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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND political.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A SPECIAL to the New York Herald
on the sth stated that President Cleve-
land thought il was absolutely essen
tial that the cause of sound money
should triumph, and that if the demo-
Gratis declared for free silver and the
republicans for a gold standard he
would vote the republican ticket.
The senate subcommittee, designated
TO conduct an investigation of the re-
cent bond issue, has decided to begin
it's work after the adjournment of con-
gress and to admit the press to its ses-
sions-
GEN. JOHN DALzELL was nominated
for congress for the tenth time by the
republicans at Pittsburgh, Pa.
THE outflow of gold from the fed
eral treasury continues at an alarming
rate and the prospects are that the raid
on the treasury will increase rather
than diminish. Many politicians pre-.
dict that If the gold reserve should
sink below a certain point President
Cleveland will call special session of
congress; others think the preside mt
will not call congress together, as con-
gress has repudiated his views, and he
will make it responsible for what
ever may happen.
THE Fifty Fourth congress adjourned
sine die on the 11th. The closing scenes
were devoid of interest.
A DISPATCH to the London Times
stated that the Turks had invaded
Acrotiri and Kydonia in the island of
Crete and desecrated the churches.
The Turks had also destroyed villages
in the western district and 5000 ref
ugees had fed to the mountains and
were suffering extreme privations.
THE platform which the Mckinley
ties will advocate in the st. Louis con-
vention was outlined by Mark A
Hanna on the 11th as follows: ''The
republican party is in favor of a pro-
tective tariff system which will not
only afford adequate protection to
Americ an industries, but which will
also produce revenue in excess of ex-
penditures and thus solve the financial
problem. We are satisfied with the
currency as It now exists. We want
our money TO be as good as any nation
and to pass current in the worlds
markets
THE announcement was made at
Washington from the state department
that President Cleveland intends TAX
ing no action with respect to the
Cuban revolution.
CONGRESSMAN HEPBURN (rep.) has
been renominated for the Eighth Iowa
congressional district.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-19
CONDENSED TELEGRAMa.

THOMAS J. SMALL, a prominent mer-
chant of Arkansas, was burned to death
in his store at Wrightsville on the night
of the 18th. He was carrying lighted
lamp when It exploded, setting fire to
his clothing and the house. The build
ing was burned to the ground, also.
Smalrs body was burned to crisp.
RODNEY FISK, who was once a mill
lionaire. and who lost his all in Wall
street, died on the 14th at lodging
house in South Boston. Two or three
years ago his bank account was good
for 81, 100000
FIRE at Louisville, KY, on the morn
ing of the 18th destroyed a large ware
house of the White Mills Distillery
Company, at Eighteenth and Lexington
streets, entailing a loss of S125, 600
fully insured. Fireman Val Schwab
fell into stream of burning whisky
and was so badly burned it is thought
he will die.
AT Tunis, Tex, ten miles from Cald-
well, on the night of the 18th, Jerry
Massey and j. t. Chance, both white,
WCAO AOAAAJ unhhOWA par
ties Massey received twenty-five buck
shot and Chance twelve.
AT 10 o'clock on the night of the 18th
500 striking quarrymen, who are mostly
foreigners, marched out of the village
of Bera, fourteen miles from Cleveland,
o., bound for North Amherst, where
several hundred quarrymen are still at
work. Trouble is looked for.
THE treasury on the 18th lost 81, 49,
400 in gold coin and SIS, 400 in bars, max
ing total for the day of 81. 1S6, 500.
This leaves the true amount of the gold
reserve S104, ,23s, 754. OF the amount
withdrawn So, 600. 900 was for export
FIRE at Whiting, Ind. on the 10th de-
stroyed two frame buildings. Mrs. John
Homer and two children were burned to
death.
JOHN R. BEST, a wealthy lumber
dealer, manager of the Big Four Lum-
Der Company of Arkansas, committed
suicide at st. Louis on the 10th by cut
ting his throat with razor.
THE town of wyeth City, Ala. con-
tanning 800 inhabitants, was almost
swept from the face of the earth by
cyclone on the 9th. Two persons are
tnown TO be dead and fifteen injured, six
OF the latter fatally.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

