The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-05-14

FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Mount Vernon, Ill, and is cars ditched.
Most of them were broken into kind
ling wood. Three cars were loaded
with whisky and one with poultry.
The whisky escaped and filed the gull
lies and the poultry imbibed freely and
all got intoxicated.
HENRY JONES, a cOlored convict in
the state prison at Michigan City, Ind,
was hanged shortly after midnight of
the 9th for the murder of fellow-con-
vict who had testified against him in
trial.
THE Seminole council at WewOka, 1.
T., passed two important bills. One
was townsite law Incorporating the
town of WewoIa, and another a reso-
luton appointing a commission to
treat with the Dawes commission.
A DISTINCT shock of earthquake was
felt the other evening at Elko, Willis
ton, Blackville and Wagners, towns in
Barnwel county, s. c. A rumbling
noise accompanied it.
BUFFALO JONES, of Oklahoma, has
made the interior department propo-
sition to corral the remnant of the
mighty herd of American bison in the
Yellowstone national park Mr. Jones
stated that the superintendent of the
park has abandoned all hope of pre-
serving a single specimen.
AN order prohibiting a pension claim
ant. whose claim has been adjudicated
either favorably or unfavorably, from
filing papers for its reconsideration if
disallowed or for an increase if PEN
sion has been issued until one year
from the date of the previous consid-
Grafton of the case, is contemplated
by the commissioner of pensions and
may be issued soon.
THE south and west grain and trade
congress got through with its business
on the 9th at Kansas City, Mo, and
adjourned to meet in Tampa, Fla, in
1895. The resolutions demanded equi-
table rates of transportation between
carrier and shipper, the improvement
of the Mississippi river and other water
courses, indorsed the Nicaragua canal,
favored the Torrey bankruptcy bill, the
promotion of the consumption of our
food products abroad and aid rendered
to the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf
railroad.
HARRY STOUT and Ernest King, two
featherweight pugilists, met under
secret arrangement of seven members
of the Delaware legislature and fought
ten rounds to a draw in front of the
speakers desk in the house of repre-
sentatives. Both wore regulation ring
costumes.
LITTLE Guy Stephens, the two-year-
old son of w. III. Stephens, a farmer re-
siding near Farmingdale, Ill, fell into
a cornstalk fire on the farm and was
burned to death.
THE interior of the large storage
warehouse of the Merchants Refriger-
ator Co. at New York was almost com
pletely destroyed by fire on the 9th.
The loss will probably amount to more
than $500, 900. Thirty or more tireInen
who entered the basement where the
fire started were overcome by smoke
and one died in an ambulance on the
way to n hospital.
GOV. BLACK affixed his signature on
the 5th to the Greater New York
charter.
JOHN Y. CRUM, the famous sprinter,
died at Des Moines, Ia, on the Sd as
the result of an operation for appen-
dicitis.
FIVE more anarchists, convicted OF
participation in the bomb outrage on
June last at the feast of Corpus
Christi at Barcelona, Spain, have been
shot. They shouted, Long live an
archy" just before the order to fire was
given.
THE fourth annual convention of the
south and west grain and trade con-
gress commenced at Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 5th. Addresses of welcome were
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