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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27


1.-THE American Art Society" is the char
tered name Of q new organiza ton in Phila
delphia> whose purpose is to exhibit and sell
the works of american artists. Mr.. r
Taylor Snow is theopresident and Mr.. Har-
rington Fitzgerald the secretary, and the
society already claims a membership of
one hundred. Each member pays an an
nual fee of $40 and is entitled to show one
painting or piece OF sculpture of reason
able size" at standardization. and no one
outside can become an exhibitor The first
exhibition is to be, opened with a private
view in Earle's gallery on October 7 and
villa continue until November 8. Gold, sill
yer and bronze medals and honorable men
marines and portrait paintings, miniatures
and sculpture, and both Oil and water COL
ors are eligible. The scheme smacks some
what OF commercialism, but II wisely con-
Quoted may not be bad.
n
The first Industrial art convention ever
held In this country Is to assemble on Oc-
tober- 4 in Chicago. . 1t is understood that
delegates from all the principal art schools
In the United States will be in attendance
Is X
In this connection the little quarterly re-
port Of the national Armenian relief COM
mtttee is interesting reading. telling both
by text and Photographic Illustrations of
really remarkable work being done by the
native Hindoo children In the American
Industrial art schools. It would seem, in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27

Many Will learn with regret that Mr..
George E. Senseney has given up his stu
dio in the Octagor House and gone to New
York for the winter; yet there Is no one
who will not be glad that Mr.. Senseney
Is to have the opportunities for advanced
study which the great metropolis offers,
and feel its broadening influence, as there
Is none among all the young Washington
artists whose work shows greater promise,
or before whom there would seem to be a
more brilliant career.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS
Nashville.s New Library.

A beautiful library building will be
erected at once upon the historic
James X. Polk property in the central
portion of Nashville. Recently the old
mansion of President Polk was demol-
ished and modern fat buildings erected
upon large portion of the ground. A
few months ago Andrew Carnegie do
mated 100000 for a library in that city
with the understanding that Nashville
should provide a fund of 5000 and
appropriate $4,000 each year for main
tenance. The Rev. J. Craig McLana-
han, owner Of the Polk property, came
forward with proposition to give the
city a lot about 100 feet square. The
lot was accepted by the new Carnegie
Library Association, and a $4,000
building will be put up. The historic
property on which the library is to be
located will add greatly to the interest
in the undertaking. The Howard Lii
brary is to be merged into tht new in
stitution, while perhaps $4,000 worth
of valuable books, now at the State
Capitol Library, will be transferred to
the new Carnegie Library.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
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
CONGRESSIONAL.

The senate on the Cd discussed the Phil
ippine tariff bill and the measure provid-
ing for an increase in the salaries of Unit
ed states judges, an amendment providing
for increase of the salaries of senators and
representatives to $500 being defeated.
I'm the house the urgent deficiency bill
t$2O, 2S9, 500 was reported, as was also the
bill repeating the Spanish revenue taxes.
and the measure to impose a tax OF ten
cents pound upon oleomargarine, colored
In imitation of butter. was discussed.
bill was passed in the senate on the
4th providing for a % per cent. increase in
the salaries of United States judges, and
during the remainder of the session the
urgent deficiency appropriation bill was
under consfderation....In the house Dele
gate wilcox, of Hawaii, introduced a bill
increasing annual salaries as follows:
President Of the United States, 500, GOO;
vice president, $25, 900; cabinet officers, $15,~
OJO each; members of congress, $4,000. A
Joint resolution was introduced inviting
Paul Kruger to visit the United States as
a guest of the nation. The oleomargarine
bill was further debated.
The urgent deficiency bill was passed in
the senate on the 5th, and bill was intro
duced by Senator Hoar increasing the
salaries of senators and members of the
house to $500 and the salaries of the
speaker and the president pro tenn. of the
senate to $4,000 each. The committee on
foreign relations ordered a favorable re-
port on the treaty to acquire the Danish
West Indies. In the house joint resolu-
ton was introduced providing for state
hood for Cuba, and the oleomargarine bill
was further discussed.
In the senate on the 9Th the Philippine
tariff bill caused another warm debate be-
tween Senators Foraker, Hoar and Till
man. Senator Scott CIV. Va.) in a speech
advocated an investigation of the San Bias
route for an isthmian canal. The house
spent the day on the legislative, executive
and judicial appropria ton bill. Mr.. Crit
fifth (Ind.) introduced a bill to provide for
coupon currency, in order that small sums
in multiples of five cents may be conven-
iently sent by mail
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
THE ST. LOUIS HOLOCAUST.
incidents of the Sunday Morntna
Fire that Cost Eleven Lives
The Dead and Injured.

