The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-11-01
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

OF general strike, is proving fruitful
in Spain. Leading anarchists assert
that committees throughout the
world, representing 100000 workers
are only awaiting the signal to inau
gurate the universal strike proposed
by the German workmen, and ap-
proved by the American and European
committees.
Charles Smith, one of the best
known violinists in the west, died in
the hospital at Sioux City, Ia, on the
24th, of consumption. He won various
prizes in violin contests.
Special efforts are being made to
secure the presence of President
Roosevelt during the international
Live Stock exposition, which begins
in Chicago December 3.
Andres Rogerigues and Anicite
O'Farrin, negro murderers, were eX-
ecuted in Havana, on the 24th, by the
garrotte. A fellow prisoner acted as
eXecutioner receiving an ounce of
gold for each execution, together
with a reduction of six years in the
term for which he was imprisoned.
Death was apparently instantaneous.
Reporting to the British war Office,
Lord Kitchener, on the oath, wired as
follows: "Col. CampbelPs column, OPP
Grating near Slangapies, has recov-
cred two guns which the Beers had
captured at Scheeper's Mex"
The Altoona Iron Co., the largest
industry outside of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co.'s shops in Altoona, Pa,
and employing several hundred men,
closed down indefinitely on the 24th.
Guy Bright shot and killed his IA
ther, Alexander Bright, on their farm,
five miles from Iantha, Mo-, on the
Gath. A quarrel led up to the shoot
ing. The son gave himself up.
Mrs. Anna Edison Taylor, a widow,
43 years old, went over the Horseshoe
fall of Niagara, in a barrel, on the
oath, and lives to tell the story of her
experience. To her belongs the noto-
riety of making the first attempt and
the first success. She is a Michigan
school teacher.
Frank Farrell, prominent Tam
many man, bet $4,000 against $4,000,
on the 24th, with George Wheelock,
on the result Of the mayoralty cleo
tion in Greater New York city, Far
reIl backing Shepard against Low.
Fire, which started in the fertilizer
building of the Armour Packing Co.'S
plant at South Omaha, on the night
of the oath, did $4,000 damage, equal
ly divided between building and stock.
The seventh successive well on Gas
ridge, Just south of Chanute, Kas.,
was brought in, on the oath, with
twice the flow of any well in that
field. The roaring of the well can be
heard long distance.
The London Daily News states that
it is an undoubted fact that j. Pier
pont Morgan, the American fnancier,
is bearing the entire expense 9,000)
of the installation of an electric light
plant in ST. Paurs cathedral, London.
and declares it a rcproach to wealthy
Englishmen.
One of the greatest natural gas
wells that has ever been discovered in
the United States was struck about
three miles northeast of Lawton,
Okla, on the 24th, by Mr.. P. Mcdaniel,
while drilling for oil.
Hon. Warner Miller, president of
the Nicaragua canal commission, who
was attacked with nervous prostration
early last summer, and retired to his
home near Herl1imer, N. Y, is report
er to have grown worse steadily, and
to be now in serious condition.
Mrs. William Mckinley was prob
ably left more wealth than is men
toned in the will of her dead hus-
band. News is received from Ely.
New, where the SaXton and Mckinley
mines are located, that outcroppings
show a lead of ore that will go S1OO
to the ton.
Bishop Sbaretti, having settled the
question of church property in Cuba,
has been appointed delegate extra,
ordinary to the Philippines, whittier
he will go about the end of the year
to settle the church property ques-
ton there. He will leave Cuba for
Rome in a few days.
The imposing marble shaft erected
in the national cemetery at Knoxville,
Tenn, by the people of Tennessee, 10
the memory of the Tennesseeans who
fell during the civil war, was unveiled,
on the oath, with appropriate cere-
monies.
Lieut.-Col. Ezra Woodruff, of the
medical department of the army, has
been retired on account of age. He
is a native of Kentucky.
According to reliable reports re-
ceived in Shanghai from Gen. Warren,
100000 persons in the Province of An
Hui and 100000 in the province of
Kiang-Su are on the verge of starva-
tion, and the famine is spreading.
The plant of the GAINESVILLE (O.)
Art Pottery Co. was destroyed by fire
on the 25th. Loss, 100000; insurance,
$4,000. One hundred andsfifty men are
thrown out of work. Charles Conn
was fatally injured under a falling
wall.
Fire in the lumber yard of the Alex
ander & Edgar Lumber Co., Iron Riv-
er, Wis, on the 25th, destroyed 49,
1000 feet of lumber The loss is es-
timated at 100000, fully covered by
insurance.
Andrew Carnegie announced on the
25fh that be will preserve an impartial
attitude in relation to the municipal
campaign in New Y ork. Any othe.
course, he believes, would be highly
improper, in view of his present and
failure relations with the municipal
officials of New York in connection
with his gifts to tLat city.