The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-06-14
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOmESTIC.
All the machinists on the Pere Mar
quette (Mich.) railroad system went
on strike for a nine-hour day with
ten hours pay.
Firebugs tried to burn McConnells-
vile, o., by starting several fires in
the business part of the town.
The State bank of Indiana at In
dianapolis has voluntarily closed
business.
Gen. Darlington Booth denied that
the Volunteers OIL America and Sal
walton Army are to unite.
Mrs. Mckinley showed more i'm
provement than any day since her re-
turn from California.
Senator McLaurin, of South Caro-
lima, withdrew his resignation in def
erence to Gov. McSweeney's request.
Manufacturers of collars and cuffs
are to form a trust with a capital
stock of S2O.OOO,OOO.
Marshall Cakes, of Metropolis, Ill e,
was fatally shot by a saloon keeper,
whom he killed.
Thieves who robbed the First ma
tional bank of Mineral Point, Wis, OF
$4,000 hid $4,000 under sidewalks,
which was found by boys.
The Paramount hotel at Bristol,
Tenn, was burned. Loss, 100000
w. H. Newman, head of the Lake
Shore road, has been elected presi-
dent of the New York Central.
The confederate soldiers home at
Atlanta, Ga, has been opened.
Edward Forshay, an actor, MUIR
dered Edna May Stokes, an actress
in Chicago.
The Volunteers of America will es
tablish a big settlement in Georgia
for the benefit of poor families OF
cities.
Reports from all parts of Kansas
indicate that the wheat crop is in an
unfavorable condition.
During the II months of the cur
rent fiscal year 1880 names of sol
diers have been added to the pension
roll
Eight men were killed at the Chaplin
mine in Iron Mountain, Mich, by an
explosion.
The presidents cabinet has unani-
mously decided that existing oondi-
tions do not warrant the calling of an
extra session of congress.
letic tournament at the Buffalo expo
sition, Chicago university second.
The steamer City of Erie beat the
Tashmoo in a race from Cleveland tic
Erie.
Justice Willlin has been elected
chief Justice of the illinois supreme
court.
A Congregations council at Grinnell.
Ia, declared Prof. Heron guilty of I'M
christian conduct in deserving his fam
lily and ordered his name stricken from
the roll of the church.
The president and trustees of Mon
mouth OI.) college resigned their
places to end a two years fight con
corning the management.
The cruiser Dorothea, given to the
state for training the Illinois naval
militia, arrived in Chicago from Phila-
delphia.
A switch engine at Atlanta, Ga, ran
into passenger train, killing three
persons and injuring 16.
A man supposed to be r. G. Bidwell
of Jacksonville, Fla, jumped to his
death from the Brooklyn bridge.
The fire losses of the United States
and Canada for the month of May
were 500, 3SO,15O, against SIS, 759, 400 in
May last year.
The cup defender Constitution was
wrecked in trial spin off Newport,
r. [. The crew escaped uninjured.
In session in Minneapolis the Ma
tional Woman's Suffrage association
elected Mrs. Carrie C. Gait presi-
dent.
Senator Tillman has withdrawn his
resignation as senator from South
Carolina.
Fire at Pollock, La, destroyed near
~ all the business houses, churches,
the post Office and hotels.
Mrs. Harold Erickson. aged IS, and
her sister-in-law, Miss Ella Erickson,
were killed by the cars in Beloit, Wis.
James Stacey, an engineer, aged 81,
in a fit of insanity killed his wife and
daughter, aged Is, and then shot him
self to death near Macon, Mo.
William Arnen, Jr., of Beaverton,
Mich, while drunk killed his daugh1
err, fatally wounded his wife and
wounded two sisters and a brother.
Two West Point cadets were dis
missed for making false statements
to get permission to leave the post.
Twenty tons of powder were de-
stroyed by fire at the Mare island
navy yard.
Lawyers will get s1,5Oo,OOO fees in
settlement of the Fair estate in San
Francisco.
Chicago was the center of violent
storm of lightning, wind and rain
Many persons were stunned by light
ming and much damage was done.
Charles Haverson was hanged at
Westville, Miss, for the murder of A.
A. Almonds.
A gang of five tried to hold up a
Burlington limited, en- route to Min
neapolis from Chicago. but was foiled
by the quick wit of the engineer.
Dowie escaped Indictment by the
grand jury in Chicago because there is
no law bearing on his case under which
, conviction could be secured.