The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

! Postmaster-General Smith left Wash
iHgton, on the 25th, for Galena, Ill.
where he was booked to deliver an ad
dress at the Grant university cele
bratiOn on the 27th.
The statement of the condition o
Available cash balance, $2S3,977, ,4S7
gold reserve, S242, ,512, ,264.
The Thirteenth United States infan
try arrived at San Francisco, from New
York state, on the Goth, en- route Il
Manila.
The United States disptach boa
| Badger, with the Samoan commission
on board, sailed from San francisco
for Apia on the Goth. The steamer viii
probably stop at Honolulu for coal.
\ sensational trial began, on tht
27th, at Breslau, Germany, where :
man named Hermann is charged will
numbering three wives and II children
of his second marriage, as well as G
whole series of others murders.
About 300 houses of the town o1
| Guta, Hungary, were burned on the
| Goth. The charred remains of severa
women and four children have been
| recovered from the ruins, and it is
| feared there are other victims.
Aguinaldo has ordered his men to
| ccOnOmize their powder, which is a
| significant sign of shortage of ammu.
milton.
Steel billits are selling Pittsburgh
Pa, in 1,00O-ton lots, at $26.5O per ton
EX-Premier Gerlachstein of Austria
| died in Vienna on the goth.
Commissioner Wilson of the internal
revenue bureau, has decided that base
ball games by college and amateur or
fCCal clubs for which an admission fee
is charged, are not subject to the spe-
cial tax under the act of June 13, 1892.
Rev. DIR. Alex. H. Clapp, editorial Sec
retary of the Congregational Home
Missionary society, died in New York
city, on the 27th, aged 81 years. He
had been connected with the society
for SO years.
Nirulent smallpox has appeared stimuli
toneOusly in various parts of Germany,
notably at Iserlohn. Hanover and Moe
zadlO. The Prussian authorities are
taking prompt steps to prevent its
spread.
The president, on the 27th, issued a
proclamation announcing the issue of
the new eXtradition treaty between the
United States and Mexico, and the con-
vention is now in force.
\ terrific windstOrm, followed by
rain and hail, swept the Soldier valley,
in Nebraska. on the night of the 27th,
leaving death and ruin in its path.
\ heavy rain fell throughout the
state of Wisconsin, on the night of the
27th. Reports from different parts of
the state tell of cloud-bursts, with
damaging results.
Nearly 100 survivors of the Sultana
disaster gathered at Cleveland, o., on
the 27th, in annual convention, the oc-
casiOn being the thirty-fifth anniver-
sary of the event.
One of the strangest occurrences of
the Kirksville (Mo.) cyclone was the
finding of a grooming baby out in a
field far from any house. The child
was scarcely scratched. Another baby
was found where it had been bruised
t. death by the violence of the wind.
Neither had been identified or claimed
24 hours after the storm.
The main part of the business por-
ton of San Francis, Kas., was de-
stroyed by fire on the 2Sth. Thirteen
business buildings were burned. There
was no loss of life, but County Attorney
Finlay was badly burned.
Adjt.-Gen. Corbin says the Filipino
peace overtures will not bring about
any change of plan in this country as
to forwarding ships, supplies and
troops TO the Philippines.
John p. Ross, of Sharon, Mass, was
shot and killed by his wife, Mary E.
Ross, in the course of quarrel at their
home. She says she acted in self-de-
feDse, as her husband was choking
Der at the time. The pair had been
married about a year.
At Birmingham, Ala, 5000 employees |
Of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. |
were given notice that on May 1 their |
salaries would be advanced on basis |
nj ten per cent.
A statement prepared by the war |
shows that 1913 were killed |
in the Philippines from February 4 |
to April 26, and lii wounded. Total, /
l 2O9.
Col, Hugh d. Greer, a well-known
ev-cOnfederate soldier, who served |
through the civil war under Gen. For
rests command, was accidentally run
over and instantly killed by South
ern railway train at Buntyn Station,
near Memphis, Tenn.
Fifty Americans were overcome by
tbe heat, and Col. Funston dropped
utterly exhausted after the battle, at
The men of the Kansas
regiment cheered him when he went
lmong them.
Secretary Hay was notified by the
Ere ench ambassador that Spain would
lccept through him the S2O.OOO,O 900 to
,e paid, under the treaty of peace, for
he Philippines. The payment will be
made to the ambassador as soon as
lac president returns to Washington.