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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
HE STRUCK A MATCH

And the Fumes Of Gasoline In the Room
Did the Rest-Husband, Wife aud ChIld
uurned-Pitifui Results of the Ignorant
Use Of a Dangerous FIuid-The wife. the
| Ncst So -ousiy Injured, VIII Probably
| Recover.
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Three persons
composing the family of Peter Teth,
at ~ East Huron street, were seriouly
| burned Saturday, in fire caused by
an explosion of gasoline. Mrs Veth
was more seriously injured than her
husband and child, but she will prob
ably recover.
Mrs. Neth went to the rooms of Mrs.
! q. III. Solomon on the second floor,
from whom she had rented the rooms,
and procured a small quantity of gaso-
line in coffee cup to clean a brass
bedstead' Taking it to her rooms she
used the stuff in cleaning the bed, and
with brush applied it to the wood
work, while the cup containing the oil
stood on the floor beside her. Her lit
tie boy, with bare feet and wearing
but little clothing on him, was playing
on the floor. 1t was not noticed
that the gasoline had filled the room
with vapor and Mr. Veth struck
match for the purpose of lighting a
cigar. In an instant there was an ex-
plosiOn and the room was filled with
damss. The clothing on the child
caught fire. The husband caught up
the child and ran down stairs. A few
moments later he was followed by his
wife, who was screaming and envel-
Oped in flames from head to foot. All
her clothing was burning, and the
wrapper she wore fell from her in
blazing strips. At the landing on the
second floor she met Mrs. Soloman, the
landlady, and the frantic woman threw
her arms around Mrs. Soloman and
begged her to save her. Mrs. Soloman
disengaged herself only to be grasped
again about the neck by the agonized
woman. She succeeded in shaking
her off, and ordering her to remain
standing where she was ran into one
of her own rooms and procured a
pitcher of water which she poured on
Mrs. Veth. This was repeated by the
landlady and then the latter threw
around Mrs. Veth large quilt from
one of her beds and the flames were
subdued. The boys injuries were not
serious.
After giving the boy to an officer,
Mr.. Veth ran up stairs and found his
wife in the rooms of Mrs. Soloman.
In all her pain Mrs. Veth cried out for
her child and could with difficulty be
made to believe that his injuries were
comparatively light.
The mother was removed at once in |
the East ChicagC-avenue ambulance to |
( he German hOS0itaI Thera the Ohv- |
sician, after dressing her burns said |
she would probably recover. Mr.. Veth |
was taken to the same hospital. His |
hands and arms are severely burned |
and his hair and eyebrows signed.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13

was itchin for a chance to praise tbs
youngster ! lowed to myself that
praisin the mother and tellin few lit
tie white ones about the baby would be
as good as gilt-edge endorsement and
a blame sight cheaper. Then comm
right down to business and rock bot
tom. says I:
by the way. Misses Simpkins, how is
the onlyest baby in the created world
comm on?'
Fat and fine" says she, "and jest the
sweetest thing in town"
Then she went and fetched the young
ster and 1 sized him up. 1 told her
there want blenish on that boy from
foretop to fetlock. l told her he was as
smart as his daddy, as handsome as his
mother and a dead sure winner for con-
gress by-and-by.
Naturally OF course 1 was lyin like
yaller dog to some extent, but l had
went into the game to win. Presently
L told her L must be goin as L had a
right smart tradin and llnockin around
to do, and I wanted to see Bill and the
bank, remarbin with a bold, off-hand
voice that 1 needed a little lift from him
in business.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
vENTUREsoME BUT WISE
And Did Not Propose to Commit Suicide
with His Aeroplanes.

And Did Not Propose to Commit Suicide
with His Aeroplanes.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Aug. O.
William b. Feltz did not take his jump
from Pixies Peak yesterday, but it was
not his fault With the conditions of
cloud and fog it would have been a
blindfolded leap to certain desIruc-
tion.
Feltz went up to the summit of the
peak carrying his immense aeroplanes
with him. Two hours were required
in adjusting the big wings, but heavy
clouds gathered and a slight snow fall
ing at the time convinced him that a
leap from the peak would have been
suicidal.
The leap was postponed, but Feltz
is still on the peak, and it is said he
will remain there until conditions are
favorable, when he will sail down into
Colorado Springs, IL miles distant.
Great crowds went up the peak yes
terday to witness the leap of the dar-
ing aeronaut, and field glasses and tel
escopes were in great demand. The
crowds were greatly disappointed on
account of the postpOnement.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
BY AN ASSASSIN.
Promier Canovas Del Castillo Muir.
dered at Santa Ageda-
Fell Wounded In the Presence OF His Wife
The Assassin Immediately Arrested
The Minister of the Interior to be
Premier ad Interim.

