The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-08-18
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Five prisoners broke Jail at Bon
tured.
A spoonful of creosote taken acct
dentally caused the death of little
Irene Noerg at ST. Louis.
Reports from the Arctic whaling
feet says the season has been COM
plete failure.
Trade between the United States
and Japan, the past five years, has
mere than doubled.
Arrangements are being made for a
special display of American fruits at
the Paris exposition.
l. is now said that Gov Stephens OF
Missouri will eventually pardon Maud
Lewis, the SLAYER of Senator Pete Nor
rissey.
James w. Dalton, so years old, has
been missing from his home, at ST.
Louis, since june 10.
An American accommodating party
defeated 400 Filipiuos and took San
Mateo. ten miles northeast of Manila.
William Ruffiens, a ventriloquist,
was arrested in Sedalia, after helping
himself to the contents of a clothing
store.
William j. Bryan will speak at Tip
ton, Mo-. in the Eighth congressional
district, in the interest of ShackelfOrd,
at date soon to be decide upon.
Gov.-Gen. Davis of Porto Rico esti-
mates that 100000 persons are desti-
tute on that island as a result of the
storm, and that fully 1000 lives were
lost.
The White Star liner Oceanic is now
preparing for her maiden trip be-
tween Liverpool and New York. She
is 7O4 feet long.
Police Officer Collins, of Burlington,
Ia, closed the gambling-houses. He
charges that a city official received a
''rake-off'' from the proprietors for
protection.
Secretary of War Root will issue an
appeal to the governors of the several
states in behalf of the hurricane suf-
ferers in Porto Rico.
At Brunswick, Ga, in anticipation of
approaching storm, all shipping is
tied down, and everything portable
has been placed in places of safety.
''Uncle" Paul Brown, of Lindsay
town, Mo-, the oldest man in the state,
died Sunday. He was 1OS years old, so
the neighbors say.
The secretary of state of Illinois will
call for statements from corporations,
showing the location, extent and ma
turC of their business.
Two hundred and fifty Chinese men,
women and children, who are to take
part in the Philadelphia exposition,
will reach San Francisco, September l.
w. c. Llwellyn, a recruit belonging
to Company L, Thirty-fourth infantry,
organizing of Fort Logan, Denver, Col,
is charged with numbering two Denver
policemen Sunday.
AT POinte-a-Pitre, La M0nco, Port
Louis, st. Francois and other places in
the West Indies the storm caused I'M
told havoc to life and property, and
many thousands are destitute and
homeless.
The government is doing everything
possible to relieve the distress in Por-
to Rico, caused by the recent hurri-
cane, and arrangements are making to
transport provisions and clothing
from New York.
The five year-old child of James
Scanlon, conductor of the Gulf, Colo
RADIO & Santa Fe railway, was burned
to death at Dallas, Tex. The child up
set an oil lamp that ignited its clothes
and burned it SO badly that death re-
suited.
The bubOnic plague has appeared at
New-Chwang, in the province of Lee
Tong on the River Lou, near the gulf
of Pe-Chi-Ii, China.
About nine o'clock Sunday evening
severe seismic disturbance, lasting
five seconds, was felt in the city of
Lisbon PORTUGAL