The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-04
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

was thrown from a pony. on the 25th,
and dragged to death. The pony ran q
distance of half a mile, dragging the
helpless girl by her foot, which had
caught in the stirrup.
JUSTICE P. NJ. WALL, at Leadville,
Col, in the case of The People VS. Ryan,
for arson, has rendered decision dis
missing Ryan, and holding that there
is no law in Colorado prohibiting man
from burning his own house.
CHARLES EDWARD DUFFEE, aged %,
died at Mobile, Ala, on the 25th, of
consumption. He was we'll known as
Home Run" Duffee, an ex-member of
the st. Louis Browns of the national
league and the American association,
and also of the Washington club of the
national league.
The Cliff house at San Francisco
was burned on the 25th. The none
tary loss is not great; probably not
over $50, 900. The Cliff house was a
world-famOus resort, as il overlooked
the Seal rocks. 1t was part of the pos
session of Adolph Sutro, San Francis
cos mayor-elect.
ALTHOUGH Japanese rule is accepted
Haks are still active. They have just
captured Lai in, capital of the prov
ince of Haido. They expelled the gov
ernor and installed one of their number
in his place.
HARRY MESIER, the English bridge
jumper, made a successful leap from
the top rail of the Poughkeepsie IN. Y. }
bridge, a distance of 2I2 feet, with his
parachute, on the 25th. The parachute
worked successfully and Menier struck
the water in just eight seconds after
he started. He was picked up by
friends in waiting.
HARRY S. DECKER, the ex-baseball
player, was held in bonds to the Grim
inal court in Chicago, on the 26th, to
answer charges of obtaining s21s and
SOS on worthless checks from Is. F.
Ayres, of 1S1 Ashland boulevard, with
on bond he was rearrested on a war
rant sworn to by A. G. Spalding, the
sporting-goods maker, charging him
with forging Spalding's name to a check
for 500.
A SPECIAL from the City of Mexico
says: 1T is evident there is an or
ganized colony of several hundred
persons scattered about the city em-
ployed in making and circulating spu-
rious coins. Thousands of dollars of
the stuff have been passed within a
few weeks. Arrests of members of the
band have been made daily, and now
2s0 Of them are in Belem prison await
ing trial. The industry still flour
ishes."
Mrs. PITCHER, wife of Gen. Thomas
F. Pitcher, died at her residence in
Washington city on the 25th. Mrs.
cles, being especially prominent during
President Grants administration.
CAPT. T. II. ECKERsON, Nineteenth
infantry, recently examined for retire
ment at Fort Wayne, Mich, was, on the
26th, ordered to return to his proper
station.
IN February the w. G. T. u. will
present TO congress a polyglOt petition
against she sale or manufacture of liq-
nor or opium.
JAMES II. GRIDLEY, manager of the
Washington Office of the Scientific
American, died suddenly at his resi-
dence in that city on the night of the
25th. Mr.. Gridley was widely known
as a patent attorney.
IN Fulton, in the lower part of the
city of Richmond, Va, five boys were
dis6gured for life, on the 25th, by the
explosion of gunpowder which they
were using in firing toy cannon
LIEUT.. G. +. VREELASD, naval at
tache to the United States embassy in
Berlin, arrived in that city with his
family on the Goth.
Two INCHES of snow, the first of the
season, fell at Roanoke, Va, on the
Goth.
Ex-PoLICE CAPT. JOHN L. STEPHEN
son, the first of the police officials
tried and convicted as an outcome of
the exposures brought about by the
Lexow cOmInittee, was sentenced by
Judge Ingraham, in the court of oyer
and terminer, in New York city, on
the 2eth, to three years and nine
months Imprisonment in Sing Sing,
and 60 pay $1,000 fine.
Four new cases of smallpox were
discovered in Washington city, on the
26th, and several other persons are un-
der suspicion of having the disease.
All the victims are eolored people liv-
ing in the alleys and small streets near
the government printing Office, the To-
eality where previous cases have ex-
listed.
RUMoRs were circulated i'm Brook
lyn, on the night Of the 18th, that
shortage had been discovered in the ac-
counts of an employe in the Office of
the treasurer of Kings county. 1t was
said that experts had been engaged
and were at work on the case. The
shortage, it is said, viii exceed s2O, ZOO.
TIE grand jury at Chicago, on the
26th, ordered Assistant State Attorney
Bottum TO leave the jury-room. went
into executive session and planned an
investigation Of the alleged crooked
ness in the states attorneys Office.
The British steamer Abeydo, Capt.
True, from Valencia for Liverpool, is
believed to have foundered off the Isle
Of Man with the loss of all on board,
about zoo in number.
PosT OFFICE INSPECTOR STEWART, of
Chicago, arrested a man named Blake
in that city, on the 27th. whom he be-
lieves to be the leader of the gang that
has been robbing hundreds of western
post Offices during the past two years.
The arrest was made ON the confession
of one of the gang, and other arrests
were expected 10 follow.
HENRY PAcKERs residence, on the
outskirts of pioua. o. was entered by