The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-12-17
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Congress will adjourn probably next
Saturday for the Christmas holidays.
George w. Huiatt. of Oregon. Mo-
committed suicide after long suffering
from i'll health.
in runaway near Clayton, Okla,
Miss Ida Powell was thrown from a cart
and fatally injured.
A focl0o gulls undertook to forage
in the Chicago river. 1t proved fatal
to a number of them.
The Illinois Central and Louisville &
Nashville railroads will reduce the time
of their fast trains south.
An unknown young man, who said
his home was Marion, Kas., was acci-
dentally killed at Mount Sterling. Ill.
John Robinson, of Seymour, Tex,
committed suicide at Altus, Greer coun-
ty, Okla. by drinking poisoned whisky.
The republican leaders in congress
believe they can pass one of the gen
eral appropriation bills before Christ
mas.
The falling of lot of rock from the
side of deep cut in the New York Cen
trail railroad caused serious freight
wreck.
f. j. Penn was stabbed to death at
Waco, Tex, by A. B. Thomas, a gro
Gerry man, because of quarrel over a
small dog.
Tom, the young son of John Burle-
son, of San Antonio, Tex, was bitten
by a rattlesnal1e, from the effects of
which he died.
A 4 l., I
corn display for the Paris exposition
that will prove a wonder to the con
tinental European.
j. j. Miller editor of the Santa Fe
IN. NJ Monitor, has addressed himself
to the herculean task of prohibiting
snoring on sleeping cars.
Scott Ross, a prominent citizen of
Dale, Okla, was bound over to the
next grand jury on charge of opening
mail addressed to other people.
Mrs. C. T. Miller, nee Moriarity.
society belle of st. Joseph, Mo-, has
been accommodated because she was
married in a Presby terian church.
Gov. Stephens of Missouri has refused
to interfere in the Carr case unless a
stay of execution is asked by the trial
judge and the prosecuting attorney.
The steamer Arabia which sunk in
the Missouri river, near ParlIville, Mo-,
in 1856 with $50 barrels of whisky on
board, has been partially uncovered.
Atty.-Gen. McKenna Is expected to
hand down a decision soon supporting
the con tentiOn of postmasters that they
are entitled to hold Office for the full
length of their terms.
By blunder the legislature of Kan
sas failed to provide for the salary of
probate judges in the western counties.
Over 50 judges will not be able to draw
after January ].
Oklahoma is Overrun with sneak
thieves and burglars from the large
cities of the north. Thirteen are now
in Jail at Guthrie for burglaries COM
mitted within the past week.
While hunting near Smithson, Mo-,
Patrick HallGhan, aged 81 years, was
shot in the face and neck
by Harry McGinnis, permanently de-
the sight of the right eye.
Within four days burglaries and
wholesale thefts have taken place at
Norman, Tecumseh, Shawnee. FL Reno,
Oklahoma City and Enid, Okla, and
from two to six men placed in jail at
each place.
While John Diehl was absent from
his claim near Enid, Okla, thieves en-
tered his house and stole his furniture,
and provisions. They even
took up the carpets and carried off the
cook stove.
Prof. ii. b. Weston, who has posed as
a clairvoyant at st. Louis, is known as
Harry G. Davis, a real estate man, at
Bunker Hill, Ill, where he has a famd-
ly. He is under arrest at Columbus,
D., for an attempt at swindling