The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FEHSONAL AND GENERAL
The British bark Oseo was wrecked
on the breakwater at Holyhead, En-.
gland, on the 3Oth, and all hands, TWEEN
ty-four in number, were drowned.
THE Delevan house at Albany, n.
Y, was burned on the night of the
SOth. One life was reported lost, and
several guests were injured in their eff.
forts to escape from the building.
a DISPATCH from Pelin of the 3Oth
announced that Ii Hung Chang had
been superseded in the supreme com
mand of the Chinese armies by Kun vi,
ex-viceroy of Nanllin.
MmO LEES barber-shop and lodging
house at Elwood, Ind, was wrecked by
an explosion of natural gas on the
30th, and six persons were badly in
! jured.
JOIN FITZGERALD, ex-president Of the
Irish National League of America, and
one of the most extensive railroad con.
tractors in the country, died at Lin
coin, Neb., on the 3Oth.
REPORTS from the orange district of
Florida indicate a loss to that industry
and to the pineapple raisers of fully
g., 100000 as the result of the recent
cold snap. 1t was the coolest known
there since 1885.
The decision of Rev. Il. Dewitt Tai
mage TO leave Brooklyn and preach
henceforth in the New York Academy
of Music has been followed by dis
ruption of the Brooklyn tabernacle
congregation.
IN the burning of his residence at
Newaygo, Mich, on the morning of the
Roth, Charles White lost his life in
vain effort to save that of his G-year-
old SON
TERRIBLE destitution exists in Per-
kirs, Chase, Dundy, Lincoln, Hayes,
Hitchcock and Frontier counties, Nab,
and the worst feature is the people
in several localities are afflicted with
scurvy for want of wholesome food.
THE city building at Biddeford, Nc,
was damaged to the extent of $50, ,OO0
by fire on the morning Of the 3pth.
Besides the city offices, the post office
and police station, the building con-
tanned the drug store of Dr. Warren,
McKenny & Meard's hardware stores.
Mrs. Wards millinery parlors and the
York County savings bank, all of
which were damaged by ST Noke and
water.
WILLIAM L. STRONG was inducted I
into office as mayor of the city of New
York, on the 1st, his election repre-
senting very much the same conditions
and social elements that asserted them
selves, in 1872, In the choice of Villa m
Havemeyer for mayor: the main pur.
pose In the earlier case being the over
throw OF the Tweed regime, and in the
present case to correct abuses known
or suspected in the police and other |
departments of the city government. |
A Mrs. REINECKE, wanted in New !
York for embezzling $4,000 worth of |
which she had smuggled |
into the country for several New York |
firms, was arrested in Santa Rosa, Cal, |
on the 1st. The arrest was made by !
Mrs. NJ. Z. Darragh, searcher in the /
New York customs service, who had |
followed Mrs. Reinecke across the con-
tinent.
UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR EUsTIs |
and COnsul-General Morse held New |
Years receptions at their respective /
residences in Paris.
MORE than 10000 prisoners will be
benefited by the cars decree of am /
nesty. Many of them have been al |
ready liberated.
THE Prince knitting works at Chica-
go, employing $50 girls, were burned
on the I'd. Thirty of the young ladies
were rescued from the third-story win
dows by the firemen. Cause, sponta-
neous combustion; loss, $40, ,O0OO, partly
insured.
JOIN B. BEReANIISI, 30 years of age,
and his wife Kate, 20 years old, were
found dead, on the morning of the Cd,
at their home in New York. They
had been suffocated by escaping gas.
THE recount in the mayoralty con-
test in Winnipeg, Man, was completed
on the 2d. AS a result McNicken was
unseated and Gilroy was declared
mayor by S majority.
Two STREET CARS in Indianapolis,
Ind, collided, on the Cd, in a binding
About twenty persons
were injured more or less seriously by
the accident.
OK the I'd, Gov. Morton of New York
Alva 81. Doty to be health
officer of the port of New York. and he
e. /,
An emery wheel burst in the Pope
Knitting Co.'S factory at Bucyrus, O.,
On the I'd, crushing the skull of Frank
Greenwich. 17-year-old employee.
The principal part of the village of
Sherman, n. Y, was burned at / o'clock
1n the morning of the I'd; aggregate
losses, $50, 900.
EIGHT business places, including the ;
eading stores and post office at Per- I
'ysvillc, o., were burned on the Cd;
oss, $50, 900.
HAMILTON Fish was, on the cd, elect !
"a speaker Of the New York state as c
emily. r
FRANCIS II, the last king Of Naples. |
vas buried, ON the ID. from the parish !,
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