The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-09-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

from the conclusion caused by the
rapid motion of the train on a down
grade few miles west of New Hart
ford, Conn, on the 20th. Five cars of
the train were blown to pieces and
their contents scattered TO the winds.
Trees on both sides of the road were
blown down, the track was torn up
and large hole. twenty feet in dame
ter and ten feet deep, was made in the
roadbed.
CUsToMHoUsE officers were, on the
Goth, sent to the house of ex-Mayor
Chaplin, of Brooklyn, for the purpose of
seizing both his own and his wife's
trunks on the technical charge of hav-
ing violated several of the federal
laws Mr.. Chaplin and his wife arrived
some days before, from Europe and
were given permission to land by
Health officer Jenkins.
/ LORD HAGIN, who belongs to one of
the first families in the peerage of Ire
land, has been arrested for vagrancy in
| Winnipeg, Man, and sent to the COM
mon Jail for two months. He was at
one time an inspector in the Royal
Irish consta bulary, and still draws
handsome pension for past services.
| Drink caused his fall.
| THE Fifteenth regiment, after being
on duty at Homestead, Pa, seventy-one
| days, broke camp, on the 10Th, and took
| the train for home. This leaves but
one regiment (the Sixteenth) now on
duty, and it is the general impression
that it will soon be withdrawn.
HoRATIo b. WATERWAYS will has
been sustained and the poor of Coven-
| try, r. l., will be benefited to the
amount of $4,000.
THE convention of democratic clubs
of Pennsylvania met in Scranton on the
Goth.
ROCKAwAY BEACH, n. j., the famous
seaside summer resort, was visited by
a destructive confagration on the Goth.
All the hotels, the Seaside museum
and many other buildings-about 100
| in all-were destroyed. Robert Phil
| lips, aged 60, was burned to death, and
| several other persons were severely in
| jured. The loss will reach nearly
| $1,000, 0OO
REV. j. w. ARNEY, Methodist minis
ter in Michigan, who made reputa-
tion because he raced horses week days
and preached rafting sermons Sun
udHS. anu WHO WAS IIlTOMA IL Oul VI Tic
church for it, is going back to the pull
pit. He, however, will race the season
out, having won six first purses in the
Greenville meet and lowered Guaran-
tees record to 600. He will leave the
track and sulkey just in time to ask the
Conference for pulpit.
MORRIS S. BARNET, of New York city,
recently met Prince Bismarck at
Kissengen, in Bavaria, and he says that
the Iron chancellor spoke of his inten-
tion TO visit this country during the
Worlds fair at Chicago
THE Fall River Mass Globe prints
statements to the effect that Lizzie Bor
| den, several weeks before the murders,
consulted a Providence (R. I.) lawyer
as to the disposition of her fathers
! property in the event of his death. The
lawyer WI give evidence at the trial.
THE negroes of Larned, Kas., have
organized and sworn to prevent a repe-
tition of the recent lynching of Hugh
| Henry, one of their race. Two white
| men in particular have been threatened,
and the town is now watched by an
armed patrol.
Mrs. EDWARD j. POTTER, of New
| Haven, Conn, was shot and instantly
| killed by her husband about IL o'clock
on the night of the Goth. Potter, who
was alone with his wife at the time,
says he was cleaning a rifle when the
weapon was discharged. He was, how
! ever, placed under arrest and will have
to answer to the charge of man
! slaughter.
THE French anarchists posted the pro-
gramme of their proposed celebration
over the official programmes for the
fetes in celebration OF the one hun
dredth anniversary of the proclamation
of the First French republic by the ma
tional convention.
Mrs. j. NJ. ARMAGoST, of David City,
Neb., middle-aged woman, the wife
of farmer, was arrested, on the 21st,
charged with poisoning by arsenic her
mother-in-law, two years ago, and her
| former husband, VIM. Y. Roberts, five
| years ago.
AN electric motor in Cleveland, o.,
collided with a Pennsylvania freight
train at the Cedar-avenue crossing on
the 21st, and a number of persons were
injured, two of them, it was thought,
fatally.
THE annual convention of the su-
preme council of Free Masons of the
thirty-third degree of the United States
was held in Providence, r. l., from the
Goth to Esd, inclusive.
THE Long Islanders are taking legal
steps to compel the removal of quaran-
tined passengers from Fire island.
THE shears in the eleven-inch plate
mill at the Carnegie steel works in
| Homestead, Pa, broke, on the 21st, en-
failing a direct loss OF about SIS, 600 to
the company and causing the suspen-
sion of work in the entire department.
IT was reported on the 21st that Ed
ward Parker Deacon had been pardoned
by President Carnot, the pardon to be
made public, among others, on the 22d,
the one hundredth anniversary of the
proclamation of the First French re-
public
In the G.. A. r. national encampment,
on the 21st, on the motion of Gov.
Chase of Indiana. Indianapolis was
chosen as the location for the twenty
seventh encampment, in 1898, without
opposition. The date will be fixed by
the counsel of administration after con-
ference with the citizens
OUARTERMAsrER-GEN TAYLOR of
the G. A. r. reported TO the national
| encampment, on the 21st: Receipts
for the year, sS5, ,9eO.77; expenditures,
$50. .216. 16; balance on hand, s7,54s.7o.
Assets including United States bonds
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