The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-09-02
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| telegraph Office at Clinton, Tenn, on
the 23d, Gen. Carnes and Attorney Gem
| eral Pickle struck rich find. They re-
fuse to disclose the information secured,
but it is known they have proof against
number of prominent people not
heretofore suspected or implicated In
| the mining riots
ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER returned
to Washington from vacation at his
home in Indiana on the 22d-
THE striking miners at Pocahontas,
Va, are becoming troublesome, and the
governor was asked, on the 23d, to hold
troops in readiness for service. great
many of the miners in that region are
| Hungarians.
ALL distractions to civil prosecutions
| in Coal Creek, Tenn, were removed, on
the Esd, by the appointment of Gen.
| Carnes, who is absolute dictator there,
as deputy sheriff.
LIEUT.-CoN. TURNER of the Albatross.
reports his arrival at Sitka, Alaska, on
the 11th, with the British schooner
Winifred in tow on the charge of illegal
sealing.
THE supreme lodge of the Pythian
order for the world convened in Kansas
City, Mo-. on the Esd. It's sessions were
secret, and its enactments are without
appeal.
THE richest mine in the vicinity of
| Crede, Col, was struck on the 22d, be-
| ing lead of quartz rich in sulphurets
which assays from s65 to i, 13O ounces
in silver.
A BOGUS banking scheme was un-
earthed by the New York police, on
the cath, at 10 Wall street, and as a re-
suit w. III. Roberts, the president;
Neip McCallum, the secretary, and
Fred Stirtz were arrested and locked
up at police headquarters. 1t seems
that the scheme was to buy goods
| throughout the country and give the
bogus bank as a reference.
THE Portuguese government has
sanctioned the importation of IL, ,000, 900
kilos of wheat monthly for ten months
THERE were four deaths from chol-
era in Antwerp, on the oath. Officials
derry that it is Asiatic cholera.
THE treasury department has issued
circular requiring all rags imported
| from abroad to be disinfected.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY glass blow
ers employed by Demuth Brothers,
Williamsburg, N. Y, struck, on the
cath, because of the refusal of the firm
to re-employ three discharged men.
The men resolved to stay on strike
pending the decision of the national
council at Pittsburgh.
The Northwestern, the largest hotel
in Liverpool, has been deprived of its
liquor license for having violated the
excise regulations. The violation was
unintentional.
A DISPATCH from Porto Novo says
that /, 200 French troops entered Daho-
nian territory on August Is. The
French bonn barded the town of Valzon.
THERE were $40 new cases of cholera
in Hamburg, on the oath, and $50
deaths.
ELIZABETH HUGHES, of Hyde Park
Pa, was found dead by her husband
upon his returning home from work on
the 2Sd. Disgrace over repeated ar
rests for drunkenness had caused the
woman to commit suicide.
WHILE inspecting storm-damaged
bridges on the Pittsburgh, Shenango &
Lake Erie railroad, on the 25th, Bridge
Foreman Fisher was instantly killed
and Conductor Deifelifer was fatally
they were riding going through weak
ened bridge into the torrent which
still ragged in the deep ravine below.
A BUDA-PEsTH correspondent gives
an account of the military maneuvers
at Fuenfkirchen, Hungary. on the 24th,
in the terrible heat He says that out
of the forces engaged in the evolutions,
four officers, eight corporals and ten
privates have since died of sunstroke.
AN official dispatch from Porto Novo,
of the 25th, states that when Col
Dobbs advanced against Salxele, the
Dahomians, not only in Sahele, but in
all the neighboring country, evacuated
the district and fed northward, with
the French in pursuit
A DISPATCH from Calcutta, of the
25th, says that the Anchor line steamer
Anglia, bound from Calcutta to Lon
don, capsized in the Hoogly river on
the way to the sea, and of forty-seven
persons on board fifteen were drowned
MICHAEL BRoDERICK, of Buffalo, N.
Y. was shot in the pit of the stomach,
on the 25th, by militia sentry at whom
he, with others, was throwing stones.
He may die.
THERE were 9, 743 deaths from cholera
in St. Petersburg, on the oath, and 5,679
new cases reported-an increase over
the previous day.
Two BOMBS were exploded in front of
the official residence of the stakeholder
of Trieste, on the 25th, doing slight
damage.
THE ameer of Afghanistan has ap-
pealed to the Indian government for aid
against the aggressions of Russia.
AT joint meeting of the eastern and
western sales agents of the anthracite
coal companies in New York, on the
25th, further increase of twenty-five
cents a ton in the price of stove and
chestnut coal was ordered, to take eff
feet September 1.
THE preliminary examination of Miss
Lizzie Borden, on the charge of killing
her father and step-mother, was begun
ct Fall River, Mass. on the 25th- The
court room was packed with spectators
THE Metropolitan rolling mills, nail
spike and horseshoe works, owned by
Abbott & Co., at Montreal, Can, were
completely destroyed by fire ON the
night of the 24th- Loss, 1926, 900; fairly
covered by insurance
A PANIC was said, on the 25th, to ex-
ist in Hamburg, and large numbers Of
cholera victims remained unburied, the
undertal1ers' assistants deserting their