The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-06-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DURING terrific storm at Earling,
Ia, on the 18th, a 2-year-old child of
Geo. Hannume, of Dodge township,
was caught in the storm and drowned
in a pond made by the flood.
THE Worlds Columbian exposition
committee of the house was in session
several hours, on the 14th, considering
its appropriation bill, but did not COM
plete the measure.
The usual commencement exercises
of the Wisconsin state university at
Madison, were dispensed with, on the
18th, and Maj. ]. w. Powell, director of
the United States geological survey,
delivered an address before a large
audience, the subject being 1.-The Law
of Culture"
FATHER MOLLISGER, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, the healing priest, to whom thou-
sands were flocking for help, died at
1:5O p. m. on the 18th.
THE seven large ice houses belonging
to the Union Ice Co., of Chicago, and
situated in Sturgeon Bay, Wis, at the
mouth of the bay, were blown down,
on the 18th, during a terrible gale from
the southeast.
DURING a terrible tornado which
struck Bangor, Me, on the evening of
the 18th, doing considerable damage,
the little steamer Annie, which carries
excursion parties up and down the
Penobscot river, was caught in the
squall short distance below the Maine
Central wharf and capsized. Miss
Madilene Adams was drowned. Six
teen other passengers had narrow
escape.
THE province of Quebec was the
scene, on the 18th, of fearful storm of
wind and hail, which spread death,
manning and destruction over a wide
expanse of country. It's effects were
most severely felt in the demolition of
school buildings, and the killing and
injury of the pupils The storm ex-
tended through New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia.
Mrs. DEACON, the cause of the tragedy
at Cannes, France, in which NJ. Abeille
was shot and killed in her apartments
in the hotel by her husband, has arrived
in San Jose, Cal, and is living in retire
ment at the home of her brother,
Charles Baldwin, a short distance from
San Jose.
THERE is serious disagreement on
the wage question between the Anal
gamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers and the Pennsylvania iron
manufacturers, and unless there is
compromise effected there will be a gen.
eral strike on July 1.
DR. F. w. JONES, formerly purveyur-
general of the confederate states, died
at Richmond, Va, on the 18th, aged 66
years. He had resided in Maryland,
Mississippi and Tennessee since the
war. When his health gave way he
went to Richmond, and lived so quietly
that but few people knew that he was
resident.
RATION, n. NJ, celebrated an impor-
tant epoch in its career on the 18th,
when the water-works company con-
nected the city water mains with the
reservoir, seven miles up the Chicora,
and filed them with mountain water,
thus ending what has been almost a
water famine for the past two months.
WILLIAM HENRY PAINToS, who,
while robbing old Mr.. and Mrs Mi
chael Strominger, at Lewisburg, Pa.
March 81, overpowered and bound
them, from the effects of which Mrs.
Strominger died, was hanged at York,
Pa, on the 10th. for the murder.
A MEETING of American hardware
manufacturers was held in New York
on the 18th. The session was secret,
and it was rumored about among retail
hardware men that gigantic trust was
about TO be formed by the wholesalers
and manufacturers
THE indictments found in New York
against Messrs- Ives and Staynor for
appropriating money belonging TO the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail-
road have been dismissed. The district
attorney did not think a conviction
could be obtained.
FRANK TURNER, white, was fined 800
in each of 1,577 cases for Illicit whisky
selling in the local-option town of Ian
caster, KY, snd John Smith, negro,
confessed judgment 10 I,5ss cases.