The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-10-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


MADRID officials believe Cuba will be
| evacuated within three months.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT was ncmi-
mated for governor of New York on the
first ballot by the republican state
convention at Saratoga on the 27th.
THE war Investigating committee
began its labors at Washington on the
21th and gave out a number of docu-
ments bearing upon the work to be
undertaken. These comprised the let
ter of Secretary Alger to the president
requesting that the Investigation be
made, a brief address to the public in
the shape of a resolution and letter
from Chairman Dodge to the secretary
of war inclosing list of inquiries to
the secretary and to the heads of va
rious divisions in the war department
calling for specific information bear
ing upon the conduct of the war.
NOTHING short of independence will
satisfy the Cubans Gen. Garcia says.
THOMAS f. BAYARD, eX- United States
senator, ex-secretary of state under
President Cleveland and ex-ambassa-
dor to England, died on the 2Sth, after
an illness of six weeks, at Dedham,
Mass, aged 20. His body will be
buried in Delaware, in which state his
family were conspicuous long before
the revolution.
THE queen of Denmark died at
Copenhagen on the 29th.
The democratic state convention at
Syracuse, n. ", on the Goth nominated
Augustus Van Wyck, a brother of
Greater New York's mayor, for gov
ernor and Elliott Danforth for lieu
tenant governor The platform at
tackled the conduct of the war, but
otherwise confined itself to state is
sues, no mention being made of the
Chicago platform or of the financial
question.
Ir was learned on good authority
that Gen. Miles would go before the
army Investigating commission TO
testify as to his knowledge of the San
tiago campaign. 1t was also stated
that the commission would go to San
tiago to look into Skaters manage
ment of the campaign and investigate
on the ground all complaints as to the
alleged mismanagementi in connection
with the different departments now
under investigation.
GEN. GOMEZ, in an interview at Camp
Rojas, Santa Clara province, is quoted
as saying that the Cuban insurgents
would disband and apply themselves
to farm labor as soon as the Spanish
troops evacuated the island.
AT meeting of the New York dem
ocrats favoring the Chicago platform
Henry George, the son of the single
tax advocate, was nominated to head
the independent democratic ticket for
governor.
Col JOHN HAY was sworn in as sec
retary of state at the white house on
the 3Oth. Justice Harlan, of the United
States supreme court, administered
the oath. Mr.. Hay at once took part
in the regular cabinet meeting.
SECRETARY ALeER recently received
a long letter from Gen. Leonard Wood,
military governor of Santiago. 1t pre-
sented vividly the frightful sanitary
conditions that confronted the Ameri-
can army of occupation after the sur
render of Santiago and how they were
overcome.
The general result of the voting on
the prohibition plebiscite question in
Canada was 4 comparatively small ma
jority for prohibition, not enough to
influence the government to enact pro-
hibition legislation.
REAR ADMIRAL MONTGOMERY SICARD,
chairman of the naval war board, was
retired from active service on the 3Oth,
on reaching the age limit.