The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-10-08

NOTHING like the present scarcity OF
water has ever been known in the
vicinity of Pittsburg, Kas. Cattle and
hogs are dying, and sickness among the
people, principally of the typhoid char
acter, Is prevailing.
THE production of oleomargarine in
the United States during the last fiscal
year amounted to 5,53t, 2O7 pounds.
CRIMINAL proceedings have been COM
menced against the Frankfurt lei.
tung, ON the charge of lese majestic,
for criticising the alleged erratic
course of Emperor William.
HARRY CLIFFORD, a favorite actor,
died in Bellevue hospital, New York
city, on the 3Oth, aged 35years.
A SPECIAL from Havana, on the 3Oth,
announced the resignation of Gen.
Weyler.
The official report of the Anaconda
(Mont.) Copper Mining Co. for the year
ended in June last shows that the
total valuation of the product sold was
SIT, 267, 766.55; profits of the year,
So, 136, ,O4S; dividends paid, S3, 900, 900.
Total expenditures for the year, $780,
S4S.3S.
IRoNTON, o., was visited by fire, on
the night of the 29th, which destroyed
property to the extent of $500, 900, only
about half insured. An area of three
squares in length and two squares
back from the river was entirely dew
asted.
HoRATIo ID. DAVIES, conservative
member of parliament for Chatham,
was chosen lord mayor of London, on
the Goth, with the usual ceremonial, to
succeed Sir George Faudel Phillips.
THE first analysis of sugar beets pro-
duced in the Santa Fe valley shows 1615
per cent saccharine matter, or over II
per cent. higher than the sugar in the
Nebraska product.
A MAMMOTH hotel is 20 be erected at
Dawson City, Alaska.
The Greek cabinet resigned on the
3Oth.
On the 1st the president appointed
Newman C. Bates, U. S. N, surgeon
general and chief of the bureau of
medicine and surgery of the navy, to
succeed SurgeOn-GeneralT Tryon.
AT the cabinet meeting. on the lst,
the main subject of consideration was
the cabinet crisis in Spain and it's effect
upon our relations with the Madrid
government and our attitude toward
Cuba. 1t is believed that an important
cable had been received from Minister
Woodford, and that this formed the
basis of the discussion.
The city of Chicago will probably
take possession of the 10 or Is miles of
streets in the town OF Pullman, under
decision of Corporation Counsel
Thornton that the public has the same
right in, on and under those streets
that it has to the other public thor
oughfares in the city.
Mrs. JOHN A. TRUTH. of st. Louis
the mother of four children, has agreed
to transfer all right and title in her
husband to Mrs. Stephens, alias Nellie
st. Clair, in consideration of the sum
of 81, 900 cash in hand.
JOHN WEDDERBURN & Co., of Wash
ington city, have been disbarred from
practice before the interior department
as patent attorneys or agents, the firm
having been held to be guilty of" gross
fraud and unprofessional conduct"
A RICH gold strike has been made on
POtosi mountain, in the Sneffies dis
trict in Colorado, by o. j. Davies and
Thomas DOwner. The vein is wide
and continuous, and runs thousands of
dollars to the ton.
EARTHQUAKES are reported to have
shaken many places on the northeast
coast of Borneo on the 1st, and a new
island was thrown up near Mempabul,