The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-06-21


nesota and Ohio tell of severe cleo
trical storms, accompanied by winds
of almost cyclonic severity.
Fire destroyed nearly half of the
business portion of Woodward, Ia.
Joseph Marobec was arrested in
Chicago for making his family live on
three cents a day.
The Texas legislature will meet in
extra session on August to redis-
trict the state for congress.
The warship Oregon arrived at San
Francisco from the Philippines.
The National Metal Trades associa-
ton defies the striking machinists
and has taken steps for an agrees
i've fight.
By the annual readjustment of post
masters salaries throughout the coun-
try ITO postmasters will receive in
creased pay and 229 will receive re-
duced compen sation.
DIR. Runge, in an address at the Mil
waukee Medico-Psychologic conven-
ton, declared state insane asylums
slaughter houses.
julius G. Benton, a well-to-do stock
man, shot and killed his wife and him
self at Denver, Col.
The battleship Illinois on her trial
trip over the Cape Ann course made
the record-breaking speed of 1871
knots an hour.
The headless body of woman found
near Lowell, Mass, has been identified
as that of Mrs. Margaret BIondin.
M. Kreely ald son, prominent farm
killed by lightning.
Princeton college held it's one hun
dred and fifty-fourth commencement,
Columbia university its one hundred
and forty-seventh and the University
of Pennsylvania its one hundred and
fOrty-ninth commencement.
Out of 62 applications for pardon
Gov. Yates, of Illinois, granted only
one.
Wholesale frauds have been discov-
cred in the quartermaster and commits
sary departments at San Francisco.
\ In a runaway at Anderson, Ind.
Miss Bertha Stewart jumped from the
buggy and was instantly killed.
The three young sons of Lawrence
o. Mellott were drowned at Bel
laire, o.
Engineer Fulmer, Fireman jenkins
and Brakeman Fleming were killed by
the explosion of an engine boiler near
CIarks, Neb.
The institute of medical research,
founded by John D. Rockefeller with a
gift of 100000, was incorporated in
New York.
G. A. Pearson, owner of the London
Daily Express and 10 other English pub
lications, arrived in New York.
The annual report of the chamber or
commerce of New York shows Amer
ica's trade balance is well over $780,
100000
Secretary Root ordered large num-
Der of officers to relinquish easy posts
and join their regiments in the Phil
ippines.
The jubilee of the Y. NJ. C. A. was eel
ebrated at Boston and delegates from
all parts of the world gave greeting.
A farmer at Hastings, Neb., was
swindled out of $4,000 by confidence
men.
A negro appeared at an open air
concert in New York with a fiery red
shirt waist and a mob chased him
several blocks, tearing off the gar
ment.
Explorer Baldwin sailed from New
York for England, beginning the first
stage of his trip to the north pole.
Thirteen negroes were imprisoned
in a building near Shreveport, La, in
imminent danger of being lynched for
completely in the murder of John Gray
Foster.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Barney Morris celebrated in Brook
lyn, n. Y, his one hundred and ninth
birthday.
William J. Sanford, governor of AL
ALBANIA, died at Tuscaloosa of heart
disease. He was Sc years of age and
was a native of Alabama. He had
served in congress.
David Rea, an ex-congressman, died
at his home in Savannah, Mo-, aged
rs years.
Mrs. Mckinley continues to improve
in health daily.
Prof. Truman Henry Stafford, famous
athena tician and astronomer, died
in Newark, N. j.
FOREIGN.
Lieut.. Springer, of the Twenty
first infantry, was killed by Filipino
insurgents at Lipa.
Belgian missionaries in China have
informed their government that the
situation there is now more alarming
than before the Boxer revolt.
Sir Walter Besant and Robert w.
Buchanan, distinguished British au-