The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-10-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

public schools of st. Joseph, Mo-, with
the result that $3.50 was raised. School
children of other cities will be askeI
TO contribute.
The reply of the state department
TO the French note relative to the
basis of Chinese negotiations was
made public on the 11th. 1t agrees in
the main with all the French pro-
posals and suggests early action.
Announcement was made, on the
11th, of the appointment of F. y. Mil
Ter as general passenger agent of the
Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul, rail
way, vice Geo. III. Heafford, resigned
10 engage in other business.
Col. Humphrey, quartermaster in
China, sent cablegIam, under date of
the 1ith, to the quartermaster general
announcing the first departure OF
United States troops from China.
Mr.. Tewksbury, an American mis-
siOnary residing at Tung Chow has
presented claims against China on he
half of converts in - villages for COM
pensation for property losses.
Ii is asserted in Rome that Arch
bishop Martinelli Will be raised to the
cardinalate at the next consistory.
\ very serious view is taken at Field
Marshal Count Won Waldersee's head
quarters. in Tien Tsin, of the revolu-
tionary movement at Canton. A false
alarm. on the eth, caused the Chinese
officials there to protest against any
occupation of Chinese territory. The
Yang Use vicerOys, the dispatch adds,
openly, affirm that they will oppose
any advance of the Germans into
Shang Tung province.
1t is understood that the final dis
position of the silver-some S275,000
in amount-tallen by the American
marines at the capture of Tien Tsin,
may be determined 10y congress. In
the meantime the silver is being treat
ed as a trust fund, of which the gov
ernment is the custodian, until de-
termination is reached as to its right
full disposition.
Patrick Murphy, THE Father OF
Joplin Mo-, died at his home in that
city on the 18th. He was born in Ire
land in 1S49. During the civil war he
was a government freighter, and,
later, became interested in Colorado
mining. He was the first settler in
what is now Joplin.
Rear-Admiral Silas Casey, at pres
ent commandant at League Island
navy yard. has been selected to sue
cced Rear-Admiral Albert Kautz as
commander of the Pacific station
upon the Iattcr's retirement in the
near future.
William Zeigler, a well-knOwn and
wealthy citizen of New York, has an
nOunced that he will purchase two
vessels. fully equip and man them, and
send them in quest of the north pole
during the summer of 1901.
Albert Il. Green. of the general land
office, has been selected as chief of
the new division of forestry of the
interior department authorized by
the last congress.
\ dispatch from Hong Kong, dated
the 18th, says: Admiral Ho is pur-
suing the rebels in an easterly direc-
tion from San Chun."
The Modern Brotherhood of Ameri.
ca will hold its next convention at
Sioux Falls, S. D., in 1901.
Failures for the week ended on the !
18th, as reported by r. G. Dun &, CO., |
were 233 in the United States, against |
164 last year, and 30 in Canada, against |
% last year.
a Shanghai dispatch, dated the 18th, |
saws the Chinese Customs bank has /
remitted 800. 900 taels to the imperial |
treasury, and is preparing to send |
more.
The Presbyterian synod of North |
Dakota elected Andrew Christy |
Brown, DID, of Omaha, synOdical |
missionary for North Dakota.
Sir Alfred Miner, the British high |
TO Blocmfontein.
William J. Bryan addressed an au-
dience at Ann Arbor, during his tour
of Michigan, on the 11th, and was |
compelled to submit to considerable /
iollying by the university students, |
who were out in force. before being |
permitted to go on with his speech.
Two desperate cOnvicts at the Ten !
nessee penitentiary made a daring |
and novel escape from that institu- |
tion, on the evening of the IIth, by |
sliding down telephone wires from |
the top of three-story building to |
a point ouside of the walls hy means |
of improvised trolley cycles. They |
were recaptured.
The battleship Wisconsin made a
successful trial trip off Santa Bar
bara. Cal, on the 1Ith. On the west
ern run, over a 32-knOt course, an
average of 17.s9 was made. The av-
erage for four hours was 1875, with
strong tide allowance in favor of the
ship. In a squirt a speed of IS.5 was
attained.
Reports from Georgetown, Ky, in
dicate that Henry Youtsey may never
again appear in court. His physicians
fear brain fever, which in the pa
TENTS present condition, they say,
would surely prove fatal.
The members of the Taft commits
sion are disgusted with the corrupt /
condition of the native courts of Ma
niIa, and intend TO substitute honest
Americans from the United States
FOR the native magistrates. Americans
having a knowledge of Spanish are
preferred, but they are the hardest to
secure.
An official order has been issued by
. scretary of War Benardo Reyes of +
Mexico expelling from the army Maj. l
Carlos Glass. the grounds for the ex-
pulsion iyeing that the officer made .
public statements in the presence of
his superiors derogatory to the insti-
tutions of Mexico.