A TELEGRAM from New York on the
18th stated that the six leading manu-
facturers of fireworks in the United
States were planning a trust to save
themselves from ruin because prices
had gone below cost
BILL WEST the notorious Indian ter.
ritory murderer who escaped from jail
at Topeka, Kan, while under sentence
OF death, was killed at Illinois, Ok,
while resisting arrest.
A DISPATCH from Bombay stated
that the British warship Bonaventure,
while making a passage from Colombia,
Ceylon, to Pondicherry, capital of the
French settlement in India, lost 20
men by sunstroke.
MANY concerns were burned out by
fire at Hico, Tex, recently, includ-
ing the Hico Review. Loss, $50, ,OO0
IT was reported on the 18th that the
Turks had pillaged and burned 20
hamlets in the interior of the island
of Crete.
FIRE broke out in what is known as
the Oklahoma district at Whiting,
Ind, and Mrs. John Homer, aged 80
years, and her small son and daughter
perished.
FIRE destroyed the building of the
American Horse exchange at New
York on the 18th. About $50 valuable
horses perished and 100 fine carriages
were burned. The value of the prop
erty consumed was estimated at $780,
OO0 Among the horses destroyed was
Elisha G.. a trotting horse worth 81, 500,
with a record Of 2:19K.
ONE hundred and eighty cans of dy-
Mantle exploded about a mile below
Lilly Pa, with frightful results One
man was killed and six others fatally
injured. The men were getting ready
to make a blast when the explosion oc-
CURED. The steam shovel which stood
on the track was hurled 200 feet away.
THE town of Topaz, Mex, was re-
Gently visited by a tornado, accom-
panied by a watefspout Three-fourths
of the place was utterly destroyed and
13 dead bodies were taken out from
the debris and 30 more people were
missing and supposed to have been
killed Many others were SO badly in
jured that the last rites of the church
were administered TO them Some of
the streets were eight feet in mud and
rocks that rolled down from the noun
tains.
w. j. You've, the lumberman and
philauthropist, who was reputed TO be
worth from s., 600, 600 10 $40. 900, 600, re-
Gently died at Clinton, Ia
PARIS BRYANT and his brother
George, two young farmers near Mar
shalltown, Ia, have been arrested for
counterfeiting. They made full con-
fession.
A TORNADO occurred at Wyeth City,
Ala, on the 9Th. Thirteen houses
were literally blown away from the
face of the earth and two persons were
killed, besides a hundred or more in
iured.
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BARBARous TURKS

Repeating, with Impunity I'm the Island OF
Crete. Their Awful Atrocities In Arine-
nia-Russia, ms Before, Opposing Any
thing Beyond Diplomatic Protests, w hich
Means Carte Blanche for Rapine and
Murder.
LONDON, June 14.-Though the
smoke of burning villages can be seen
from the European cruisers along
leagues of the Cretan coast, the porte
has sent official communications to the
various embassies, declaring that per-
feet order and peace prevail through
out the island. Russia has again be-
come deadweight on any action by
the powers In connection with Crete.
She opposes anything beyond diplo-
matte protests, which would, of
course, be as futile as they were in the
case of Armenia. In the repre-
sentations of Greece against
permitting the Turks to crush
the rising in the island by sheer
and will make no response, while the
porte is sending fresh battalions of
troops to Crete to be employed against
the Christian insurgents. The forces
on the island under command of Alb
dullah Pasha will soon number 20,0O0
men. Russia is not even neutral in
the matter. She has brought pressure
to bear upon the king of Greece to pre-
vent any action being taken by the
Greek government and also to put
stop to supplies being sent to the in
surgents.
The sum of the position is that the
Turks are getting free hand to deal
with the Christians as they will, and
they are doing it with a vengeance.
Reliable advices from Constantine
pie are to the effect that the sultan is
suffering with tumor of the spine.
His physicians wanted to perform an
operation on him, but when he was
told that it could only be per-
formed at the risk of his life he
declined to permit the physicians to
operate. 1t appears that at the
Selamlil1 on Friday, the Moslem sab
bath, when the sultan drives in state
from the palace to the mosque to per-
form his religious duties, his face was
painted in order to conceal from the
spectators the ravages caused by his
illness.
The British government displays no
interest whatever in the Cretan ques-
tion. Its hands are full with the Sou
dan campaign.
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DEATH OF Ex-eov. FELcH
Marks the Close of a Long Life Crowded
Full of HOnors.

