The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-10-07

Veylng the imported negroes was, how
ever, held up by the strikers and the
negroes at the point of guns were
taken from the train and afterwards
started on an eastbound train to In
diana. The militia were sent to Pana
by Gov. Tanner.
A TERRIBLE storm recently swept
over Japan, the summary of the loss Of
life and property being as follows
Deaths, $50; houses swept away, 1874
houses overthrown, 1,195; partially
wrecked, IL, 460; houses inundated, 49,
597.
ONE man was killed, another fatally
injured and a third severely hurt in a
bicycle accident at the Garfield race
track at Chicago on the 3Oth. A trip
let and a bicycle collided.
THE business portion of Ipswich, S.
D., was recently destroyed by fire.
Mrs. WILLIAMS, white, near Sheri-
dan, Kingisher county, Ok, while
alone with her two children, boy OF
six years and a girl of four, cut off the
girls head, ripped open her abdomen
and removed the viscera and then
threw them into a nearby pond
where they were found soon after by
passing strangers The mother has
been quite melancholy for three years,
but was thought to be harmless.
Mrs. SAMUEL SwARTwooD, wife of a
railroad brakeman, residing at Noun
tain Top, Pa, gave birth to her TWEEN
ty-fifth child the other night. OF the
large number of children born only
two sets were twins. Three of the
children died. The rest are in good
health.
SENATOR MCLAURIN and delegation
| from South Carolina called on Presi.
dent Mckinley on the 3Oth and request.
ed that camp be located at Colum bia,
S. c., and an army hospital at Charles
ton, and also that the latter city be
made the point of debarkation for
troops dispatched to Cuba and Porto
Rico. The president promised to con-
slider their request.
The Sweet Home turnpike bridge,
an iron structure 252 feet long across
the Fourche at Little Rock, Ark, was
totally destroyed by dynamite on the
| 3Oth. The courts recently enjoined
men from building a road in the vicin-
| ity of the bridge, which is owned by
| the county, and it is believed that
| spite work caused the wreckage.
A ROUGH estimate placed the aggre-
| gate loss by the recent forest fires in
Wisconsin at So, 600, 900 to So, 600, 900.
| ACCORDING to Dun's commercial re-
port there were 1876 failures in the
United States for the week ended the
3Oth against 1914 for the corresponding
week of last year.
NEARLY 5000 carpet weavers have
been thrown out of employment in
Philadelphia because of the action of
the ingram carpet yarn spinners in
shutting down this branch of their
| business. For some time the spinners
have been turning out yarn about
twice as fast as weavers could con-
sumo it, and this forced the price
down to such an extent that it was
deemed advisable to close down for a
time.
COLORADO is being swept by forest
and prairie fires and ranches and min
ing camps are threatened with destruc-
tion.
THE United States transport Massa-
chnsetts. while at Santiago, had the
coal in her bunkers take fire and it
was found necessary to jettison 100
tons. A portion of this coal was taken
on board again. On going to sea the
fire again broke out in the bunkers
and smoldered for three days. 1t was
finally extinguished by the use of
steam and the steamer reached New
York without further incident.
THE triennial conference of the Ger
man Baptists of the United States and
Canada at st. Louis was concluded
after session extending over a week.
1t was decided to meet in 1901 at Ber-
lin, Ont.
BETWEEN two and three o'clock on
the morning of the 27th the safe of
the Farmers bank at Flora, Ind, was
blown open by robbers, who secured
close to So, 900 and made good their
escape. Cashier William Lemon, who
was aroused by the noise of the explo-
sion, appeared on the scene while the
robbers were at work, was shot and it
was believed will die.
Gov. SMITH, of the soldiers home at
Santa Monica, Cal, was shot twice on
the 2Sth by an inmate of the home.
He was badly injured, but the injury
was not believed to be fatal. Smith
was formerly commander of the home
at Leavenworth, Kan.
SOME person placed spike on the
Iron Mountain track near St Louis and
the locomotive of a passenger train
jumped the track, shaking up the pas
sengers. Before order could be re.
stored a freight train crashed into the
wrecked train from the rear. Imme-
diately afterwards an accommod alton
train was stopped just in time to avert
a third accident. Nobody was hurt
very much.
A SPECIAL excursion train on the
way to the Halifax On. s. exhibition
from Pictou crashed into a working
train near Stellerton. The two engi-
neers, two firemen and a passenger
were killed
The ninth triennial session of the
general grand chapter of the Order of
the Eastern Star was opened at Wash
ington on the 27th, nearly every grand
chapter in the country being repre-
sented.
THE Transmississippi Sunday school
congress opened at Omaha, Neb., on
the 27th with fair attendance from
all parts of the country.
STRIKING union coal miners and inn
ported negroes had pitched battle at
Pana, Ill, on the ESth. Several hun
dred shots were fred and the negroes
were driven from the city TO their
stockades. One negro was reported as
having died of his wounds