The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-02
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOME STIC.

The visible supply of grain in the
United States and Canada on the 22d
was: Wheat, 1851, 900 bushels; corn,
13.242, 900 bushels; oats, 6,341 900 bush
els; rye, 433, 900 bushels; barley, 341,-
900 bushels.
William Brooks (cOlored) was hanged
by a mob at Elkins, w. Va, for fatally
shooting Chief of Police Lilly.
Mrs. Sophia RATA and her three chill
dren were burned to death in a fire in
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Efforts of steel mill operators at
WelIsville and McKeesport to resume
work were abandoned on the plea that
the heat was too great.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was fined $1O0 and
given 30 days Jail sentence for disturb
ing the peace by a Sunday joint raid
at Topeka, Kan.
Sensational advances were made in
prices of wheat, corn and oats on ac-
count of the drought.
A census bulletin shows that Iowa
has few negroes, while men outnum-
Der women in Iowa, Kansas and In
diana.
high official of the agricultural de-
partment says that the cry of failure
in the corn belt is premature.
Whitening heat in the corn belt
continued, in many places the tenn
perature ranging from 100 to 40 de.
grees.
The bodies of Wheeler and Mynatt
Hatwake7, young boys who had been
stabbed, were found in a pond near
Jacksboro, Tenn.
Rev. George Shelley and Miss Mary
Walton, Ind, and driven from the vii
lage.
The government expressed it's sor-
row to Italy for the lynching of Ital
ians in Mississippi.
Secretary Gage will refund all du-
ties collected upon imports from
Porto Rico between the end of mill
tary rule and the passage of the For
aker act.
Gov. Savage, of Nebraska, at the
behest of many ministers and others,
designated day to be devoted to
prayer for rain.
C. j. Dillon and William Morgan, Of
Three Mile, w. Va, fought a duel
over a girl and both were fatally
wounded.
Admiral Sampson admitted reading
proofs of Maclay'S book attacking
Schley, but did not furnish the facts.
Elmer E. Barner was hanged in
Harrisburg, Pa, for the murder OF
his brother-in-law, Isaac Miller.
The steel combine was preparing
to ask the federal court to enjOin
strikers from interfering with plants
of the trust or their workmen.
Statesmen of gravestones and mon
uments is to be the occupation OF
Coleman and James Younger, the re-
leased convict brothers.
The transport Thomas sailed from
San Francisco for Manila with 500
teachers for Philippine schools.
c. E. Pickett, of Waterloo, Ia, was
elected grand exalted ruler of the
elks at the Milwaukee meeting.
Admiral Schley will ask an investi-
cation of his conduct during the Gu
ban campaign by a naval court of in
quiry and will sue the author of Ma
clay's history for libel.
The drought and intense heat con-
tinued everywhere throughout the
states of the corn belt on the 23d.
Temperatures again averaged over 100
degrees in that area, making the thlr-
ty-sixth consecutive day in which the
Thermometer had risen to 90 degrees
and higher.
Four persons, believed to be mem
bers of the notorious Bender family,
of Kansas. have been located near Fort
Collins, Col.
The United States government may
send an exhibit to the Russian fisheries
exposition at st. Petersburg.
Suit was begun at Butte, Mont, to
have the copper trust declared Illegal,
Negro labor imported from the far
south by the steel trust may lead to
race war in Chicago.
Frank Hanoh. Mr.. Moslock and Jim
Woodin were drowned in Doan lake at
FIoodwood, Mich.
Mrs. +. De Graft. of La Crosse Wis.
fell from the fifth floor of the Morri-
son hotel in Chicago and was fatally
hurt.
The shelter for homeless girls in
Syracuse, n. Y, was destroyed by
fire and one teacher was burned to
death.
Secretary Long has barred Mac!ay's
history of the navy as text book
at Annapolis because of its harsh
criticisms of SchleY,