The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-09-16
CURRENT TOPICS,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Admiral Cervera, his son, Lieut.. An
gelo Cervera, and Lieut.. f. Gomez
1maz, called at the office of the secrc
tary of the navy, on the 18th, to eX'
press thanks and gratitude for the
kindness shown to the admiral and
his men while prisoners of the United
States.
Gen. Shaftcr is out of the detention
camp, somewhat improved in health.
The thirty-second annual encamp
ment of the G.. A. R., which began al
Cincinnati, on the 5th, was largely at
tended.
Gen. Brooke and staff arrived safely
at Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, on the 5th
Gen. Macias' summer residence was
placed at the American commander's
| disposal. The house is a pretentious
dwelling, facing the plaza.
Two spans of the new bridge across
the St. Lawrence river at Hogansburg,
n. Y, went down, on the 9th, and il
was reported that no less than 35 men
were drowned.
The contest over the will of Adolph
SutrO was filed in San Francisco, on
the 9th. Edgar E. Sutro, one of the
six children, represents the family in
| an endeavOr to have the will set aside.
The most important allegation in the
petition is to the effect that the de-
ceased millionaire vas of unsound mind
at the time of the execution of his will,
May 20, 1882, and so remained to the
day of his death.
A dispatch from Gambia, Island OF
Crete, dated the 9th, says: "Candia is
in a state of anarchy. A collision be-
tween the Mussulmans, who were
demonstrating against European con-
troll, and the British authorities, who
have been installing Christians as rev.
enue officials, eliminated to-day in
bloody fighting between the Mussul-
mans and the British troops"
The statement of the condition OF
the treasury, issued on the 9th, showed
available cash balance, SOS, sol, 4?6;
gold reserve, 1929, S32, ,Ss7.
Among the fatalities in the Austrian
Alps lately one case, that of u newly
married couple, was particularly sad.
The bride lost her footing and fell; the
rope broke and she went to destruc-
tion. The husband deliberately threw
himself after and was killed. A gen.
tIeman who visited the spot two days
later lost his balance and fell, being
killed instantly.
Andrew ID. White, the United States
ambassador to Berlin, has gone on n
trip down the Rhine, to occupy about
ten days.
In great fire at Maddaloni, near
Caserta, Italy, on the 9Th, seven men,
two women and two children lost their
lives.
Admiral Schley and Gen. Gordon, of
the Porto Rican military commission,
arrived at San Juan, on the 9th, Oh
the Seneca. The United States cruis-
er New Orleans, which is lying in the
harbor, fired an admirals salute of Is
guns. The Spanish gunboat Ysabel
Segunda responded.
1t has been decided by the president
and secretary of war to manage the
army without any suggestions from
outsiders. Troops selected to be mus
tered out viii de discharged. and those
tanned in the service, regardless of the
clamor to have them released.
Gossip in social circles and in club
land is to the effect that Miss Julia
Dent Grant, granddaughter of the IA
nous general and daughter of Gen.
Fred Grant, is soon to marry the son
of Commodore Gerry in New York
At meeting of the corporation of
Brown university at Providence, T.
,~azSrr-,y1., 81
dent L. benjamin Andrews was accept
ed, and benjamin Clark was chosen to
succeed him.
Thomas W. Wheeler, son of Gen. Jo-
seph Wheeler, and Second Lieut.. New
ton Kirkpatrick, First cavalry, were
drowned while bathing at Camp Wi
kOff, L. l., on the 9TH.
The merchants of Santiago, who
have been charging eXorbitant prices
for their goods, have been brought to
time by Gen. Wood, who threatened
that if they didn't cease their eXtor-
tionate practices he would open gov
ernment stores and close them up.
Nothing confrmatory of the loss of
the whaling fleet had been received
by the Pacific Steam Whaling Co. up
to the 18th.
The grand army parade in Cincin-
natl, ON the 9Th, occurred under the
brightest of blue skies, and with ev-
erything in its favor, surpassed all eX-
pectations."
Lazard Freres, of New York, an
nouneed, on the 9Th, an engagement of
$3.50, 900 in gold for import.
Gov. Johnston of Alabama removed
the state quarantine against New Or
leans on the 9Th.
The British vice-consul, Mr.. Carlo
chino, was killed during the fighting
in Gambia, Crete, on the 9th.
Spanish officials at San Juan, Porto
Rico. are reported to be destroying the
small arms stored in the arsenal there.
The rifles are hammered into ineffect-
iveness and then thrown into the sea.
Joseph Chamberlain admitted, on the
sth, that the treaty with Germany had
been signed, thus making it known to
the world for the first time that such
an allianc had actually been made