The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-07-06

BIZ the explosion Of some fireworks
on the rear platform Of the special train
bringing home from the Illinois state
convention the marching club of the
Cook county democracy, eight of them
were burned. The accident occurred
at Bloomington. The report was
started that an attempt had been made
to blow up the train. Great excite
ment ensued.
THE triangular freshmen's race be-
tween Yale, Harvard and Columbia
was rowed on the 2sth and resulted in
the triumph of Yale, Columbia second
and Harvard third.
The colonization movement among
the strikers of the coke region of Penn
sylvania was getting into shape on the
2sth- Several agents of the Canadian
government mingled among the strik-
ers at the great Connellsville meeting
and distributed circulars in lavish
language showing the great benefits to
be derived from removing to Manitoba.
TH1fEE female experts, Drs- Sarah
Haekett Stevenson, Harriet Alexander
and Florence w. Hunt, were witnesses
in the Prendergast insanity hearing at
Chicago on the 2sth. They testified
that the assassin was an imbecile and
that his brain was not developed
Other witnesses were examined, among
them Mrs Prendergast, the mother of
the prisoner. She testified that there
had been insanity in the family.
A DANISH official at Godthaad in
Greenland, writes under date of May
80 that a whaler had reported that
Bjorjing and Kallstenius, the young
Swedish botanists, who set out in 1892
on a voyage of discovery toward the
north pole in a forty-fve-ton vessel,
the crew of which only mum bered five
men all told, had started IN a small
open boat in an attempt to reach Lab
rador.
CLEARING house returns for the prin-
cipal cities of the United States for the
week ended June 20 showed an aver
age decrease as compared with the cor
responding week of last year of 20. 5; in
New York the decrease was 3O.3; out
side, 60.
FAILURES for the week ended June %
were pa in the United States, against
3O7 last year; in Canada 35, against %
last year.
DTrN's review of trade for the week
ended June % said that the demand
for products was smaller than was
expected. Textile fabrics were embar-
rassed by probable changes in the
tariff. Wheat had declined 2 cents.
Corn had also declined, receipts being
larger than of wheat and heavy crop
expected. Pork products were a shade
lower.
The members of the A. r. u. struck
on the 29th at Terre Haute, Ind, be-
cause Pullman cars were being used.
The Rock Island road, it was said at
Chicago, would be tied up on the both.
All the trainmen at the Chicago Union
stock yards struck at night on the 29th.
The officials of the Santa Fe believe
the strike had spent its force so far as
their lines were concerned. At Em-
poria, Kan, the yards were filed with
loaded freight cars, the regular pas
senger trains, however, passing. All
the Santa Fe employees were out, at
Florence, Kan. Santa Fe trains were
unable to get away from Denver, Col.
The Southern Pacific west of FL Paso
and Deming was paralyzed.
In Denver, Col, fire destroyed the
public tramway and ore bins together
with bins of the Veteran, Enterprise
and Aspen mining and smelling COM
panies' mines. The loss amounts to
$40, 900, with no insurance
COMMISSION houses at the stock yards,
Chicago, have notified clients in Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Texas and
other states not to ship stock unless
railways agree fo deliver shiDne nts
and be responsible for long delays.