The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-06-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT Washington all the government
departments were closed and Decora-
tion day was observed by an elaborate
programme. Several congressman took
part in the exercises as orators in the
different cemeteries, and President
Cleveland and members of his cabinet
were among the audience. The day
was also observed in other cities with
very elaborate ceremonies.
THE town of Viggianello, Italy, was
shaken by an earthquake on the 30th.
A number of houses were destroyed,
but so far as has been learned nobody
was killed. The people are camped in
the fields.
AT Vancouver, B. c., the Frazer river
has become a raging torrent. Whole
villages on the banks of the stream
were floating and eight lives were
known to have been lost. At Morris
steamers sail right across where farms
used to be. The damage done to the
Canadian Pacific railroad is very seri-
GUS. Every farmer and rancher at
Hatztic prairie is ruined. The Salmon
Arm bridge has collapsed.
THE Denver Coxey army, numbering
1000 men, has decided to take adj
vantage of the flood to float down the
Platte river to the Missouri and then
on to st. Louis.
FIVE people have lost their lives by
drowning at Smiths Falls, Ont. Alex
Lindsay took Mrs. Ingram, a neighbor's
wife, and his brothers three children,
aged respectively s, 12 and 13, out for a
sail When a little distance out the
boat capsized and all were drowned.
The bodies were recovered soon after.
THE indictment against Col. Fred c.
Ainsworth for manslaughter, growing
out Of the collapse Of Ford's theater at
Washington, in which more than a
score of government clerks were killed,
has been ordered quashed.
AN explosion followed by a fire oc-
CURED in a distillery on the ground
floor of the double tenement house 449
Suffolk street, New York, and before
the firemen could complete the work of
rescue Lizzie Yagea, aged 4 years, was
suffocated. Twenty families tenanted
the building. The explosion and fire
cut them off from the stairway. Fif-
teen children were thrown from upper
windows into blankets below. Some
of the older ones escaped by creeping
on narrow ledge of the second story
to the window of the next house. Four
adults were injured
The communists of Paris have de-
cided TO repeat the demonstration of
the 27th i'm the cemetery of Pere La
Chaise every week until they shall no
longer be molested by the police.
AT Boscobel, Wis. an Iowa contin-
gent of Coxeyites. after waiting all
day for transportation, took forcible
possession of the passenger train GO
ing east and could not be elected.
THE president has approved the bin
for the sale Of the lands of the Otoes
and Missouris in Kansas and Nebraska.
THE effects Of the coal strike are Sc
riously felt at Dubuque, Ia. among the
manufacturing institutions and rail-
roads One factory burns corn. Others
arc using wood and one or two have
closed down The Illinois Central
railroad, to husband its supply, has
tsfren off one train on each division.
Dealers have very little coal on hand.
A TREASURY statement shows that
the expenditures Of the government for
the eleven months Of the current fiscal
year have exceeded the receipts by
S72, ,O00. 600. The figures indicate de-
ficit for the twelve months of about
SIS, ,000, 900.
OK the 31st many cities in Colorado
were reported to be flooded hsy the in
cessant rain, causing the rivers TO over
dow their banks Several fatalities
we're reported from Pueblo. Much
damage to property occurred and
bridges and tracks Of railroads were
washed away The storm extended all
over eastern Colorado
CARL Brown sent a letter to Justice
Field, Of the United States supreme
bench, asking his release from the dis
trict jail, stating that he was being de-
tanned unlawfully there Justice Field
tnEned the papers over 70 the clerk
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