The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-11-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


suffering, being one of che stages OF
the kidney trouble, with which the
senator is contending.
James Lynch and Robert L. King
convicted of murder of Godfrey
Frowse, at the Sheep Ranch gambling
mouse III Ssalt Lake City, Utah, on the
night Of September % last, were
senter.c .ced by Judge Booth, on the
ISthi, to suffer the death penalty, on
Ja ahuary IL. 1901. The condemned men
Elected to be shot.
The Southern express between st.
Georges and Saubusse, France, was
derailed, on the 18th, near Dax, about
thirty miles northeast of Bayonne.
The restaurant car was precipitated
over an embankment. Thirteen per-
sons were killed and 21>others injured,
seven of them seriously. Five passen-
gers are missing.
The steamer Ruby A. Cousins, which
sailed from Seattle, Wash, several
weeks ago, loaded with a general car
go of government supplies for the SOL
diers at Port Valdez. Alaska, was
wrecked in the narrows at the en-
trance to Prince William sound.
The Saengerfest building, adjoining
the Geological gardens in Cincinnati.
erected at a cost of 100000 for the
international saengerfest, last year,
was sold to a wrecking company, on
the 18th, at public auction, for $500.
Yu Keng, the Chinese minister to
France, asserts that Ii Hung Chang
and his colleagues "can do nothing
but intrigue and lie and attempt to
save their heads. If they sign the
treaty it will be a mere formality and
will not afford a solution of the
trouble" and that no princes would
be put to death except by telegraph"
A correspondent of the Cape Times
reports that 1850 Beers are besieging
a British garrison of 25O at Schweizer-
hencke, in western Transvaal, and
that Lord Methuen and Col. Settle are
believed to be going to the garrison's
relief.
II. C. Chubb, a Red Cross man who
recently went to Luzon on a tour of
investigation, is authority for the
statement that Red Cross supplies, in
stead of being given to the soldiers
are sold to the stOrekeepers, and that
the cots sent by Miss Helen Gould are
being sold for $3.50 each.
A rumor is current in Rome that the
Illness of the car of Russia is due to
poisoning, and it is asserted that
cipher kilograms have been received
at the vatican saying that an attempt
was made to poison both the emperor
and empress, but that the latter was
not affected.
Miss Louise E. Pierpont Morgan,
daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan, and
Herbert Livingston Saterlee were mar
married, on the 18th, at St. Georges
church, in Stuyvesant square, New
York city.
The preliminary estimate of the av-
erage yield per acre of corn in 1900, as
published in the forthcoming month
ly report of the statistician of the de-
partment of agriculture, is 25.3 BUSH
els, as compared with an average yield |
of 1881 bushels in 1899; of 24.76 bush
els in 1898, and a ten-year average of |
PAL bushels.
A report comes from Kalamazoo,
Mich, that at least nine bodies have |
been disinterred by body-snatchers in |
cemetery, Newaygo coun-
". One body, that was too far de- |
composed to be of use, was left in
fence corner a quarter of a mile from
the cemetery.
George K. Crosthwaite, physician
of Hamilton, Ont, blew out his brains,
on the 18th, in the Railroad Mems |
Christian Association hotel, Chicago.
due to being stranded |
in a strange city, is thought to have
been the cause.
If the city of Pittsburgh, Pa, will
furnish site, Andrew Carnegie offers
10 build a technical school, in connec-
tion with the Carnegie institute, and /
endow it with 100000 in five per
cent. gold bonds.
'Mogy" Bernstein, king of the
of Omaha, was married, on
the 18th, in the parlors of the Coates
house, Kansas City. by Rabbi Mayer.
Mogy's bride is Miss Blanche Sunfeld,
of Perry, Okla.
One hundred thousand dollars worth
of city waterworks bonds, bearing
FIVE per cent. interest, were sold at q
special session of the Muscatine Qa.)
city council, on the 16th,to a Cleveland
firm. After January 1 the city will
own and operate the waterworks.
A woman, believed to be insane,
hurled a hatchet at Emperor William,
on the 10th, as he was driving in an
open carriage, in Breslau, with the
hereditary prince of Saxe-Meiningen.
The weapon missed the intended vic
tim, but struck the rapidly moving
carriage. The woman was rescued
from the indignant populace and ar
rested by the police.
Preston Porter, Jr., colored, who
assaulted and murdered little Louise
Frost, on her lonely ride home from
school, was burned at a stake, on the
exact spot, at Lake Station, near
Jimon, Col, where he had committed
MS awful crime
The international committee of the
Y. NJ. C. A. sat down to its annual din
ner at the Hotel Savoy, New York
,ity, on the 10th. Some two hundred
men from various
walks of life were there to hear ad-
lresses and reports upon the world
vide interests of the organization.
Frederick w. Royce, widely known
Is an inventor, electrician and veteran
operator, dropped dead
from apoplexy, on the 10th, in Wash
ngton.