Marks the Close of a Long Life Crowded
Full of Honors.
ANN ARBoR. Mich, June lax
Gov. Alpheus Felch died at 9:15 o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
Alpheus Feleh was born at Linn
erick, Me-, in 1906. He graduated
from Bowdoin college in the class of
1927, and was admitted to the bar in
1880. He practiced three years at
Houlton, Me. Then he went to Gin
cinnati and thence betook himself to
Michigan, and at Ann Arbor found
his place of permanent abode. In
1885 he was elected to the legisla-
ture. In 1888 he was appointed
one of the state bank commissioners.
In 1912 he became auditor-general,
and in the same year was given place
on the supreme bench by the governor.
He was elected governor of Michigan
in 1s45, and was elected to the United
States senate for full six-years' term
in 1S47
Afterwards he served as president of
the commission which settled Spanish
and Mexican land claims in California.
He was for many years on the board
of regents of the Michigan state uni
versity
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-19
RUSSIA AND JAPAN
On the Verge of an Agreement for
Joint PrOtectorate Over COrea.

On the Verge of an Agreement for q
Joint Protectorate Over COrea.
LONDON, June 15.-lt is stated that
the negotiations between Russia and
Japan are on the verge Of conclusion
and that the agreement arrived at is
tantamount to joint protectorate
over Corea. Field Marshal Yamagata,
who went to Russia as the representa-
tive of the mikado at the coronation
of the czar. has exchanged contract
ing notes with the Russian govern
ment, agreeing that Russia and japan
shall act together in the maintenance
of order in Corea, and that each power
shall keep a small force Of 500 troops
in Seoul, the capital. This force is
not to be increased, except by mutual
consent, unless in the case of the land
ing of men from war ships of the con-
tracing powers in the event of sudden
necessity.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-19
SUBSCRIPTION: sl.OO Per Year.

aBut onc6 upon a time-it was Christi
mas eve and the weather es cold as
fugius-me and VIII Tom Pickens
started to a breakdown dance some-
where's up there in the hill country, and
on the way we had to pass through Cy-
clone Streak. Presently we both run
drv and then we drawed straws as to
who would replenish the stock. WiiL
Tom won and lose. So took the bottle
and went down into dark and lone
some sway, laid the bottle on a log. Gov
cred it with four bits, gave one loud
keen whoop and left it there. we
waited a little while, and when / went
back down the swamp my money was
gone and the bottle was full of spiritsI
"Well. me and Will Tom we bit off two
or three little chunks as we driv on
to the party, and when we got there
by gatlins we had to stay out in the cold
wind two hours in orderment to cool
eff and brace up. We didn't take any
more that night. We didn't need any
more. We had took two or three little
nibbles and they lasted till next mornius
But we passed the bottle around
amongst the boys one time only, and to.
my own personal knowledge our bottle
of spirits from Cyclone Streak brungi
on five variegated cases of drunk that
night. And then, by gracious, when we
started off on our return back home
next mornin there was six or seven
drinks left
"Drivin along way or down there this
side of Deer Creek we met up with Lige
Runnels, and he made out like he was
ravin crazy for a drink. We pulled the
bottle from Cyclone Streak on him and
the old man bit Off tremendous big
plug of it. Then we driv on, but some
of the Runnels boys told me after that
that old man Lige didn't show up at
home till about daylight the next morn
in. and didn't look natural and right for
three days.
When we struck into the old stage
road up there at Bunk Weatherford's
Bunk he hailed and wanted to know
what was what. BY this time there was
about four or five drinks in the bottle
and we delivered the goods to Bunk
As to me and VIII Tom, we didn't need
no more. 1t come to pass that day that
Bunk took one strong nibble at the bot
tie and then pitched in and made big
eggnog. Consequentially the doctor
was over there at the Weatherford place
the next day, and by fast and furious
work he brought the family through
without a funeral.
"That was years and years ago, Rufe.
but 1 never will live long enough to forA
get that bottle of white ink from Cy1
clone Streak"
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'sTaIkin about the troubles in Cyclone
Streak" says Andy Lucas TO me the
other day." that makes me think of the
time when me and VIII Tom Pickens got
holt Of the onlyest bottle of rale sorry
goods have ever saw. never did run
very deep on the still business, you un-
dersLand, Rufe, but don't have to stop
and tell you that have always man.
aged to Chamber up around my shara
of white ink and sPerits-of-cats-a-fghtr
in. It jest naturally runs in the blood
of the Lucas family to love the first
ruDnins of the corn. And it is all good
better and best with me, Rufe,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-19
DE Changed lie Breath.

