The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-13

| ware store OF hell q Son at Hem Der.
Vile, o., was badly wrecked and Au-
gustus Keil, the junior partner, so
badly injured that he died in an hour.
The Hotel Main at Washington, Pa
and the Levins building adjoining
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
600; insurance, SIS, 900. The fire start
ed in the rear OF the Hotel Main and
burned so rapidly that many of the
occupants narrowly escaped.
THE outside doors of the vault Of the
Phenix Or. L. national bank were
blown out by dynamite about one
o'clock the other morning. but the
three men who attempted to rob the
bank were frightened away before
they could gain access to the interior
| apartments, where the money, securi-
ties and other valuables were kept.
A BIG boiler being tested in Hewitt's
| shipbuilding yards at Barking, Eng,
/ burst and the experimenting engineer
and eight men were killed. Aboat 4O
persons were injured, some fatally
The bodies of the injured were fright
! fully mutilated. The whole ship
building works were wrecked.
Mrs. FLORENCE RTTcHIE, a member
of Frank Daniels company, tainted
while taking a bath at her hotel at
Denver, Col, on the 9th and was
| drowned.
THE flour mill at Venedy, Ill, was
| demolished by a boiler explosion.
The secretary of agriculture for
warded to congress on the 9Th a report
of the work and expenditures of the
/ agricultural experiment stations for
the fiscal year 1898 During that time,
saws the report, the stations have
steadily pursued their investigations,
muck useful work has been accom-
| plished and the facilities for investiga-
tions have been increased.
THE coal operators at Pans, Ill,
were said to have become dissatisfied
with the negroes imported from Ala
bama to take the place of the striking
union miners and were importing
Italians from Chicago to take the
place of the negroes, who were said to
be shiftless and turbulent
THE Oklahoma statehood executive
committee have issued the official call
for statehood convention at Guthrie
on January %. The delegates are to
be elected by mass meetings in the
counties on January 81.
The Italian steamer Voorwarts was
wrecked off the north Cornwall
Eng coast and II of her crew drowned.
SEVERAL months ago Judge Tarvin,
of COvington, KY, sent several council.
men to Jail for contempt of court in
disobeying an order of court 10 fur
nish supplies. Now the five council
meG imprisoned have sued the Judge
collectively for $4,000 for false i'm.
prisOnment-
The anarchist movement in France
has received an enormous impetus
through the growing fear of military
despotism. The sum of zoo, 600 francs
has been placed at the disposal of NJ.
Sebastien Faure for the purpose of es-
tablishing an anarchist daily newspa-
per in Paris.
FIRE in the paint shop of the Nash
vile, Chattanooga & st. Louis rail-
road at Nashville, Tenn, destroyed
ten coaches, including President
Thomas private car and the pay car
of the road. The loss on the building
was estimated at S2O 900 and on the
rolling stock at SS7, 500.
SILAs ANDERSON, colored, who shot
and killed his wife, was hanged in the
county Jail at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
9Th. Jealousy was the cause of the
crime.
THOUSANDS of Chinese were reported |
starving through floods caused by the |
overflow of the Yellow river.
SIX business houses were destroyed |
by fire at Beaman, Ia, the other day.
A HOT campaign against licensing |
saloons is on at Galesburg, III. ~
TIE Missouri Pacific express train
which left Kansas City at 1O:4O D. IN.
on the Sd for St. Louis was wrecked |
one mile west of Jefferson City the |
next morning. The wreck was caused
by a stone which had rolled down from
the bluff on the track. The engine |
rolled off the track into the river,
crushing to death the engineer and
fireman who had jumped. All the
cars, with the exception of the rear
sleeper, left the track, running into the
face of the cliff. None of the passen-
gers, however, were seriously injured.
FIRE destroyed Curdy's carriage fac
tory at Brooklyn and badly damaged
a synagogue opposite. Loss. $500, 600.
ABOUT &C, 900 people, according to
he estimates of the convention hall
ioortenders, attended the gift distri-
button at Kansas City, Mo, on the 2d.
FIVE or six masked men held up the
Kansas City, Fort Scott &c Memphis
train at S:55 p. M of the Sd near Ma
,omb, Mo. They dynamited the
through safe, secured its contents and
escaped. The passengers were not
nolested. y posse was organized at
daylight the next day to get after the
bandits.
GEORGE TYLER was killed by Thomas
Foley in a prize fight at Jersey City,
\. J. Foley landed a right swing on
ryler's jaw and broke his neck.
The three children of Charles Hager-
nan were playing on the ice off Wells
sland, \. Y, in the ST. Lawrence river
when it broke and they fell in. The
mother rushed to their rescue and the
Whole four lost their lives.
A FARMER living near hton, Col,
famed A. X. Willis, was robbed of
Z, 200 which he y in a bureau
rawer. A tramp had shell
cred and who disePp- was sus-
ected OF having taken t. money.
TIE rubber shoe factory at Port |
Ont. was burned the other
corning, entailing a loss of s1oO,
nd throwing some ESQ hands out of {
mployment
The proposed massing in Pana, Ill,
( 600 union miners from central and
Illinois towns for the pur-
ose of driving out the negro miners
allied to materialize on the I'd. The
lilitia on guard were prepared for !
nv outbreak.
AT Miner, Ill, John Lytton shot his
rife, two children and then himself
III were killed except the husband,