The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-08-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

POLICE SUPERINTE NDENT BYRNES of
New York city, on the Goth, preferred
charges against Police Captain Steven
son of the Mulberry Street station.
Stevenson is charged with having re-
ceived bribes while in command of the
Leonard Street station. He will be
tried before the commissioners.
HIRAM BERKsNuTH was blown to
pieces and Andrew Roose and four
other persons were fatally injured. on
the 91st, by the explosion of the boiler
of threshing engine on Berksmith's
farm, miles south of Byron, Ill.
JOHN PETERS, manager of the Fud-
den Lumber Co. at Ackley, Ia, was
found in his Office, on the morning of
the goth, with bullet hole in his head
and barely able to speak. He said that
he had been shot and robbed of S5, 900.
He was mortally wounded.
THE confederate veterans associa-
tiOn of Atlanta, Ga, took the initia-
tive, on the 2Oth, for the erection of a
Joint monument to the memory of Gen.
Mcpherson of the federal army and
Gen. w. III. T. Walker of the confeder.
ate army, who were killed within few
yards of each other. The grand army
post of Atlanta will join the monument
movement.
PEOPLE of Chelsea, Wis, a village
lately destroyed by forest fires, have
appealed to Gov. Peck for aid, saying
they are without food, clothing or
shelter, and have no means to obtain
either.
The court of inquiry investigating,
at Shanghai, the circumstances at
tending the sinking of the Chinese
transport Kow Shung by the japanese
war ship Naniwa has rendered deci-
sion holding that the japanese COM
mander in firing upon the transport,
was justified, and therefore the Japan
csc government will not be called upon
to make any compensation for the de-
struction of the vessel.
An unknown man fell off an east
bound freight on the Fort Wayne road
at the depot in Salem, o., on the 23d,
and was instantly killed, his body be-
ing cut in two. The victim is supposed
to have been a tramp who was beating
his way.
LAWYERS and jurists to the number
of 200 occupied the front seats in Con-
the seventeenth annual meeting of the
American Bar association was called
to order at 1850 a. m. on the 22d.
Miss EDITH CLARK was terribly
burned, on the 22d, by her clothing ig-
hitting from a spark from locomotive
on the Panhandle road at Grafton sta
tion, Pa She may not recover.
COMMISSIONER MILLER of the inter
nal revenue bureau says the income
tax will be collected Notwithstanding
the failure of congress to make an ap-
preparation therefor.
IN the investigation of the late strike
by the national labor commission at
Chicago, on the 22d. testimony favora-
BILE to the Pullman company was for
the first time introduced.
WILLIAM STORM, p years old, wanted
in Chicago for 81 800 forgery. was ar
rested in New York on the 2lst. He
was formerly a real estate dealer in
Chicago, and is said to have victimized
his customers.
THE New York Sun says the three
men, Herlitz, Scharf and Nelson, who
were arrested IN Chicago, on the 18th,
on charges Of arson. are supposed to
have once piled the trade Of incendi-
aries in New York city.
A 5. TUCKER, a Chicago board of
trade broker, shot himself dead, on the
Esd. in Washington park. He had been
! posted on change by the manager of
the clearinghouse as having failed to
pay his debit balance.
THE Pail Mall (London) Gazette says
II is stated that the Norwegian mem
bers Of the party assert the unfitness
of the American members OF the Well
man arctis expedition 30 take part iH
eEeh az enterprise