The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-11-15
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Lyceum theater at Atlanta, Ca,
a vaudeville house, was destroyed by
fire on the 9th. A performance was
being given when the fire broke out,
but the audience was dismissed in
time to prevent a panic.
President Zelaya, on the 9Th, re-
called by cable Senior Alexandra Ber-
mudez, who was Nicaragua's commits
sioner at the Buffalo exposition, and
is secretary of the Nicaraguan lega-
ton at Washington.
The five-year-old son of Elijah Bar
Der, of lola, Kas, died, on the 9TH,
from the effects of drinking a half
pint of whisky obtained by the father
at a local Joint or illicit saloon.
The boy drained the flask while his
parents were away, and when found
was in a stupor, from which the ply
sicians could not rouse him.
Cicely, a short horn COW, recently
of the Queen Victoria herd in England,
was sold in Chicago, on the 18th, for
$4,000 to j. j. Robbins & Sons, of
Horace, Ind. The animal cost Queen
Victoria $4,000 few years ago.
A seven-year-old child in Liverpool
suffering from the bubonic plague.
who was isolated fortnight before
died, on the 9TH, of exhaustion. The
other patients under treatment in Liv-
erpool are out of danger.
Grant Householder, a hackman, was
arrested at Buffalo, \. Y, on the 7th
charged with smuggling Cinnamon
from Canada. Householder had four
Cinnamon in his hack when arrested.
The newspapers of ST. Petersburg
generally welcome the French naval
demonstra ton in Turkish waters, as
a setback to what the Rossiya terms
German pretensions in Turkey"
Reports from all portions of Okla
homa and Indian territory and por-
tons of Texas state that recent frots
have killed the top cotton.
The proposed eXtradition treaty be-
tween the United States and Servia
has been submitted to the Skupshtina
the Servian congress.
After a desperate fight, on the 9TH
between a gang of convicts and
guards, on the site of the new federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kas., during
which one of the convicts was killed
and some of the guards wounded, 2e
of the convicts succeeded in making
their escape.
There is every prospect of bread
war in New York city. Rival corpora
tions, backed by millions of dollars
in capital, are planning to absorb
the business of hundreds of small
bakeries, and serve the public with
bread produced amid hygienic sur
roundings.
Arguments in the Schley court OF
inquiry were concluded, on the 18th,
Judge Advocate Lemly making the
closing speech. The sessions covered
40 days and the record will cover 1000
printed pages, which the court will
now proceed to digest.
A party of 125 Modern Woodmen.
with 60 teams went, on the 18th to the
farm of Ben Busha, six miles south
of Arcola, H., a brother who has
been sick for some time, and husked
65 acres of corn for him and hauled
it in.
Charles Thompson, supreme finance
keeper of the supreme tent Knights
of Maccabees, by his own confession.
is an embeZzler of the funds of the
order to the extent of $4,000. The
order is protected from loss by bond
of 100000.
First Lieutenant Robert T. Craw-
ford, of the First infantry, a sergeant
and five men, while attempting to
cross the Babylon river in Samar is
land, Z. l., recently, were drowned.
Mrs. Belle Everest, of Atchison, Kas.,
has been nominal ted by Senator John
NJ Thurston, of Nebraska, of the ma
tional Worlds fair commission, as a
member of the board of lady man.
ayers for the Louisiana Purchase Gen.
tennial exposition.
Amos Clark celebrated his ninety
fifth birthday anniversary at Cen
tralia, Ill, on the 18th. A feature OF
the dinner was a watermelon he al.
ways has preserved. Mr.. Clark's most
severe ailment in years was caused
by falling Is feet from an apple tree
while climbing to trim it.
Miss Kate Greeaway, the well.
known artist, whose dainty work has
been appreciated both in America
and Europe, died, in London, on the
morning of the Sth. She was mem
Der of the Royal Institute of Painters
in Water Colors.
The statement of the treasury bal.
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the S15O,OOO,OOO gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
sth, showed: Available cash balances,
$175,271, JOY; gold, Sill, Az, $50.
Judge Cheltain, of Chicago, on the
sth, refused to grant temporary or
der against the International Associa.
ton of Machinists, as prayed for by
Robert Tarrant, a machinery manu-
facturer. The court said that Mr..
Tarrant would have to show that the
pickets were using force against nom
union men before he could enjoin the
strikers