The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-01-12

fT seems probable that Superintend
ent Byrnes' suggestion that the mem
bers of the police and other public de-
partments Of New York city give one
half of one per cent. of all salaries to a
fund for the unemployed will be acted
upon.
By break in the ice on the River
Spree, at Cottbus, Brandenburg, on the
Sd, twenty-five of a large party OF
youthful skaters fell into the water,
and despite the heroic efforts of res
cuers from ice and shore, five of them
were drowned.
GEN. JcHN L. STEVENSON died at his
residence in Boston on the Sd.
THE steamer Egyptian Monarch, of
the Wilson line, arrived at New York,
on the Sd, ten days overdue, having
been twenty-four days out from Lon
don.
by Mrs Carnegie, left New York for
Alexandria. Egypt, on the 4th, on the
steamer Columbia.
The venerable Elizabeth Peabody
died, on the 4th, at her home in Ja-
maiea Plain, Mass, in her ninety
fourth year.
HARRY KENNEDY, the well-known
ventriloquist died, 1T midnight of the
2d. at his home in Brooklyn.
A LoNG-DIsTANcE telephone is about
to be put in operation between Berlin
and Stockholm, Sweden.
ARoHDUKE SALvAToRs of Austria
has perfected an automatic mitra-
illeuse that will fire from $50 to 48O shots
minute. Smokeless powder can be
used in all weathers. Forty thousand
rounds have been fired from one bar
rel of one of the new guns without the
barrel showing any defect. The weap-
ons cost 1000 forms each.
The Victoria Park hospital for con-
sumptives, in London, caught fire from
a defective fue in one of the attics on
the 5th. Sixty patients were hastily
removed to another ward. The fire
was extinguished before it had done
serious damage.
The Cunard Steamship Co. has or
dered the laying down of two new
steamers, each vessel to be OF 5000
tons burden. They will be built by the
London and Glasgow Engineering and
Iron Ship Building Co.
ADvICEs from Apia, capital of Sa-
moa, via Auckland, n. H., show that
since the departure of the war ships
from the islands the natives have again
become restless, and further trouble is
feared.
AUTOGRAPH letters on the religious
situation have been exchanged by the
ear and the pope. The disposition on
the part of both to re-establish relig-
ious entente is apparently frmer than
ever.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH has disbarred
Wesley Flanagan, of Jamestown, KY,
from practice as attorney before the
interior department for demanding an
illegal pension fee.
The sultan of Turkey has conferred
the grand cross of the imperial order
of the Medjidie upon Mr.. Maxim, the
inventor of the quick-firing gun bear
ing his name.
On the Isle of Wight the mercury,
on the 5th, registered degs. above zero
(Fahrenheit), which is the lowest
point reached there in 100 years.
DR. IRMER, the new German governor
of the Marshall islands, will sail for
his post at Jaluit on February 26.
AT o'clock on the morning of the
5th three masked men bound and
gagged Village Marshal c. Says, of
Delavan, Wis, and then blew open the
post-of1ice safe, taking 5000, mostly in
stamps. They then went to Hollister G
Calkins' livery Bile, ordered double
rig, bound and gagged the stableman
and drove away. The rig was found
four miles from town.