The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-07-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

smallpox there, when the vessel left
and numerous cases of pncumOni1.
The governor Of Fort Arthur tele-
graphs that 10000 Manchu troops were
ON July Z, within nine miles Of Neu
Chwang, and had destroyed tn. Rus
sian mines. They were engaged by n
small force of Russians. The result of
the encounter Is not known.
1t is understood that at the close
of the war in South Africa. Bloenfon-
TEN will be the headquarters of the
Cummander-in-chief, the seat of the
S'mth African court of appeals, and,
eventually. the federal capital of South
Africa.
EN-COngresSman Mason s. Peters, of
Kansas City. Kas., was nominated for
congress at Paola, on the nth, by the
fusion convention for the Second Kan
sas district. His closest opponent was
eN-GOv. John p. st. John. The demo-
Gratis and POpUlists each had 73 dele
gates in the convention.
The British third class hattleshir
COnqueror went ashore, on the 11th, on
the Shambels hank, while proceeding
tO the scene of the naval maneuvers.
She WIS subsequently floated, and pro-
cecdCd for Portland.
The rainfall is increasing in central
RaIpOotana and the eastern PTnjab
hut elsewhere in India there is still Il
leck Cf rain.
At the request of the imperial au-
thOrities, the Canadian Pacific Railway
Co. has made all arrangements to carry
lrs4
mclt may send to China direct from
Quebec to Shanghai.
The secretary of the navy has select
ed names for the six new submarine
boats as follows: Grampus, Shark,
Pike PorDoise, Adder and Moccasin.
With a view of improving its steam
er service between New Orleans and
Havana, the Southern Pacific Co. has
taken two of its best steamers, the
Chalmettc and the Algiers. from the
New York service and will put them in
its Havana line. The Chamette left
New York, on the 18th, for her new
berth.
Ii Hung Chang decided to remain in
Canton. and the American gunboat
which was waiting to convey him en-
route to Pekin, sailed on the 18th.
The rioters responsible for ihe recent
ant;-Semite disturbances iB Buetow,
Prussia, were, on the 18th, sentenced
TO various short terms in Jail.
The italian chamber Cf deputies, on
the 18th, approved the commercial
treaty between the United States and
Italy.
United States Consul Adelbert S.
Hay, at Pretoria, is about To return to
the United States.
4 report came by way of Berlin, or
the 18th, that the Chinese Boxers had
cut the grand canal, near Tien Tsin,
flooding the surrounding country, in
order TO prevent the allies marching
or PelIin.
The army transports plying between
San Francisco and the far east have
again been placed on a war basis, with
the result that no more passengers not
attached to the military can be car
ried on these vessels.
GOv.-Gen. Wood of Cuba, on the 18th,
announced his intention to leave for
the United States on the 14th, to con-
u
10 certain matters connected with Gu
ba.
After having been buried in a grave
in Woodland Park cemetery, at Lex
ington, Ky, for three days, 16-year-oid
Maud Matthews was, on the 18th, dis
inferred in the presence of a thousand
persons and, recovering from what was
claimed to be a hypnotic sleep, stepped
from her caslet with a CHEEKY 'Hello!"
to the gravediggers.
Lord Roberts reported to the British
war office, On the 18th, that the Eoers
lad succeeded in capturing NitraTs
Mex, IS miles from Pretoria, which was
garriSoned by 4 squadron of Scots
Grevs, with two guns and a battery of
the Royal artillery, and five companies
of the Lincolnshire regiment. The
British losses were heavy.
a report from Chinese sources, by
way Of Shanghai, says that the two re-
naming legations. the Russian and
British. were attacked on the evening
of the 9th, and by the morning of the
18th both legations were destroyed and
ell the foreigners were dead, while the
streets around the legations were filed
with the dead of both foreigners and
Chinese.
President William Mckinley and
Gov. Roosevelt of New York were
formally notified of their nomination
as the republican candidates for presi-
dent and vice-president of the United
States. the former ut his home in Can
ton. O.. and the latter at his country
seat, "Sagamore," near Oyster Bay,
Long Island.
"OId Hi' Pierce. known wherever
there are men who sit about green
covered tables, is dead. Outside the
craft he was known as Hiram Franklin
Pierce. In his calling he was an
aristocrat. He was known as a
nephew of Franklin Pierce, once presi-
dent of the United States. ''Old Hi''
oied at -. poor and homeless.
The announcement is made that,
after October ]. oil viii be substituted
for coal as fuel on all engines OF the
Sante Fe system engaged in traffic on
the Pacific coSst. If this can be done
economically. the advantages to be
caiuFd are too many to need enumcra-
ton or comment.
Senor Silvela, the Spanish premier,
says that no Spanish war vessel will
go to China, Spain having no interests
to defend in the extreme orient,