The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-01-07
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.


from an accidental overdose of chloro-
form.
John c. Heron. an aged negro. was
burned to death in a stable at st.
Lo1is.
Gen. Pando is sorely disheartened.
He did not expect to find the Cuban in
surgents 50 strong.
Mr.. and Mira. Bryan arrived at Mus
eogee, l. f.. Sunday night, and were
the guests of Judge Springer.
Emile A. Becker. a well-known real
Louis of softening of the brain.
1t is said that the fusion nomination
for congress in the First Nebraska dis
trict will be offered to Mr.. Bryan.
Smallpox raging in Cuba. The au-
thorities are unable to cope with the
myriad difficulties confronting them.
f. b. Loomis, minister to Venezuela,
says that there is great field for
American manufacturers in that coun-
try.
The residence OF William Claggett,
at Lexington, H., was burned Sunday.
The family narrowly escaped with
their lives.
England is said to have made over
lures for an alliance with this country
against Russia, Germany and France
in the east.
4 At present the friends of Hawaiian
annexation seem to lack four votes Of
the two-thirds required in the senate
for ratification.
A former Sedalia (NIo.) girl, Hattie
Baxter, who married recently and was
deserted, learns that her husband is a
bigamist and embezzler.
Col. Morrison, whose 11years' service
on the Interstate commerce commits
sion ended Saturday, will return at
once to his Illinois home.
Rain is still badly needed in Aus
tralia. A Sydney newspaper estimates
that the loss of stock in the last three
years amounted to $40, 900, 900.
A sensation has been caused in Lon
don by rumor from Plymouth that
the English admiral had fired on a Rus.
sian man-of-war in Chinese waters.
Six members of the family of Adolpl
Reich, including the father and moth
er, were killed by flames and smoke in
a fire that occurred in Jersey City, n. j.
Ii Hung Chang has been recalled to
active power at Pekin, the emperor
and the inner council desiring his as
sistance in the present diplomatic crisis.
The president is said to be anxious
to appoint Sylvester Everett, wealthy
sioner-general to the Paris exposition
of 1900.
Mabry, the Brunswick (Ga.) embez-
zler, attempted suicide. He severed an
artery and as his blood flowed he drew
a deaths head in red on the wall be-
side him.
Confirmation has been received from
New Guinea of the murder of the Ger
man governor and police by natives.
The bodies of the victims were cut in
small pieces.
The speech of Webster Davis. of Mis-
souri,, assistant secretary of the inte-
rior, at the Rhode Island association
banquet in Providence, r. l., is the
talk of the town.
An unknown woman committed sui
eide in the Hotel Windsor, New York
city, by taking carbolic acid. She was
about 30 years of age, brunette, hand
some and richly dressed.
Richard Croker has taken formal pos
session of the Democratic club in New
York city, and it is his intention to
make it the headquarters of the demo-
cratic party in that city.
The monetary commission appointed
by the indianapolis convention has
made public its scheme of currency re-
form. The plan is embodied in bill
that will be introduced by Congress-
man Overstreet.
The season for killing quail in Mis-
souri, is now at an end until the first of
next November. Not only does the
law prohibit the killing of such game,
but it forbids railroad and transporta-
tion companies from shipping quail
from one county to another.