ST. Louis, Feb. 10.-The Empire ho-
tel, Twenty-seventh and Olive streets,
St. Louis, was damaged $4,000 by
fire, and IL lives were lost. The fire
occurred at an early hour Sunday
morning. The hotel was run as
bachelor apartments.
The fire started either in the base
ment OF on the first floor, tearing its
way upward along the double stair
way to the third floor. A remarkable
feature of the confagration is that
many of the rooms in which men
were found dead were but little raw
aged by the flames. Lace curtains,
bedsteads, pictures, books and mural
ornaments were not scathed in most
apartments. Smoke and gases were
the primal cause of the fatalities.
Thrilling escapes are recorded by
survivors, John Mcmahon and Jo-
seph J. Hart rescued their compan-
ions from the second floor by form
ing a human ladder. Cornelius Ryan
escaped by racing down the steps
through the gauntlet of flames. c. w.
Park and J. Fisher, street car con-
ductors, jumped from second-story
windows. Joseph Godfrey scaled tho
roof from a third-story window and
dropped to the ground in the back
yard Similar experiences are relat~
ed by others whose lives were
spared. One man, 3. f. Woodley, of
Binghamton, n. Y, leaped from a
third-story window and was killed by
striking, head foremost, on a flag
stone.
4 pillow tossed out by John Nc
Mahon had $50 in bills concealed I'M
der the slip. Mcmahon and his COM
panions managed to get out their
trunks. They say that many who
died would have been saYed had they
exercised elaboration and not be-
come excited. A lifeline, as good as
new. was found in the closet in the
room of George W. Thompson. Lizzie
Harris, the negro chambermaid, was
suffocated. Her room was some dis
lance from the fire, and nothing in
it was even scorched.
The Dead.
Norris Yall, formerly of No. 1902
State street, Chicago.
B. f. Woodley, of Binghamton,
Ny.
John C. Lueders, carpenter
George W. Thompson, switchman,
Chicago.
Vance Marlin, hosting engineer.
J. ~ McMullin, carpenter.
S. p Cory, telegraph operator,
formerly of Hamilton. o.
lobe Davis, clerk.
Lizzie Harris, chambermaid.
A. j. Allen, stonemason, Sedalia,
Mo.
c. f. Constant, carpenter.
The Injured.
John Lally, manager of lodging
house; sprains in back.
Cornelius Ryan, slight burns.
Harry Cline, Marion, Ill.
George Lane, Rich Hill, Mo.
Walter Johnson.
Henry Robinson, negro porter; Sc
we're burns.
William Clark. Chicago; bruised.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
DOME STIG

NJ. {. Lawler, II. Z. Pancake, Chris
FerndOn and c. r. Blunt, Iowa stock
men, were killed in a railway wreck at
Apple River, Ill.
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the Illinois Central railroads
title to lake front land in Chicago
valued at $1O.OOO,OOO.
Miss Agnes Inglis, of Detroit, a
leader in her classes, committed sui
eide at the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor.
Many vessels were wrecked in a
storm along the Atlantic coast. Big
ships were driven ashore in many
places and several lives lost.
The losses by the fire at Water
bury, Conn, aggregate nearly ST.
100000. Thirty acres of business
buildings are in ruins and hundreds
of persons are homeless.
Fire at Mentone, Ind, wiped out
half the business portion of the
town.
Gov. Taft told the senate commit
tee on the Philippines that American
aid is necessary to establish civil
government in the islands.
a blizzard has been raging through
New York, Pennsylvania and in New
England for 80 hours, and trains are
stalled, wires are down and business
suspended.
Every law enacted by the last Wy
oming legislature is invalid, for the
reason that the bills were not read
and recorded properly in the lower
house.
Three barges loaded with coal were
lost on their way from Newport News
to Boston and crews of Is persons
were drowned.
Three young women were fatally
hurt and six others injured while
coasting at Cumberland, Md.
The lower house of the Ohio legis-
lature defeated a resolution declar-
ing for election of senator's by popu-
lar vote.
Ten St. Louis fremen were killed and
six injured by the burning of the Amer
lean Tent & Awning company's build
ing.
The explosion of a boiler on a tow
boat in Pittsburg killed six persons.
The laboratory and hotel conducted
by the Leslie L. Kelley company at
loss being 100000.
Dowie compromised the suit in Chi
cago of his brother-in-law, Stevenson,
and further proceedings in court were
dropped. The latter is said to have
been paid $17S,OOO by the Zion leader.
Coasting hobs on which six boys were
racing at Peoria, ILL.,, ran into street
% car and all were badly hurt, three prob
ably fatally.
President Roosevelt has consented to
his daughters going to King Edwards
coronation as the guest of Whitelaw
Reid.
\ special session of the Minnesota
legislature convened in St. Paul to en-
act a tax code.
Four men were fatally injured in
an explosion at the Pintsch gas
works at Ogden, Utah.
Francis f. Baker. of Indiana, took
the oath of office in Chicago as Unit
ed States circuit judge for the Sew
enth circuit.
Caesar o. Hartz, wealthy Chicago
livery man, was shot and killed by Ed
ward Coughlin, an employe, in a dis
pute over seven dollars.
At Frankfort, Ky, Judge Cantrill
overruIed the motion for new trial in
the Jim Howard case and sentenced
him TO Imprisonment for life.
An Alton limited train was derailed
by an open switch near Pontiac, ILL.,,
the coaches overturned and five per-
sons injured.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

