The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-03-11


the Sd. fire destroyed block In the
central part of the town, burning out
nine business firms and rendering q
dozen families homeless The entire
loss il about $150,OO0, with $751; in
surance.
JAMES r. SMITH and wife celebrated
their sixtieth wedding anniversary at
Richmond, Ind, on the Sd. Mr.. Smith
Is past 90 years of age, and his wife is
but year younger. They are the
parents of ten children, all of whom
are living. Six of these are boys, all
of whom served through the civil war
for the Union. The reunion was at
tended by all the childre n, sixty grand
children and twenty or more great
grandchildren.
OLIVER CURTIS PERRY, the bold high
wayman who went through an express
car on the New York Central recently.
is wanted in Montana. He is believed
to be the man who killed Andy Mccoy
in Georgetown, Deer Lodge county, in
1887 or 1888. Mccoy engaged in bar
room quarrel with one Oliver C. Perry,
who picked up cuspidor, hit him on
the head and killed him.
Mr.. j. III. PrTzLR says that the work
of allotment in the Cheyenne and Arap-
ahoe Indian reservations is nearly
completed, and that Special Agent Wei
gel is of the opinion that the country
will be opened to settlement by April
], and certainly not later than April TO-
There are 1000, 600 acres in these reser-
yations.
THE appeals of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) J
Sunday newspapers against the suits
entered by the Law and Order league
for selling papers on Sunday were dis
missed by Judge Porter of the county
court, on the Sd. and the decisions of
Alderman Robe were sustained.
In the national amateur skating
races held on Muchattoes lake, near
Newt burg, N. Y, on the Sd, Joseph H.
Donoghue, the amateur champion of
the world, had the events all his own
way
THE men charged with the Siebolt
lynching were arranged at Darlington,
Wis, on the 3D. They refused to plead
and the attorneys for the defense en-
tered a special plea of insanity in be-
half of each.
Mr.. MUTcHLER, of Pennsylvania,
from the committee on appropriations,
reported to the house. on the 4th, the
pension appropriation bill for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1893. The bill
appropriates Sf35, S25, O66, being S12,-
239. .4S4 less than the estimates, and
$3.50, 719 less than the appropriation for
the current fiscal year.
IN view of the threatened coal strike
and coal famine that must surely fol-
low most of the factories in Lancashire,
Cheshire. Durham, Tyneside and other
important manufacturing districts of
England are seriously considering the
question of shutting down until the
trouble is over.
On the 4th Judge Taylor, of Indian
apolis, Ind, discharged President Fren-
eel of the charge of contempt and
turned the property of the street car
company back to him. President Fren-
eel will discharge all men who deserted
the company during the strike.
SECRETARY FOSTER visited the Amer
lean legation in London on the 4th. He
has decided not to visit the continent.
Ex-PREsIDENT PORTER, of Yale, died
of paralysis at New Haven, Conn.,, on
the 9Th.
AN explosion of fire damp occurred, on
the 4th, in Elmwood colliery, which is
the property of the Reading company,
at Mahonoy City, Pa. Five men were
so badly injured that they cannot re-
cover. The explosion was caused by a
naked lamp carried by one of the
miners.