The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-10-20

Mrs. JOHN Roe, living south of Guth-
rie, Okla, was attacked, on the 9th,
by dog and horribly and fatally torn.
Her husband. who attempted to rescue
her, was also severely bitten in dozen
places.
j. WILLIS MENARD, the first colored
man to run for congress, died in Wash
ington city, on the 10th, aged about 81
years
A CENSORSHIP of all 'telegraphic mat
ter sent out from Hamburg concerning
the cholera has been declared by the
municipal authorities in order to pre-
vent the dissemination of false and
sensational reports, the director of
kilograms is empowered to demand
from anybody who sends dispatch as
to the epidemic verifcation of all the
statements contained in it.
POsTSIAsTER-GENERAL BIssEI.L has
authorized standing rewards for the
arrest and conviction of mail robb ers
committing offenses during the fiscal
year ending JuneiSo, 1894, ranging from
s1 900 to $3.50.
LOUISVILLE, a coal-mining town of
TOO inhabitants, and situated twenty
five miles north of Denver, Col, is sink
ing. The town is built over the Welsh
coal mines, and its destruction is being
caused by the sinking of the surface
above the mine.
On the 18th Edward Blake, Yale "a,
died of consumption at New Haven,
Conn. He was the first invalid in this
country to try Koch's lymph for con-
sumption. He was a SON of Prof. Henry
Il. Blake, of New Haven.
CAPT. VALENTINE +. GURNEY, one of
the four remaining survivors of the IA
nous six Hundred who made the
charge at Balaklava, died at the Pres
byterian hospital, New York city, on
the night of the 10th. He was suffer
er from Bright's disease for years.
IN compliance with Senator Teller's
resolution of inquiry, the secretary of
the treasury, on the 18th, sent to the
senate statement which shows that
in order to relieve monetary strin-
gency, since July 1, 1880, interest to the
amount of 500, ,767,s ss3 has been ad-
vanced from time to time before due
and without deducting interest, except
to the amount of s9,763.
A TRAIN on the Transcaucasian rail
road in Russia, on which was being
carried a large sum of money to pay
the soldiers of the garrison at Batoum,
was attacked at Nigoita on the night
of the 10th by briganda, who succeeded
in securing the money after a desper-
ate fight with the gendarmes in charge,
in which four of the robbers and three
of the gendarmes were killed.
THE schooners Corinthian and Al
bion collided off the town of Albion,
Cal, on the 18th. The captain of the
latter vessel was drowned. The Cor
inthian was badly damaged and was
run ashore.
THE infanta Eulalie of Spain, who
recently visited the United States, Is
now visiting incognito in London. Her
husband, Prince Antoine d'Orleans, ac-
companies her.
PAID admissions to the Worlds fair
on the 18th were 27s,s7s.
THE British bark Peter Iredale,
heavily laden with wheat, was driven
ashore at Astoria, Ore. during a gale
on the 18th.
A VERDICT for SIS, 900 for personal
damages was awarded in the Wayne
county court at Detroit Mich, on the
18th, in favor of William Lucklin,
years old, of Detroit, both of whose
legs were cut off by Michigan Cen
trail train about year ago.
THE paid admissions to the Worlds
fair, on the 18th, were 221, ,6O7.
Two BATTALIoNs of the Braailian ma
tional guard have revolted and de-
clared for the rebels.