The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-09-21

On the 18th all that was mortal of the
late compte de Paris was deposited
after impressive funeral ceremonies, in
a vault in the old church at Weybridge
! England, where repose the remains ot
the duchess de Nemours, aunt of the
I deceased prince.
PRESIDENT HIPPoLYTE of Hayti i:
said to be suffering from dangerous
/ heart trouble and is extremely nervous
and it is thought that any unexpected
! shock will precipitate his death.
/ THE steamer Reindeer. returning
4 from Plattsburgh to Burlington, VT.
/ on the 18th, with 500 passengers, ran
over the rock reef near Colchester
I light in Lake Champlain, nearly upset
\ ting the vessel. A panic ensued among
/ the passengers who rushed upon the
deck. trampling women and children
beneath them and many attempted to
! jump overheard. Several men and wo-
men were injured in the jam. The
boat righted after passing over the
reef and steamed safely to port.
TwENTY-FOUR THOUSAND troops from
the provinces of Chih-Li and Liang.
Kiang have been ordered to the de-
fense Of Tien-Tsin. OF these 49, 900
men had arrived, on the 18th, and the
remainder will reach Tien-Tsin at the
end of the month. These reinforce
ments are due to the fear of an inva-
sion by the Japanese.
A TERRIBLE hurricane passed over
the southwest coast of Spain, on the
18th, wrecking many small vessels.
The town of Gata was partly destroyed
by the storm.
THE United States steamers Adams
and Rush arrived at San Francisco from
Behring sea on the 18th.
THE Michigan State Bankers associ-
tion convention met in Bay City on the
18th.
THE country around the city of Luck
now, India, and a portion OF that city
was submerged, on the 18th, by floods
in the river Goomty.
BERNARD ToKER, a German farmer
living near Connellsville, Pa, was shot
dead and his wife was mortally wound
ed, on the 18th, by Frank Morris, a 16-
year-old son of the man from whom
Tol1er purchased his little farm.
BREAKING all previous records, in be-
ginning and ending its business within
two days, the twenty-eighth national
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic in session at Pittsburgh, Pa,
adjourned sine die on the 18th.
WM. LAW, a recently-discharge en-
ploye of the West Pennsylvania rail-
road, was arrested, on the 14th,
charged with an attempt to wreck the
Freeport accommodation train at a
sharp curve between Butler Junction
and Sligo station, Pa, by rolling a
large rock on the track directly in
front of the approaching train.
EARLE UPTON committed suicide at
Marshalltown, Ia, on the 14th, by talk
ing poison. He was the husband of
the well-known physician, Rosa Up
ton, who left him last spring and went
to Milwaukee. Dependency, due to
domestic troubles, is supposed to have
been the cause.
FRANK MORRIS, who, on the 18th,
killed Bernard Lol1er and fatally shot
Mrs. Lolxer at Connellsville, Pa, and
later wounded Joseph Halfhill, near
Rich Hill, was arrested, on the 14th,
and fully identified.
FOREIGN missionaries in the Shin
King province are fleeing to New
Chang, fearing violence at the hands
of Chinese soldiers, who, it is reported,
are burning the Christian chapels.
JOSEPH HARE, postmaster at Hill
City, s. D., was arrested, on the I4th,
charged with embezzlement.
BARRETT SCoTT, the embezzling treas
urer of Holt county, Neb., was found
guilty on the 14tl.