the 81, SOC, 900 worth of
souvenir half dollars TO be donated by
the government.
EARL PRICE and Arthur Kurtz, of
North Lansing, Mich. were smothered in
an unused ice chest with self-locxing
lid which they entered in play on the
11th.
THE Knights Templar festivities at
Denver, Col, closed with grand ban
quet to the eminent grand encampment
by the Denver knights.
The project for a Berlin interna-
tional exhibition has been finally aban-
doned. The kaiser refused to sanction
it.
A FALLING wall near Ogdensburgh, N.
J., on the 18th, crushed twelve work.
men who were around the building,
fatally injuring two of them, Patrick
Mcconnell and an Italian. Some of the
others are seriously hurt.
THE Federation of Labor officials at
Homestead, Pa, decided, on the 18th,
not to impose a boycott on Carnegie
materials for the present