The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-03-23
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

St. Patrick's day was celebrated in
St. Louis as it has not been for many
years.
Oil in large quantities has been dis
covered in three different states of
Mexico.
"Jim" Holloway, the prize fighter.
is now an adjutant in the Boer forces
ia Africa.
Two thousand bales of cotton were
burned, Sunday evening, in the Port
Gibson (Miss.) compress; loss, $780,
COO.
Frank ,Cass, 1s years old, was killed
at Levin Lakes, Cal, Sunday, in
friendly boxing bout with Bert Whid-
dCn.
I,r. E. B. Emerson, a prominent g..
\. Ii, man, and pension-eXaming sur
geon, died at his home in Stokes, ILL.,,
Sunday.
Andrew Bolter, one of the most not
cal cntomologists in America, and for
IL years a resident of Chicago, died
Sunday.
Extensive preparations are being
made for Miners Day." which will be
celebrated in Pana, ILL.,, Saturday,
March 81.
President James O'Connen of the
Machinists' union will call strikes in
all Earts of the United States and Can
ada at once.
Application for over S5,OOO,000 of
the new bank notes have been favora-
bly, passed upon at the treasury with
in the last week.
Henry Warnecke, a wealthy farmer,
who lived near jamestown, ILL.,, COM
r.itted suicide by shooting in the head
with a target rief.
John Trayham, a well-known poll
tician of Austin, Tex, dropped dead on
the street Sunday afternoon. Heart
failure was the cause.
OF the %, 124 patents issued during
tfe last year by Commissioner DUAL,
7S9 were obtained by citizens or resi-
dents of Connecticut.
Walter L. Miller, the distinguished
il rist, died at AbbevilIe, S. c., Sunday.
Many of Mr.. Miller's papers have been
copied in leading law journals of Eu-
rope and the United States.
The trial of Alexander Jester, at
Nrw London, Mo-, charged with the
murder of Gilbert Gates, will not be
held until some time in June.
Gen. Sir William Stephen Alexander
Lockhart, commander1in-c chief of the
British forces in India, died Sunday.
He was born in September, 1871.
Alexander Davisson died at Lebanon,
H., Sunday, aged 80 years. His wife,
who died last year, was famous as the
woman who spoiled the first spool of
thread in America.
The imports received at ST. Louis
last year amounted in value to S3,O29,-
O44 and the duties paid were $780,,
9S2. The imports were about $500,000
less than in the previous year.
The marriage is announced of Hen
rietta Fairfax Morris, daughter of Mrs.
Gouv verneur Norris, to Stephen BonsaI,
the writer, on March II at the United
States embassy, City of Mexico.
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal
church at Lafayette, Ind, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire Sunday. The
flames started in the furnace room.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Assistant Adjutant General John
ston has written 10 a Texan that the
official record of Gen. Wheeler's serv-
ices in the Philippines has not vet
been received at the war department.
The body of Walter L. Asburry, who
fell from a Mobile & Ohio railroad
trestle one mile from Murphysboro,
Ill, and drowned in Big Muddy river
late Saturday evening, has been re-
covered.
Louis Billow was found guilty at
Fremont. o., of murder in the first
degree, the jury having been out IS
hours. Billow, several years ago, shot
and killed Jacob Hess, the father of
his sweetheart.