The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-11-10
cHAIR,lAN PECK renorts the Morld,a

CHAIRMAN PECK reports the Worlds
fair treasury in a healthy condition.
All obligations have been met and
there is cash balance on hand of 81
600. 600. The gate receipts from now
on and the salvage, il is figured, will
pay the current expenses until the
end. so that the stockholders, who have
holdings representing s5,OOO,OO upon
which they scarcely expected to realize
anything. will be paid fifty cents on
the dollar.
SHORTLY after o'clock on the morn
ing of the I'd fire broke out in the
house at No. 10 Third street, New York
A second alarm was sent out shortly
after the firemen reached the scene.
Six firemen were overcome by gas and
dragged out of the place by their COM
panions-
JAMES f.. BRASNEN, the leader of the
mob that 1ynched Daniel Arata, the
Italian murderer, in Denver, Col, on
the night of July 6, last, was indicted
by the grand jury on the 1st-
A FIGURING mill boiler exploded, on
the 1st, at Windfall, Ind, instantly
killing Lewis Mill. Everything was
wrecked.
The silver repeal bill was entered
upon the records at the White House,
on the I'd, and the official parchment
copy was sent to the state department
for filing with the archives of the gov
ernment
AT congress of revolutionary So
cialists held in Brussels, on the 1st, it
was resolved to carry on an active prop
aganda to bring about strike among
the soldiers of Belgium and elsewhere.
The Viking started from Chicago,
on the I'd, for ST. Paul, Mimi, to which
city it was presented before the close
of the Worlds fair.
TEN THOUSAND persons witnessed the
unwilling of the statue of the late Sir
John Macdonald at Hamilton, Ont, on
the 1st.
Snow fell for an hour at st. Paul,
Mimi, on the morning of the I'd, with
the thermometer at the freezing point.
THE paid admissions to the Worlds
fair on the I'd were s,642.
M. B. CURTIS, the actor, who is
wanted in San Francisco as witness
in the case of McMaddus and Dunn,
charged with bribery in the Curtis muir
der trial, left that city, on the I'd, on an
east-bound train, putting himself be-
yond the jurisdiction of the California
state courts.
On the Sd the London admiralty
court awarded s1,25O salvage against
the Dutch steamer Maasdam in favor
of the British steamer Winchester and
her crew, the latter to receive $3.50 of
the award.
On the Sd orders were sent to the SUI
perintendents of the United States
mints at San Francisco and New Or
leans to resume the coinage, suspended
some time ago, of standard silver dol
MISS ANNIE HOWARD, who was to
have been married to the late Mayor
Harrison of Chicago, left that city on
the Sd for her home in Biloxi, Miss.
LATER reports say that but six lives
were lost by the burning of the steamer
City of Alexandria, off the Cuban coast
though seven others were still missing
on the Sd.
THE new French tax on bourse trans
actions, which became operative on
July 10 last, has yielded in four months
the sum of 2, ,079, 900 francs.
THE president signed the Chinese bill
amending the Geary act on the Sd.
PAID admissions to the Worlds fair
on the Sd were $500.
THE old hotel in Apple Creek, o.,
made famous as the home for many
years of the noted lion-tamer, Herr
Driesbach, was burned 20 the ground
on the night of tae I'd.