The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-08-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Paris Droits du L'Homme saws
lOcksmith named Bonnet was shot in
the abdomen. on the 10th, by an un-
known assassin. who saw him in a
street and called out; "He looks like
one of those dirty Jews" The man
then fired at the locksmith and es-
capped. Bonnet was taken to a hospital,
seriously wounded.
Secretary Root has directed that the
transports Pueblo, Belgian Cling, Co
lumbia and Charles f. Nelson be char
tered. They can carry 2,550 men. Al,
Will be ready to sail from San Fran
cisco for Manila by September 1.
The secretary of the interior, on the
10th, began to grant permits under the
Alaskan code to persons and firms to
sell fire arms to the natives of Alaska.
The loss by the recent great storm
in Porto Rico is now estimated at S75,-
100000.
Experiments made at the Pasteur in
stitute in Lisbon identify the OpOrto
epidemic microbes as those of the bu.
bOnic plague.
The headquarters of the Order of
Railway TelegraPhers will be removed
from Peoria, ILL.,, to ST. Louis on Sep
tcmber 20.
The Brussels chamber of commerce.
on the 10th, adopted four out of six of
the governments electoral measures.
Eliza Day, colored, aged 60 years, a
patient at the Columbus (O) state hos
Pital, died, on the 18th, from peritoni-
tis, and an autopsy revealed in her
stomach the handles of five silver
spoons and so cambric needles and in
the bowels nearly so more needles.
The convention of the National Fire
mems association opened in Milwaukee
OF the 18th. There was a slim attend
arce. Mayor David 5. Rose welcomed
the visitors. Papers relating to the
firemen's business were read.
The Twenty-siNth regiment band,
on the 18th, gave a concert on the lawn
in front of the Hotel Annex. at Platts-
burg. y. Y, in honor of president and
Mrs McKinley,who sat in the balcony |
outside their apartments.
Jim Franey, the pugilist injured by
Frank Mcconnell in their fight at San
Francisco, on the night of the 10th I
Uied, on the 18th, without having re-
gained consciousness.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the 18th showed:
Available cash balance, S27}, ,4Ss, ,635;
god reserve. S246.2 ,3O4.
The national encampment of the
Span.sh-American war veterans will be
held in Washington city September s
arc Q. J.
Kansas farmers are contracting the
sale of their corn crop at Is cents per
bushel in the field. In Brown and
Marshall counties a number of farmers
have agreed to deliver large consign-
ments of corn on January /, at %
cents n bushel.
Frank Bangs vas instantly killed by
falling into a corn-sheller at an ele-
vator in Beatrice, Neb.. on the 18th.
\ wagon load of corn had Just been
driven in. and the trap was opened to
receive the grain. Bangs fell through
the trap into the shelter. and was
caught by the sharp steel prongs or
grapples and torn TO pieces.
The wedding of Miss Julia Dent
Grant, daughter of Gen. +. ID. Grant,
to Prince Michael Cantacuzene will
take place at Newport, II. J., Septem-
Der 25. Bishop Henry c. Potter will Of
fciate. The ceremony will be held at
the All SAINTS church. Mrs. Potter
Palmer will give her niece a dot of
S5OO.OOO.
The gunbOat Democracia left Quay
mas, Mexico. recently. and n rumOr
was started that she went to intercept |
a vessel from San Francisco carrying
gatling guns, rifles and ammunition to
the Naquis. She did not return. but
II was rumored that she had captured /
the filibuster.
EN-Judge Richard Prendergast. one
Of ChicagO's most prominent lawyers, |
died, on the 18th, of anaemia. An op-
Grafton of TRANSMISSION of blood from
John MOrrissey-a Young man whom
the attorney had helped to a success
rul career-was performed. which af
fOrded temporary relief, but Ie-
apse came and death followed.
Adjt.-Gen. Corbin has been highly i
pleased TO discover that the soldiers
offering themselves for the volunteer
regiments have, in large numbers, had \
experience in Cuba and elsewhere. The
per cent. runs from about 20 to 90 4
10 locality, making an av-
rage OF about 40 per cent. that NAV
Ne called veterans.
One of the ten new regiments of vol
Inteers to be organized under the or I
Ter issued on the 18th, will be as I:
embled at jefferson Barracks, St. q
.ouis. 1t viii be the Forty-sixth, and
viii be commanded by Col. W. s. u
schuyler formerly captain in the
fifth cavalry. Q
Eight hundred insurgents attacked L
angeles, LUzon, on the nth. but the
y. elfth regiment drove them into the q
lountains. Three ditched locomotives =
7ere captured. None of the American q
roops was injured The insurgent
oSS is not known. III
The insurgent faction in the state of
.os Andes. Venezuela, under Gen
itrianO Castro, was completely de
cated by the government troops in . y
lOCdy battle which lasted IS hours u
'he loss of the insurgents is placed al Z
n0 killed and wounded, and that of W
ic government at 800. ri
Twenty cases of the curious contag- N
aus cutaneous disease, which is rapid CT
+ spreading about Downs, ILL.,, have t.
eeE discovered in Bloomington. 1t is d'
'ss severe than in the country. III
D., n.inEton dnctors diagnose the city IN
lses as imPetigo cOntagiOsa. o'