The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-24
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


d. n. Cooper United States marshal for
the northern district Of Alabama;
Abraham l.. Lawshe deputy auditor for
the post Office department, and Patrick
j. Miniter, assayer in charge of the
United States assay Office at Dead
wood, 5. ID.
a HURRICANE, terrific in its velocity,
struck Port Arthur, Tex, at an earl
hour on the evening of the 18th. Six
persons are known to have been killed,
while many others were injured.
Buildings were blown down and great
damage was wrought. Several other
towns on the gulf coast were nearly
wiped out.
The villages of Los Melones, Mejia
and San Pedro, west of Las Tunas,
Cuba, and close to the Jucaro- Moron
trOcha, have been taken with little re-
sistance from their small forts by the
insurgent vanguard of Gen. Calixto
Garcia
HON. HANNIs TAYLOR, the retiring
American minister, presented his letter
of recall to the queen regent of Spain,
at San Sebastian, on the 18th, and in
doing so made a short complimentary
speech. Half an hour later the queen
received Gen. Stewart l.. Woodford,
the new minister.
SURGEON WAsDIN, who has been at
Ocean Springs, Miss, for some time,
was taken i'll on the 18th. This infor-
nation came from Surgeon Murray,
who did rot state the nature of the ill
ness, but it is supposed to be yellow
fever.
SURGEON GUITERAs, the yellow fever
expert, reported, on the 18th, to Sur
geon-General Wyman from Mobile,
Ala: "IIave found one case of yellow
fever at the city hospital. Norwegian,
who has not been ont of city; probably
fatal termination. One suspicious case.
l apprehend serious outbreak"
Col. GUTAv PABsT, a son of the
Milwaukee millionaire brewer, was
married at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, on
the 14th, to Miss Hilda Lemp. daugh-
ter of the millionaire brewer, w. j.
Lemp, of st. Louis.
REV. JAMES G. X. MCCLURE was, on
the 14th, elected president of Lake
Forest university at Chicago.
THREE masked bandits stood ten
Omaha (Neb.) citizens up in line at an
early hour on the morning of the 18th
and relieved each of from $40 to SIOO.
The victims were bers of n social
party who had taken possession of
beer garden for little entertainment
A WOMAN, demented and almost nude,
was found in the woods near Melrose
Park, Cook county, Ill. on the 18th,
by some farmers. The woman was in
a terrible condition from exposure and
privatiOn, having been living in the
woods for at least a month. Her de-
scription is said to tally in many re-
spects with that of the missing Mrs.
Luetgert.
Col. ;. HARVEY, of Colorado Springs,
Col, took from Cripple Creek, on the
I4th, a piece of ore weighing over 100
pounds, which was literally alive with
free gold, and which carried values ag-
gregating fully S1OO, 600 to the ton.
Oh the 14th the president appointed
Daniel B. Hainer. of Pennsylvania,
United States district attorney for the
western district of Pennsylvania. Mr..
Hainer was formerly a member of con-
yress.
NV ANE-c 4AOAAA ~ -AANAAdNAo % AlldI a
gang of burglars attempted TO crack
the big safe of the North American
transportation & Trading Co. at that
place, containing ST, OOO, 600 of Klondilxe
gold. The burglars were frightened
away just as the treasure was within
their grasp.
4 CONSPIRACY to smuggle large guam
titles of phenacetine, in which several
prominent druggists of New York city
are said to be involved, has been nipped
by the seizure, on the 14th, of 400
ounces of the drug in HobOken, n. j.
THE king of Siam is Frances guest.
Oh the 14th he was taken TO ST. Quen-I
tin and, with President Faure, re-
viewed 10000 troops of all arms. The
king was visibly impressed with the
sight.
a DISPATCH from Madrid, dated the
18th, said: The war department is
G,OOO troops with the in
tention of Immediately dispatching
them as reinforcements to the Spanish
army in Cuba"
The Michigan Salt association has
advanced the price of salt within the
state ten cents barrel, the second adj
vance within go days. To outside
agencies the latest advance is five
cents. Salt is now qouted at 60 cents
4 barrel.
The Jackson Hill coal mine, in Sui
ivan county, Ind, was destroyed by
fire, on the morning of the 14th, caus-
ng a loss of $50, 900 and preventing 500
men from returning to work, as they
we're preparing to do. There was sus-
oicion of incendiarism.
MAJ. MOSES p. HANDY, the special
of the United States to
the Paris exposition of 1900, arrived in
Paris, on the 18th, and had a long in
terview with NJ. Boucher, the minister
Of commerce and industry.
PLANS for eight big railroad bridges
10 be built on the line of the Nippon
railway of Japan, have been completed |
IN the Office OF j. A. L. Waddell, of
Kansas City, Mo-, under whose direc-
ton the structures are to be built.
The cage in which ten men were
being lowered into shaft No. of the
Alden Coal Co.'S mine at Nanticoke,
Pa, on the 18th, suddenly dropped to
the bottom of the shaft. Eight of the
men were severely injured, and the in
iuries of four may prove fatal.
ABNER GLE, the millionaire lumber
man, died at his home in La Crosse,
Wis, on the 18th. He had been en-
gagged in the lumber business since
1851, and ranked among the wealth
est and most influential business men
in the north west.
MEL GOODMAN, an employe of the !
Ph9nix ircE works OF Ph9nixville, |
Pc, has ju0' r1celYed word that by the