Madrid, Aug. 9.-Senor Canovas del
Castillo, prime minister of Spain, was
assassinated yesterday at Santa Ageda,
by an anarchist The murderer fired
three shots, one of which struck the
premier in the forehead and another
in the chest.
The wounded man fell dying at the
feet of his wife, who was with him.
lie fingered in agony for an hour and
then passed away, with the cry of
Long Live Spain" which were the
last words upon his lips.
Santa Ageda is noted for its baths.
The place is between San Sebastian,
the summer residence of the Spanish
court, and Vittoria, the capital of the
province of Alava, about 30 miles south
of Bilbao.
The premier went there last Thurs
day to take a three weeks course of
the baths, after which he expected to
return to San Sebastian to meet United
States Minister Woodford when that
gentleman should be officially received
by the queen regent.
The assassin was Immediately ar
rested. lie is a Neapohtan and gives
the name of Rinaldi, but it is believed
that this is an assumed name and that
his real name is Michele Angino Coli.
At special meeting of the cabinet
Yesterday, under the presidency of
Senor COs-Gayon, minister of the in
terror, the latter announced that he had
been intrusted by the queen regent
with the premiership ad interim.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
Sing It SOFT and sweet.

Well, after thinkin and smokin and
dreamin over the general circumfer
ence of the surroundins, / lowed it
mought be better to lift the mortgage
and then take my chances with John
Henry and the waverly note. If /
could oncst more read my papers and
titlements clear to the old farm my
fight would be half whipped. settled
up at the store and had 500 in the
clear. Two hundred more would lift
the mortgage. Bill Sinpkins, one of
the settlements fayorite boys, had took
and moved off to town and got rich
runnin of bank, and, made up my
mind to go and hit him for the neces-
sary two hundred. The best way to
reach a mans heart and pocket is
through his good wife, and thebest way
to touch the wife is through the chill
dren, and the way to hit the whole
family at one lick is to shoot with
molasses. Sing your song soft and
sweet.
So consequentially hooked the old
bay horse to the spring wagon, loaded
her down with fresh butter and red
apples and plungranates and other
farm producements, and throwed in a
Thanksgivin turkey for good measure.
Then put on my Sunday-go-to-1neetin
clothes and my calf skin boots and
standin collar-which stood SO high
till blamed if I didn't have to clam up
on the fence to spit-and sailed out to
town. The trappins and fixments set
ruther awkward and unpleasant with
me, but the stakes was worth the game.
I reasoned with myself that Biz was at
the bank, so I driv by his house to I'M
load the spring wagon on his good lady.
I up and told her how [ had come to
town to see Bill in regards to a little
business matter, and I thought whilst
I was comm I mought as well to fetch
along some of the good things that
growed on frst-class farm. She
thanked me over and over. 1t had been
two months since they had any fruit
at their house and she was jest thinkin
about advertiser in the paper for
Thanksgivin turkey. Then the children
come in-which I loaded them down
with red apples and pleasant words,
and told them if they would only come
down to our house I would go hay
ridin and chinkypin huntin with them,
and build flying Jenn;es, and grapevine
swings, and see-saws and sich like tiH
they couldn't rest for the fun.
white Ones About the Baby.
And In the maintine didn't forget
that another one Of them simpHins
iaaVg had tilpnasi ~ ut aiitss kstfiss. Hnd
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
On Slippery Grounds.

