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

/ THE decoration of Count Von Wal.
/ dersee with tile ordef Of the Blacls
Eagle was officially gazettcd In Berlin
ON the 2J:
The president, on the Sd. a,sarded a
medal of honor, for distinguished gal.
lantry, TO Brevet Brig. Gen. VIM. II.
Wilmington, e 5. v, of Jackson,
Mich; in voluntarily remaining on the
field, under heavy fire, at Bun Run,
July, te6ti TO aid Iiis wounded superior
officer Gen. (then coionelf Orlando B.
Wilcox, resulting in the capture OF
both officers.
Il STORY was telegaaphed from Wash.
ington, on the night of the I'd. that the
New York fnanciefs, through Mf J.
PicrpoHt Morgan. had demanded the
retirement of Secretary Of the Treas
t;ry Carlisle, and that the president
would stand by Mr.. Carlisle. A New
York dispatch, however, stated that
Mr.. Morgan characterized tTie story az
absurd.
DISPATCHES from Belgium, OF the I'd,
ANNOUNCED that the Belgian govern
ment had prohibited the irl1porta tion
of American cattle, alleging the preva-
lence of pleufo-pneumonia in the
United States as the reason. Dir. Sal
mon, chief of the bureau of atiimal IN:
dustry, says there has been no pleuro.
pneumonia in the United States for
two years.
TIRE census Office made public re-
port, on the ID, showing that tile own
ers of farms and homes, regarded as
substantially the land owners of the
United States, own more than 90 per
cent. of the wealth Of the country.
EDWARD MCMULIIN, a 1ineman in
the employ of the Western Union Tel
egraph Co., was awarded verdict at
Newark, n. j., on the Sd, against the
company of SOS, 900 for injuries re.
ceived while working among the wires
on pole in Jersey City in June, 1898.
GUARD TEMPLE, who recently shot
and killed Convict O'Day in the Ohio
penitentiary was, on the Sd, exon
Grated by the coroner, who rendered a
verdict of justifable homicide.
THE United states crt1iser Detroit
arrived at Port Said, Egypt, on the Sd,
on her way from Naples to China.
ALEXANER BIDA, the French artist,
died in Paris on the 3d.
Mrs. MARY I. LATHRAP. president of
the Michigan W. c. T. u, died at her
home in Jackson on the Sd Of acute
neuralgia, aged So years. She had
been i'll about a year.
ROBERT BRUCE, the head of a Chi
cago detective agency and one of the |
best-pOsted men in the country on |
was found dead in his office
on the Sd. He had been drinking
heavily. s@- t
FRANK p. MOORE was arrested at |
savannah, Ga, on the 4th, for using
-he United States mails for fraudulent
in sending clairvoyant circu-
ars through the post Office. He is said |
% be wanted in Cincinnati for similar
pffenses. I-.r.
A WARRANT was sworn out. on the
th, for the arrest of ex-City Treasurer
ieOrge Swartzkopf, of Valparaiso, Ind,
IN the charge of embezzling city funds
o the amount of Sl3, 500 during his two
ears service as city treasurer.
An enormo us crowd gathered at the
tate house in Denver, Col, on the 4th.
o listen to Gov. Waite's final message,
An Austrian polar expedition wilt
cave Bremerhaven in June, 1896.
-ulius Prayer will be in charge of it.
Snow fell in Nice, France, on the
tn, to the unprecedented depth of FIVE
inches.
MICHAEL. BERBICK and his two chill
ren, John and Michael, aged and 4
ears, respectively, were smothered to
cath in the burning of their home in
Sew York on the 4th @