The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-03-10
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

The opera house at Pine Bluff, Ark,
was destroyed by fire.
The Chinese government has refused
the demand of Italy for a lease of San
Nun bay.
The steamer II. w. Buttorff sunk
sengers were saved.
The village of Pena Francia. near
Paco, has been burned by the Filipino
| insurgents.
Tin plate and brick manufacturing
| companies in the east have raised the
wages of employees.
Germany is said to have renewed
the negotiations for the purchase of
| the Caroline islands.
Isaac Grimes, aged II, one of Cass
county's Oll.) early settlers, died Sun
day evening. at Virginia.
The finance committee of the SEN
ate will sit during the recess to con-
slider currency questions.
y naval powder magazine near Tou-
Ion, France, was blown up, and fully
100 men killed or wounded.
a building at Helotee, Tex. was
blown up with dynamite, and several
persons were seriously injured.
Saloons in St. Louis were closed. as
general rule, Sunday. and a number
of viOlatOrs of the law were arrested.
Gov. Barnes of Oklahoma recon-
mends an appropriation for n terri
torial exhibit at the st. Louis World S
fair.
Andy Gumbach assaulted and
stabbed the god parents at christen-
ing in St. Louis, and broke up the
ceremony.
Heavy rainfalls precipitated floods at
points along the Ohio river and trib-
utaries. Two-thirds of Charleston, w.
Va, is under water.
Effort is being made to induce the
Illinois legislature TO remove the seat
of the appellate court from Mount Yer
non to East St Louis
The dead body of F. II. Eads, broth
er of the famous St. Louis bridge
builder. was found i'm his cabin, near
Elliston. Mont. He was 20 years of
age.
The necessity of suppressing fill
Admiral Dewey asking the navy de-
partment for more vessels of light
draught.
Naval officers are indignant at the
action of the senate in holding up ali
as the result of the battle off Santiago
because of the Schley-Sampson con-
trOversy.
Ryan, Kennedy and Sheppard, the
alleged Macomb train robbers, were
taken from Springfield to Green coun-
", Mo-. where their cases will come up
this week.
The cabinet at Madrid has decided
to suppress the pensions of all former
ministers. This is the beginning of an
economical policy decided upon by the
new premier.
The bubonic plague is raging at
Bombay with unparalleled severity.
According TO official returns, there
were 952 deaths last week. but these
quite underrate the mortality.
An entire hotel at Cimiez has been
chartered for Queen Nictoria's occu-
pancy. While in France the queen will
be protected from outsiders by her
own private guard OF i SOlulers, lne
pick of the English army.
Three small children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Rhinehart. of Walkers Valley,
Wash. were burned to death. The chill
dren had been locked up ini the house
while the parents were at work in the
woods.
\ case of smallpox has been discov-
ored II, q. I,io downtown aDartmeut
house. in Cleveland. o.. in which near
Iy 400 persons are living. The victim is
an attorney and he was the roommate
of Frederick ]. Taft. assistant county
solicitor.
The body of ID. p. Ewing, member
of the firm of the Tyler (Tex.) Bank
ing Co. was found in the Tyler bot
Ting works Sunday. Near him was
found an empty morphine bottle, indi-
eating suicide.