The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-09-13
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Former Congressman Frank Chap
man died at Franklin Falls, N. H., on
the 4th, aged SIS.
First Lieut.. w. II. Clifford, United
States marines. has been appointed
post judge at Pollock, Mindanao, p. l.
Lakin Heron, pitcher of the base
ball club of Arkansas City, Kas., fell
dead, on the 5th, while playing in
game with the Joplin (Mo.) nine. The
seventh inning was finished, and as
Heron stepped out of the box he fell
lifelcss. Over-eXertion had brought
on heart failure.
The Canadian team of rifle shooters
defeated the American team at Sea-
girt, \. j., on the 5th, Dy 2S points.
The total scores were: Canadians, l.
522; Americans, 1,494.
that acknowledgements have been re-
ceived from the resident ministers
and ambassadors of nearly every
country on the globe of the procla-
nation of President Mckinley an
nouncing the holding of the Louisi-
ana Purchase exposition at st. Louis
in 1903.
The Intermountain Oil Co., was in
corporated at Cheyenne, Wyo., on
the 5th, by United States Senator
Clarence d. Clark, of Evanston, Wyo.
The company is capitalized at $1O,-
100000 and will develop a valuable
tract of oil lands in the fossil fields in
Unita county.
Mrs. Sarah Rumley, mother of the
late Walter Q. Gresham, 90 years old.
on the 5th, unaided, prepared dinner
for over fifty guests who had assem-
bled at New Albany, Ind, to celebrate
the anniversary of her birth. She is
the mother of eight children and has
outlived all but two.
Luth Tibbetts, the originator of
the famous navel orange, which has
produced much wealth in southern
California, and his aged and feeble
wife have been taken to the Riverside
county poorhouse. there to spend the
remainder of their days.
Dispatches from Constantinople al
lege that Turkish officials, on Septem-
Der l, forced an entrance into the
garden of the Dutch legation and
garden of the Dutch legation and
captured a fugitive whom they were
pursuing. The officials wounded the
gatekeeper. The Dutch are demand
ing satisfaction.
At a meeting of the committe on
the challenge of the Royal Ulster
Yacht club, held on the flagship at
Newport, r. l., on the 5th, the CO.
lumbia was selected as the represent
ative of the New York Yacht club in
the contests for the Americas cup.
The prevailing opinion in Pitts
burg, on the night of the 5th, was
that the great steel strike was prac-
tically settled, but absolutely moth
ing positive could be learned from
either side to the controversy.
The state department announces
The civic alliance of Indianapolis,
Ind, decided, on the 5th, to bring i'm
peachment proceedings against Super
ntendent-of-Police Quigley, and his
subordinates who declined to close sa-
looms which were violating the law.
y dispatch from Constantinople,
dated the 5th, says: "Brigands have
carried off an American lady engaged
in missionary work and lady CON-
panOrn, in the district of Djumabala,
Vii set of Salonika.'
The city of Kiel, Germany, has re-
ceiEcu -Cnc TOydl SdncClOn TO nOaC q
loan OF 100000 marks.
Herr Krupp has purchased 90 acres
of land near Mengede, for the erec-
tion of d new factory.
In the course of his address at the
Pan-American exposition on Presi-
dents day (the 5th), President Nc
Kinley declared that expositions were
the timekeepers of progress, record
ing the worlds advancement.
EX-President Cleveland will tear a
leaf out of Vice-President Roosevelt's
book on strenuous life by taking a
trip to Colorado and putting in a
couple of weeks among the cowboys,
rough riders and mountain lions.
Gangrene having set in, the sur
geons at Bellevue hospital decided, on
the 9Th, that John Nelson, the cyclist,
must have his leg amputated in an ef-
fort to save his life.
United States Ambassador White,
on the 9th, received a ceremonious
call from the new Corean minister to
Germany, Min Chosel Hun.
At Cass Lake, Mimi, on the 9th, w.
J. Murphy, proprietor of the Mime
apOlis Tribune, was dangerously in
jured by the premature discharge of
his gun while hunting. The charge of
shot entered his side under the
right arm. Prompt surgical attend
ance was obtained, and no serious re-
suit is apprehended.
Frank McClathey, a jockey, was
killed, on the 9th, in the last race of
the jackson County fair, AZ Murphys-
boro, Ill. He was one of five that
were riding in a bunch. His mount
fell and two other horses fell upon
the boy and he sustainedinjuries from
which he dicd two hours later. One
other jockey was seriously injured.