Hit was somewhereS late along in the
sixties and times were monstrous hard.
Prices had run way up, money was hid
out, and man had to hump and hum
and hustle soon and late to make tongue
and buckle meet. But my doctrine is
that poor folks must have poor ways or
mean ones, and 1 was fghtin it out on
that line tolerable clost, when blame
fool notion worked through my hair
and consequentially landed me in a
tight place. All of suddent like took
up with the notion that [ must have
more land. I had a gracious plenty of
land right then to do my farmin on,
and with one more good crop I could
lift the mortgage higher than kite.
But l watched woods paster to head
off the stock law deestrict with, and SO
nothin would do but must pitch in and
buy another eighty down there on the
creek from John Henry Ashcraft.
Mother was agin the move, and she put
her little foot down on it so:
you are plantin your feet on slip
perry grounds, Rufus" says she. ''You
won't rest now till you wade up to your
eyes in debt oncst more and then you
will bust loose and fret and fuss and
fume like as if somebody else way off
yonder was to blame for the contortion-
ment. Better let we'll enough alone.
Folks have got to crawl some and then
walk a little before they go to fiyin."
But in the mainline my head was
sot on the trade, and trade l would /
bought the whole tract for $400-$100
spot cash and give John Henry a waver-
ly note for the balance. That was in
the summer, when the corn was in full
silk and tossel, and the cotton fields
were bloomin like a nest of roses. L
didn't know anything about the wash
out ahead, but it was there. In less time
than a month after l made that trade
and signed up the papers the game was
r9nnin agin me like a shot. The dry
drouth and the rust and the boil
worms and the caterpillars all rounded
up and closed in and swooped down on
the farm. Crops fell way short and
prices went off on a grand tumble down
to rock bottom. I took the blues all
over in spots as big as a bed quilt.
But mother went on singin and hummiD
and bustlin around as busy as bee in
a tar bucket. She didn't talk about my
big land trade, nor the sorry crops, nor
the store account, but went on tendin
to her own business as gentle and ten
der like and happy as ever.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
BODY OF FIREMAN MONAGHAN.
Found Floating in the Chicago River In a
Badly MutiIated Condition.

Found Floating in the Chicago River In a
Badly MutiIated Condition.
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-The dead body of
Fireman Thomas Monaghan, Chief
Svenie's driver, came to the surface of
the river yesterday morning, and the
crew of tug which was passing at the
time towed it to the Indiana street
bridge, where it was taken on shore
and removed to Rolston's morgue at II
Adams street. The tug Frank K. Crane
steamed slowly up the north branch of
the river yesterday morning. Capt A. r.
Knaggs, chief engineer of the Independ-
ent Tug Co., and Capt. John Hennessey,
in charge of the tug, were standing in
the bow of the boat and both were
watching the murky water intently.
Near the Indiana-street bridge the
body of a man arose to the surface.
The tug towed it to the bank. Anum-
ber of firemen were present and when
the body was turned face upwards
they at once recognized the features
of the chiefs late driver, Thomas
Monaghan.
The dead driver, to all appearances,
received the full force of the explosion
in the Northwestern elevator Thursday
evening. The body came to the sur
face in the middle of the river, and
when an examination was made of the
remains it was found that both of
Monaghan's legs were broken below the
knee, and his left arm was broken. His
uniform was torn into shreds in places,
and his face bore evidence of having
been severely burned.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
VIII Benefit the Cause of Cubag

NEW YORK Aug. 9.-EmiIio Agra
monte, president of the Jose Marti
revolutionary society club and the
Marti charity organization of this
city, heard the news of the killing of
Premier Canovas last night at his home
and exclaimed:
This is truly hard to believe"
Then he said: "Sagasta, who is head
of the liberals, will surely succeed
Canovas, and 1 feel certain that should
Sagasta succeed Canovas, he will fol-
low the same general policy in regard
to Cuba as Canovas made every effort
to do. 1t will doubtless be his idea to
bring about a relationship between
Spain and Cuba such as exists between
England and Canada But such re-
lationship will never be accepted. She
must have complete and absolute indie
pendence.
still it is my belief that the killing
of Canovas will be a great benefit TO
the cause of Cuba 1t may even lead
to independence. Independence-that
is the only thing for Cuba.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS.
Mortuart Report of memphis.

During the month of July there were
l2s deaths, of which so were white and
SO colored. Deaths for the same month
in 1896 were white, 6S; colored, IS; total,
142. Of those who .died last month %
were citizens of the city and 55 were
strangers. The annual death rate per
1000 during the month, including non,
residents, was white, PATS; colored,
3004; average, %. SO. Exclusive of non.
residents the rates were white, 1S "a;
colored, 1.54; average, 1888. Since
January there have been 746 deaths in
the city, of which there were whites 343
and colored 4OS. The average death
rate to August l for the year, including
non-residents, was 22.75, and exclusive
of non-reSidents % Onh
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
IHE DREADED CONSUMPTION
tAE b Cured

