The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-04-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


THE circulative statement issued
monthly by the treasury department
shows the circulation of gold and silver
notes and certificates, United States
notes and national bank notes on April
/ have been $24.60 per capita for the
65, los, 900 people estimated to be citi=
zens of this country. The total eircu-
lation is placed at 1,e0s, ,8li $50. which
shows decrease since March of $917.-
372.
JOHN 4. BEGGs, who obtained note-
riety by his connection with the muir
der of DT, Cronin in Chicago, and who
ma rowly escaped conviction with the
rest Of the conspirators, died in Chicago,
on the 5th, of pneumonia, contracted
while participating in the last st. Pat
ricks day parade. He was senior
guardian of Camp 20, Clan-na, Gael.
THE Chinese minister at Washington
Is said TO have informed Senator Sher-
man that If the Chinese exclusion bill
became a law China would sever all
diplomatic relations with this country.
Miss BETTE FLEIscHSIANN, daughter of
the millionaire yeast manufacturer and
distiller, Charles Fleischmann, of Gin
cinnatti, has broken her engagement
with Count Logothetti because he re-
fused to become an American citizen.
JOHN HART, known in America as
Macdonald, notorious criminal, was
sentenced in London, ON the 9th, to one
years imprisonment for attempting to
steal a box of securities from the Lon
don and Westminster bank
RETURNS from the Rhode Island cleo
ton, on the 9Th, indicate that the choice
of governor. and state officers will have
to be made by the legislature, the re
publican ticket, while having plural
ity, failing to secure majority over all.
Legislature will be republican.
In a fire which destroyed two dwellings
at Fort Madison, Ia, on the morning of
the 9th, out of a household of eleven
persons only two escaped cremation.
The unfortunates were S. ". Kitchen
and family and three boarders.
REV. DIR. PARKHURsT, of New York
city, has received a number of threat
ening letters warning him to desist
from his crusade against the immoral
resorts of the city on pain of personal
violence. In one letter the destruction
of his residence is threatened.
I THE Nebraska Columbian commission
met at Lincoln, on the 7th, and deposed
\ A. L. Strong, president and treasurer,
who had absented himself from meet
ings of the commission for three months,
being in Texas. Repeated requests to
make an itemized statement of receipts
and disbursements were ignored. At
torney-General Hastings was requested
by the commission to at once proceed
against Strong and his bondsmen.
Carl. AUGUsr SAMPSON, the American
strong man, was found guilty in Lon
don, on the 7th, of stealing diamonds
valued at es00, the property of Mrs.
Margaret Bernstein, and was sentenced
to one year at hard labor.
COMPLETE returns from all parts of
Rhode Island show total vote on the
state ticket of 54,746, an increase of
about 10, 900 over the largest vote ever
before polled.
THE free-wool bill passed the house
on the 7th- Ayes, 1872; nays, go.
FRED WHITING, an artist, aged 10, was
arrested in Milwaukee, on the 7th, for
appearing on the street i'm girls cloth
ing. His excuse was that he could sell
his pictures easier as girl.
THE differences between the United
States and Great Britain growing out
of the Behring sea matter have, it is
understood, with the single exception
of the question of damages for the seal
catch for this year, been formally ad-
justed- The details are being rapidly
arranged for the official announcement
which, it is expected, viii soon be
forthcoming.
CAPT. CHRIS RA tn, who hanged Mrs.
Surratt and the other Lincoln conspira-
tors, in Washington, was suddenly be-
reft of reason, on the 7th, on the run
from Grand Rapids to Jackson, Mich,
with the mail train. He has bees mail
agent for twenty years. He was pro-
vost marshal Of Washington at the close
Of the war.