The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-09-23
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

II Is
prominent Allen county Qnd.) farmer,
/ imagines that she has been buried alive
Her maniacal meanings are distressing
and her attempts to liberate herself
from the coffin are painful to behold
Nothing that her troubled family can
say or do can convince her otherwise
than that she is buried under ground
AN organization is declared to exist
for the purpose of bringing the Central
| American states into the United States,
first as territories and then as separate
states 1t is claimed that ex-Secretary
| Blaine is interested in the scheme
Among other prominent men spoken of
in connection with the plan is Secre-
tary of War Ell1ins.
AFTER pitiful experience in quar-.
antine the passengers of the steamship
/ Normannia were landed from the
steamer Cepheus on Fire island, on the
| 18th, and provided with comfortable
accommodations at the Surf hotel. In
the presence of an armed force the
brutal mob on shore who had refused
them landing suddenly Disappeared
THE Seaside hotel at Rockaway, N
j., was burned to the ground early on
mated at $50, 900.
SHORTLY before midnight of the 18th
Mr.. Ed O'Meagher Condor, inspector of
buildings for the United States treasury
department, called at the Associated
Press in Cincinnati in perfectly sound
health and full of vigor. He desired to
contradict a dispatch sent out from
Washington announcing his death
THE gross earnings of the Wabash
railroad for the year ended June 80,
1892, were S14, $50. 331. 13; operating ex-
penses, $40, $50, ,529. 95; net earnings, 49,
$50, 500 Is; miscellaneous receipts, $780,
453. 4s. Total, $3, 747. 257. &c. After pay
ment OF interest on bonds and mort
cages there remains a surplus of SELL
475.S7. f4f 4.
ARTHUR MCKEE RANKIN was, on the
18th, denied a divorce from his wife,
whom he sued at San Francisco on the
ground of desertion.
1T is reported that Jay Gould will be
elected president of the Wabash Rail-
road Co. at the meeting of directors
soon to be held in New York
GEORGE FORREST, a nephew of the
celebrated confederate general of that
name, attempted to kill Col. J. L. Tay-
lor in Memphis, Tenn, on the 18th,
and instead fatally wounded clerk in
the store of Roat, Taylor g. Co., whom
he mistook for Taylor.
Four miners were killed by an ex-
plosion of gas in the Nottingham mine
at Plymouth, Pa, on the 18TH
DEPUTY SHERIFF WITTY, of Vasalia;
Constable Hill, of Sanger, and several
others came upon Sontag and Evans,
the train robbers, at Sampson fat, Cal,
on the 18th, and attempted to arrest
them, but they escaped after fight in
which Marshal McGinnis. Richard Oh
zen and a man named Wilson were
killed, and Deputy Sheriff Witty was
| again wounded.
In duel at The Hague, on the night
of the 18th, between Baron Won Cart
ner -Griebnow, attache of the German
legation, and the Marquis De Valladero,
secretary of the Spanish legation, the
latter received bullet in the leg, which
| mended his wounded honor and took all
the fight out of him.
A REPORT comes from Brussels that
the monetary conference Will be held
in that city in accordance with the
wish of the majority of the powers
PRINCE HERMANN of Scharburg-L -Lippe
was thrown from his horse while rid
ing near Linz, Austria, on the 18th,
and sustained fracture of the skull.
His condition is critical.
THE steamship companies are paying
heavy penalty for their carelessness
in accepting steerage passengers, as
may be seen from the fact that the
Hamburg steamer Colum bia
sailed, on the 18th, for Southampton
without passenger, either cabin or
steerage, or a single ounce of freight.
Other vessels have Jared but little bet
ter.
Rev. DR. TALMAGE and Mr.. Louis
Klopsch, who visited Russia to dis
tribute the cargo of the Christian
Herald relief steamship Leo in the
famine provinces, sailed from Liverpool
for New York, on the 14th, on the
steamer City of Paris.
A cABLEeRAM was received at the de-
partment of state, on the 14th, from San
Jose, Costa Rica, stating that Presi-
dent Rodriguez had declared himself die
tator; that several political arrests had
been made and that excitement ran
high.
A LETTER was received at the New
York Times Office on the night of the
14th, stating that two deaths from
cholera had been discovered in Albany,
n. Y. The board of health had exam
ined into the cases and reported them
true Asiatic cholera u s4NE
II. RYDER, the ex-American consul at
Copenhagen, who is under arrest for
frauds in connection with the admins
tration of estates that were intrusted
TO him in his official capacity, has con-
fessed to further fraud in withholding
the payment of a legacy. He has also
confessed that he stole books from the
Atheneum Reading club.
A GREAT crowd was attracted at
Wardner a Barnetts big flour mills at
| Springfield, o., on the 18th, by the SEN
sational stoppages of the mills great
power wheels by three monsters eels
The eels were caught in the buckets
of the wheel, and on investigation
proved TO be ~, 81 and feet long,
respectively, and weighed nearly ten
pounds
Mrs. JULIA ANDREWS, of Stoops Fer
~, Pa, committed suicide, on the 18th,
by taking Rough ON Rats" She was
| taken with cholera morbus, and imag
ined she had Asiatic cholera. Rather
| than suffer with the terrible disease
she took the poison.
JOHN PRATT, of Hornellsville, N. Y.
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