The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-05-20

DURING the pyrotechnic exhibition on
the Mississippi at st. Louis, on the night
of the 18th, in connection with the A.
o. u. w. celebration, Matte Stoffel and
an unknown man were crowded from
wharfboats into the river and were
drowned
PosTSIAsTER-GENERAL WANAMAKER
has received an unsigned and undated
letter containing $4,000. In his letter
the writer says: ''This is the balance
of interest owe of the sum took from
the government in 1865. I have now
paid principal and interest, in all s17,-
ZOO. No man has suffered more for his
crime than / have, and / now pray the
Lords forgiveness for my sim"
A COMPANY has been organized for the
construction of one of the largest arti-
fetal reservoirs in the world. The site
taken is the Box canyon, 400 yards be-
low the Junction of Tont0 creek and
Salt river, in Arizona. The height Of
the dam is to be 200 feet, and the back
water viii extend sixteen miles to the
Sierra Anch Inountains, making a ca
pacity, according to report of the coun-
ty surveyor, of 103, ,O5s, ,04O, 800 cubic feet
of water
Mrs. NANCY CHRIsTY, colored, cele-
brated the one hundredth anniversary
of her birth at Harrisburg, Pa, on the
18th. She was born in Mercersburg,
Franklin county, May IL, 1892, and re-
moved with her husband to Harrisburg
in 1855. Until she was IS years old she
worked on a farm near Mercersburg,
III -. IL
Christy has been blind for the past four
years.
JOHN BoETTcHER, an aged German
resident, committed suicide at Wilkes
barre, Pa, on the 18th, by shooting
Two months ago he sold small farm
for nominal sum. A week before his
suicide coal was discovered on the land,
which increased its value to $15, ,OO0
The discovery of this fact so preyed on
his mind that he became partially in
sane.
On the 18th Frederick Allen, colored,
aged los years, died at Richmond, Ind.
1t is claimed he was the oldest citizen
of Indiana. He came west in 1915 from
Virginia, and often related his observa-
tions of George Washington, whom he
personally knew.
An English firm has bought an acre
of land, two blocks from the Singer
works at Eliza bethport, n. j., for the
manufacture of administer and wilton
carpets and rugs of the finest quality
RT. HoN. J. w. LowTHER, parliamen-
tary under secretary for the British for
eign Office, said in the house of com
mons, on the 18th, that the report of
Carroll d. Wright upon the effects of the
Mckinley tariff would be placed in the
library of the house of commons as soon
as received from America,
THE steamer Conemaugh, bearing
flour, grain and provisions from Amer
lea destined for the famine sufferers of
Russia, arrived in Riga roadstead at
midnight of the 18th. At a. m. the
work of discharging the vessel began,
being pushed as rapidly as possible.
JACK POWERS, JR-, and j. c. and L.
FL. Hall were buried in a cavern in the
Old Tunnen mine at Cherokee, Cal, on
the 18th, and instantly killed. The
Halls were natives of Montana.
ELIJAH CHEvERs, the murderer of
Deputy Sheriff Culpepper, was hanged
at Washington city on the 18th.
THE proposal to hold a Worlds
Fair" in Berlin is beginning to attract
considerable attention, and scarcely a
week passes without meetings to dis
cuss the question.
THE Dumas sale of pictures in Paris,
continues to excite great interest.
Carrots 'Paison Cheval'' brought 4O,-
ooc francs, the buyer being Durandruel.