The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-11-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The statement of the London board
of trade for the month of October
shows increases in imports of c 1864
500, and in exports of 6 1,043, 900.
The rebuilt cruiser Atlanta sailed,
On the 7th, for South America, to join
the South Atlantic squadron, under
! RearAdmiral Schley. Upon her ar
rival the Montgomery Will be relieved
and return home for repairs.
AS no afternoon papers are pub
| lished in st. Petersburg, the private
| dispatches of the Associated Press
supplied the only American election
news received there during the early
| hours of the 9th.
There were five killings growing out
of political disputes IN various por-
tions of Kentucky on election day.
The population of the state of Wy
oming, as officially announced by the
census bureau, is 1881, as compared
with 65,7O5 in 1890. This is an increase
of 31,2s6, or 52.4 per cent.
At the close of a long session, on
the sth, eliminating in several eXcit-
| ing divisions, the French chamber of
deputies adopted a resolution of con-
fidence in the Waldeck-Rousseau gov
ernment by 329 votes against 222.
Jerry Lynch, aged 70, believed to be
the last surviving member of the crew
of the confederate battleship Ala
bama, died at his residence in Inman
park, Atlanta, Ca, on the Sth. He left
large estate.
The contract to build the Shamrock
II. has been definitely placed with
Messrs. d. and W. Henderson, the
builders of the three Vall1yries. The
yacht is to be completed by March 81.
The post offices at Atchison, Neb.,
and Parkville, Mo-, have been ad-
vanced from the fourth to the third
(presidentiaD class.
The socialists held ten meetings in
Berlin, on the evening of the Sth, to
discuss the scarcity of dwellings for
laborers.
The Russian government intends
sending an agent to the United States
to study homestead legislation, with
the view of its partial application to
the peasant communities.
Archdeacon Reginald Heber Weller
was cOnsecrated eOadjutOr bishop of
Fond du Lac, Wis, on the Sth. Six
bishops were in attendance.
William J. Bryan, on the sth, sent
the following dispatch to President
Mckinley: Hon. William Mckinley,
President of the United States-At
the close of another presidential cam
paign it is my lot to congratulate you
on a second victory
Owing to the defeat, at the recent
election, of a proposition to raise the
necessary amount to finish paying for
the Peoria Qll.) soldiers monument,
by taxation, their is danger of its be-
ing removed and sold. The monument
is a rare work of art, and was dedi-
Gated, October 6, 1898, by President
Mckinley.
A Pretoria dispatch, via Charles
town, Natal, November z, says: Gen.
DeWet has been wounded in the leg
in a fight with the troops of Gen.
Knox at Rensberg Drift. According to
native reports the Boer commander
narrowly escaped capture
The banquet given at the Waldorf
Astoria, New York, on the night
of the Sth, to Gen. o. o. How
ard, in honor of his SEVENTEEN birth
day anniversary, was attended by 300
men prominent in business and pro-
fessional life. Chauncey NJ. Depew
presided.
Admiral Dewey has removed his col
lection of gifts, which occupied the
most prominent place in the Hall of
American History in the national
to his home in Rhode ISL
and avenue, Washington. The collec-
ton has assumed very large proper
tions.
Ii Hung Chang telegraphs the
correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Telegraph that he despairs
of settlement, and that it is useless
to expecU the Chinese court to consent |
to the execution of Yu Hsien or Tung |
Flu Slang.
Complete unofficial returns from Il |
linois, show the total vote for presi- |
dent to have been: Mckinley, $685.
O23; Bryan, 497,93O; plurality, 95,O93. |
The plurality of Yates for governor
is e5,114.
William ]. Bryan, in a statement is |
sued on the Sth, says: "The result |
was a surprise to me, and the magni-
tude of the republican victory was a |
to our opponents as well as
to those who voted our ticket. II is |
for me to analyze the re-
turns until they are more complete"
A new case of yellow fever is re-
ported from Natchez, Miss. Mrs. But
Ter, the first patient reported, is dead.
She was a neice of former Gov.
-iOngino. A surgeon of the Marine
hospital is endeavoring to trace the
source of infection.
Broken in health by reason of the
ha rdships and privations of the fear
fUl famine in India, Bishop J. NJ. Tho
burn. of Bombay, representative of
he Methodist Episcopal church in In
liza and Oceanica, has returned to this
country, after II years of service in
.he orient.