7. A. Slocum, NJ. c. the Great
Chemist and Scientist, Will Send
Free, to the Afflicted, Three
Bottles of His Newly Discov-
cred Remedies to Cure
Consumption and all
Lung Troubles
Confident that he has discovered a
reliable cure for consumption and all
bronchial, throat and lung diseases,
general decline and weakness, loss of
flesh and all conditions of wasting,
and to make its great merits known,
he will send, free, three bottles to
any reader of the BULLETIN who
NAV be suffering.
Already this new scientific course Of medicine'
has permanently cured thousands Of apparently
hopeless eases.
The Doctor considers 10 his religious duty-a duty
Wllch he owes TO hunsnity-to donate his inialli-
bic cure.
lie has proved the dreaded consumption to be q
rUrUble disease beyond any doubt, aud has on hle
lu Dis American aud European Laboratories teSti-
Iluials o. experience from those benefited and
surti in all parts II the woTl1.
DON'T delay until il j. too late. Consumption,
uninterrupted, means speedy and certain DEATH
Address +. A. Slocum, VI. q, 9S Pine street, New
York. aud when writing the doctor, please We
express and pOStofhcc address, and also mention
Tca,;ias this article in the BOLIVAR BULLETIN.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
KIondike Has No Attractions for Miner
Benton.

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. Sc. B. Ben
ton has reached this city with over ST.
600 worth of gold nuggets, the result
of ten DAYS work on a Williams Greek
placer claim in the Swauk district, Kit
titas county. One nugget was worth
$3.50, another S1ao, others $50 and $50,
and down to very small pieces He has
been working the claim since Janu
arv, and since that time has taken
out 81, 000. The Swauk plaeers are old
aud well-kaoWR, but have been worked
uuly in eFude way. he says the
Kieaaike hiss ne Attraction feF hiai
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
How the moIasses worked.

But l didn't make no bee line for the
bank. / didn't want to meet up with
Bill till after dinner. / lowed to myself
after he went home and put himself on
the outside of rale good dinner, and
heard the news from his wife in regards
to my visit and the various and sundry
"cute things I said about the baby, he
would be in better shape for business.
With nothin in particlar to do, | took a
little turn around town with the boys
and rounded up at the bank along in
the shank of the evenin. Bill he was
smilin all over his big fat self and look
in as ripe and mellow as Maypop. He
had heard from me at home and was
Iookin for me to drop in and swap lies
with him about the old settlement and
old times. Was there anything he could
do for me?
''Well, Bill" says I, "my wife's hus-
band is in a scandlous clost place for
the time of year. There is mortgage
on one side and double back action
waverly note on the other, and betwiXt
the two they have got me danglin
around from night sweat to buck
ager. Crops are turnin out sorry and
1 can't meet both of them papers. With
d raise of two hundred dollars [ can lift
the mortgage on the home place, and
that would put me ahead of the hounds
oncst more, with no fences to climb"
''The money is yours" says Bill, ''and
all I want is your-plain note-no waver,
no lean-nothin of that sort, and you
can take your time about the settle
ment."
Bless your sweet life, honey, / was
feelin as cozy like as any gray ra tin the
fodder loft when gothome that night
But after supper 1 moved my chair
around tolerable clost to the other cor
ner, and takin her little hand in mine,
says l to myself, but said it out loud SO
she could hear:
Rufus Sanders, you are mighty
small shakes, and only a very few at
best, but you have got the sweetest
and most smartest wife in forty-seven
states and territories. Her head is
level, her hands are willin and her heart
is true. Henceforwards from now on
she is a full partner in this business,
and by the 12 epistles she shall have
her say. The next time you go dead
agin her Judgment to run in debt I
will hire cheap nigger for two bits to
kick you. clean over the state line"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
Declares a Good Dividend.

The book committee of the NJ. E.
Church met at the publishing house in
Nashville last week. The committee
declared per cent dividend upon the
capital stock of the Methodist Publish
ing House, setting apart $4,000 to be
distributed among the several con-
ferences, to the uperannuated preach
ers, and to widows and orphans Of
r,rnnchnrS
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
Monument Unveiled.

