The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail.


EEA|O&4&&a AMI ROLkTAGAAS
MICHAEL FITzGERALD and his band
of forty-three industrial delegates have
arrived i'm Washington. The delegates
are the most intelligent i'm appearance
of any OF the armies of the unemployed
that have reached that city. They have
petition TO present to congress, but
have not as yet made any plans con-
cerning the manner of presenting it.
The petition is strongly socialistic in
its nature, and goes much further than
the Coxey plan.
THE house committee on election of
the president and vice president has
voted to make a favorable report on
the bill Of Representative Tucker. of
Virginia, providing for the election of
United States senator's by a direct vote
of the people. The report was agreed
upon by nearly unanimous vote.
M CAsIMIR-PERIER, premier, and the
other French ministers have handed in
their designations 10 President Carnot.
THE Bimetallic league at Washing
ton declared itself as unalterably op-
posed to the further issue of interest
bearing bonds and in favor of the free
coinage Of silver and gold at a ratio of
l6 to 4. 1t recommends a system of
currency that viii insure a per capita
circulation of $50, declares il the duty
Of the secretary of the treasury to coin
the bullion now i'm the treasury and de-
mands the issue Of $3.50, 600. 900 of nom
interest-bearing notes of small denom-
nations.
ADvICEs received at Vancouver, B.
r. IN
that had been brewing in Corea had
broken out and Chinese soldiers were
being poured into the country. Three
thousand insurgents, fully armed, sur
prised the governors palace at Sing-la-
Too and put him and forty officials to
death.
c. III. J. TAYLOR was confirmed by
the senate for register of the District
of Columbia.
GEN. DANIEL HASTINGS was made the
unanimous choice of the convention
for governor at Harrisburg, Pa. Wal
ter Lyon was nominated for lieutenant
governor and the rest of the state
ticket was made up as follows: Auditor
general, Amos Mylin, of Lancaster;
secretary of internal affairs, James w.
Latta, of Philadelphia; congressman
at-large, Galusha A. Grow, of Susque-
hanna, and George +. Huff, of West
moreland.
DIR. TAEMAGE, pastor of the Brook
lyn tabernacle, had a narrow escape
from death on the 23d When 30 miles
from Pueblo, Col, as the train ap-
preached a small bridge the engineer
saw that il was in bad condition. It
was too late to stop and so he pushed
on full steam and crossed it with a
rush. The piers had been washed
away, leaving only rails to hold up the
bridge. The passage of the train
practical shook il to pieces so that it
would be impossible for another train
to get over without accident.
THE seventy-fifth birthday of Queen
Victoria was celebrated in England on
the cath.
Mr. GLADsToNE's right eye was sue
cessfully operated on for cataract on
the cath.
THE senate bribery investigating
committee on the oath began an in
quiry into the connection of the sugar
trust with the tariff legislation. K. J.
Edwards, author of the Holland let
ter in the Philadelphia Press, was ex-
amined- The committee sat behind
closed doors.
Gov. FLOWER. has vetoed the bill pro-
hibiting the display of foreign flags on
public buildings.
THE senate committee on Indian af-
fairs has authorized favorable report
on the bill providing for the opening of
the Uintah and UncOmpaghre Indian
reservations in Utah.
SENATOR PERKINS has introduced in
the senate bill intended to grant the
use of Springfield rifles and their equip
ment now ON hand and not needed for
use by the regular army, to the militia
of the various states and territories.
These arms are to be distributed upon
the requisition of the governors of the
various states. but are to remain the
property Of the United States. They
are to be charged against the appro-
priation to provide arms to the militia.
THE senate bribery investigating COM
mittee has sent the testimony taken in
the first part of its inquiry relating to
attempted bribery of Senators Kyle and
Hunton to the printer and expects to
report TO the senate within a few days
the result of its investigation. 1t is
understood the report win entirely ex-
onerate Senators Hunton and Kyle i'm
the matter.