The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-03
4 WEEKS RECORD
All 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
DOMES TIC.

DOMESTIC.
Gold ore assaying $500 to the tor
has been discovered near Shelbyville
Ill.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 22d was: Wheat
49,S65,000 bushels; corn, 21,32S ,OOC
bushels; oats, 1871 900 bushels; rye
100000 bushels; barley, IT'S, 600 bush,
els.
Four men were drowned at Erie, Pa.
by the upsetting of boat.
Transactions in stocks in New York
reached new record total of 1860 ,OOC
shares.
The wife and child of Samuel Alex
under, merchant, were burned to
death in their home at Dallas, Tex.
A man whose identity is unknown
was swept over Niagara Falls in a
boat.
-Four persons persisted in fire at
st. Mary's, w. Va, caused by a gas
explosion.
An express train on the Choctaw,
Oklahoma I& Gulf road was held up
and robbed by masked men near the
Arkansas border.
Part of Cincinnati was under water
and five persons were drowned in the
flooded district
a fast mail train on the North
western made a squirt of nine miles
in six minutes and passed so swiftly
that those watching could not distin-
guish it.
The floods have subsidized in the up
per Ohio river after causing a loss
of $2,OOO,OOO in the Pittsburgh Sec
ton
Gen. Wood, who arrived in New
York from Cuba, declared the con-
stitutionaI convention took no vote
on the Platt amendment.
The people of Alabama voted to
hold a convention in Montgomery on
May p to draft a new state constitu-
ton.
The president and his military adj
Visers have fixed 10000 as the size
of the army to be enlisted under the
new law.
James Callahan, alleged to be i'm
plicated in the Cudahy abduction, has
been placed on trial at Omaha.
The Ohio river at Cincinnati was
five feet above the danger line and
the loss will be heavy.
In a bicycle race at San Jose Cal,
Burton Downing broke the worlds
one-half mile amateur record in so
fat.
Lieut.. Gillespie, who located Aguin-
dido, has arrived at San Francisco.
Manufacturers of plows are forming
trust with capital stock of $5O,OOO,-
600.
At Salem, Ore, the bank of Gilbert
Bros closed its doors with deposits
of 100000.
Wyatt Mallory (colored) was hanged
by a mob at Springfield, Tenn, for as
saulting a white man.
Police Chief Ripley, OF Chicago, re-
signed after being informed by the
mayor that he would not be reap
pointed.
Bank clearings in New York on the
Esd were $546. 937,155, or $1O1, 600, 900
greater than the previous high record.
Robbers wrecked a train at Dav-
export, Tex, and Engineer MOnahan
and Fireman Hicks were killed and
four passengers seriously Injured.
The police at Peru, Ind, have broK-
en- up a gang of alleged counterfeit
ers.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, Mrs. Lucy Will
hite, Mrs. Julia Evans and Mrs. Lydia
Muntz, charged with wreclling sa-
looms at Wichita, Kan, went to Jail
rather than give bail.
The transport fitzpatrick, which re-
Gently sailed from San Francisco, was
quarantined at Hawaii because of
smallpox.
Several stock exchange seats in
New York were sold for $4,000 each,
q new record price.
The New York Legislature has adj
jDurned sine die.
The secretary of war made public
The names of SIS men selected for
first and second heutenants in the
regular army organization bill.
The flood outlook in the middle Ohio
valley is more serious and much alarm
IS felt at many points.
Andree Boyne de Lasar, son of
farmer at Dodge City, Kan, is said to
be the rightful heir to the Servian
throne.
Fire destroyed one-half the business
section of Plainview, Neb.
An electrician at Portland, Me-, shot
four persons fatally in an insane
frenzy.
Jake Johnson (colored), who killed
his wife last July, was hanged at
Natchez. Miss.