The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-03-15
A WEEKS RECORD
All 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.
4HE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOME STIC.

DOMESTIC.
Both houses of congress adjourned
sine die on the 4th after passing all
the river and harbor, which was
talked to death by Senator Carter, Of
Montana.
The eliminating event of the inau-
guraI festivities in Washington was
the inaugural ball, and as a spectacu-
lar event it was unparalleled in the
history of such gatherings.
Five men were killed and two 9th
ers seriously injured in mine acct
dent at the Engleside zinc mine in
Center Valley, Mo.
Citizens of Andover, Kan, held a
meeting and resolved to smash al
the saloons in Wichita if they were
not closed.
Mayor Hess, of Arkansas City, Ark,
has issued proclama ton warning
members of the Carrie Nation Law
and Order league to drop proceedings
against jointists.
The inaugural parade in Washing
ton was fine affair, and the decora-
tions along the line of march were
the most elaborate in the city's his
tory.
Troops were called into service at
Upton, Ind, to protect an aged pris-
oner threatened with lynching.
The Commercial club of Omaha ten
dered a reception to Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, retiring commander of the de-
partment of the Missouri
pensions, will resign, and will prob
ably be given high diplomatic posi-.
Fred w. Upham, who returned to
Chicago from a 40 days tour of Cuba,
says conditions there are not such as
to warrant withdrawal of American
control.
W. E. King, an American fighting
with the Beers, says all talk of sur
render is without foundation.
The navy department is soliciting
annual bids from railroads for trans
pOrtation of officers and enlisted men.
The bones of Gen. Nathaniel Greene
were found in an old cemetery at Sa-
vannah, Ga.
The president on the 5th sent to
the senate the reappointments of the
president cabinet members and they
were confirmed. Vice President
Roosevelt presided at the session and
was received with applause by the
senator's and spectators in the gal
leries.
An incendiary fire destroyed the
large lumber warehouse of ?. Kunz
& Wright, in Greenville, o. Loss,
500 900.
John D. Rockefeller has given S11O,-
900 to Vassar college for a new DOR
mitory.
Robert w. Wilcox, Hawaiian dele
gate in Congress, says the inaugural
festivities eclipsed anything he had
ever witnessed.
Capts. II. ID. Evans and H. c. Tay-
Tor have been commissioned as rear
admirals for service at Santiago.
Chairman Cooper and several of the
members of the insular affairs COM
mittee in congress contemplate
trip to the Philippines and Cuba az
their own expense.
After a session of so days the legis-
lature of Alabama has adjourned.
j. f. Searles, organizer of the sugar
trust and late president of the Ameri-
can Round Bale Cotton company. made
an assignment in New York with liza
blities estimated at $1,000, 900 to So
coo. GOO.
The stock of gold in the United States
treasury on the 5th was $3.50, 412,15S.
the largest amount ever recorded.
Samuel Mcser was sentenced at Pc
Kin, H., to 2t years imprisonment for
his wife and three sons.
A mass meeting at Louisville de-
bounced Gov. Beckham for pardoning
gamblers.
The New Hampshire house passed
a stringent anti-cigarette bill, which
is likely to meet favor in the senate
and become law.
w. a. Stineborn, a ticket broker,
and Joseph Adler, his clerk, were ar
rested in Chicago for selling coun-
-erfeit passes on the Illinois Central
road.
Five Utah miners raced with
snowslide down a mountain side and
narrowly escaped an awful death.
4 memorial to naval heroes pro-
Iected by the Annapolis alumni will
De erected in Battery park, New
Yerk
In the United States senate on the
5th an amendment to the rules plac-
ng limit upon debate was referred
TO the committee on rules. Senator
Morgan, speaking on his resolution
% abrogate the Clayton-Bulwer
reaty, made the prediction that if
treat Britain attempts to enforce the
reaty war will ensue. The nomina-
ion of Robert S. Mccormick, of Chi
ago. to be minister to stria-Hun,
yary was received.
Sixteen business houses at Arcadia,
IA. were burned.
VIII Davis (colored) was lynched
~ a mob at Shreveport, La, for as
aulting a white woman.
The windows of two of Hannah &
Iogg's saloons in Chicago were
mashed by self-styled "home defend
rs
William F. Chandler. former senator
rom New Hampshire. has been select
d as president OF the Spanish claims
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