The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-10-01

as have been taken OH anu 1hO
service largely curtailed on account OF /
the yellow fever scare. Travel over
the state was said to be almost para
lyzed.
A REPORT was brought to Port Town
send, WASH, by the tug Pioneer tnat
landslide struck the northern part OF
Sheep camp, Alaska, where all the pack
ers were quartered in tents and asleep
and carried it away. 1t was lmpossE
HE to learn the names of the killed, as
they were known as Jack, Jlm' DICK
and the like. The Skaguay trail was
literally obliterated.
AN explosion of gas occurred IN q
Williamson county, Ill, coal mine ana
one man was killed, three were fatally
injured and two severely burned ana
bruised. One miner was also lmprls-
| oned in the shaft and was thought TO
have been instantly killed.
| NEAR New Boston, Tex, hre oe-
stroved the home of jefferson Connor,
a farmer. and burned his three small |
children to death during the absence
of the rest of the family.
THE Pei-Po river in China recently |
burst its banks through freshet ana
100. 900 people were rendered destitute
JOSEPH NJ. HARDY and Henry G
| Blake, who kidnapped little John Con
way, were convicted at Albany, n. T.,
of the crime and sentenced each TO IA
wears and four months in the state
prison at Dannemora.
THE strike on all the school build
ings of Chicago has ended, the board
adopting the report of the arbitration
committee inserting the union labor
clause in all building contracts.
THE annual entry of King AlI-Sar-
Rem into Omaha was made in the pres
ence of $4,000 people on the night OF
the 23d. The parade was the most pre-
: tentious yet given by the knights OF
Alx-Sar-Ben. 1t contained 20 floats,
: denicting scenes in the history OF the
Kingdom of Quivera.
THE sawmill boiler of E. G. Dex,
near Livermore, KY, blew up and
: three men were killed and ten injured.
e Cold water run into the boiler caused
the accident. The mill was totally
) wrecked,
n A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Balm
bridge. O., on the Esd. An entire
e souare-containing the principal ousl-
n ness houses, several handsome resi-
n dences and the Methodist church-was
n DESTROYED. The fire started In barn
and when it reached Beardsley's drug
l. store an explosion took place and the
a. proprietor and another man lost thelr
Is lives.
r PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has commutec
d IN imprisonment for life the death sen
a tence imposed upon c. L. Addington II
m western Texas for murder.
THE works of the Youngstown w.
SIS Rridpe Co. were destroyed by fire th'
as other morning Loss, 100000. Abou
lie 200 men were thrown out OF employ
pit ment
IN THE Clvde line steamer Oneida
C. which sank in her slip at New YORK
ut was raised on the 22d and her carg
or removed.
A TORPEDO boat capsized and sank OF
IL the Hamburg coast and eight OF he
On crew were drowned, including he
of commander, Duke Frederick Willlar
MT of Mecklen enburg-Schwerin:
es COMPLAINT has been made to the SCI
ne retarv of agriculture, at Washington
that infected cattle are being shlppe
at from Tennessee, and he has been aske
-ul to quarantine the entire countr
of against that state.
he Two men held up the cashier OF III
it Merchants bank of Wooster, Ind
D while he was working at night owe
lat the books. and took $3.50 in bills ar
he escaped.
BY the bursting of a fywheel at II
Providence Or. I.) Rubber Shoe Z
two men were killed and sever
oss others were injured
coo THE executive council of the Amer
w can Federation of Labor met at was
oos @ ;noton on the 22d to discuss the mimi
w. IVY. situation. Several officers of mine,
ftn associations were also present. An
vac dress was issued calling on trad
: unions to still contribute money
helm the miners until they were al
to take care of themselves and adv
Iei' ino unions not to send delegates to I
an Chicago meeting on the 27th, as con
81 tions had changed since the call 1or
hen was made.
cars NJ d. RATCHFoRD, president of
was limited Mine Workers of America, ga
wo. ont a statement at Washington c.
ID. cerning the miners strike. de sa
ltly while miners have done the strlkll
the trades unions and organized ooo
have supplied the necessaries, wlth
sion which the miners could not posi-
re- have succeeded, and so it was vlct
S to for organized labor and not Tor
au- particular trade.
A TORNADO swept over Sava, :
Miss and Latiano, Italy, the other a
: on Forty persons were killed, '2 pee
md were wounded, 20 houses were
we're stroved and telegraphic commun
ions ton with the scene was cut OH.
THE Austrian steamer lka coin
..11,- with the British steamer Ilrla In
o9d port of Fiume, Austria, and the for
- vessel was sunk and most OF the
sengers were drowned in full vleN
=, thousands who crot Jed the pier In
greatest excitement
nIs ANDY SMITH and his wife, colored,
'Iner ing in the country near Donalds,
- =, uy locked in the house six children W
Ior'S they went to church. An hour l
: neighbors heard frightful screams
> mas inc fro-l Smiths house, the interlC
Jccu 80. which was in flames, but 1T was I'm
hAsH sible to reach the children and all
=" ished. 1t is supposed an Oh lamp
nlteu burning was overturned
Live AS result of the carelessnes
Ioers' John Norris, coal miner OF Oecll
law Va, in leaving can OF powder at
IS the house, two children were killed,
, Will was reported dying and tourt
south badly injured that its recovery l:
n car possible. The children played wit
powder, then struck matcn Ue
{ the anime it and there was an explosi
arch THE famous PAGERS, John T. IRE
re at and Robert j., hitched together, o.
lie 2Sd 22d lowered the worlds double
musi- record for mile TO 2:O9 at PM
litary phia. The quarters were; 49, l
Cana lar. zoo. The previous record
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