That brings to mind one day last falS
when Black Jack Virgins, from Cyclone
Streak, changed his breath on me. We
struck up together in town that day and
nothin would do Black Jack but / must
write out a speech for him on free sill
yer at sixteen to one.
But in the main time Black Jack had
smoked his old pipe and ct parched
goobers and drunk corn whisky till he
didn't know anything fer certain and
his breath was tremendous bad.
He put his arm around my neck and
talked so clost and confidential like till
I naturally couldn't stand it.
"I am 16 hands high, / weigh 1871
pounds, wear a number leven shoe, my
name is Black Jack Virgins and hail
from Cyclone Streak" says he with his
mouth in three inches of my face.
"That perfectly all right with me, MrJ
Virgins, as to the size of your shoe and
what you weigh and where you come
from,'' says I, but for the love of our
common country and the great cause OF
free silver at sixteen to one, go and do
something to change your breath--eat
a raw onion if you can't do no better" {;
And then, long-sufferin reader, what
do you reckon come to pass between me
and Black Jack Virgins, from Cyclone
Streak? Dad blame him, he got raw
onion and ct it to change his breath.
took another drink, come back and
locked arms with me and preached free
silver at sixteen to one for three mortal
hours.
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The Lady from Cyclone Streak.

But it was given unto Deacon Joiner
to bring on the most gonebyest con-
fusionment you ever heard tell of with
lady from Cyclone Streak.
1t would seem like the lady was goin
to place somewheres up the railroad
on visit to her linnery, and she had
went from Cyclone Streak over to the
station to take the train. She had q
baby with her, and likewise a shotgun
which she was tal1in to some of the mem
folks of the family.
1t also came to pass that Deacon
Joiner was also over at the station that
day, and if any man loves the women
better than the deacon, he will have to-
eat few to prove 1t. Sowhen the train
blowed the deacon he sidled up TO the
lady from Cyclone Streak and told her
he would be pleased to take the baby
and the gun and help her on the cars
The lady was more than willin. But I'M
the main time It turned out that the
lady never had seen the railroad train!
before, and when it dashed up to the
station she made a break and dashed
off down the road towards Cyclcone
Streak. The deacon he took after her
at full speed, with the baby in one hand
and the shotgun in the other, hollerlnl
at everybody to stop that lady. But the
lady didn't have any shotguns and
babies to tote and she LETT the deacon in
that race like he was hitched to post.
About that time the high sheriff
come ridin up the road. He saw the lady
runnin and heard her screamin. He
saw the deacon after her with baby in,
one hand and a shotgun in the other
He arrested the deacon for assault with
intentions of murder, and before he
could git the facts straight the lady was
two miles down the road and turnin,
the wind for Cyclone Streak. But the
sheriff then got on his horse and went
and brought the lady back. She took
the baby and the shotgun, which madc
the deacon feel a whole lot better. But
she didn't go nowheres on the railroad
train. And from that day to this If you
want to make Deacon Joiner foaTnin
mad all you have got to do Is to say
somethin about the lady from Cyclone
Streak. RUFUS sANDEEA 7
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cHAuNcEY's LITTLE JOKE
Anent Gov. MortOn's Telegram Declining
the vIce-PresIdency.

