The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-01-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

j. w. GIRvIN, who has held the office
Of Hawaiian consul in San Diego, Cal /,
for some years past, has received notice
from the provisional government of his
appointment to the head of the postal
savingsUbank of Hawaii Girvin ex-
pected TO leave on the Goth for Homo
lulu.
THE Merchants bank of Ellis. Kas.,
has closed its door and gone into vol
uEtary liquidation. The assets are am
pie to cover the liabilities of $50, 900.
State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal
is in control
THE secretary of the interior has ap-
pointed William L. Chitty, of Illinois,
a member of the board of pension ap-
peals, vice William B. Rupert, re-
signed. The salary is $4,000 per an
mum.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the North
ern Railroad of New Jersey went
through temporary trestle near Fair
view, n. J., on the 18th. falling on
twenty or thirty Italians who were at
work under the trestle. Two of the
men were crushed to death, and nearly
every one of the others was more or
less injured--some of them, it is feared,
fatally.
FIRE, on the nth, destroyed the
plant of the American Cereal Co., at
Minneapolis, Mimi, involving loss of
about $4,000, and throwing over 100
persons out of employment.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has invited the
duke of York to visit Berlin to attend
the annual banquet of the Knights of
the Black Eagle.
A ROYAL decree, dated the 10th,
countersigned by all the ministers, has
been issued, proclaiming a state of
siege at Carrara and Massa di Carrara,
Italy.
IT has been learned that the Ed
Moorell, alias Frank Moorell, who as
sisted Chris Evans, the California out
law, in his escape from the Fresno
(Cal) Jail, is Frank Morris, a Fort
Scott (Kas.) young man. His father is
a well-to-do farmer, and was formerly
in the mail service.
A. r. WHITLEY, one of the leading
real estate dealers of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
was convicted on the charge of at
tempting TO suborn jurors in an i'm
portant civil case. He was sentenced
to thirty days in the county Jail, on the
18th, and to pay a fine of $50. The
case created a great sensation there, as
Whitley had heretofore borne an ex-
cellent reputation.
NEWTON p. FAssETT, father of ].
Sloat Fassett, died at his home in Ell
mira, n. v, on the 18th, aged II years.
BENJAMIN EARNsHAw, one Of the most
prominent politicians in West Virginia,
and for ten years a member of the Wet
eel county court, was arrested in
Wheeling, on the 18th, while attempt
ing to negotiate forged county orders.
He was caught by officers who were
lying In wait. and when arrested at
tempted to swallow a ZOO order he
held in his hand.
A CHICAGO man has invented shield
for vaccinated arms. The invention
consists of an aluminium disc, with rim
beveled and center raised and perforat.
ed, and is so constructed that il can be
fastened securely.
JENNIE LEG6IN, a negress, stabbed
William Haywood, with whom she had
formerly lived, 70 the heart in St. Louis,
on the night of the nth, because Hay
wood wouldn't give her fifty cents with
which to buy beer.
THE mystery concerning the death OF
Henry Shrivers, who was shot on the
night of 14th at Salem. Ia. was explain.
ed, on the nth, by the confession of his
brot her Charles, who says that while
ne was cleaning a large gun it was ac-
cidentally discharged. the load enter
ing Henry's head. killing him instantly.
The jury returned a verdict of acci-
dental death.
THE appraisement of the Stanford
estate was fled in San Francisco on
the 18th. The total valuation of San
Francisco property is SIT, 500, 3le. 1t is
as follows: Stocks. sl1, ,552. 4S6; bonds,
IS, ,ss3. l60; house and effects, $11S, O00i
notes and accounts, &99G, ,506; real es
tate, 60, SIS. 92. This does not include
the Palo Alto, Vina and Gridley prop
critics, which were decided to the uni
versity.