The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-01-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

HENRY COOPER, a colored man, said to
be 1O2 years old, died at the home of
his son-in-law eight miles northeast of
Oklahoma, on the Sd.
DAVID MILLER, of East Providence,
r. l., found petrified cat in the tim
bers of an old barn while demolishing
IL on the Sd.
THE armature or arc department of
the Fort Wayne Qnd.) Electric Co. s
works was damaged by fire and water
TO the extent of $50, 900 or SIS, 900 on
the evening of the Sd. The insurance
on the plant is 1892, 500, and as the main
shops are intact the company will not
suspend operations longer than few
days.
OF the 700 Hungarian laborers en-
ployed in the works of the Phoenix Iron
Co., at PhBnixville, Pa, about three
fourths are preparing to leave rather
than work for ninety cents a day. Re-
sently reduction of 10 per cent. in the
wages was made.
Mr. DILLON made an earnest plea be-
lore the evicted tenants commission in
Dublin, on the 4th, in behalf of the re-
instatement of evicted tenants, and
produced statistics showing the num-
ber of good settlements made through
The plan of campaign between land
lords and tenants.
On the 4th the petrified body of
man was dug up in the western part of
Salt Lake City, Utah. The figure, which
IS perfect, was found four feet below
he surface. Its weight is about 700
pounds.
Gov. NELSON was formally inaugur-
ated as the chief executive of Mime.
sofa, on the 4th, in the presence oHfour
ex-governors, the aged war governor,
Ramsey, being one of the number.
THE upper floors of st. Thomas col
ege at Scranton, Pa, were burned, on
the 4th, and the lower floors were
badly damaged by water.
THE transatlantic oil steamer Bear
Creek, lost in mid-occan, was owned by
the Bear Creek Oil Co., of Pittsburgh,
Pa. She was new 3,500-ton single
screw iron steamer. The crew were
rescued and returned to Queenstown.
She cost $500, 600 and had 2S, 900 barrels
Of oil aboard.
SENATOR CHANDLER thinks that he
has hit upon a perfectly legitimate
means for stopping further operations
by the Pinxertons, and, on the 4th, in
troduced in the senate short bill with
this end in view. 1t may also be inter
esting to note that the bill, if passed,
will destroy the Semi-military anarchist
organizations
A BLACK eagle, measuring seven feet
from tip to tip, was captured near Brick
Chapel, Ind, on the 4th. 1t attacked
dog belonging to w. H. Cox, and was
winged by a shot from Mr.. Cox's rife.
COMPTROLLER CAMPBELL of New York
has received an opinion from Attorney
General Rosendale holding that Erie
county is under obligations to reim-
burse the state for the payment of the
expenses of the national guard during
the recent switchmen's strike at Buff
falo. The amount involved is about
Gl 900.
REPRESENTATIVE CULTIVATE, of Ohio,
has taken up, and, in view of the dam
ger of cholera invasion, will press
vigorously at this session of congress a
proposition for the frequent exchange
of soiled paper money for new notes.
A DISPATCH from Petchitza, Russia,
fifteen men were killed by mine ex-
plosion there. Four men severely in
jured were brought up shortly after
the explosion.
FRIENDS of President Harrison who
have had occasion to see and talk with
him of late are very much concerned
about his condition, and express the
fear that his health will break down
before the close OF his administration.
THE suit against james A. Loper, ex-
treasurer of Atchison county, KaS., and
his bondsmen for 50, 900, Loper's short
age. has been settled for $4,000. The
case has been in the courts eight years.
EDWARD LANGswoRTHY died at Du-
buque, Ia, on the 4th, aged IS years
He settled there in 1881. He took part
in the Black Hawk war, and after its
close built the first house erected in
Iowa and helped establish the Ifirst
bank.
PASSENGERS on the Hamburg Ameri-
can steamer Bohemia, which arrived
at Hamburg on the 5th, were unani-
nous in denying the report that the
hawser used in the attempt to tow the
disabled Cunard liner Umbria was cut
ON board the Bohemia, the crew of
which boat would have all been inter-
estcd in the salvage had the attempt
been successful
COMMISSIONER GRINLINToN, OF the
Chicago Worlds fair, has been honored
with a public banquet in Colombo,
Ceylon, which was attended by leading
officials and number of prominent
civilians