The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-08-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The English Church Missionary so
ciety, on the 1st, received telegrams
dated Saturday, July 2s. saying all of
their stations at Shanghai and in the
Provinces of Che-kiang and Fuh- KEN
were tranquil.
The steamship Kaiser Frederick, sail
ing from New York. on the 1st. for
Europe took cut $4,000 ounces of sill
yer.
Martha Hendricks, - years old, and
PAUL Warner, an clipping couple, lost
their lives, on the 2d, by drowning in
the Currant river, while attempting TO
escape from the angry father of the
girl. The skiff in which they attempt
cd 10 cross the river struck snag and
was capsized.
Intense heat has prevailed over por-
tions of South Dakota for several days,
the temperature ranging from 9S to
1GI. Work in harvest fields was inter
TuPted and pasturagc dried up.
The Mexican government has given
notice that parcels post packages
weighing up to IL pounds may be sent
in the mails for Conception del OrO,
State of Zacatecas.
Reliable returns of the election for
governor held in Choctaw nation, on
the 1st, show that Judge G. w. Dukes
was elected. Mr.. Dukes ran on the full
blood ticket.
Professors A. y. T3lbOt and Baker,
OF the University of Illinois, are IT.
Eerlin studying the waterNYOrks and
sewage sytems.
The steamer MaIipOsa, which left
Sydney, y. >. W., on the 2d, for San
Francisco, carried 6 $4,000 gold.
There are evidences that the Euro
Pcan powers are not working together
as EaTmoniously as could be wished
in the Chinese matter. Practically
every cne of them. except the United
Suites, is looking forward to the time
of final settlement, and is anxious tn
take the course that will secure it the
most advantage at that time.
The constitutional amendment, hav-
ing in view the elimination of the ne
gro as a voter in North Carolina, has
heen carried 10y majority of $4,000.
The entire democratic state ticket is
elected by majorities considerably in
advance of that given fer the amend
ment.
Twenty-seven anarchists. dominated
by n leader grown gray in plotting
against social order, are sIid to have
sailed from New York within the last
few weeks, pledged to destroy all the
rulers of Europe. The plan, so far
reaching, is said to have been evolved
in Paterson. n. J.
Gamblers of all kinds secured foot
ing Of Kerr's park, Kansas City, Kas..
when the Modern Woodmen of north
west Kansas had their annual log
rolling. Failing to get police assistance
10 drive away the nUisanCeS, TIE Wood
men got together and raided all the
outfits. smashing tk2 various gambling
devices to pieces.
Edward Leonard Dwyer, former
millionaire, who, five years ago, mar
ried the rich countess de Castellucia
and inherited much of her wealth, is
now penniless and a recruit in the
marine corps at the League Island
navy yard, Philadelphia.
The Louisiana board of health has
proclaimed a quarantine of five days
against all fruit vessels from Central
America carrying passengers. y few
days ago the board quarantined
against Costa Rica, because of the APP
pearance of yellow fever at Port Lii
mon.
Announcement was made in Phila
delphia, on the I'd, that an agreement
lad been 1eached between the city of
Philadelphia and the heirs OF the late
DIR. Thomas w. Evans, the American
dentist. who died in Paris. France. sew
eral years ago, by which the contro-
ve1sy will be abandoned.
Authentic reports received at ArcO-
Ia. H.. by men who have covered the
brcomcorn district, say that the storm
OF the LIST did over a million dollars
damage to the growing corn crop.
From one end of the district to the
ether the corn is lying fat on the
ground.
A coroner's inquest held, on the I'd.
on the body of Carl SchUrz, Jr., the
second son of eX-Secretary of the In
terror Carl Schurz, Cf New York, who
died alone in his boarding house in
ntague street, LondCn, July 26, re-
suited in a verdict that death was
caused by heart disease.
Robert Dunlap, leading merchant
of New York city, who was the founder
of the Dunlap News agency, now no
longer in existence, died in that city
on the Sd.
Henry Hillaby, of Yorkshire, Eng
land, was. on the Sd, held in $4,000 bail
by United States Commissioner Craig,
at Philadelphia, for further hearing,
charged with embezzling $4,000 from
the Graggleston Coal Co., of Wake
field, Yorkshire.
Capt. Rust, of the German navy, has
published a pamphlet in which he as
serts that two German financial
groups are negotiating with local
Malay potentates for the purchase of
the fertile island of Poolo Lontar, off
the west coast of the Peninsula OF
Malacca.