The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-09-28
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS N BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

appearance OF Mrs y. y. COX. WIDOW OF
the late Congressman Sunset" Cox,
was greeted with applause, and she
was escorted to the stage amid deafen-
ing cheers.
THE Nivison & Wikoff bottle factory.
mt Elwood, Ind, resumed operations,
on the 18th, with 200 hands at a re-
duction of IL per cent. in wages. The
plant win run at full capacity in all
departments.
MIR. +. A. TATLOcR, Of Salt Lake
City. republican member of the Utah
commission, was at the interior de-
partment, on the 18th. in connection
with the forthcoming annual report of
the commission.
Gov. FLOWER, of New York author
lied the announcement, on the 18th,
that he is not candidate for renomi-
nation, and viii not allow his name to
be presented to the coming democratic
convention.
CHARLES p. PHILLIPS. a Wall-street
banker, was arrested, on the 18th, on
warrant from Philadelphia charging
him with having embezzled and appro-
priated TO his own use a large sum of
money in Philadelphia seven years ago,
when Phillips was president of the Co
lumbia savings bank there.
THE third member of a dangerous
gang of counterfeiters who have been
flooding southern Oregon and northern
California with spurious coin, was ar
rested, on the 18th, at Scott Valley,
Cal, by Detective Harris. There were
fifteen members of the gang, and they
dealt in quarters, halves and dollars.
THE cavalry troop at Fort Bowie,
Ariz., which has been ordered to Fort
Logan, near Denver, will march the en-
tire distance, 72O miles. About forty
days will be allowed for the march,
which will be the longest made by
cavalrymen since the opening of rail-
roads.
On the 10Th Supervising Architect
O'Rourke of the treasury department
rendered his resignation to Secretary
Carlisle, as requested by the latter. 1t
was promptly accepted.
THE Ohio democratic state cOnven
tion adopted platform declaring pro-
lection fraud, favOring the coinage
of silver at ratio of 16 to 1, denounc-
ing Gov. McKinley's administration
and "McKinleyism, declared in favor
of the election of United States sena-
tors by the people, favoring liberal pen
sions and denouncing the A. =. a. No
candidate for senator was nominated.
LOUISIANA sugar planters have ap-
piled for a mandamus to compel Secre-
tary of the Treasury Carlisle to con-
tinue inspection as under the bounty
law.
PERRY Cook, the notorious crook,
who was captured near Lincoln, Okla,
on the 18th, with several stolen horses
in his possession, was lynched, on the
18th, by committee of farmers.
THE eighth annual cOnve ntion of the
United Typothetse met in Philadelphia
on the 18th. One hundred delegates
were in attendance.
BLAKELY DURANT, familiarly known
as ''Old Shady" died at Grand Forks,
N. d., on the 10Th. He was the body
servant of Gen. Sherman during the
rebellion and was feelingly mentioned
in the latter's memoirs. He was the
"Old Shady" of the familiar war
melody.
MAJ. PHIPPs, in charge of expert
ments with dynamite guns, has re-
/ ported to the government that the
/ dynamite gun is a success.
LAFE Prince, a farmer, living two
miles from Nottingham Center, o., al
most chopped his wife to pieces on the
10Th, and then cut his own throat with
a razor. The woman died in a few
minutes, and the man cannot live.
MATTHIAS BRowNER, JR., and Hippen
| Drake, wOOd-sawyers of Valparaiso,
Ind, have received $500, 900 each as a
settlement for claims against a S14,-
/ 900, 900 estate.
MANY casualties are reported in a
fight between 100 police and 5000
miners near Matherwell, Scotland, on
/ the 10th.
n LARGE number of women clerks
have been dismissed from the treasury
department lately. 1t is said to mark
a new policy in treasury appointments
/ in the future.
| EDWARD t. BARTLETT, justice of the
New York court of appeals, who de-
feated Isaac ii. Maynard last fall, was
married, on the 10Th, at the home of
/ the brides mother in New York city,
to Miss Annie Platt. The bride is a
/ daughter of the late Banker William
/ H. Platt.
MAYOR HoPKNs of Chicago issued
an order, on the Goth, closing all gam
/ bling houses in the city. The order
/ had its intended effect. Deputy sher-
ifs, acting on warrants issued by the
superior court, raided the notorious
House of David and the Newport club
at 2:3O a m, but at neither place was
/ gambling in progress.
i DICK GOODMAN, the leader of the
! Goodman gang of outlaws, pleaded
i guilty az Anderson, Ind, on the Goth.
I He asked a delay of one day in pro-
nouncing sentence, so that he could
/ plead for mercy on account of physical
/ ailments caused by bullets from a dep
uty sheriff's revolver.
DR. NETTLEsHIP, the oculist, has re-
Gently made another examination, at
Hawarden, of Mr.. Gladstone's eyes,
and expressed himself as well satisfied
with the condition of the ex-prime
minister and gave ground for hopes
that no further operation will be nee
essary.
THE question Of the establishment Of
a direct steamship service between
Canada and Cape Colony is being care
fully considered, and il is believed that
before many weeks some definite
scheme viii have been prepared for
submission TO parliament.
THE treasure captured by the Jap
anese at Ping Yang amounted to s..
OO0 co.,