The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-15
RIIscELLANEOUs.

The steamer Ocean collided with the
barge Kent near Sister Island light.
Lake Ontario, and both vessels were
sunk.
THE prospect of a settlement of the
miners strike by joint conference com
mittees meeting at Columbus, o., has
come to naught, so far as the Pitts
/ burgh, Pa, district is concerned.
PREMIER ROsEBERY's colt Ladas won
the English Derby on the 9th in can
ter by length and half in PAS Is
The Derby is worth SIS, 900 in gold coin
TO the winner. IL is 3-year-old race
over AZ mile course.
THE big rolling mills at Newburg, O.,
have closed down for want of fuel 1t
is estimated that between 5000 and A.
900 men arc idle as a result of the shut
down.
THERE was battle at Little's coal
mine, near Pelin. H.. on the 9th. be-
tween sheriff's posse and a gang Of
strikers. Two men were killed and
several wounded IT was feared that
a number of miners in the shaft were
suffocated. The sheriff was forced to
retreat. Pekin was reported wild with
excitement
BY an explosion Of gasoline in the
Troy steam laundry at Portland, Ore.
five Cinnamon were burned TO death
and four others seriously injured. one
fatally. The building and all its con-
tents were burned.
The Boot and Shoe Workers Inter
national union have voted to hold the
next convention in Boston. The plat
form adopted by the American Fedora
tion of Labor at its Chicago convention
was indorsed.
THE city of Chicago has filed twenty
eight suits against as many railroads
for amounts aggregating more than
g., ,OO0, 900 for damages resulting from
the construction of viaducts over vari-
Gus streets.
THIRTY thousand miners on the ISL
and of Sicily on the 7th were reported
starving and hopeless of an improve
ment. They were threatening to burn
the crops on the various estates, and
declare that If they are condemned to
die of hunger others shall share their
fate.
The United States revenue cutter
Bear was reported on the 7th as being
fast on the rocks at the entrance Of the
harbor of Sitl0a, Alaska, and was being
rapidly battered to pieces by the
waves.
JUDGE WINTERS. of indianapolis, Ind.
has declared another dividend of 10 per
cent. i'm Iron Hall affairs
THE German national bank, Of Dem
yer. Col, did not open its doors on the
eth. Il was one of the oldest banks in
the city. At one time the banks stock
sold for $685. a share. The bank was
closed during the panic last summer,
but subsequently reopened on an agree
ment with the stockholders.
THREE hundred commonwealers.c COM
posed of Poles. Bohemians and Aus
trians. started from Chicago on the 9TH
for Washington. The aggregation was
commanded by Joseph RvbakOwsxi,
who claims to be a Russian nobleman.
The army was escorted from the city
by detail of police.
r. Is. LANGDON & CO.. of Minneapolis,
Mimi. have secured a s.. COO. 900 canal
contract in Arizona. The country to
be irrigated is 100000 acres. mostly in
Maricopa county, and the water i to
he obtained from the Rio Verde The
canal viii start above Phoenix and will |
be lie miles long.
JUDGE EWISG, of Chicago, rendered |
a decision recently that a citizen of |
the United States cannot acquire title /
TO rsal estate by inheritance when the 1
Inheritance has to he traced back Y
through alien ancestry. for the reason
that such alien ancestry is without in
heritable blood. which IS necessary to
transmit an inheritance from one per