The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-09-23

| to the relief of our poor sick in Cuba" F"
| AN earthquake of unusual strength
and duration aroused the people of
Hurley, S. D., at four o'clock on the
morning of the 10Th. 1t caused houses
to tremble and dishes to rattle on the
shelves for about 80 seconds. 1t seemed
to travel eastward. At Yankton the
shocks were unusually severe and
lasted a minute.
FAILURES for the past week were 174
in the United States, against 2O4 last
year, and % in Canada, against 20 last
year.
A DISPATCH from Camp Meade, Pa,
said ma jority of the men are becom-
ing more and more restless and unless
the war department acts promptly
there may be mutiny in some of the
commands.
THE final contracts granting the con-
cession for an American railroad from
Canton to Hankow, China, were signed
in Washington by the Chinese minis
ter and representatives of the Ameri-
can company, of which ex-senator Cal
vim S. Brice is at the head. This gives
the American company a concession
for building and controlling railroad
nearly 500 miles in length through the
richest and most populous part of
China.
| DR. s. V. LEECH, who was recently
required to resign as pastor of the
| Kansas Avenue Methodist church at
Atchison, Kan, for kissing a young
woman member of his congregation
and for other alleged acts, was rein
stated by Bishop Fowler, who held
that the action of the board was not
iustifiable under the circumstances.
The battleships Iowa and Oregon
will be taken to Honolulu via Cape
Horn. the trip requiring about four
months. If deemed expedient the
ships will ultimately proceed to Ma
Mia.
ALL free soup houses in Havana,
which had been feeding the needy over
$4,000 rations daily, were closed by
order of the governor general 1t was
predicted that additional distress
would follow the closing.
The Philippine Insurgents evacuated
the suburbs of Manila on the 14th.
They did so in a grand march in which
nearly 5000 meu took part, carrying
rifles, colors waving, bands playing
and shouting viva Americanos,"
| "Viva Filipinos libres."
LIEUT.. BLOW, who has charge of the
wreckage operations near Santiago
harbor, reports that it is impossible to
save the Cristobal Colon. Great hopes
i are entertained that the Maria Teresa
can be saved.
THE third and last day of the ma
tional currency convention at Omaha,
| Neb., began with a paper in support
of an unlimited issue of irredeemable
currency by the government by Gen.
A. ]. Warner, president of the Ameri-
can Bimetallic union. A reply was
made to him by Congressman Fowler,
| of New Jersey, who supported bank
| currency. Mr. Fowler said the only
logical position the silver men could
take was that of Gen. Warner; that if
they could legislate value into silver
they could legislate value into paper
and make it redeem itself.
STRESS was laid upon the fact at the
meeting of the Sons of Veterans at
Omaha, Neb., on the 18th that more
representatives of the order enlisted
in the war against Spain than from
any other organization. A net gain of
599 members has been made during the
last year, the total membership being
at present 81, 3,341, distributed among
LIS camps. A surplus of over S., 100
has been added to the treasury of the
society.
PERMISSION has been granted by the
secretary of war to the volunteer
troops who served in the army during
the war with Spain to retain their
arms and equipments One months
pay will cover the total expense, and
the last months pay will be accepted
in payment As each man will be
granted furlough, this will practical
ly be gift from the government
| DETAILS of the hurricane that visited
the West Indies recently show that 1t
was the worst of the century. In st.
| Vincent, out of a population of Al 900,
over 500 were killed and 20, 200 were
| injured and rendered homeless. The
| island has been absolutely gutted.
The American bark George +. Maui
son, out 135 days from Sydney, N. S.
| w, for San Francisco, was thonght to
have gone down in the great storm
which prevailed off tho Australian
coast four months ago.
| SECRETARY LONG has directed that
the battleship to be built by the Union
iron works, San Francisco, will be
named the Ohio The Cramps will
build the Maine and the Newport News
company the Missouri.
The Cologne Gazette, in a leading
editorial, declared that anarchists
will no longer be tolerated in Ger
many, but they must be made to carry
their evil purposes to foreign lands"
AT the session of the Sons of Veter-
ans at Omaha, Neb., on the 14th, De-
troit, Mich, was selected for the next
meeting place. A new ritual was
adopted, which provides for one de-
| gree instead of three. The PROPOSE
tion to raise the muster fee from 81 to
| SIS was voted down. 1t was decided to
| ask that one of the new battleships
be named Lincoln.
| A WASHINGTON dispatch on the 18th
| said army officers looked with disfavor
upon the proposed Investigation and
predicted its failure, on the ground
| that the commission would have no
power to compel officers to testify and
they would not do so voluntarily.
The post-mortem examination of
the remains of the late empress of
| Austria, who was assaSSinatSd at
| Geneva by an anarchist, has revealed
that the weapon completely transfxed
the heart, penetrating SO inches and
making a wound one-sixth of an inch
wide. The fact that her majesty
walked so yards to the steamer is
ascribed to her remarkable will power
and natural energy.
A TERRIBLE hurricane swept over St
Vincent island and the Barbados.
Kingston, capital of St Vincent, was
reported totally destroyed. Over 500
lives were lost and ,, 500 people rem
| dered homeless