The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-07-08


PRoF. THEopoRE W. Dw1eHT, OF Co
n. Y, on the 2sth, after a short ILL
ness. from heart trouble.
The Illicit distillery business in East
Tennessee is on the increase. Officers
attacked a party of moonshiners at a
still in the Chilhowie mountains, on
the 29th, and a big fight followed. One
of the officers was fatally wounded and
a number of the mountaineers are
thought to have been killed.
THE senate Worlds fair committee,
on the 3Oth, ordered favorable report
on the bill introduced by Senator Pal
mer making an appropriation of So
600, 900 to aid the Worlds Columbian
exposition. The measure as reported
is about the same as the Durburrow, or
house bill
THE Brazilian chamber of deputies
has voted, 40 to 4, to raise the state of
siege imposed by the government pend
ing the presidential election.
SAM LooNEY, a laborer, became in
volved in a scuffie with his wife near
Chattanooga, Tenn, on the S0th, and
both made for gun near by. She Sc
cured it and killed him as he ran out
of the door.
A LITTLE child of Enoch Acres, while
playing in Haynes mill at Aten, Tenn.
fell into bin containing several hun
dred bushels of wheat and was smoth-
cred.
WORK will be begun in September on
the four steamships to be constructed
in this country by the International
Navigation Co, in compliance with the
terms of the recent act of congress adj
mitting the steamships City of New
York and City of Paris to American
registry. The vessels will be built by
the Cramps.
THE National savings bank of Buff
falo. n. Y, has been placed. in the
hands of receiver, and will probably
resume business for the benefit of de-
-positors.
The steamer Queen arrived at Vic
toria, b. c., from Alaskan ports, on the
1st, bringing news of the seizure of
twenty-seven sealing vessels of the Vic
toria feet by United States war vessels
and revenue cutters, and the seizure of
the supply steamer Coquitlam by the
United States revenue cutter Corwin.
Six thousand skins in all were found
on the poaching vessels and were con-
fscated.
The National Note Co., of New York,
which recently began business in the
negotiation of commercial paper, has
been compelled by the government to
stop business because of the illegal use
of the word national in the title.
THE president sent to the senate, on
the 1st, the name of George d. John
ston, of Louisiana, to be civil service
commissioner, vice Hugh s. Thompson,
resigned.
THE senate, ON the 1st, refused to
recommit the silver bill to the Finances
committee by vote of % to 81. This
was test vote and a victory for the sill
yer men. Later the bill was passed,
81 to %.
THE opening of the English elections,
on the 1st, was marked by the return
to parliamento of Lord Randolph Church
i'll, conservative, without opposition.
In letter to the Bishop of Grenoble,
France, the pope denies any desire to
enter into political controversies, but
says that when the church and politics
are closely bound together the pope will
determine the action of the church.
WHILE attempting to speak at Bal
lima, Ireland, on the 1st, Mr.. John Dill
Ion and Mr.. Daniel Crilly were pelted
with stones. The police interfered, and
Mr. Dillon made a speech guarded by
constables, while others kept watch
upon the audience to prevent disturb
rnce