Last week at Sewanee University of
the South) a monument to Edmund
Kirby Smith, the last full general of
the Confederate army, was unveiled.
Gen. Kirby Smith was a professor at
the University of the South from 1875
to 1898, the year of his death, and this
monument was erected by alumni, pro-
fessors and his comrades in the army.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13

Mrs. Worrid-How in the world did
you ever. persuade yourself to marry
baker?
Mrs. Wise-I was determined to
marry q mgn whe could make his own
biscuits. You know hs IS xay ssaen5
hashHadgrEn.ta pate.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13

grave wit h o u [
landin in a tight
place n ow an d
then. Everything
which g 0 e s up
must come down.
The weather may
be fine, and the
horse fresh and
track light when
the race is called,
hI1f fhara uaocf IN
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13

generally always comes time and place
somewheres down the line when the
man and the ceilin must meet. It is
blame lonesome road that never had
washout nor a smashup
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
i'm Kew, a marvelously we'll educated

Jim Key, a marvelously we'll educated
horse, owned by DR.. William Key, a
highly respected negro of Shelbyville,
and which has been on exhibition at
the centennial for two months, has
been sold to q. 6. Dufield, of New
York, for $4,000 and shipped to that
city. DR.. Key devoted seven years to
teaching and training the horse,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
BUTCHEREo HIS WIFE.
But His Sisters are Responsible for the I1o--
rIbIe Crime.

BoRDENTowN, N. j., Aug. 9.-A wife
murder was commit tied some time dur
ing Saturday night at the village OF
Fieldsborough, near here. While Anna
Robinson, aged 81 years, was sleeping
in her bed with two children nesting
on her bosom. her crazy husband,
James Robinson, cut her throat Then
he drew the razor across his own
throat. cutting deep but not fatal
gash. Robinson vas removed 10 g hes
pital 81 Trenton,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
S. p. Bernard.

S. P Bernard, prominent citizen OF
Upton county. 81 years of age, died at
his residence four miles east of Coving
ton last week
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
Crushed TO Death,

Evans Webb, son of j. L. Webb, liV-
ing near Ripley, while engaged in saw
ing stove wood last week was instantly
killed by one section of the log rolling
over his body. He was about IS years
oil
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
Arrested on Suspicion.

A negro named Will Johnson is in
jail at Covington on suspicion of being
implicated in the assassination of Wal
ter Boyd. Johnson had been working
for Mr.. Boyd this year up to the time of
laying-by his crop. He is Il crap shooter
and an all-round worthless negro, and
while there is no definite proof of his
connection with the crime his actions
warranted his arrest. Mr.. Boyd's re-
mains were taken to his old home in
Marshall county, Miss, for interment.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13

Samuel Blair, one OF Chattanooga
oldest and wealthieEb citissns, wss
found dead in 5 bath tub st bis Fes!'
asHee eHs morning lass week
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
The PEACH CRSF.
The Supply of the Luscious Fruit VIII be
Curtailed.

Curtailed.
CHANBERsBURG, Pa, Aug. 9.-The
Blue Mountain peach belt of southern
Pennsylvania and western Maryland is
the only part of the country that will
have more than 20 or 25 per cent. of a
crop this year. According to the view
of Col. James r. Gilmore, of Chambers
burg, who Saturday returned from &
tour of the peach states, the shortage
is especially greater in Wisconsin,
Ohio, Delaware cad the eastern shore
lH MARYLAND.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
To Succeed Joe Turney.

The board of prison com missioners
have elected Capt. Ellis Harper of Leb-
anon high sheriff of the penitentiary,
in place of Capt. Joe Turney.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-13
I3 WEEKS S1.OO

The POLTCE GAZETTE viii be nailed. seeure
~ WRAPPED. - ANY asdress IL she United States,
TaSfs' 80 rs, on IerslyI 6. ONE lA'LJ4It
AL !e;tesz sGoG9y GsGss.s dssfls, etc. past ~
sdirsEses . nc Pte9s!eiGF,
FfsfElis n ssss, :. ,, Htc&Ahs s. tPs.
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receive no pay.


5VIIV AIaAIII5U !" A'1hVh TAX 1AtIUTHVy'
Suit has been Insulated against David
Crutchfeld, back tax attorney, and his
sureties by Davidson county, for con-
struction of the back tax law and a set
tlement on tho question of money paid
three Nashville newspapers for adver-
tising delinquent tax sales where the
sales did not realize advertising fees.
The county claims that the advertising
fees should not have been paid until
they wero collected from the property.
Crutchfield claims credit to an amount
equal to the sam he paid the newspapers
in excess of the amount actually collect
ed on the parcels of land advertised.
The county denies that he is entitled to
the credits claimed, hence tho suit.