The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-11-22
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Sever
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
DOMESTIC.


Frank Kidwell, aged %, shot and
killed Ada Thompson, aged 16, at
Elizabethtown, Tenn, because she re.
fused to marry him and then commit
ted suicide.
While playing in a sandbank neal
Bateman, Wis, Walter Kingsland and
James Love, aged, respectively, IL
and s years, were smothered.
Burglars secured $1,000 from the
bank at Chatham, Ill.
Alabama voted to ratify the new
constitution which provides educa-
tional or property qualifications for
those who were not soldiers or de-
scendants of soldiers.
Dennis Mulvihill, a coal HEAVIER, was
inaugurated as mayor of Bridgeport,
Conn. Elected for his honesty.
An agent of the American Fedora
ton of Labor sent to Porto Rico to
organize workingmen was arrested
at San Juan on the charge of con-
spiracy in fomenting a strike.
Three persons were killed and IS in
jured, all negroes, in a train wreck near
Prescott. Ariz.
Richard MayO-Smith, professor al
Columbia university and a well-known
writer, was killed by falling from an
upper window of his New York house
Gov. Beckham, of Kentucky, replied
to Gov. Durbin, of Indiana, and scored
him for refusing to honor a requisition
for w. S. Taylor.
John H. Joice, former president of
the Stoughton national bank at
StOughtOn, Wis, charged with embez-
cling $4,000, was caught in Chicago
after two-year chase.
The corn yield the last season, ac-
cording to government crop report
was 16.4 bushels per acre, the smallest
average on record.
Chicago anarchists celebrated the
fourteenth anniversary of the hang
ing of the Haymarket riot reds.
Frank Thompson, the leader of the
Fort Leavenworth prison mutineers.
was recaptured near Council Grove,
Kan.
Burglars secured $500 from the
bank at Plymouth, Ia.
Fire at Thomas, w. Va. destroyed
GO buildings and left over 100 families
homeless.
The post office It Bristol, Ind, was
robbed of $500 in stamps and 81 200 in
money.
One person was killed and a dozen in
iured in a fire which wrecked block
in Cleveland, o. The property loss was
100000.
Mrs. Georgia Railey, widow, and
Miss Lena Renner were found muir
dered in the suburbs of Evansville. Ind.
a decree divorcing Mrs. Grace Smell
Coffin, of Chicago. from Frank Nixon
Coffin for the third time was issued
in Racine, Wis.
Henry Clay Mcdowell, a grandson
of Henry Clay, has been appointed
United States district Judge for Vir-
ginia.
The business portion of Berlin, Nd.
was destroyed by fire.
Andrew Carnegie has added $2,OOO,-
100000 to the endowment fund of
Carnegie institute and his new tech
meal school at Pittsburg.
The National Prison association in
session in Kansas City elected as
president Prof. Charles r. Hender-
son, of the University of Chicago.
A. NJ. Lawrence, managing editor,
and H. S. Garfield, reporter of the
Chicago American, were sentenced to
40 and 30 days in Jail by Judge
Hanecy for contempt.
Brig. Gen. Henry c. Merriam has
been placed on the retired list on &C
count of age.
Russell B. Harrison has been ad.
mitted to the practice of law at In
1ianapolis.
The thirty-third reunion of the So
eiety of the Army of the Tennessee
began at Indianapolis.
Dan Tew, a linotype machine OPP
orator in Des Moines, Ia, broke
The worlds record for speed, set
ting 1874 lines of nonpareil in
eight hours, newspaper measure,
equal to S6,944 ems.
The Massachusetts legisla ture met
in extra session to legalize public stat
ute revisions.
Powers theater at Grand Rapids, |
Mich, was burned and one life was
lost.
Gen. Joe Wheeler will establish a
plant in Philadelphia for the manu-
lacture of heavy ordnance under
aew patent.
Pearl Starkey killed Noah Barden,
his cousin, at Glenn, Mich, and then |
committed suicide. Family trouble |
SaS the cause.