The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-12-01
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. JOHN HALL, aged SIS. was
burned to death and several other per-
sons were badly injured, on the 2lst,
by a prairie fire in Lincoln county,
Okla.
LIKE some mighty engine, the black
stallion Directum, king of trotters,
marched away from the western mare
Alix at Fleetwood park, New York, on
the 2lst, winning the race in straight
heats for a purse of $1,000 with such
ridiculous ease that il was really no
contest Alix. game and speedy as
she is, having taken a record of 2:0724
in a race during the past summer, was
outclassed.
A MOVEMENT has been started at
Sioux City, Ia, which, il is hoped by
its promoters, will terminate in the
passage by the legislature of bill au-
thOrizing the payment of bounty of
one and a half cents for each pound of
sugar produced in Iowa. 1t is intended
to encourage the manufacture of beet
sugar. Commercial organizations all
over the state are cooperating.
Nj. GRoDET has been appointed gov
ernor of the French Soudan.
THE Brazilian cruiser Nictheroy. for
merly called FL Cid, started southwark
from her anchorage outside New York
harbor on the 2lst.
JAMES NEwsoN, colored, who is un-
der arrest at Algona, Ia, for taking
part in the Kessler Qnd. train robbery,
has made a confession. He was one of
seven who participated in the rob-
berry, but did not get cent of the pro-
ceeds, the others, who carried off the
swag, failing to show up at the ap-
pointed rendezvous Officials of the
United States Express Co. state that
not single statement of Newson's is
true.
LA GRIPPE is rapidly. becoming cpl
demic at Fort Dodge, Ia. Three of the
teachers in the high school were pros
trated, on the 21st, and a number of
pupils were suffering. All other de-
fartments of the schools were affected
and school work seriously interfered
with. Physicians report cases scat
tered all over the city.
RUMoRs are current in Washington
that Secretary Gresham realizes that
he has made a blunder in advising the
president to the course pursued in the
Hawaiian matter, recent developments
not bearing out the representations
made in the report to the president.
A REPORT was sent out from Wash
ington on the 21st to the effect that
Secretary of the Interior HOke Smith
might be expected to resign shortly,
the president having intimated his dis
approval of the secretary's course in
regard to pensions
JOHN C. MOORE, inventor of Moore's
patent canning machine, who, two
years ago, was unknown and poor, but
whose invention brought him promi
nence and money, died at Columbus,
Ind, on the 2lst, of typhoid fever. His
wealth is estimated at $4,000.
The cholera in Russia is becoming
less virulent The official statistics
show that from May to September,
1892, there were throughout the empire
4S3, ,643 cases of the disease and 215, 157
Leaths, ard from January to Novem
Der. 1898, &C, ,167 cases and so, 2S4 deaths.
A CARRIAGE containing three young
ladies was struck by a train at cross
ing in the suburbs of Xenia, o., on the
I'D. and Miss Annie Kelso and Miss
Mary McDill were instantly killed and
Miss Eva Kelso was fatally injured.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GLADSTONE visited the
queen at Windsor castle on the Esd.
They dined with her majesty, and
pent the night at the castle.
THE Princess Waldemere has started
a fund for the relief of the families of
Copenhagen fishermen drowned. during
the recent storms.
The French police seized an anarch-
ist manifesto in Paris, on the 22d, and
arrested number of anarchists.
GERMANY celebrated its first annual
fast day on the 22d.
DIRECTOR PRESTON of the United
States mint bureau has prepared
statement showing that from the date
that the Sherman law took effect.
August 80. 1890, to the date of it's re-
peal, November 2, 1898, the amount
purchased was los, ,674 $50. 80 fine ounces
of silver, costing sl55,93o, ,94O.64, the
average cost per ounce being .9244.
The present market price is about 20
cents per ounce.
THE brotherhoods held meeting in
Buffalo. y. Y, on the 22d, and by a
unanimous vote decided to call out the
engineers and crews of any road which
handled a pound of Lehigh freight
during the strike on that road.
Gov. FLOWER of New York has re-
fused to interfere in the case of Mrs.
Annie Walden, who is dying in the
penitentiary under life sentence for
the murder of her husband.
GUsTAvE TRUHN, a well-to-do farmer
in Bush Lake township, near Perham,
Mimi. killed his wife andschild at 2 n.
M, of the esd, while in a fit of reli-
gious insanity.
A DISPATCH received in London, on
the Esd, stated that King Lobengula
of M&abeleland had been captured by
the troops of the South Africa Co.
IT has been computed that during
the recent storm the Yarmouth (En-
gland) fishing industry suffered dam
age to the extent of 100000.
THE Egyptian budget for 1894 shows
a surplus of 500, 900 Egyptian pounds
1t Is proposed to further reduce the
tax by 10000 Egyptian pounds
BY fire in Detroit, Mich, on the
Esd, seven lives were lost. and prop
erty amounting to over $500, 900 was
destroyed.
III was reported. on the Esd, that the
Ysqui Indians of the northern portion
of chihuahua had joined the Mexican
rebels.