The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-10-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FER9ONAE AND GENERAL.
All war taxes on importations from
foreign countries into Venezuela have
been abrOgated.
Maxwell ID. Long, OF the New York
Athletic club, on the 4th, at the Gut
tenberg race track, broke the worlds
44O-yard running record, going the
distance in Al seconds.
Gen. Macarthur reported to the war
department, on the 4th, that five SOL
diers died in the mountains of La
guna province after having made their
escape from the insurgents by whom
they had been captured.
BY another peculiar shift in the cur
rent of the Mississippi river within
the last few days, every remaining
trace of the village of old Kaskasl1ia
has been swept into the waters, which
now flow directly over the spot where
was once located the first white set
tlement west of the Allegheny noun
tGins and the first capital of the state
of Illinois.
Gov. McMillin of Tennessee has de-
MED petition for pardon filed by E.
ID. and Frank Thompson, of Memphis,
cadaver dealers and former leading
undertakers. They were for years
county undertakers and sold bodies
in St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago and
other points.
Senator NJ. a. Hanna was the tar
get for a ten-pOund chunk of ice at
the Thirty-first ward republican
meeting, in Chicago, on the night of
the 4th. The missile was dropped
through an aperture in the tent di-
rectly over the speakers stand. 1t did
not miss Hanna's head over two
inches. and had it struck him would
have probably fractured his skull.
A Shanghai dispatch TO the London
Times says it is reported on good au-
thOrity that SO missionaries in north
Shansi, who have hitherto beenreport-
ed as missing, have all been massa-
cred.
Albert T. Patrick and Charles F.
Jones were arrested in New York, on
the 4th, on charges of having forged
the name of William Marsh Rice to
checks aggregating S27O,OCO. Patrick
was arrested in the vaults of the New
York Safe Deposit Co. Jones was ar
rested at No. 500 Madison avenue.
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at Lincoln, Ill, against four men,
charging raud in the award of the
contract for plumbing on the new
building at the Illinois asylum for
feeble-minded children.
The finding of corpses in Galveston
seems never-ending, 25 a day being re-
covered. 1t is certain now that the
dead in the city will exceed 5000, out
side the city limits on the island 1900
and on the mainland over 1000.
A Wausau (Wis.) dispatch of the
dth said: The Wisconsin river is rag
ing as the result of heavy rains and
has exceeded the flood mark of last
spring. The damage so far will reach
thousands of dollars and a little
greater rise, which is expected before
morning, will result in immense loss
Anton March,, aged 70 years,
dropped dead at the Broadway hotel,
Centralia, H., on the 4th, while eat
ing dinner, owing to apOplexy. Mr..
March, was native of Switzerland,
and had no relatives in this country.
He was soldier in the Second Ili-
nOis artillery.
John +. Glover, of New Richmond,
Wis, and John a. Humbird, of ST.
Paul, Mimi, have purchased of Fred
n Weyerhauser, ,OoO acres of stump
age, located along the headwaters of
the Clearwater. The tract contains
4OO,00O,0OO feet of high grade white
pine, and over 1,OOO,OOO,OOO feet of
white and red cedar, fir, etc.
Herr Brinkmann, who was inaugu-
rated as second burgomaster of the
city of Berlin, on the 5th, came out
strongly in his inaugural address in
favor of municipal ownership of trans
portation facilities, better dwellings
for the poor and various social re-
forms.
At the Minera Fair, Is miles east of
Canton, o., on the. 5th, Sid Scott and |
NicOl, owned by C. A. Mcmahon, of |
Garfield, broke the worlds record for |
a pacing team on n half-mile track, |
doing it in 2:13. The former record |
was 2:13%.
From its correspondent at Shang- |
hal, the Berlin LOkaI Anzeiger re-
ceived a dispatch, on the 5th, saving |
that Count Won Waldersee had begun |
Systematically to clear the country |
between Tien Tsin and Pekin of Box !
ers.
An accredited representative of an |
English syndicate, on the 5th, con- |
tracted for 100000 tons of Alabama |
coal to be delivered at some point on |
the gulf of Mexico, the deliveries to |
extend over a period of two years.
The carnival parade, esteemed by |
many to be the most interesting event /
of Kansas City's week of festivitv.
was reviewed, on the 4th. by probably !
the largest crowd that ever visited /
that city on similar occasion.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg
says: ''The Russian government as
sents to the proposals in Count Won
Buelow's note of October l. NJ. De
Giers (the Russian minister at Pelzin)
has been instructed in that sense"