The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-06-30
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED

The entire TranscaSpian region 0t
Asiatic Russia is threatened with fam
! inc.
The new NJ. T. church cdifce. al
| Petersburg. III. was dedicated Sun,
day.
The celebration of the Fourth ol
July in Hawaii will be on an elaborate
scale.
SPANS active army for the next
financial year has been fixed at 1OS,'
| 600 men.
One thousand girls employed in
Whitlock's tobacco factory, at Rich.
| mond. Va. are on a strike.
The town of Bradley. Neb., was
partly wrecked by a severe storm,
One man was seriously hurt.
The British sloop Buzzard cOllided
with an iceberg near the NewfOund-
land shore, but escaped serious dam
age.
The Woodmen of the World, at DaI-
las, Tex. unveiled monuments, Sun
day, to two of their departed mem
bers.
Miles Mcdonald divcd from the cen
ter span of the Eads bridge, at st.
Louis. SUNDAY. and sustained serious
injuries.
Chancellor MacLean of the Nebras-
ka state university, has resigned to ac-
cept the presidency of the University
of Iowa.
Later developments Indicate that
Miss Slavin, of Wichita, Kas., was not
suicide. The police believe she was
murdered.
George Hepburn died, Sunday, at
the home of his son-in-law, james
Branen. in Sycamore. H.. at the age
of SO years.
Alexander Jester, charged by his
sister with having killed a man, 80
years ago, near Middle Grove, Mo, is
still in the Shawnee (Okla.) Jail.
The conditions along the line of the
disputed Alaskan territory are be-
coming serious and an outbreak by
Americans and Canadians is feared.
Rev. Timothy Dwight, retiring pres
ideut of Yale, preached his last bac-
calaureate sermon before the acade-
mic classes of that university Sun
day.
John Shields. a New York saloon
keeper, came near freezing to death
in his big ice chest, where he was con
fined by burglars while they looted
his place.
The town of Kieng-Ning-FoO. in the
province of Fo-Kien, China, has been
widely pIacarded with bills offering
Il reward of $1,000 for the heads of
missionaries.
Mrs. Herzog, who was shot by her
husband. Charles HerzOg. in st. Louis,
some weeks ago, when he killed his
mother-in-Iaw and himself. is pro
nOunced out of danger.
Crown Prince Frederick William of
Prussi0 has presented to his imperial
parents the first product of his trade
of cabinet maker a beautiful writing
desk. artistically finished.
The boiler of the electric light plant
at Fairview. H.. exploded, Saturday
night, wrecking the building. Frank
the engineer, was dug from
the debris. fatally mangled.
Daniel Tucker, an East St. Louis
GllD negro. while digging for gold.
following the directions of a gypsy
fortune teller. found a human sIlele-
ton bearing evidence of foul play.
1t is said that an English syndicate,
with capital of S1OO,OOO,OOO, has
started in to purchase all of the cat
tie i'm Texas. with a View of cornering
the cattle market of this country.
Thomas Walsh, the noted New York |
politician. better known as FATTY" |
Walsh. died, Sunday night. of heart |
failure, aged 63 years. He was the |
father of Blanche Walsh, the actress.
\ partial examination of the books |
of former Tax Collector George L. |
Griswod, of Norwich, Conn, who has |
been arrested, a self-confessed embez- |
zler, shows a shortage of about $25.-
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