The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-11-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

dry, for holding the next annual con-
vention. The grange adopted a reso-
luton setting apart the third Sunday
in June to be observed by members
of the organization throughout the
country as a Grange memorial day.
Lord Roberts horse fell with him,
at johannesburg. on the 18th, giving
him a severe shaking up, but his in
juries were not severe enough to in
terfere with his performing his usual
duties.
The Berlin Vossische Zeitung points
out "the danger of permitting Beers
10 trek into German southwest Afri.
ca, since they are unmanageable and
incapable of accepting orderly condi-
tions.n
A law has just gone into operation
in Norway permitting the conditional
discharge of a convict for good be-
havior after he has served two-thirds
of his sentence.
Senator Davis condition was re-
ported, on the 2lst, as showing no
material change. Temperature, 90;
pulse, ITO; respiration, 2S.
The telephone franchises were sold
at auction in st. Petersburg on the
Goth. The new regime begins in No
vember, 1901. The government pre-
scribed the conditions of rentals and
the franchises were given to the par
ties fixing the lowest subscription.
A blunder in calculating the time
the Gelderland would require between
Port Said and Marseilles resulted in
the fizzling out, on the 21st, IF the
intended demonstration to Dom Paul
on that day.
The Grand Rapids board of trade,
on the night of the 21st, celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of the incor-
poration of the city by monster BAN
quet at the ArmOry hall in that city.
Capt. McGowan has been ordered to
Key West, where ne will become COM
mandant of the Key West naval sta
tion, succeeding Capt. Impie, who is
transferred to San Francisco.
The hospital ship Relief, which was
of such valuable assistance to the
army in China during the recent hos
tilities, left NagasaIi, on the 21st, for
Manila, her regular station.
Two old women, Violet Colley, 70
years old, and her niece, Jane Cath
Colley, who lived alone, five miles
north of Charlotte, \. c., were muir
dered, lob5ed and their bodies
burned. The old women were re-
ported to be wealthy. There is no
clew to the perpetrators of the deed.
Sheriff Manion, at Mount Vernon,
Ill, was notified, on the 21st, that
Prof. Amos Harvey, with his young
sister-in-law, Sallie Gardner, with
whom he eloped, November s, were
under arrest at Black Rock, Ark.
Upwards of sixty persons were
killed and many scores injured dur
ing the progress of the tornado which
swept through portions of Tennessee
and Mississippi, on the evening of the
goth. The losses on property are i'm
mense.
Miss Theresa Heating, a highly re-
spectacle young woman, was found
murdered in a vacant lot off Davis
street, near the New York Central
railroad tracks, at Rochester, n. V,
on the 21st. She had been robbed of
her money and maltreated.
1t is announced by the ways and
means committee of the house of rep
resentatives that a reduction of the
war taxes to the amount of about
s3O,OOO,OOO will probably be made
This is a much heavier reduction than
was recommended by Secretary Gage.
A movement is on foot among the
members of the New York chamber
of commerce to organize another
committee of seventy to fight Tam
many hail and vice. The movement
has been under way for several days,
and n nSoeting will soon be held at
the chamber of commerce rooms for
the purpose of efTccting an organiza-
tion.
The duke and duchess of Manches-
ter, on arriving at Tanderagee castle,
Armagh, were received with great re-
joicings. Bonfres blazed and illumi-
nations were general. The crowds
cheered as the couple drove through
the town, and the duke thanked his
tenants for their reception of his
bride.
Frank Wilson, who was arrested
with a lawyer named Elmer and 9TH
ers, in connection with the divorce
mill conspiracy, in New York, plead
ed guilty before Recorder Goff to four
indictments for perjury found against
him in connection with these cases.
Six bandits held up the Iron
Mountain cannon ball near Malvern,
Ark, on the night of the 21st, and al
most wrecked the express car in their
attempts to open the big safe. All
the loot they secured was the local
express box. containing $500, and S19O
in silver. Messenger II. s. Avery, of
St. Louis, was badly hurt by flying
splinter.
4 cablegram has been received by
the family of Lieut.. +. w. Allstaetter
of the United States engineer corps,
announcing that he has been liberated
by the Filipinos, and will start for
home soon. Lieut.. AilsJaetter was cap
tured, about three months ago, while
building railway near Manila.
A house IN Darmstadt collapsed, on
the 22d, burying a score of workmen,
of whom - were killed.
The Chilean government has invited
tenders for 10000 tons OF rails for new
railroads.
The Louisville, Evansville d St. Louis |
railroad, commonly called the Air
Line, was bought at public sale at |
Huntingburg, Ind, on the ed, by the |
Southern Railway Co.. for $4,000, 900.
Cracksmen, on the night of the 22d. |
blew open the safe of the Farmers !
bank at Orlando, Okla. with nitro |
glycerine, and escaped with SLIGO in |
currency, leaving no clue