America is said to lead in the for
eign trade of eastern Siberia.
Several ST. Louisans who have in
become oil magnates.
Two little girls died from suffoca-
ton, due to a fire in their home In
New York city.
Autographs of Thomas Jefferson
have been distributed in the schools
of Porto Rico.
Joseph B. Upton, of Bolivar, Mo-,
widely-known republican politician
and editor, is dead.
A venerable New York bunlo man
worked two Kansas farmers with a
scheme to extract gold from goldfish.
Seditious pamphlets of the Filipino
junta at Hong Kong are being free
ly distributed throughout the Pacl-
fed provinces of the Philippines.
An epidemic of smallpox is raging
in London, New York, Boston, CHI
cago and Philadelphia, the most ser1-
Gus in many years.
Maurice Grau has arranged i've
hour programme for the occasion OF
Prince Henry's visit to the Metropoli-
tan opera-house at New York.
President Roosevelt is not expected
to return to Washington for several
days. being likely to remain with his
invalid son at Groton, Mass.
The funerals of Firemen Michael j.
Kehoe and Charles Krenning, victims
of the Chestnut street fire, were held
in ST. Louis, Sunday, and were large
ly attended.
Miss Josie Schley, a relative of Ad-
miral Schley, has caused an uproar
in the Milwaukee Artists society be-
cause her pictures were rejected.
President Roosevelt is said to be
exceedingly anxious that congress
arrange for a relief measure for Cuba
before the time for the formal cleo
ton of Senior Palma to the presiden-
cy.
Three lads who ran away from
their homes in Popular Bluff, Mo-,
and TeXarkana. Ark, tired of their
tramping about the country, sur
rendered to the police at ST. Louis.
Wall street brokers are worried be-
cause the general public does not
seem to be interested in speculation,
Notwithstanding the high prices at
which stocks are held.
Harry Greenlee, a passenger on the
roof of the Eads bridge bus automo-
bile, was killed by coming in contact
with steel overhead girder on the
incline of the Eads bridge in East
St Louis. III.
The Hindoo twins, Radica and Dor
dina. who were united in manner
similar to the Siamese twins, were
successfully separated in Paris, Sun
daV bV DIR. Devon.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
FOREIGN.

An extensive conspiracy to assassin
ate the empress dowager of China has
been unearthed.
Miss Stone is still a captive owing
to failure to agree on the place for
payment of the ransom.
a terrific gale on the North sen
caused many wrecks and great loss
of life. The French ship Chanaral
was wrecked off Ushant, and only
one of the crew of % was saved.
Shocking reports are coming to the
war department from Manila con-
corning the continued atrocities of
the insurgents in the warfare against
our troops.
Municipal elections in the Philip
pines resulted in the choice of many
natives for governors of provinces.
The Venezuelan revolutionary boat
Libertador, undergoing repairs at
Porto Colombia, is reported sunk by
government gunboat.
Venezuela insurgents under Gen.
Sientalta defeated the government
forces at Paraguana.
Great Britain has declined the offer
of Holland to mediate in the Boer war
and says she will only treat with the
Beers in South Africa.
In his weekly report to the war Of
flee Lord Kitchener states that for
the week ended February 90 Beers
were killed, six wounded. 142 taken
prisoners and As surrendered.
Hadda MuIlah, whose influence is
said to dominate the ameer, is
preaching holy war in Afghanistan.
Three more bodies have been re-
covered from the ruins of a fire at
ST. Louis, making seven in all.
The payment Of Miss Stones ransom
is blocked by the sultan of Turkey, and
the United States governme may ask
for an explanation.
Gen De Vets last gun and his chief
lieutenant commaudant. Wess els, have
been captured by the British.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14

