The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-04-01

The explosion of barrel Of benzine
in drug warehouse at Amsterdam, Oh
the Esd, killed six persons and injured
twenty-seven, some of them fatally.
Four houses were destroyed.
A BILL is now before the New York
legislature to repeal all provisions OF
the legal code relating to imprisonment
in civil actions, thus abolishing the last
vestige of Imprisonment for debt
THE steamship Majestic arrived at
New York on the Esd, and j. Coleman
Drayton and Hallett A. Borrowe were
found to have made the voyage without
an effort to slaughter each other.
ANTHONY GOULD, well-known law
yer and ex-recorder of Albany, n. Y,
was found guilty, on the oath, of aiding
and abetting ex-Bookkeeper George P.
Whitney, of the Albany city national
bank, in embezzling the banks funds
and falsifying it's accounts Sentence
was deferred. Whitney is serving a
seven years term of imprisonment for
his crime.
The Hotel Eldunot in Mount Wash
ington. Nd, was burned to the ground
at 1890 a. M, of the oath. There were
large number of guests in the hotel
at the time, but owing to the heroic
efforts of the employees, all were res
cued in safety. Loss, estimated at SIS, :
600; insurance, $1,000.
THE Wood VS.. Parnell formerly
Wood VS.. O'Shea) will case has been
settled out of court ON terms satisfac-
tory to all parties.
THE Paris Debats says the anarchists
of that city are experimenting with
poison with view to substituting it
for dynamite.
THE house committee on appropria-
tions, on the oath, completed the sundry
civil appropriations bill. The whole
amount recommended in the bill is
S25, 157, 7s7, being 0,O26, 1853 less than
the estimates and S13, 237, STA less than
appropriated for the current fiscal year.
The senate committee on territories
has ordered a favorable report on the
house bill providing for the refunding
of the debt of Arizona at per cent
interest.
RETURNS compiled In Chicago show
that the total increase in registration
in the thirty-four wards of the city and
Cicero is AZ, ,220 over last year. Thou
sands of names are said to have been
illegally added to the registration
lists
THE Tennessee Rifles, colored COM
pany of Memphis, disbanded, on the
25th, as a result of the action of Judge
Dubois in ordering the arms of the COM
pany confscated during the excitement
following the lynching of the three ne
groes recently. The judge feared the
members of the company might at
tempt to avenge the lynching and use
the guns at their armory to that end.
THE Prussian government has pro-
hibited all Russian Jews from crossing
the frontier. owing to the prevalence
of typhus fever among them. The de-
cree is to be stringently enforced, and
it is reported that the guards on the
border have already shot four Jews
who tried to elude them.
JOEL L. HART, a prominent citizen of
England, Ark, and Sheriff ]. w. Will
Jams, ordinarily the best of friends,
quarreled, on the night of the 9th,
while drunk, and Williams shot Hart
dead.
THE Importation of cattle form
SPAN, Portugal. Sweden and Norway
has been prohibited by the English
government, owing to the prevalence
of the foot-and-mouth disease in the
former countries.
THREE more of the ringleaders of the
recent riots in Berlin were sentenced,
on the 25th, one to four years, another
to three years and one to two years at
hard labor.