The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the ueIuncI OUaUe BANK OIL New DIuuS-
wick, N. j., which they received by
mail from Frank p. Perry, William
Hogan and Z. w. Smith, of San Fran
cisco, now under arrest in that city.
Burke confessed.
The molders in the Mcdonald
pump factory at Dubuque, Ia, struck,
on the 22d, for a ten-per-cent. ad-
vance in wages. Vice-President
Keough of the international Mold
ers' union had conference with the
company, and the latter refused to
recognize the union or treat with the
men as members OF it.
John w. Decamp, who was terribly
burned while searching in his blazing
home, in eSattle, Wash, for a servant
whom he supposed to be imprisoned
in her room, died, on the 22d, of his
injuries. Decamp was a well-knOwn
coz" mission man of Seattle, formerly
in the same business in ST. Paul,
MINI.
Hon. D. II. Alortly, famous as the
writer of the Ohio constitution of
1852, died at McConnelsville. o., on the
22d. There remains now but one MEM
Der of the convention living.
The secretary OF the treasury, on
the 22d, purchased short-term bonds
as follows: ST 600 threes, at 1OS.49O2;
1,4OO tours, at 113.21O5; $500 fives, at
at 10S.1O07.
r. T. Ross. Il music teacher, and hi
wife, aged and penniless, were asphyN-
lated bv gas. on the 22d, in their room
in San Francisco.
Of
the court of appeals, of Toronto, Ont,
died in that city, on the 22d, aged 81
years.
Franklin NJ. FLYNN, formerly
wealthy stock dealer, was found dead
in bed at the Mitchell hotel, Jackson
Vile, Ill, on the evening of the 22d.
Flynn weighed 325 pounds.
Potatoes are becoming more anC
more a luxury in Chicago. Peaches
are now cheaper than homegrown
potatoes among the commission men.
potatoes among the commission men.
The price of the tuDers reached So
a bushel on the 22d.
Sir Thomas Lpton's new challenger
for the Americas cup, Shamrock H.,
had her first trial spin in New York
lower bay on the 22d. Expert yachts
men say the action of the craft as
srues an interesting contest for the
trophy.
Memphis, Tenn, is becoming the
center of the pearling trade Cor three
states, and daily men who have en-
gagged in the business are bringing in
gems which sell for good prices. The
N,1-o IicSiSSiTNrNi re-
the most prolific of the gems.
George Klauer, jOintist, was
found guilty, on Is counts, of viola
ton of the prohibitory liquor law,
before Justice Disney, at Topeka.
Kas., on the 22d, and was fined an ag-
gregate of $500, or 1850 days in
Jail.
The war against woman conducting
post offices in Kentucky has brought
to light the fact that j. c. Montgom-
cry, storekeeper in Bourbon coun-
ty, is trying to supplant Miss Nlattie
Boyd, cripple, who lost both feet in
a railroad accident, and who gets $40
month for her services.
State Health Officer w. z. Blunt, at
Austin, Tex, was notified, on the 22d,
that one death and two cases of yell
low fever have occurred at Tampico,
Mexico, on the Mexican steamer Gu-
catan. from Vera Cruz.
EXiles of Madeira and their de-
scendants met in Bloomington, ILL.,,
on the 22d, to celebrate the fifty-sec-
ond anniversary of the arrival in this
country of that band of 800 driven
from PortugaPs province because of
religious persecution.
By the construction of the missing
link by the Rocky Mountain Tele-
phone Co. and the Northwestern COM
pany between Billings, Mont, and the
present North Dakota terminus, a
circuit will be completed from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, the longest in
the world.
Baron Fava, the Italian ambassa-
dor at Washington, Will inau9GraIe
an investigation of the killing of Jo-
seph Gingotti, an italian railroad Ia
borer, by one of a mob, near Ash
down, 20 miles north of TeXarkana,
Ark.
Because two union beef butchers
employed by the Cudahy packing
house, at Armordale, Kas., were dis
charged, on the Esd, 125 butchers
struck, causing that department to
be shut down. The strikers allege
that the men were discharged with
out cause. The company superintend-
ent saws it was following out a plan
to reduce the force in all depart
ments.
President Johnson, of the American
league, on the 23d, expelled ShortstoP
Shugart, of Chicago, for assaultinS
Umpire Haskell, at Washington. Mr..
Johnson said: Each player of the
American league who in the future
slugs an umpire on the ball field will
be expelled from the league. That is
final"
The tenth annual session of the
Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo has
been called to meet at Norfolk, Va,
on September 9. After adjournment
the members will proceed to Buffalo,
\. V, where they will participate in
the festivities of Lumbermen's week
at the exposition.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the S150,0OO,000 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued on the
23d. showed: Availa bic cash balance.
SIG, Ass. JOY. Gold, s1o4,s91.143.