The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-10-14
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

but if the reports brought back from
the Behring sea waters and the Priby-
loft islands by United States Fish Com
missioner Alexander are TO be relied
upon, by the time the case is finally
settled the seals will have disappeared
Mr.. Alexander declares that the fun
seal has already been virtually exter.
minated. This may be to some extent
an exaggeration, but there is little
doubt that determination is rapidly
approaching.
IN the recent voting contest among
the commercial travellers assembled ai
st. Louis on "drummers' day." NJ. J.
Jones, of West Plains, Mo-, was award.
ed the prize for being the thinnesi
man; James A. Scudder, of Terre
Haute, Ind, for being the ugliest, and
Gilbert Bond, of Sullivan, Ind, for be
ing the fattest.
THE work which was lately begun by
n number of farmers in Iowa to change
the course OF the Missouri river by ditch
ing across the narrow isthmus near
Bellevue. where the river describes
four-fifths of circle, has been stopped
by an injunction. 1t is estimated thai
had not the work been stopped about
5000 acres of land would have beer
changed to the other side of the river
JACK RAMSAY, the pal of Franl
Cooley, who was killed by Sheriff Nc
Cormicl1s posse on the evening of the
I'd. was captured near Fair Chance, Pa.
on the Sd, and lodged in Jail. 1t is be-
lieved that since the death of Cooley
and the capture of Ramsey the re
mainder of the gang of desperadoet
will leave the country.
J. BARLOW MooREHEAD, a young ac
tor and manager of the Young Amer
lean" theatrical company, committed
suicide in New York city, on the Cd, a:
per agreement with a suicide club, oi
which he was a member. He spent his
last night of life drinking wine with
friends. and then went to his room and
ended his life with pistol bullet.
FEABs are entertained for the safety
of the two-masted schooner Nellie May
which left Providence, r. l., August L
for Brava, Cape Verde islands, a pas
sage that is ordinarily accomplished in
about n month. She carried twenty
four persons, including passengers and
crew.
LORD HOUeHToS, the new viceroy o.
Ireland, took formal possession of Dub
lin castle on the Sd. His public entry
into Dublin was made with the usual
ceremony.
LORD TESNYsoN. poet laureate o.
being seriously i'll with complication
of influenza and gout at his home in
Surrey.
On the evening of the Sd Edward S
Damn, the Buffalo (N. " bank wrecker
died at his home in Buffalo from the
effects of dose of opium taken will
suicidal intent
CHARLEY MITCHELL, the pugilist, wa,
I'm the prisoners dock of the Bow-street
police court, London, on the 4th, to
answer a charge of assault upon an ole
man named Salvage. He was re
manded TO await the result of closer In
quiry as TO the old mans condition.
HoH. PATRICK EGAN. minister pleni
potentiary of the United States tC
Chill, arrived at New York on the
steamer Newport from Panama, on the
sth, in the best of health and spirits.
He brings with him a treaty which pro-
vides that all claims on the part of cor
porations, companies or private indf
viduals shall be submitted to three
commissioners for settlement: also the
indemnity money for the Baltimore'I
men.
AN important decision was handed
down, on the 4th, by the United State.
court of appeals for New York in the
case of the Edison Electric-Light Co.
against the United States Electric
Light Co.. granting an injunction, with
an accounting for profits and damages,
in patent issued to Mr.. Edison on an
electric lamp January %, 1880. The de
cision carries with it monopoly in the
incandescent lamp.
A PILGRIMAGE TO Troitsa to celebrate
the FIVE hundredth anniversary of the
death of ST. Sergius, win begin on the
10th, from the Kremlin in Moscow
The pilgrims number 25. 900 and are led
by 1900 clergymen with images and
relics At Troitsa the Moscow pilgrim:
will be met by some $4,000 pilgrim:
from other parts of Russia. The peo.
pie carry their food with them and
sleep by the wayside at night
Mounted Cossacks along the route pro
tect them and keep stragglers from
wandering from the road.
COUNT STARHEMBURG, one of the
long-dis tance riders from Vienna, ar.
rived at Berlin at a. m of the 5th.
He was only II hours and IS minutes
on the road. This was the best record
made up to that time by any of the
riders
CANovAs DEL CASTILLO, Spanish
prime minister, arrived at Huelva, on
the 5th, and was greeted by a popular
ovation. He delivered the opening adj
dress at the congress of Americanists,
Prof. Adams, of France, speaking in re
ply.
Col JAMES III. RICE, ex-auditor OF
state of Indiana, died at the Grand Cen.
tral hotel in indianapolis on the 5th-
politicians in the state
THE annual convention of travelling
passenger agents met at the Metropoli-
tan hotel in Washington on the 5th.
About seventy-fve agents were present.
THE reports of an approaching cabi-
net crisis in Germany and friction be-
tween Count Caprivi and Count Zulen-
burg are denied officially.
f. GARCIA has been appointed Guate-
malan consul general in New York
city, in place of Jacob Baiz, the late
consul general.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND left New
fork for Buzzard's Bay, on the 5th, on
e. Z. Benedict's yacht Oneida.
THE great Roosevelt organ manu-
factory in New York, which employs
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