The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-02-08
The war department announces that

The war department announces that
it will hereafter award transcorti-
! mental business to the lowest bidder.
In the trial of accused vote sellers
at Charlottesville, Ind, Charles Wells
was disfranchised for 20 years and
John Osborn for Is years. Others who
pleaded guilty escaped with IL years.
| A fire which started in Frankel
Bros department store at Des Moines,
Ia, caused over 5000, 900 loss.
The Kansas State Temperance union
subscribed $10o to buy a gold medal
for Mrs. Carrie Nation.
The Cuban constitutional convention
has adopted clause providing for uni
versal suffrage.
The president has proclaimed the
new eXtradition treaty between the
United States and Peru.
The time for allotment of lands to In
dians in southern Oklahoma is extend
ed to August 6.
The Illinois legislature has passed
bill appropriating 5000 for a state
building at the Pan-American exposi-
tion in Buffalo.
Mrs. Mary Green was sent to prison
for wrecking a saloon in Boston.
Secretary Long says there is no need
for investigation of hazing at Annapo-
lis.
Charles F. w. Nicely, the former
chief of the bureau of finance of the
Cuban post office department, who is
charged with embezzling $4,000, is in
Jail in Havana.
Bostock's zoo was destroyed by fire
in Baltimore and of the 500 animals all
but three perished. Loss, 100000.
The Hundred Year club of New York
has located the worlds oldest man in
Izal Rodofsky, Moscow, aged 135, and
the Oldest woman in Mrs. Nancy Hollo-
field, 1T years old, of Battle Creek,
Mich
Fourteen women, led by Mrs. Sher-
if, wrecked four saloons at Anthony,
Kan, smashing mirrors and bottles
and pouring liquor into the street.
Two women were killed and several
persons injured by the burning of the
Hotel Jefferson in New ork
In convention in Guthrie residents
of Oklahoma and Indian territories de-
manded of congress immediate state
hood.
w. C. Whitney, of New York, bought
Marcus Daly's famous stallion Ham
burg for s6O,ooO
Coats opera house in Kansas City,
Mo-, was destroyed by fire, the loss
being $15O,OOO.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was elected from
one saloon in Topeka and found 9TH
ers barricaded against her.
The governor of Tennessee has
signed the bill prohibiting the manu-
facture or sale of cigarettes in the
state.
The war department has issued or
ders for the transportation of 5000
regular troops to the Philippines to
replace an equal number of return
ing volunteers.
The Virginia legislature has passed !
a bill to punish by death or imprison-
ment for life, in the discretion of the
jury, any person in the state guilty
of kidnapping.
Assistant Secretary Vanderlip, of |
the treasury department., says he is
not alarmed at letter threatening |
his life.
A boys scarf caught in windmill |
at Ashford, Wis, and he was choked |
to death.
The business portion of Fort Aber- |
y. D., was destroyed by fire. |
Wichita (Kan.) saloon men have |
planned, in the event of another raid |
by women, to tie them hand and foot |
and turn them over to the officers.
An explosion wrecked the Wicke ci- |
IL So,
persons were hurt. and the fire follow
ing destroyed property worth $780, |
700.
Helen Gould has given $4OG, 900 to-
ward the erection of a new home for
the naval branch of the Young Mems |
Christian association in Brooklyn. n. Y.