The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-07-27

THE body of Enrique de Bourbon, dac
de Seville, who died at sea while re.
turning to Spain from the Philippine
islands, arrived at Barcelona on the
1eth.
Mrs. MADALEN PoLK-BUELL., whose
engagement to Charles Cramp, head of
the great Philadelphia ship-building
firm, was recently announced, has been
given permission by Judge Hagner, OF
the equity court in Washington, to re
sumo her maiden name of Polk. She
was divorced from Augustus c. Buell.
in May, 1898.
THE bottom of a converter at the
Homestead steel works of Carnegie &
Co., at Homestead, Pa, blew out, on
the 18th, scattering $500 pounds OF
molten metal in every direction. Four
workmen who were in the pit were ter
ribly burned, two of them fatally.
THE thousands of friends and ad-
-mirers of VIM. u Scanlan, the once
popular Irish comedian, will regret to
learn that he is confined in strait
jacket at Bloomingdale On. " asylum
for the insane. He has become a total
wreck. and, according to his nearest
friends, his time on earth is very short.
A STATEMENT was cabled, on the 10Th,
that the Russian petroleum merchants
have failed at the last moment to come
to an agreement with the Standard Oil
Co., and the Russian Oil Co. will fight
the Standard. They will try to build
a pipe line through Persia.
THE information was made public in
st. Louis, on the 10Th, that Joseph D.
Ginnochio, aged %, a native of St.
Louis, had been arrested near Genoa,
Italy, and forced by the Italian anthor-
tiles to enter the military service, under
the charge that he was deserter.
IN the senate, on the Goth, a bill was
introduced by Mr.. Allen, of Nebraska,
and referred, requiring the interstate
commerce commission to hold at least
one session annually in Omaha, Neb.
On the goth Comptroller of the
Currency Eckels issued call for re-
port of the condition of national
banks at the close of business on
Wednesday, July 18.
The Canadian parliament has passed
bill granting a bonus of $4,000 per
mile to the Port Arthur, Duluth &
Western railroad for distance of 15C
miles,
Hon EDWARD V. CoNLEY, of Waters
meet, one of the best-known men in
northern Michigan, committed suicide
ON the night of the 10Th, by shooting
himself in the head. He had been
chairman of the county board of super
visors almost every term since the for
nation of the county.
The exports of specie from the port
of New York for the week ended or
the 21st were 3,sO6, 039, of which $3,
S04, ,5S2 was gold and $501,507 silver
OF these amounts SO, 100000 gold anc
81. .S66 silver went to Europe, and S4, 5SG
gold and $14, ,557 silver to South Amer
lea. For the corresponding week q
1898 the exports were 81, 129, 500.
THE tenth race between the Vigilant
and the Britannia was sailed on the
21st, and the Yankee yacht getting the
advantage, in the latter part of the
her opponent and won with over two
minutes lead, corrected time.
A BAND of militant anarchists were
caught at work in their own bomb fac
tory at Prague, Bohemia, on the 21st.
Seven men were arrested and large
quantity of explosives was seized.
COMMANDER DARLINGTON BOOTH, Oh
the Salvation army, arrived in New
York from Liverpool on the 21st
THE business portion of the town OF
Converse, Ind, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire on the 21st.
A PETARD was exploded, on the 21st
near the British embassy in Rome. Nc
damage was done.