The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-03-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THEY have the boss marrying man
under arrest in New York. He is said
to have been engaged for a quarter of
century in marrying women for their
money, and SO successful has he been
that he is believed to be the possessor
of fully sixty living wives.
GREAT suffering exists in the colony
of Queensland, Australia, owing to
the stagnation of industries Hun
dreds of women and children are ap-
plicants for government relief at Bris-
bane, the male relatives having gone
to the country to seek work.
ARTHUR MCKINNEY while at work,
on the 14th, trying to start frozen coal
in a chute at the yards of G. w. New
ton & Co, Hartford Comm coal-deal-
ers, was caught by the mass when it
commenced to run, and buried by 100
tons of coal He was dead when his
body was dug out ten hours later.
TowBRANA, king of the Gilbert is
lands, arrived at San Francisco, on the
18th, on the barkentine Tropic Bird.
This is his first visit to the white mans
country, as he expresses it, and he has
come in America to study the ways of
civilization for the benefit of his king
dom in which he is making many Inn
provements.
A CABLE dispatch from Dundee says
that twenty-six of the crew of the Brit
ish bark Invertrossachs, which was
abandoned recently while on a voyage
from Philadelphia to Calcutta, have
been landed there. The captains boat,
which contained eight men, is still
missing.
THE Duval hotel in Jacksonville,
Fla, was burned on the 18th. There
were about sixty-five guests, all of
whom are believed to have escaped.
A CABINET council was held in Paris
on the 18th, at which President Carnot
signed bill introducing clause in the
penal code. making the wilful destruc-
tion of property by means of explosives
punishable with death. This clause
was introduced in the chamber of depu-
ties later in the day.
SUITS were entered in the chancery
court at Chattanooga, Tenn, on the
18th, by the attorneys of the Catholic
knights of America against the bonds
men of Maj NJ. j. O'Brien, the default
ing treasurer of the order, whose steal
ings aggregate S75, 600. 1t is the inten-
ton to hold all of O'Brien's sureties for
that part of the defalcation that took
place under their respective terms as
surety.
THE Greater New York" bill, which
contemplated the merging of New
York, Brooklyn and adjacent cities,
was defeated in the state assembly on
its final passage on the 15th-45 ayes,
"a noes.
THE St James Gazette, on the 18th,
published letter signed "A Member
of the House of Commons" in which
the writer expressed the hope that En-
gland would not insist upon her claims
in. the Behring sea matter, legitimate
as he believed them to be, as such in
sistance would mean the humiliation
of a valuable industry.
WILLIAM VINEGAR, a young man with
Mormonistic tendencies, ran away from
Lincoln, Neb., with Laura Meecham,
Lille and Minnie Lobaugh, girls of Is
and I6. He also stole neighbor's horse,
bought n prairie schooner, and when
overtaken was peacefully enjoying his
new position as head of harem.
AzRAEI GROVER died at Beaver Dam,
Wis, on the 10Th, aged 81. lie was the
most noted dropsical patient in this
country. He had been tapped SIC times
and 800 pounds of water drawn from
him.