The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-06-28
NIsCELLANEoUs.

q "A FIRE on the Goth at Seattle, Wash,
destroyed S2GO, 900 worth of property of
the Consolidated Street Railway Co.
THE officers OF the National Labor
federation In indianapolis, Ind, were
said to be preparing a call for meetings
to be held in every city in the United
States on the 3Oth for the purpose of
denouncing the Debs decision. Presi-
dent Mcbride, of the federation, will
sound the keynote with a rousing
speech against the decision. The OBJ
iect is TO secure the passage of law
by the next congress defining the right
of worlingmen and abolishing govern
ment injunction.
WHILE Warden r. L. Allen, of the
Joliet penitentiary, was at the ball
game at Washington with Comptroller
Eckels, Dick Smoot, a noted pickpoclxet,
recently released from the Joliet prison,
spoke to Allen and warmly thanked
him for his past kindness. Some time
after he had gone Allen started to get
some money from n pocket and then
discovered that he had been robbed by
Smoot of $3.50 and fine gold watch.
ANTHONY JOHNSON, colored, was le-
gally hanged at Dumas, Ark, on the
2lst for murder.
INDIAN AGENT WooLsEY has instruc-
tions to lease the allotments of the
Ponca Indian reservation and will be-
gin doing so about the oath inst These
allotments, 400 in number, embrace
some of the richest land in the Indian
territory aud will be leased to actual
farmers at % TO so cents an acre year.
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privilege of renewing the lease in
definitely.
A RECENT dispatch from Dallas, Tex,
said that d. A. Stewart had let a con-
tract calling for SIS, 600 worth of
dressed lumber, which was to be used
in the construction of the big amphi
theater to be reared for the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight next October. Dan
Smith, of New York, has been ap-
pointed press agent of the syndicate
behind the contest Such was the
faith in the ability of Stewart and his
conferees to bring off the big battle
that a fund of $50, 900 had been sub
scribed and put in the bank to the
credit of the construction and promo
tion departments of the enterprise.
WILLIAM NELSON, postmaster at the
national soldiers home, at Milwaukee,
was arrested on the Goth, charged with
the embezzlement of 81, 1s9. So of the
funds of the office.
FIRE started in the gun shed of Light
battery f at the Presidio at San Fran
cisco recently, and before an engine
arrived the building was consumed.
The shed contained eight four-inch
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of which cost about 50, 900. The guns
were badly warped and the carriages
SO twisted that they were absolutely
ruined A number of valuable stores
were also in the building, all of which
were damaged so that they are unfit for
use. The total loss is $50, 900. The
origin of the fire was unknown.
NEAR Mount Gilead,N. C., two broth
ers, Andrew and Mann Rhodes, quar-
relied about some family matters.
Sarah Rhodes, their mother, seized and
held Andrew while Mann, with knife,
cut him open, killing him.
ALL archbishops and bishops in the
United States have been ordered by
the pope in a second degree TO promul-
gate the previous one concerning the
obligations of Catholics to remain out
of the Knights of Pythias organization.
THE jury in the Laidlaw-Sage case
returned to the court room at New
York with verdict in favor of the
plaintiff. They awarded Laidlaw S4o,-
600 damages. A stay in the case was
granted until next September. Laid
law was the clerk behind whom Sage
hid when tho bomb Was thrown Rt him.
Rs was badly IHjured