The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-06-10

BRIG. sGEw. ID. g. STANLEY. e0ihinaiidA
ing the department of Texas, was
placed on the retired list; on The ist, ON
account Of age, and Brig. Gen. g. B.
FELTON,, acknowledgement, will ki5ss his
active service In the army for the saiaa
reason ON the oath.
THE floods in indianapolis and vicin-
ity caused by the heavy rains of the
last days of May caused the loka Ua IA
least thirty lives
DURIEG n fight between factions of
Chinese i'm Chinatown, Sacramento, ON
the night OF the 31st, two Chinese were
killed and several wounded.
THE cash balance in the United States
treasury, including the gold reserve, al
the close of business May 81, was $780,
O05, $500. Decrease during the month
Of May, s5,512, ,275.OO. The aggregate OF
the public debt at the same date, in
cludinR certificates and treasury notes,
was II, ,603, 40, 97O.0 90.
Miss "MTDDTn MORGAN, the foremost
woman writer ON topics connected with
horses and cattle in the United States,
died, on the 1st, at St Francis hospital,
Jerhey City, n. j., aged O5. She was
y
roniinence in the country, and her
opinions were eagerly sought. The
bulk OF her ample estate passes 20 her
sister Jane, well-known artist.
THREE HUNDRED MEN are at work on
the Wolfey canal in Arizona, and it will
be rapidly pushed to completion. 1t
win be Seventy-six miles in length, and
the largest irrigation canal In the United
States. The dam in the Gila river, from
which the water will be supplied, has
been completed. 1t will open to culti-
vation 500, 900 acres of land heretofore
part of the desert.
GEORGE SEBASTIAN, aged 35, n once
wealthy citizen of New Orleans, who
went to Monte Carlo and lost his entire
fortune, and returned and took posi-
tion as porter in the establishment he
once owned, committed suicide, on the
1st, by shooting himself in the head.
He was in love with a young woman,
but his impoverished condition pre-
cluded the idea of marriage
A DISASTROUS crevaSse occurred on
the right bank of the Mississippi, thirty
miles above New Orleans, on the I'd.
In one hour it had widened to forty
feet and was five feet deep.
A CONSERVATIVE estimate of the
amount of damage caused by the high
waters from Kansas City, Mo-, to New
Orleans, places the loss at the enormous
figure of $50, 900, 900.
CLARENCE G. WILSON, of Burlington,
Ia, superintendent of the Iowa lines of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, was
a n. - n \
ley, Ia. on the I'd, by sudden wave in
the Des Moines river and drowned.
THE steamer John Matthews, loaded
with corn, bound for Pine Bluff, Ark,
ran against the pier on the bridge over
the Arkansas river at Van Buren, Ark,
at 1 o'clock on the morning of the Sd,
and sank Rescuing parties at once
set to work to save the crew. Capt.
Black, the pilot, and at least one-third
of the crew are lost.
THE levee in front of the Bell Chase
plantation, on the right bank of the
Mississippi river, fifteen miles below
New Orleans, caved in, on the Sd. and
in few minutes a crevasse of fifty
four feet wide and six feet deep was
raging. The break will cause great
loss to many planters in the lower
coast.
IN frightful thunderstorm in Lack
awanna county, Pa, on the night of the
Cd, two boys were killed and a boy and
a girl fatally injured by lightning.
THE United States steamer Texas,
which has been under construction for
SO long a time at the Norfolk (Va.) navy
yard lis to he launched on the 2eth, at
noon.