The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Tex, at 6:30 a. m, of the 18th, was
robbed at Caney Switch, 1. T., at 1:05
a. m, by five masked men. The eX-
press car was blown open, the safe
| wrecked and the mail sacks rif1ed. All
the passengers, also, were robbed of
their money. Within few hours af-
ter the hold-up, three of the robbers
had been landed in jail and much of
| the plunder recovered.
The trial, in Sofa. of NJ. Saratoff,
/ formerly president of the Macedonian
revolutionary committee, and ether
I prominent members of the commit
| tee, charged with being connected
! with the murder of an alleged Turk
| ish spy and with the assassination of
Prof. Michaelean, Of Bucharest, end
ed, on the 18th, in the aepdittal of the
accused. The result was received with
| popular rejoicing.
Five men were burned to death,
! four were downed, three and possibly
| four were suffocated and several in
| jured, as the result of fire which
| destroyed the temporary waterworks
crib, two miles off the Cleveland CO.,
harbor, early on the morning of the
14th.
The second annual reunion of the
National Society of the Army of the
Philippines, held at Salt Lake City,
Utah, ended, on the 18th, with a short
business meeting. Next years re-
union will be held at Council Bluffs.
Ia, where, it is hoped, the society
will be united with the Philippine ISL
| ands Veterans association.
Under proceedings in voluntary
bankruptcy, the Chicago Title and
Trust Co. was, on the 18th, appointed
| temporary receiver for the George H.
Phillips Grain Co. Bond in the sum
of $1,000 was given.
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York, on the 18th, per steam
er Lain, from Bremen and Southamp-
ton, were Gen. Fred. D. Grant, his
wife and son Ulysses S. Grant.
A severe tropical storm swept over
the gulf coast, on the 18th, accompa-
MED by what amounted to tidal
wave. Thousands of persons were cut
off from the mainland in Louisiana,
Ala bama and other coast states, and
/ it is feared there was some loss of life.
The New York Tribune, of the 10th,
asserts that news has been received
in this country involving Venezuela,
Nicaragua and Ecuador in the at
tempt of Gen. Rafael Uribe-Uribe, the
Colombian rebel leader, to overthrow
the government of Colombia
Mrs. Carrie Nation, while taking a
pleasure trip on the ST. Lawrence, out
Watertown, n. Y, on the 18th, began
a crusade against cigar smokers. She
undertook to snatch a cigar from the
mouth of Eugene Foley, a travelling
NINA, who promptly slapped her face,
and the crusade came to an end. Fo-
ley afterwards apologiZed.
Mrs. Eliza Stotlar, of Peoria coun-
ty, H., mother of William Stotlar, of
near Carthage, claims to be the Oldest
woman in America. She celebrated
her one hundredth and eighteenth
birthday anniversary August Z, 1901.
She was born in Pennsylvania.
In a match race at Brighton Beach,
on the 18th, for a purse of $4,000,
offered by the New York Trotting as
sociation, George H. Ketcham's stall
lion Cresceus defeated John j. Scan
nell's The Abbot, taking the first heat
in 2:O334 and distancing his competi-
tor in the second heat. Fully 10000
persons witnessed the event.
Shamrock II. was put in dry dock,
at New York, on the 18th, to have her
hull cleaned. Experts who saw her
say the cup challenger resembles the
Columbia very much, so far as her
underbody and fin are concerned.
That Shamrock Ii. is dangerous op-
ponent is conceded by all.
At Goreville, little town on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad,
near Metropolis, ILL.,, no rain has fall
en- since last April, and all the wells |
and springs in the neighborhood have |
dried up. Water is selling at 81 per
barrel.
The postmaster-gen received a
cablegram from Havana, on the 18th, |
sta ting hat the trial of E. L. Thomp- |
son, formerly postmaster at Havana,
charged with embeZZling money or !
der funds, had been concluded and
Thompson convicted. He was SEN
fenced to pay fine of $4OO or serve !
six months in prison.
The ministers of the various powers |
at Pel1in unexpectedly signed the pro-
tocol on the 18th. Copies were later !
sent to the Chinese plenipotentiaries, |
to receive their signatures.
The bill for the construction of a
Pacific cable from British Columbia |
to Australia, by the imperial govern
ment and the AusJralasian colonies, |
was passed by the British house of |
lords, on its final reading, on the 18th. |
State Building and Loan Inspector |
Mauck of Ohio, on the 10th, swore out |!
a warrant for the arrest of j. A. |
Blodt, late secretary of the Guaran- |
tee Savings and Loan association, !
at Cleveland, upon the charge of em-
bezzling funds of the institution. Blodt |
recently resigned his position with |
the bank as the result of an investi |
cation by state officials.
On the 10th detectives arrested |
Gerhart Terlinden, alias Theodore !
Crate. at boarding house in Milwau-
kee. He is charged with embezZling |
100000 marks from large manufac- |
turing concern in Germany which is |;
capitalized at 100000 marks. Ter
linden, it is alleged, duplicated the |
concerns stock, had it stamped and |
sealed. and sold it.
The entire town of Landess, Ind, !
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