The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-10-19
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

TO New Ork were examined.
Mrs. CORBIN, wife of Col. II. G. Cor
bin, Of Ohio, assistant acknowledgement
of the army, died at her home in Wash
ington city on the 9th. She had been
i'll for several months
THE suit Of Mrs. Martha Jones, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, to recover 1900 from
the Fidelity Mutual Life association
on policy on the life of her husband,
was brought to remarkable and abb
rupt termination on the 9th. The de-
Tense produced in court a deposition
and photograph of the supposedly dead
man, showing that he is now living in
England. Jones disappeared in Decem-
Der. 1889.
THE London mint has struck a new
British dollaG. which resembles the
japanese yen in size, weight and fine
ness The coin is expected to circulate
largely in Singapore and Japan. 1t
will be mainly coined by the Bombay
mint, which has agreed to charge per
cent. mintage, instead of per cent,
charged for rupees.
THE North German Gazette COM
ments ironically upon the opinion of
the American minister at Pekin, who
advises the removal of the wives and
children of foreigners from Pekin to
Shanghai, in view of the probable
japanese attack upon the Chinese capi-
tai. The paper says that the minister
has no means Of learning of the Japa-
nese movements.
ANOTHER battle has taken place in
the orient, the japanese having, on the
9th, run the gauntlet of the Chinese
fort on the Shan Tung promontory and
captured Che-Foo. treaty port on the
Yellow sea Foo-ChOw, another treaty
port, zoo miles south, is threatened.
JENNIE, s 2-year-old daughter of Con-
duetor LsInaster, of the Missouri Pa
cific railroad, was burned to death, on
the 9th. at a farmhouse - miles south
Of Olathe, Kas., where Lamaster's chill
dren live with their grandmother. The
child was playing with the fire in the
! kitchen stove. when its clothes caught.
INVESTIGATION by the police has re-
vealed the terrible fact that forty old
soldiers have been robbed and muir
/ dered at the national military home at
Dayton, o., and only passing notice
taken of the crimes. The grand army
GEORGE LAMORE, an acrobat, fell a
Y distance of forty feet during per-
! formance in Chicago on the 9th. His
right leg was broken in several places,
and it was thought it might be neces-
sary TO amputate it to save his life.
Miss FRANCES L. WILLARD, worlds
president of the w. c. T. L., who went
to Cincinnati to address the Ohio state
convention, was reported seriously i'll
/ in that city on the 10th. Lady Somer-
/ set was with her.
! PROF. LEYDEN, of Berlin, was again
summoned by wire to attend the car,
and started for Livadia, on the 10th, to
remain some time.
The treasury department is prepar-
| ing custom regulations to govern the
entry of exhibits for the Atlanta ga. J
/ exposition.
! OK the 10th the Hungarian house of
magnates passed the third reading of
the bill providing for civil marriages.
/ SIR JOHN DUGDALE ASHLEY. baronet,
/ the well-knOwn sportsman, died in Lon
don on the 10th.
/ AT 1890 o'clock on the morning of
the 11th, burglars blew open the safe
in the New Lexington (O.) post office
! and secured $500 in money and stamps.
( The explosion knocked out the whole
front of the building anal awakened
the entire populace, but the burglars
made their escape.
A GREAT temperance meeting was
/ held In the Auditorium in Chicago, on
the night of the 10th, to give voice to
the opposition of the holy see to the
j saloon.
ONE man was killed and six men and
one woman were badly burned or in
jured by jumping and dropping from
the windows of four-story wooden
/ tenement house which was burned in
| Boston on the I1th.
/ IN the United States circuit court at
/ Omaha, Neb., on the nth, Judge Wool
I son decided that the receivers may
not cut the salaries of the employees OF
I the Omaha g. st. Louis (Wabash) road.
y. d. SMITH, an employee of the bu
reau of engraving and printing, was
arrested in Washington, on the 11th
/ charged with stealing $4,000 two-cent
stamps from the bureau.
THE Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad
] WIS cOAA III lfNAAs+ -hAAh-s VA bhN
\ l1th, at sheriff's sale, and purchased
/ for the stockholders committee fO1
/ $1,000, 600 cash.
! PRINCESS MARIE. wife of Prince Fer
dinand of Bulgaria, gave birth te a
I daughter on the 11th.
THE ameer of Afghanistan was re-
ported, on the 11th, to be very i'll.
Four earthquake shocks were felt al
Athens, Greece, on the night of the
| 11th.
I julius LICHTENBERG,a "A mem Der of the
board of education of Detroit, Mich.
charged with accepting a bribe, made
an unsuccessful attempt at suicide or
the 11th.
Two MEN were burned to death anC
one probably fatally injured, ON the
18th, by the burning of a barn neal
Fort Recovery, O.. which was fred by
a spark from a threshing machine
engine.
For the first time the naval con
structors have undertaken to builC
small torpedo boats to be carried OF
the decks of the battleships Maine and
Texas. Two of these boats are being
built at the New York navy yard anC
two at the Norfolk navy yard. Thes'
little craft are marvels Of lightness anC
efficiency.
1T was reported in Shanghai, on the
nth, that the two japanese spies -
rested IN that city had been taken fro-1