The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-01-20

Rev. FATHER HoNNEMAN, pastor OF
st. Augustine's Catholic church al Clin-
ton, Wis, delanged and at large with a
loaded revolver in his hands, was cap
tured on the 10th. His hands were SO
badly frozen that he was unable TO use
the pistol. Both feet and his face were
also frozen.
THE Minnesota house of representa-
tives passed a resolution, ON the 11th,
indorsing the Washburn anti-option
bill.
UNITED STATES TREASURER NEBE-
KER reported to Secretary Foster, on the
11th, that the account of the legal ten
der notes of the denomination of $500.
series of 1874, shows an excess of $54,
600 redeemed over the issue, and an in
vestigation is in progress to discover
the cause thereof
SECRETARY TRACY of the navy de-
partment has awarded the contracts
for the construction of the cruiser
Brooklyn and the battleship Iowa to
Cramp g. Sons, of Philadelphia, they
being the lowest responsible bidders in
both cases
A TREMENDOUS ice foe gorged oppo-
extending about GOO feet above the
Louisville and Jeffersonville bridge
piers. The stoppage of ice made the
situation alarming, the coal feet being
in danger of being cut out.
A BURRo loaded with s., 900 worth Of
silver bars strayed away from a pack
train en- route from the Animas mine to
Durango, Mexico, and, unless relieved
by robbers, is still wandering around
with its precious load.
THE steamer Gaelic, arrived at San
Francisco, on the 18th, from Hong
Kong, brings news of the burning of a
spinning mill at Osoka, Japan, on De-
Gem Der 20 last with loss of 125 lives.
Most of the victims were young girls.
Two hundred and seventy houses ia
the vicinity of the mill caught fire
from sparks and were destroyed.
THE trial of Hugh Dempsey, district
master workman of the Knights of La
Dor, and j. NJ. Davidson and Robert
Beatty, cooks, charged with poisoning
non-union workmen in the Homestead
(Pa.) steel mill during last August, be-
gan in Pittsburgh on the 18th.
SENIOR MARCO AvELLANADA, the con-
fidential agent sent by the federal gov
ernment of the Argentine republic to
Corrientes, has succeeded in inducing
the rebels to lay down their arms and
the attempted revolution is at an end.
PREsIDENT-ELECT CLEVELAND arrived
at Lakewood, n. j., on the 18th, accom-
panied by Mrs. Cleveland and Baby
Ruth. They have taken up their resi-
dence for the winter in the Little
White House." as their cottage is now
called, and will remain there until
they start for Washington. Mr.. Cleve-
land, it is said, will only receive polit-
icalcallers at his New York office.
THE greatest interest is shown in
Madrid in the trial of the Panama di-
rectors and in the disclosures affecting
high officials in France. Seldom have
Spanish monarchists shown so clearly
their antipathy to French republican
ism and their desire to see an Orleanist
restoration in France.
THE sloop Shawmut was burned, on
the 18th, while lying at the wharf at
Boston. Two of her crew, Frederick
Allchrist and Charles Benkeson, who
were sleeping in the cabin, perished in
the flames.
ECKsTEIN NORTON, the noted railroad
man and financier, died suddenly at his
home in New Brighton, Staten Island,
on the 18th, of heart disease.
CLAY HOPPER, the young man who
had been lying in Toledo. o., in So
called trance for two weeks, after hear
ing his funeral sermon preached, died
an the 18th.