The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-04-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mall.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAI.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
REPRESENTATIVE WILSON, it is said.
will be on hand to manage the tariff
bill when it reaches the house from the
senate
THE Servian cabinet has resigned,
and NJ Nicolajevich has formed a new
ministry.
REPRESENTATIVE CANuNETTI, of CAL
ifOrnia, has introduced resolution for
the holding of a conference of nations
of the western hemisphere to draft
treaties looking to remonetizing silver.
PRESIDENT TRACEY, of the National
Repu blican league, has called a special
meeting of the leagues executive COM
mittee, representing all the states and
territories TO meet at the Arlington
hotel, Washington, Monday, April %.
THE naval appropriation bill as pre-
pared by the naval affairs committee
of the house contains a provision grant
ing naturalization papers to all for
eigners who served in the navy and
marine corps for five consecutive years
and who have been honorably dis
charged.
REPRESENTATIVE BLAND expects to
call meeting of the coinage commit
tee very soon to consider the free coin
age bills pending before it.
THE president has approved the joint
resolution making provision for the
salaries and expenses of additional
deputy collectors of revenue to enforce
the Chinese exclusion act
CARDINAL GIUSEPPE BENEDETTo DUs-
= ~ h. ,F n. = Il
was born at Palermo, August 15, 1918,
and was created a cardinal on Febru-
ary IL, 1882
The unknown" commander of the
Coxey forces is said to be Maj. William
Packer Clarke, of the Second battalion,
Colorado national guard
A. c. FISK, president of the Pan
American Bimetallic league, proposes
to call silver convention to meet in
Washington.
The Iowa senate passed the house
bill comforting on women the right to
vote for town, city and school officers
Gnd on all questions of issuing bonds.
President GONIPERs, of the American
Federation of Labor, in letter to Vice
President Stevenson, enters a protest
against the ratification of the Chinese
treaty.
In Chicago Sig L. Mancinelli director
of the choir of the Abbey Grand Opera
Co, was arrested on charge of pick
ing pocket. The arrest occurred in a
dime museum on Clark street
AFTER clearing up various appropria-
tions and other bills, both houses of
the Iowa state legislature adjourned
sine die on the 9th.
JUDGE JENKINS rendered his long
looked for decision on the motion
made by the chiefs of the railway or-
ganizations for a modification of his
famous Northern Pacific strike order
The judge struck out one clause, but
in all other respects ne denied the
motion, thus continuing the strike in
junction in full force.
THE senate committee to which the
nomination of c. H. J. Taylor to be re-
corder of deeds for the District of Col
umbia was referred, voted to ? to re-
port his nomination unfavorably.
REPRESENTATIVE BRoDERIcK has in
troduced a resolution in the house re-
quiring pension attorneys to submit a
statement to their clients every three
months of the condition of their claims
In the event that this or. er is not com
piled with the attorney is to receive no
pay. The law allows pension agents
to charge SIS as first payment on pen
sion case, and hundreds of claimants
had made this payment, after which it
was impossible to hear from their at
torneys.
LATE advices from Brazil are to the
effect that federal troops had burned
and pillaged San Francisco de Borja, a
Brazilian town on the Uruguayan river
in the state of Rio Grande do Sui. The
inhabitants were panic stricken and
many of them had fed to the forest to
escape further outrages. 1t was said
that insurgent troops were advancing
against the city of Bio Grande do Sui