The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-03-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


injured and several are missing. A
quarrel between the police and fire
men as to whose duty it was to dig
the victims from the ruins caused an
abrupt suspension of the search.
Lord PauncefOte, the British am
bassador at Washington, has been ap-
pointed member of the privy coun.
Gil.
serious cave-in of the Spencer
mine workings occurred at Dunmorc,
Pa, on the 18th, causing a surface dis.
turbance of over seven hundred feet
long and 100 feet in width. Four
residences were so badly wrecked as
to render them untenable.
Gen. Bruce A. Milton arrived at
RouNville, Orange River colony, on
the 1lth, and found the place COM
pletely deserted. The houses were
open and many of them contained no
furniture.
John i. Upton, the alleged default
ing treasurer and secretary of the In
ternational Switchmen's Union of
North America, was arraigned at Buf,
falo, n. Y, on the 18th. The charge
was changed to that of grand larceny,
first degree. Upton pleaded not
guilty, waived examination and was
held for the grand Jury.
The estate of Sir Francis Cook (the
husband of Tennessee Cla1in), who
died in London, February II, was
sworn to on the 18th. 1t is valued
at 4 100000 ($S.1OO, ,0OO).
The directors of the suspended First
nafinnal ho1 MI Of
18th, filed a declaration against
Charles A. Johnson, the missing cash.
ier of the bank, alleging that forgerles
amounting to 100000 against leading
citizens of the county had been com
mitted by him.
At Madrid, on the 18th, while the
officials engaged i'll collecting the oc-
troi were assaulting workman who
had attempted to evade the tax, a
large crowd gathered, angrily protest
ing, and the affair eliminated in a
riot. The gendar1nes finally dispersed
the mob.
Four hundred men and boys had a
pitched battle, on the 18th, in which
over a thousand shots were exchanged
with three burglars, who were hiding
in patch of woods, three miles west
of Pennington, Mich. After a des- |
perate resistance the men surrend- |
cred. All three were badly wounded. |
Gen. and former President Benja |
min Harrison, died, on the 18th, al |
his home in Indianapolis, Ind. In |
spite OF the warning bulletins of his |
physicians, people generally, the coun-
try over, had hoped that he would |
win in IiC 1ic- |
ease, and the final announcement of |
his death came as a shock. Mr.. Har-
rison's deathbed was surrounded by
relatives and friends, although neither
Mrs. Mckee, his daughter, nor Col,
Russell Harrison, his son, arrived in
time to see him alive.
The French shipping companies in
view of the lockers strike at Mar
seilles, have decided to import Arat
laborers to replace the native work.
men.
Nine bargeloads Of steel rails and
2.134,OOO bushels of coal were shipped
south from Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
18th. Ten million bushels of coal and
$4,000 tons of rails still awaited boats
to carry them south.
The British admiralty court, on the
18th, awarded the German steamer
Valencia & ZOO for her services to the
Cunard liner Carintha which, while
en- route from New Orleans to south
Africa, with !, 400 mules for the Brit.
ssh army, was wrecked on the Haytien
coast last May.
NJ. Bogoliepoff, Russian minister of
public instruction, who, while holding
- l>,, |
Peter Karpovich, formerly student
at the University of Moscow, died, Oh
the 18th, of his wound.
On the 18th r. G.. Dun & Co. report
ed: Failures for the week were 203
in the United States, aginst 100 last
year, and 33 in Canada, against 23 last
year.
Sir Edwin Saunders, president of
the Chronological society, and dentist
to King Edward and Queen Alexandra,
died in London on the 18th. ,
Lieutenant-C Commander William
Braunersreuther has been relieved !
from duty as captain of the port of !
Manila, he having been condemned by /
a medical survey and ordered to the {
Yokohama hospital. He is succeeded 5
by Lieut.. w. j. Sears. s
Answering question in the British
house of commons, on the 14th, Lord
Cranborne, under secretary for the
foreign office, said no steps had been
taken by his maiesty's government to /
revise the Hay-Pauncefete treaty, but L
the government would be ready to {
in a friendly way any pro- t
posals made toward that object by the a
United States. q
The trial of the most prominent
rebel in the colony of Natal, South !
man named De jaeger has c
been concluded at Pietermarit.burg. t
lie was sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment and 20 pay fihe of e5, I
300. De jaeger was BoeJ command
ant.
George Weaver, of Catal Dover, O.,
put of employment, on the 14th, shot
his sleeping wife to Seath and killed
himself. leaving sewn orphaned chill
iren. The babe WIS found by neign- +
bors in its dead mothers arms COW =
cred with blood. a
1t was rumorjd, on the 14th, that :
crisis was i1pminent in the Portu- :
guese cabinet :
Lii Hung Gang is reported again in :
rood health f