The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-01-06
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE official statement of CALIFORNIA;
vote at the last election was given out
on the 27th. It shows that one Harri-
son and eight Cleveland electors were
chosen. The vote was lin favor of the
direct election of United States sen.
ator by the people by over 10000 ma
jority.
THE Berlin Tageblatt published a
dispatch from Nice, on the 27th, saying
that Count Peter Romanoff became In
volved in a quarrel with a Brooklyn On.
Y. man at the Casino gambling tables,
on the night of the 26th, and that the
two fought duel with pistols on the
shore that morning, the count being
killed.
SIX persons are known to have been
killed outright and many others were
injured by an explosion of dynamite in
the yards of the New York & Long Is
land Tunnel Co., in Long Island City,
ON the 2Sth. The disaster was caused
by a careless attempt to thaw frozen
dynamite.
LoRINe PICKERING, one of the pro-
prietors of the Morning Call and Even
ing Bulletin of San Francisco, died in
that city, on the 2sth, aged 81 years.
INTEREST in the new gold discoveries
in southern Utah is at fever heat in
the mining communities of the west,
and is growing every day.
AT o'clock on the morning of the
2sth fire was discovered in the Milwau-
kee Street Railway Co.'s shops, which
destroyed the entire plant, entailing a
loss of $500, ,O00 Like the other terrible
fires with which Milwaukee has been
visited recently, this one was appar-
emily of incendiary origin.
ORANGE JUDD, the widely known edi-
tor of the Orange Judd Farmer, of Chi
cago, and pioneer western journalist,
died on the 27th. Death resulted from
hemorrhagic complication known as
Nerlthoff's disease. He was 20 years of
Ege.
Gov. RUSSELL of Massachusetts,, on
the 2Sth, signed the pardon of James
Dunlap, the Northampton bank robber,
who has served twelve years of TWEEN
ty years sentence for that famous
crime.
MURDERER WILLIAM MCEwAN, who
coaxed to his home, in Glasgow, Scot
land, one night last October an unfor-
tunate woman, and murdered and hor-
ribly mutilated her, was found guilty,
on the 28th, and sentenced to death.
ORDERS have been given to German
army officers of Berlin not to supply
sentries with ball cartridges after the
end of the present year. The step is
taken in view of the much too frequent
affrays between civilians and sentries,
in which the latter usually use their
firearms with fatal effect
OUTRAGEs upon the public of Bur
lington, Ia, are being enacted every
night and the police force seem unable
to cope with the situation. On the
night of the 2Sth Mr.. Meeres, of the
Austin Furniture Co., was held up by
footpads, and when he resisted them
was shot, but not fatally hurt.
The National bank at Newberry, S.
c., has declared a dividend of so per
cent, payable after January 1. This
means the surplus of the bank will be
reduced by s75, COO, and that the policy
of the present state administration OF
taxing banks and other corporations is
having the effect of reducing their tax
able property.
GEORGE MEsERvE, a well-known Adj
rondack driver. who for several years
has been at Paul Smiths, will go to
Washington as coachnan for President
Cleveland.
A MAN named Griffith, residing in
Butler county. Kas., went with his
wife to visit neighbor, on the night OF
the 21st, and left their three small chill
dren at home. While they were gone
the house caught fire and burned up
the three children.
A. BYRLEY, whose father is wealthy
farmer at Agency, Ia, was found dead
aJ the Laclede l-)tel in Ottumwa, Ia,
on the 2Sth. He had turned on the gas
while endeavoring to turn off the cleo
trio light and went to sleep without de-
tecting it. A servant heard him moan
ing, but thought him sick, and rescue
came too late.
J. L. GARRETT, of Battle Creek, Ia,
went into the Journal Office at Sioux
City on the evening of the 2Sth, and
after telling romantic story of his life
to a reporter, drew a bottle of laudanum
and attempted to swallow it. The re-
porter caught his hand and, after a
hard struggle, prevented him from TAX
ing the drng. Garrett was arrested.
FIRE was discovered under the stage
of Palmer's theater at 2:15 o'clock on
the morning of the goth. 1t seemed to
be under control, although the smoke
was thick. and many streams were kept
playing upon it.
REPORTS from the Sacramento and
San Joaquin valleys show that the dam
age by flood viii go above 1000, 600.
The capital city is safe, but all along
the river fine wheat land is covered
with water. In Sutter county, a few
miles below Colusa, the levee broke on
the 2Sth, and SO, 1000 acres of the most
fertile lands in the state was inundated.
CAPT ]. G. BoURKE, Second cav airy,
had an interview with Adjt-Gen. VIII
liams at the war department in Wash
ington, on the 2sth, and left at once
for his station at San Antonio, Tex. II
is understood that he conveys secret in
structions for the guidance of Gen.
Wheaton in the conduct of his cam
paign against the Mexican revolution
lists.
AN explosion at 1870 o'clock on the
morning of the 10Th, in the hall leading
to the suite of offices between the ground
floor and second floor of the Paris
prefecture of police, caused sepsa-
ton. The authorities are not decided
as to whether the explosion was the
work of an incendiary or merely an ac-
cident caused by leakage of gas.
THE station house at Brighton, five
miles cast of Sacramento, Cal, was
burned. on the 29th, and the remains oi
Miss z. A. Aiers, the agent and opera
tor, were found burned almost to a