The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-11-08
Fire DESTROYED a block of buildings

less and causing a loss of 5000, 900.
A. L. Specs killed his wife and ia
tally shot himself at Newaygo, Mich.
Jealousy was the cause.
Miss Helen NJ. Gould, of New York,
announced that she had accepted the
position of vice president of the Nc
Kinley Memorial ass ociation.
Ethel Plumb, aged two years, was
killed at Virginia City, Mont, in re-
volver fight between her parents.
British and American health au-
thorities will cooperate in an effort
to prevent the bubonic plague enter
ing either country.
Admiral Schley finished his testi-
mony before the naval court of in
quiry in Washington.
Gen. Gillespie, chief engineer of the
army, in his annual report says that 25
of the principal harbors of the United
States now have a sufficient number
of guns and mortars mounted to per-
NIT of effective defense.
Near Henderson, KY, Lucien Brown
shot to death his brother-in-law, Ollie
Allison, and then killed himself.
The object of the, visit of representa-
tive men of Porto Rico to the United
States is to pave the way to admiss or
of the island into the union as a state.
Advices by steamer from Nome show
that 500 men are penniless at the camp
and that a winter of disorder is ex-
pected.
Miss Jane Toppan, nurse, was ar
rested charged with causing the death
by poison of Mrs. Harry Gordon and
her father, mother and sister at their
home near Barnstable. Mass.
Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer of the
United States, in his report for the
were $5S7, 1897 and the expend-
itures $5O9, ,967 1853, the surplus being
$77,717,9s4.
A judge at Akron, O., ordered six
boys to be publicly whipped for steal
ing chestnuts. The fathers of the
lads did the whipping.
Proof of the execution of Czolgosz
was filed with the clerk of Erie coun-
ty at Buffalo, n. Y.
A Boer colony is to be established
on a tract of 100000 acres in south
ern Wyoming.
Secretary Root has decided to or
der the Eleventh cavalry and the
Twenty-eighth infantry to the Phil
ippines to replace short-tefn enlist
ed men.
Banks at Arispe and Matlocll, Ia,
were robbed of $1,5OO and $4,000 re-
spectively.
Secretary Gage has decided to buy
in government bonds, thereby re-
ducing the immense surplus in the
treasury.
Judge Hanecy cited w. Il. Hearst.
of the Chicago American, and six of
his newspaper staff to answer charges
of contempt of court.
Revenue collections at Peoria, Ill,
for October reached the figure of
$3,375,OOO.
Testimony. of Admiral Schley was
ended before the court of inquiry and
the taking of rebuttal evidence was
begun.
An earthquake at Lowell, Mass,
shook houses so that crockery and
glassware were broken.
A mob took from the jail at Hodgen-
vile, Ky, Silas Esters (colored),
charged with forcing Granville Ward,
a 15-year-old boy, to commit a crime,
anu STRUNG Hill up " the COuI buOuSC
steps.
Shells livery barn was burned by in
cendiaries at Larned, Kan, and 25 head
of horses perished.
The United States court in New York
decided a case whereby the widow of
Dr. Lucius T. Sheffield is in position
to sue the II 900 dentists in the United
States for $1O,OOO,OOO.
In railway collision at Judson,
Ind, Fireman Richard Stith and Brake
man John Ellabarger were killed.
The Portuguese minister at Wash
ington has been recalled by his gov
ernment for prematurely announcing
the death of President Mckinley.
The annual report of Commissioner
Hermann, of the general land Office,
says that 5,561, ,796 acres of public land
were disposed of during the last fiscal
year, breaking all records.