The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-12-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A syndicate has been formed in To-
rontO, Ont, to build yacht which will,
next year, be the Canada cup defender.
George II. Duggan, of Montreal, has
promised TO design the boat.
The annual convention of the Amer
lean Humane association began its
sessions in Washington city on the
18th.
1t now seems certain that Fred
Wood, the prisoner held at Spokane,
Wash, on a double charge of burglary
and highway robbery, and Otto Mat
tias, the alleged murderer of III. w.
Wall, of Staunton, H., are one and the
same person. He has pleaded guilty to
burglary to avoid eXtraditiOn.
A combination of all the rubber con-
Germs of Trenton, n. j., has been
formed.
The house committee on Indian af-
fairs had the Indian appropriation bill
under consideration on the 18th. 1t
was decided TO cut off all sectarian APP
preparations.
Antonio f. Terry, the multi-million
aire, formerly of New York, died in
Paris. on the 14th. of liver complaint.
He was twice married, his second wife
being Sybil Sanderson, the American
opera singer.
Hon. William J. Bryan arrived in
Washington, on the 14th, from Savan-
nah. Ga He will remain there for sew
cral days before proceeding to his
home i'm Nebraska.
Nearly every state and territory in
the Union was represented at the sec
ond annual convention of the Inter
state Natio'H III Guard association,
which opeT N Chicago on the 14th.
The Fom regiment is expected to
leave winter quarters at Fort Sheridan
ILL.,. for Manila within three weeks.
4 Norfolk (Va.) dispatch of the
night of the 14th said that il was re-
ported there that the cruiser Brook
lyn was waiting there the arrival of
Gen. Miles from Washington, and
would convey him to Havana.
Aunt Lucy" Nichols, of New AL
bany, Ind. has just been granted
pension of S12 per month by special
act of congress. Lucy is the only fe-
male member of a G. 4. II. post in the
United States. She served through
the war with the Twenty-third In
diana, participating In 2S battles.
An extra session of the Kansas leg
islature has been called to meet De-
cember p.
The nOrth-bound passenger train of
the Gulf road was ditched by broken
rail at a point about three miles south
of Barela. Col, on the 18th, making
bad wreck and injuring several pas
songers and members of the train crew.
The presidential party left Atlanta,
Ga, at one o'clock on the morning of
the 10th. for Tuskegee. Ala, over the
Atlanta & West Point railroad.
United States Senator Quay is suf-
fering from an acute attack of indi-
gestion. but his condition is not con-
sidered serious, and his physician
states there is no cause for alarm.
The state supreme court at Madison,
Wis. decided, on the 10th, that Charles
Polachek, who was arrested on Au-
gust 10, 1897, on a charge of bribery,
preferred by Alderman Elllert, of Mil
waukee. in connection with a garbage
deal, will have to stand trial.
Col. Charles w. Davis, commander of
the Loyal Legion, and one of the best
known veterans in Chicago, died, on
the 10th. from paralysis of the heart.
Upon the shoulders of the 2S-year-
old Stewart NJ. Brice has fallen the
great responsibilities of managing his
late fathers S1O,OOO,OOO estate. Young
Mr.. Brice realizes the fact that it is
difficult task for novice, but he is
willing to make the attempt.
in response to the vatican's inquiry
on the subject, President Mckinley
has sent an assurance that the Cath
olics in Cuba and Philippines will en-
ioy the same ample liberty as the
Catholics in America. Provisional gov
ernments will not be permitted to
seize ecclesiastical property or despoil
converts.
The London Daily News, comment
ing upon recent gun trials at Sandy
Hook, SAYS: The Americans have
only to give their minds TO it to be-
come the first artiIlerists in the world.
len fact. an American artillerist on the
war path deserves the most serious
notice of all whom il may concern"
President Mckinley visited the In
dustrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala,
on the 10th. and addressed the as
sembled students and pOpulace, and,
later went 10 Montgomery, where he
addressed the general assembly of the
state. i'm joint session. At both places
he was received with enthusiasm.
A Madrid dispatch of the nth said
a report had been received from Hava-
ma that Gen. Maxine Gomez, the Gu
ban patriot leader. was dead.
Grant &. Gillett, the absconding cat
tie plunger of WoOdbine, Kas., and his
attorney, c. Il. Troxel. who decamped
with him, left the City of Mexico, on
the. 10th, for Vera Cruz, where they
will take a steamer for South America,