The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-03-25
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Four inches of water fell in less than
20 minutes at La Grange, Mo-. Friday.
A heavy wind unroofed houses and
lid other serious damage at Mounds, Ill.
DIR. Timothy l.. Papin, an old and
well-known physician, died at st. Louis
Friday.
Ben Norris. n negro, committed sui
eide at st. Louis, by shooting himself
in the head.
w. b. Badger, who shot himself with
suicidal intent at Hoplxinsville, KY,
Monday, is dead.
\ dynamite explosion in the govern
ment storehouse at Kingston, Jamaica,
killed eight men.
John ). Fear, defaulting city auditor
of Burlington, Ia, is believed to be en-
route to the Klondike.
Judson c. Lyons, of Georgia, may
succeed Blanche X. Bruce. deceased, as
register of the treasury.
Business is brisk in the st. Louis
wholesale district and sales are largely
in excess of those of last year.
bill has been introduced in the
Canadian house of commons prohibit
ing the circulating of Sunday papers.
Mrs. Jane Garwood, aged so, died in
Augusta township, near Carthage, ILL.,,
after IS years residence in that place.
An explosion took place Friday in
the Santa Isabel mine at Belmez, prov
ince of Cordova, Spain, killing 60 men.
Martin Whitehouse, one of the
wealthiest farmers living south of
Litchfeld, ILL.,, died Friday, aged 43
years.
Lewella Wade and John Lammert, of
Massac county, Ill, lovers, quarreled.
Lewella killed herself and Lammert
has become insane.
President Mckinley planted an oak
tree in the White House grounds Fri
day, re-establishing an old custom,
broken by Cleveland.
Deputy Marshal Arnold was killed
by a man named johnson, resisting ar
rest, at Claremore, l. T. Another Of
ficer killed Johnson.
Edward Lehman. horseshoer of St.
Louis, fell under Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern train at Shattuc, III.
One foot was badly mangled.
II. B. Kellum, of Barry, ILL.,, aged 35,
committed suicide, Friday, in his bed
room while his wife was in an adioin-
ing room preparing breakfast.
The United States government is said
to be negotiating with Brazil for the
torpedo gunboat Tupy, being built by
the Armstrong; in England.
C. p. Michaelis, recently appointed
postmaster at Cole Camp, Mo, has re-
ceived whitecap letter threatening
death if he assumes the Office.
At Galena, Ill, Mrs. Margaret Halle
died, Friday. aged - years. She was
the widow of the late Capt. Asa Halle,
for years prominent Mississippi river
man, and lived in Galena since 1872
Mrs. Jane Parker died in the United
States Jail at South McAlester, l. T.
She was jointly charged with her hus-
band with the murder of a peddler
named McFadden, and was awaiting
trial.
Ed Perry was arrested at Moberly,
Mo-, by United States Marshal Lynch,
on the charge of passing counterfeit
dollars, and waived examination be-
fore the United States commissioner at
Macon.
II. Hunter fell upon the circular saw
in Halls basket factory at Decatur,
Ala, and narrowly escaped being sawed
in two. lie was jerl1ed back just in
time, but his left arm was completely
severed.
Willie Roberts, aged ten years, was
run over and killed by Missouri Pa
cific freight train in Paola, Kas. Be
fore he died he made a statement that
a half-witted boy named Otto Fox
pushed him under the cars.