| Secretary Shaw. of the treasury
| department, attended his first cabi-
| net meeting.
Judge Taft told the senate Philip
pines committee that the great ma
| jority of the islanders desire peace
| and an opportunity to resume agri-
| cultural pursuits.
Gas mains exploded in Chicago,
wrecking two buildings and killing
Otto Trostel and his wife and six
children and three other persons.
Over 20 persons were injured.
Merritt Chism, a wealthy man, has
been convicted at Bloomington, ILL.,,
of the murder of his wife and SEN
fenced to II years imprisonment.
Gov. Van SAINT in a message to the
Minnesota legislature gave the de-
tails of the states fight against the
railroad merger.
Three hundred bills for public
buildings have been introduced in
congress so far this session, calling
for an appropriation of $35,000,00O.
Of this amount Illinois share is ST.
AIS, 900, Iowa, $1,S1s,0OO; Indiana, ST.
325, 900, and Wisconsin, $S60,000.
L
pine committee if political rights are
to be granted to the islanders the
ballot should be given to women in
stead of the men.
The trustees of church at New
market, Nd, refused to permit it to
be used for the funeral of tuber-
culosis victim.
Six men robbed a bank at Clarks-
vile, Ark, of $4,000 and escaped, aft
er killing the sheriff.
Illinois day at the Charleston expo
sition will be observed on March II.
A priest at the annual alumni din
York scored Carnegie for not giving
to Catholic schools.
Mrs. Kushner and two children were
burned to death in a fire at Water
loo, Ia.
Tom Brown (coiored) was Iynched
by mob at Nicholasville, KY, for as
saulting white girl.
The treaty for the sale of the Dan
ish West Indies to the United States
has been made public. The price to be
paid is $5,oOO,oOO.
Euless Whitaker (colored), charged
with the murder of John Dorster, was
taken from Jail at Lynchburg, Tenn,
and hanged by a mob.
The state department acknowledges
that negotiations for the release of
Miss Stone have come to an end and
that there is no present prospect that
the brigands will be willing to reopen
them.
A : r Io+ 90
must not employ persuasion or any
other means to interfere with nom
union men desiring to work.
The Chicago health department is
organizing a cooperative crusade to
crush out smallpox in the middle west.
Forty-seven families were made
homeless by a fire in Chicago fiat
building.
Armstrong Hensley was hanged at
Erwin, Tenn, for the murder of his
siX-year-old stepdaughter.
The senate committee was informed
by Judge Taft that the majority of
the Filipinos favor American rule.
DR.. James E. Russell of Brooklyn
poses of vivisection for a year unless
he dies sooner.
Admiral SchIey ended his southern
tour with a reception at Knoxville,
Tenn.
Gold assaying $75 ton has been
discovered on farm near Depeyster,
n. Y.
Joseph Kruml in fit of jealousy
killed Mary Alexa in Chicago and then
fatally shot himself.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
WHO WIS ST. VALENTINE?
sss Something of be Cbristion Martyr

