The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-07-06
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THE steamers Croeshill and Norah
collided in the British channel. The
Norah sank and several of her crew
were missing. The CrOeshin has been
beached.
OSCAR PETERSON, James Doggett and
Daniel Conners, miners, were suffo-
Gated to death in the Jefferson mine at
Victor, Cal, by foul air. Peterson was
first overcome and the other two men
went to his rescue.
A CYCLONE passed over Pipestone,
Mimi, on the 27th, causing injury to
persons and heavy property losses.
Mrs. Clifford T. Hicks was instantly
killed, and Mr.. Hicks seriously injured.
It was reported from points adjacent
that a number of farm and school
houses had been destroyed, and there
is possibility that number of lives
have been lost.
REPORTS from the country around
Wilmar, Mimi. show that over thirty
houses and barns were totally de-
stroyed by the tornado. A family OF
seven is reported to be killed at Rose
land.
A TORNADO struck Sisseton agency,
S. D., while the payment of the Indians
was In progress. Over 1000 people
were on the ground. One store build
ing and one barn were torn to pieces,
the Indian tepees blown away and
several people injured, two fatally.
The latter were two whites.
AT L. o'clock on the night of the 2sth
every member of the A. r. U. iR the
Santa Fe employ at Argentine, Kan,
quit work in obedience to an order boy.
cotting Pullman cars. Judge Foster
of Topeka. Kan, has issued an order
directing United States Marshal Neely
TO protect the railroads property. The
Missouri Pacific switchmen at ST. Louis
have struck, tying up that road.
THE strike against handling Pull.
man cars was extending all over the
country on the 27th. Eleven Chicago
roads were tied up. Not a train moved
from California, only suburban trains
being run. An order was issued for a
general strike on the Santa Fe.
ABOUT thousand Italians who feo
after the assassination of President
Carnot, fearing persecution, were
camping In the fields near Metz. Most
of them were without means and were
suffering many hardships.
THE bill creating Labor day a ma
tional holiday has become a law, for
Mr.. Cummings, of New York, who first
introduced the bill, took It to the presi-
dent and had it signed.
AT Cairo, IL, every railroad line en-.
tering the city was at a standstil on
the 2sth on account of the Pullman
boycott. The employees at the stock
yards at Chicago have decided TO strike
unless the company refused freight oi
lines hauling Pullman cars. All A. r.
T. men on the Santa Fe at Pueblo
Col, have quit work. All was q1iet al
Albuquerque, y. NJ, though not trair
was moving on the Santa Fe or Atlantic
e Pacific. San Francisco was complete
ly shut OF by rail with the outer world
The Chicago Sugar Refinery Co, EN-
ploying ?, 500 men, closed its works on
the 2sth on account OF the railroad
strike.
A SPECIAL from Birmingham. Ala, said
west bound local freight on the Kansa,
City, Memphis a. Birmingham railway
jumped the track near Horse creek or
the 2sth and was wrecked The en-
gine turned over down an embanlz
ment- Engineer Boisclair escaped BY
jumping, but was badly injured. Fire
man Jack Hale was caught under the
locomotive and was scalded and crushed
to death. Another brakeman, who
jumped, was badly injured Several
cars were wrecked and much damage
done.
YALE wen the annual boat race from
Harvard With case oa tbs esthl