Anent Gov Morton's Telegram Declining
the VIce-PresIdency.
ST. LOUIS, June 15.-Mr. Platt last
evening received an answer from tel
egram to Gov. Morton asking If it
were true he had notified Mr.. Depew
that he would not accept the vice
presidency. Mr.. Morton answered
that it was true.
A humorous incident occurred in
connection with this episode. An en-
terprising newspaper reporter came to
Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew and said that
it was whispered about the corridors
of the hotels that the telegram he re-
ceived from Gov. Morton with refer
ence to the ice-presidency was a
forgery.
WELL" said Mr.. Depew, with hu-
morous twinkle of the eye, come to
think of it, it wasn't in Morton's hand
writing, and then he laughed heartily
and the enterprising newspaper man
vanished
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-19

them pleasant places in regards to
which l have sometimes spoke-Possum
Trot, and Huckleberry Ridge, AMI
Weaver's Woodgarden, and fuckers
Mill, and the Panther Creek settlement.
But when the crops are laid by and the
fish won't bite, if you want TO take few
days off and make the time pass quick
and pleasant pack up your duds and
come with me and we will go over into
Cyclone Streak.
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WAREHOUSE BURNED
with Thousands of Barrels of whisky
Fireman Fatally Burned.

LOUISVILLE. KY, June I6.-Ware-
house A, of the White Mills Distilling
Co., in the southwestern portion of the
city. was destroyed by fire at 6:1O
o'clock yesterday morning, entailing
loss of about one hundred and TWEEN
ty-fve thousand dollars. Seven thou
sand and three hundred barrels OF
whisky were burned. Val Schsvatz a
fireman, was fatally burned by falling
headIong into stream of blazing
whisky.
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the earth per-
haps if you
would love to live
forever and then
turn to somethin
good to eat, you
will please re-
member that
Rocky Creek is
still llrunnin down
stream and ain't
gone nowheres.
No doubts you
baord foil 0f
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-19
RODNEY FIskE,
The spendthrift millionaire, Dying Penni-
less at Boston.

NEW YORK, June 14.-A Recorder
special from Boston says:
Rodney Fiske, the famous young
millionaire from California who
startled Wall street few years ago by
his wild specuIations, and who disap-
peared mysteriously few years ago,
after squandering his original legacy
of 81, 200, GOO and the millions he added
to it, is dying In this city, penniless,
and dependent upon the hospitality Of
comparative strangers.
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CYcLuEE STREAK.
The Sage of Rocky Creek "rellin
cf the News"
Plenty of wildcat Stills and Everybody
Kin to Everybody Else Black Jack
Changed His Breath = Deacon
J0inerss Gallantry.

IF you want to see the most loveliest
strip of country on the broad bosom of
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1896-06-19
! o. N. DUNCAN. Proprietor,
Whiteviile, Tenn.

New, commodious and conveniently r
heated. Table supplied with the best
The market affords. Special attention
paid 70 the travelling public.
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CONTESTED SEATS

In the Republican National Convention
The Work OF the National Committee
In Deciding the Contests Preliminary
to Making Up the Temporary Organiza.
tton-Statement Given Out From the
Ohio Headquarters.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1896-04-28

The late Canon Harper o. solhy. IN
Yorkshire, had q certain Oddly and
originality, illustrated In one Of his adj
vertisements for a ourale; Wanted, By
an incumbent. who means 10 do a. his
bishop bids him, e cnrate who means to
DO as HIS Incumbent bida him-subiect
% the rule and law Of the established
church His text the Bible. his oom-
mentary the prayer book. Daily serv.
Ice; weekly communion; good choir
very nno church. An earnest man, who
can do without incense VI prostraiions,
will ind much work which wants doing.
much room 10 dony himself. and q
road to bring him. Address Rev. Car-
on Harper. selby. "-London World.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1896-04-28

Macedonia, the land Of the three
streams. Vardar. etrulna and Vistritsa,
is hemmed Ia By lofty mountains. Of
which the best known or the highest are
Olympus. shardagh and Rhodope, the
last named rising to between 5000 aud
5000 feet shove the level Of the sea. Il
Il among the most picturesque countries
q Europe. Astounding IN magnificent
forests. which climb hills. fringe rivers
and cover islands; IN wild mountain
scenes. wonderful waterfalls. silent sail
less lakes-an appropriate setting for
gems Of emerald islets, deep aorgess
dizzy mountain paths. smiling plains
and desolate passes. which ought to
prove an irresistible attraction 70 tho
traveller who regards genuine danger and
real discomfort a. the appropriate condi-
ment Of pleasure. Contemporary Re-
view.