tine is shown in this same diary, which
chronicles that 1.-The duke of York be-
ing her Miss Stuart's) valentine, did
give her a jewel of about C 500; and
my Lord Vaudeville, her valentine this
year, ring of about & 800.
Walsh, in his very interesting "Curi-
osities of Popular Customs" gives
what data he has been able to gather
He found that Bailey's, the first of the
great English dictionaries, says in re-
gard to the day: valentines lin Eng
land). About this time of the year
month of February-the birds choose
their mates, and probably thence came
the custom of the young men and
maidens choosing valentines, or spe-
cial loving friends, on that day" The
antiquary, Sir Francis Douce, suggests
that ST. Valentines day is the Chris
TANNED form of that classic Luper-
Gala, which were feasts held in Rome
during the month of February in hon
or of Pan and Juno, when among other
ceremonies it was customary to put
the names of young men in box from
which they were drawn by the men
tan clergy, finding it difficult or i'm
possible to extirpate the pagan prac-
tice, gave it at least religious aspect
by substituting the names of particu-
lar saints for those of the women.
Not few of the clergy felt it part
of their work to suppress the custom
that was spreading so fast, and in
the sixteenth century ST. Francis de
Sales severely forbade the custom of
valentines, or giving boys in writing
the names of girls to be admired and
attended on by them; and, to abol-
ish it, he changed it into giving billets
with the names of certain saints for
them to honor and initiate in a par
ticular manner
But, as you can easily believe, this
method of observing the day did not
appeal to the young gallants, much
more given to meditating on maids
than monks.
1t would seem that the idea of choos-
ing ones own valentine is a compare
lively modern idea, although in those
old days the element of choice entered
somewhat. Pepys tells his wife kept
her eyes hid all morning so she would
not look upon the masons that were
working next door, and tells how
certain VIII Boyer, wishing to be Mrs.
Pepys' valentine, came up in the morn
ing to her bed chamber. Be sure even
those old-fashioned youths and maid
ems, and also the elderly lovers, would
find out way.
The Puritans, who did not take kind
ly to the Christmas festivities of the
old England they had left behind, hard
ly could have accepted with much ap-
prova1 the frivolous observances of
Saint Valentines day. A picture has
been handed down of cavalier, a lit
tie the worse for wear, offering a DO
etic effusion to a Puritan maiden. The
maiden seems not to be affected by
the cavaliers offering, appears proof
against even his courtly manner and
speech, and inclines toward another
companion, Presbyterian minister in
black garb. 1t would seem the scarlet
coated cavalier must look elsewhere
for his valentine, mayhap have to go
back to the home land, where such lev
ity as May day and Valentine day were
not only tolerated but were made
much of. KATHERINE POPE
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
Threatened With Death.

CONSERVATION has been caused at
the University of the South, located at
Sewanee, back in the mountains from
Tullahoma, by mysterious threats of
death and damage by fire and dynamite
made by desperate and illiterate noun
taineers in that section toward Vice
Chancellor Virgins, Steward r. L.
Colmore and others of the institution.
The life Of the chancellor has been
openly threatened and the steward also
anonymously notified that he would be
killed. Upon advice of friends both
have left the community, Chancellor
Virgins going to New York, while the
destination of the steward In not
known
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
PERsoNAL AND PoLIrICAL,

James w. Tufts, the millionaire
soda fountain manufacturer of Bos-
ton, died suddenly of apoplexy at
Pinehurst, n. c.
Mrs. Hannah Torrens, aged 104 years
months and IA days, and Mrs. Dora
Exteine, aged 104 years and 1 day, died
in Toledo, o.
Miss Helen Hay, daughter of Secre-
tary Hay, and Payne Whitney, son of
w. C. Whitney, were married at Wash
ingtOn.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
A Reign of Terror.

Almost reign of terror exists in
the vicinity of the Milestone mine of
the Cumberland Coal Company, seven
teen miles above Crossville, in Fentress
county. Some dissatisfied miners and
a lot Of toughs and DULLES recently
posted notice, signed with skull and
cross bones and in red ink, warning
the negroes, a few of whom are en-
ployed about the mines and at the
company store, to leave at once. The
negroes did not leave, and the mob has
twice fired into their cabins. The last
time the negroes returned the fire and
the mob retreated.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
Good Advice

Miss Summit-Sometimes / long to
spend years of my life in absolute soli-
tude.
Miss Palisade-Why don't you get
married Flown Topics,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
Fence War in Lake County.

At its recent session the County
Court of Lake county passed a law
making four wires legal fence. There
is a great deal of opposition to the
law. Land owners have commenced
building fences under condition of the
law, but the opposition is taking des-
perate measures to compel the court
to repeal it. ]. G. Harris was among
the first to construct four-wire fences,
and few days ago large section Of
this fence was found destroyed. A no.
tice was fastened to one of the posts
with the information that all such
fences built in the county would re-
ceive similar treatment.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14
a Youthful Killer

Taylor Golf was shot in the back and
instantly killed at Spencer last week
by 16-year-old boy named Curtis.
Seemingly there was a dispute over a
boundary, and Golf started to leave
and was shot as stated Goff was a
man OF family, one OF the most promi-
nent citizens of Van Buren, county and
a brother of Judge j. d. GoE of Spen-
ser.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-14

The business section of Elberton,
Ga. was destroyed by fire, Sunday;
loss 100000.