The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-26
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI 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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

A mob of negroes at Courtland
Ala, hanged Alexander Herman, &
negro charged with killing SaIli,
Swoope.
Mrs. James Huff, her daughter, Mrs
Thornton, and the latter's four-year
old daughter were killed by lightning
near NewcOmerstown, o.
The thirteenth annual report of the
Interstate commerce commission
shows big increase in earnings OF
railroads and an aggregate length OF
mileage of 259,78S miles.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States and Canada on the 18th
was: Wheat, 27,979, 900 bushels; corn
14,O67,000 bushels; oats, 7,421 ,OOC
bushels; rye, $1,000 bushels; barley
$4,000 bushels.
Five persons were killed in a col.
lision of Missouri, Kansas & Texas
freight trains near Muskogee, Ind. T
Gov. Dockery, of Missouri, asks the
people of the state to pray on Sun
day, July 21, for rain.
Joseph Cramer, rs years old, was
under arrest in Philadelphia for hav-
ing seven wives, all living.
Louis Thomas, a negro, was lynched
near Girard, La, by a mob for steal.
ing bottle of pop.
John Alexander Dowie took out his
first naturalization papers in Wau-
kegan, Ill.
More than $4,000 men are idle as a
result of the Amalgamated associa-
tion's strike in the sheet steel, steel
hoop and tin plants of the United
States corporation.
Lewis Elkins, of Philadelphia, left
his $2,000,00O fortune in trust for the
benefit of aged women teachers.
Rains were reported from various
points in Missouri, Kansas and Hi
nois.
Two policemen were wounded and
a negro killed in a race riot at Amer
icus, Ga.
The packing plant of Jacob Dold &
Sons at Wichita, Kan, was destroyed
by fire, the loss being 100000.
Albert Sears, who masqueraded as a
woman for seven years at Huntsville,
Ark, was arrested for a murder COM
mitted in Texas.
The net increase in the pension roll
last year was 2,273, despite the drop
ping of 3S,Os2 names from the rolls.
Fifteen negroes were killed in a fight
with Mexican railroad laborers in New
Mexico
Mattoon, ILL.,, and Saltwater, Mimi,
have been given public libraries by
Carnegie.
A pearl worth $4,000 was found at
Round Island, Wis, in the Mississippi
river
Frank Wennerholm, the Chau-
tauqua county murderer, was put to
death by electricity in the prison at
Auburn, n. Y.
The transport Indiana arrived in
San Francisco from Manila with 1,OOG
soldiers of the Forty-second regi
ment.
Robbers at Alexandria, o., held a
crowd at bay while they blew open a
bank vault, but they failed to secure
any booty.
The steel trust has accepted the op-
portunity for a finish fight with Ia
Dor unions. No compromise is to be
made with the Amalgamated associa-
ton, whose absolute surrender is de-
teremined upon.
The military department of Alaska
is to be abolished.
Roy Jones, II years old, and Byron
Jones, his brother, four years old
were burned to death at Broad Rip.
pie, Ind.
The crop report issued by the Wash
ington weather bureau says that the
corn crop in the great corn states OF
the central valleys has sustained Sc
rious injury from drought.
d. s. Burch, of Macon, Mo-, who was
married in Milwaukee two months ago,
gave his wife her freedom when he
discovered she loved another man.
The president of the Iowa Bar asso-
citation at the annual meeting in Coun- |
Gil Bluffs made startling statements
and bribery in American courts of JUS |
tice.
Three alleged horse thieves, "Buck- |
ing Bill" Fred Comme and Pete Wal |
ter, were hanged by posse near Ju-
dith, Mont.
Edwin H. Conger, United States |
minister to China, sailed from San |
Francisco for the orient.
Robert Cooke, Charles Swisher and |
Charley Scott, were instantly killed |
by lightning at Arthur, Ill.
Fred Feurheim, of Pacific Junction, |
Ia, made insane by heat, killed his |
wife, daughter and himself.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the seven days ended on the 18th |
aggregated $2,136. .321, ,O47, against ST.
0,373, ,61O the previous week. The in
crease comnared with the cOrresDond-
ing week of last year was 401.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Lead
vile, Col, 100000 for public II
brary.
Foreign trade of the United States
increased S65, ,9sS, ,S11 last year
The battleship Maine will <<be
launched from the Cramps shipyard
at Philadelphia on July 81.
The war department has made pub
lie Gen. Funston's detailed report of
Aguinaldo's capture.