The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-02-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The month of January closed with
nearly $1,000, 600 on the right side oi
the government ledger. To be exact,
the receipts for the mouth exceed the
expenditures by S9s1, ,GSs,39.
RoACH's shipyard at Chester, Pa,
concluded a contract on the 1st, to
build for the Standard Oil Co. the larg-
est tank ship ever constructed in this
country. The ship will be 364 feet in
length, IS feet beam aud % feet deep
and will be built to carry oil in bulk.
The most violent storm known since
1851 swept the shores of Cape Ann,
Mass, and vicinity, on the 1st, causing
heavy lOzs of life, and about $500, ODO
property damage More than dozen
vessels went ashore near Gloucester, at
least four more are lost and m-4ny 9TH
ers damaged.
LESTER A. BEARDsLEE, rear admiral
of the United States navy, has been re-
tired on account of age. lie was the
second ranking officer in the navy, and
at the date of his retirement was sta
toned in Washington as president of
the examining and retiring boards.
DETAILS received in Constantinople,
on the 81, from Balillesr, Asia Minor,
showed that 20 persons were killed and
80 injured by the recent earthquake at
tkat place and in Brusa.
The senate, on the 81, confirmed the
nomination Of Col. NJ. L. Ludington,
assistant quartermaster general, to be
brigadier general
QUIET negotiations are said to have
been going on in the senate for several
days, looking to a sensational combi-
nation of the friends of both Hawaii
and Cuba, with the object in view of
precipitating u crisis on both ques-
tions-
a FIRE which broke out in the fourth
story of the reclaiming plant of the
United States Rubber Co, at Nauga-
tuck, Conn, on the night of the 1st,
practically destroyed the entire plant,
entailing n loss of more than STOO, 900;
partly insured.
The Carnegie-Oliver Mining Co.,
operating four of tie largest iron
mines on the GOgebic range, in Wis
consin, and employing 1,50) men, has
announced an Increase OF ten per ceLt.
in the wages ot ell their employees.
Lucy TAYLcg. the 20-year-old daugh-
Ter OF W dlEeE lay AOEs a CACEk III tue
treasury department in Washington,
jumped from a secOnd-story window,
ON the night of the lst, and, failing to
kill herself, ran, almost nude, through
the streets. 1t was half an hour be-
fore she was found, during which time
her father had hanged himself: lie
was cut down and removed to hos
pital. Both are likely to recover.
A BLoOD-sTAINED coat belonging to
A. ID. Storms, who is charged, at Bur
IingtOn. Ia, with numbering Mrs.
Rathburn aud her daughter, was found
on the 2d. There was much feeling
against Storms, but little probability
of trouble.
A. z. WILDER q prominent railroad
man, and superintendent of the Mis-
souri, and Kansas Car Service associa-
uon, died at Topeka, Kas., on the Sd,
from Bright's disease, aged GO. lie was
for many years car accountant of the
Santa Fe.
ALL NeW York is guessing how Cash
ier William J. Quinlan, Jr., of the
Chemical national bank of New York
city, came to loan Francis Cato Cradle
and John ). Silver, promoters, $685.. 600
withOut security and without consult
ing the directors. The most charitable
construction placed upon the affair is
that Qaialap was hyPaoH2el