The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-11-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

EUROPEAN military authorities, out
side of France and Russia, are con-
graduating themselves that Russian
troops will require at least years drill
in the use of their new magazine guns
before they will be ready to take the
field.
FATHER-GENERAL SORIN, founder of
the Notre Dame university at South
Bend, Ind, died on the 31st. He had
been ailing for some time.
+. A. MCCMLIvEY ard Joseph Irwin
were arrested by the police of Sioux
City, Ia, on the 30th, for counterfeit
ing. They scraped the figures off bills
of small denominations, pasted rice pa
per on the defaced portions, and with
engraving ink etched figures on the
paper, raising the bills to $40 and $50
denominations.
JAMES STONE, the self-confessed muir
derer OF six members of the Wratten
family, in Daviess county, Ind, made
a third confession, on the 31st, before
the grand jury, in which he implicated
several other persons whose object, he
said, was robbery.
MAYOR LATRoBE of Baltimore, Md.
on the 31st, received an anonymous let
ter in which he was threatened with i'm
slant death if he failed to provide en-
ployment for the idle workingmen of
the city. The letter showed that the
sender was well educated.
HEZEKIAH l.. HosMER, ex-chief JUS
tice of Montana, died in San Francis
co, on the S1st, aged 7s. He was born
in Henderson, y. Y. After being ad-
mitted to the bar he went to Ohio,
edited the Toledo Blade, of which he
was one of the proprietors, and started
the daily paper of that name. In 1864
he was appointed by President Lincoln
chief justice of Montana.
On the S1st Postmaster-General Bis
sell transmitted to the secretary of the
treasury the estimates for the post Office
department for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1895. The total amount is $780,
800, 4S5, as against $S4, 4,004,314 for the
present year.
MINoRC. RSITH's clipper fruit steamer
Foxhall from Port Limon, Costa Rica,
arrived at New Orleans on the night of
the S1st. Among her passengers was
Francis II. Weeks, the New York en-
bezzler, in charge of Detectives Reilly
and Won Gerichten.
A SERIOUS railroad collision occurred
on the Lambert Point branch of the
Norfolk & Western railway in Nor
folk, Va, on the 31st, resulting in the
death of two men and the dangerous
injury of five others.
THE Chicago City Railway CO. trans
ported Ts,OOO. 900 passengers between
May l and October 81. This estimate
is based upon the returns of cash fares
for the time, excluding all transfers,
policemen, firemen, employees and
others who rode free.
HARRIET ANN, daughter of Thurlow
Weed, died in New York. after lin
gering illness, of pleurisy, on the 1st,
aged "A.
THE public debt increased during
October s5, ~. .o59.01-
The Elwoo1 qnd.) window-glass fac
tory, employing 600 hands, was discov-
cred to be burning on the morning
of the 1st The immense plant was
situated outside the limits of water
works lines and could not be reached
by the department. In twenty minutes
the whole building was ablaze- The
plant is total wreck, and its employees
are thrown out of work at the begin
ming of winter. Loss. $50,000i insur-
ance, $4,000.
THE public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed = net increase in the
debt during October of s., l4l, /, ,05S OIL.
Cash in the treasury, 9,447,ol4.