The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-09-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


CThe Oakland Red Cross society has
established a hospital at Piedmont,
| across the bay from San Francisco.
Maj.-Gen. Otis is acting governor of
Manila, in the absence of Gen. Merritt.
Halvor Floren, aged %, and Annie
Dillnar, aged IS, were drowned while
boating on Diamond lake, near Grove
City, Mimi, on the 3Oth. Morris Elof-
sen and Jennie Nelson, who were in
the same boat, had narrow escapes.
On the 3Oth the war department was
notified of the death of Col. J. ]. Van
Horne, of the Eighth United States in
fantry, at Fort Russell, Wyo.
The statement of the condition of the
treasury, on the 3Oth, showed: Availa-
bic cash balance, S292, ,225, I2I; gold re-
serve, S2l3, ,236, ,3O4.
Brighten. Royal L. Frank has been
assigned to command temporarily the
Third army corps, formerly COM
manded by Gen. Wade, the latter hav-
ing been relieved to become member
Of the Cuban military commission.
Admiral w. ). Schley and Gen. VIM.
! w. Gordon, United States commission
ers to settle the conditions for the
I Spanish evacuation of Porto Rico,
sailed from New York, on the 3Ist, for
San Juan on board the steamer Seneca.
\ court-martial at Nancy, France,
has just sentenced a private soldier to
three months imprisonment and 500
francs fine for shouting "Vive Zola."
James Elliott, of DetriOt, Mich, one
of the oldest fire chiefs in the United
States. died on the 3lst, of stomach
trouble.
The Mckinley" bale of cotton that
has been going the rounds of the
boards of trade of the country. being
sold at auction for the benefit of the
United States hospital fund, was auc-
toned of on the Kansas City (Mo.)
exchange, on the 5lst, for S3O5.
The transport steamer Olivette, which
has been lying near the quarantine
station, at Fernandina, Fla, through
some mysterious agency sank on the
3lst. Aboard the ship were the hos
pital corps of 35 and crew of 45 per-
sons, all of whom escaped without in
jury, bat in scanty attire.
Unknown incendiaries tried to kill
the family of Fred Langs, a farmer
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suburb, by setting fire to his home.
Mrs. Langs and her child were asleep
in The dining room at the time, and had
a narrow escape from death.
Four suspicious cases of fever were
declared at Taylor, Miss, 40 miles south
of Holly Springs, on the 31st.
The Red Cross home for GONZALES
cents will be opened in San Francisco
in few days, in charge of Miss Laura
MeKinstry, n young society woman of
that city.
Robbers secured So 900 in cash from
the Pacific Express c o. in Omaha, on
the 3lst. 1t was one of the boldest, as
well as one of the smoothest, pieces of
work ever perpetrateG there. The
money was consigned by the First ma
tional bank of Omaha to the Citizens
national bank of st. Paul, Minn.
Admiral Schcley has ben selected to
command the Pacific squadron upon
the retirement of Admiral Miller,
about the iddle of October, if the
Porto Rican commission finishes it's la
Dor by that time. He will have vessels
of the greatest steaming radius in the
navy.
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Canton, O., on the 1st, in honor of the
visit of President Mckinley and Sec
retary of State Day. Out of respect
for the presidents expressed wish that
his visit be informal, the affair was
to a considerable extent unorganized,
and partool1 largely of the nature of a
spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm.
The A. Geisel Manufacturing Co. S
plant, on the northwest corner of Clark
avenue and Second street, st. Louis,
was totally destroyed by fire that
started shortly before midnight on the
Ist. The loss was estimated to be $780,
OOO-SIOO, 900 on stock, $40, 900 on tools
and machinery and 5000 on building.
At meeting of the directors of the
Pacific Cable Co., n New York, on the
lst, plans were considered for estab-
fishing cable communication with the
Philippines, the Asiatic coast, Japan
and Australia, via Hawaii. Surveys
for a duplicate cable via Sitka and the
Aleutian islands were ordered.
The schooner Sophia Sutherland,
which left San Francisco IS months
ago with a party of treasure seekers
for the solomon islands, has returned
WIFI Il CdIBO VI COCOdnulS. L lie Luc
were deceived by the protector of the
enterprise, L. p. Sorenson, who was
pat ashore on one of the islands.
While attempting to rescue the sail
ors of an Italian bark, off Tybee, Ga,
during the storm, on the 31st, Lieut..
Morgan, United States engineer corps,
and six regular soldiers were drowned.
The battleship low was gotten into
the new, dry dock at the New York
navy yard on the Ist. Her bottom was
in fairly good condition.
The American Microscopical society
finished up its business at Syracuse,
y. Y, on the 1st, devoting the after
noon 20 pleasure.
The bankruptcy, in London, of Z. D.
McConky is announced, with liabilities
estimated at S35O,OO0. He was formerly
railroad contractor in New York
and failed in Baltimore during the year
1871