The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
Admiral Sampson is to be retired on

Admiral Sampson is to be retired on
February 9.
The Chicago health department is
considering the advisability of quaran-
timing against Iowa, Wisconsin and In
diana towns on account Of smallpox.
Ex-Gov. L. NJ. Shaw left Des Moines,
Ia, for Washington to assume his du-
| ties as secretary Of the treasury.
| The programme for Prince Henry's
entertainment has been completed.
He will start on his western tour on
March 1, after eight days in Wash
| ington and the east.
Northwestern railroad officials have
adopted a new code of signals for the
operation of trains.
A Michigan Central passenger train
ran into a carriage at West Ham
mond, Ind, and killed three persons
who were returning from a funeral.
The National Retail Grocer's asso-
citation in session in Milwaukee adopt
ed resolutions indorsing a national
pure food law.
Weston KEEPER and Henry Rowe
were hanged at Harrisburg, Pa, for
killing Cashier Charles w. Ryan in an
attempt to rob the Halifax national
bank.
Gold mines on the Indian river near
Dawson are said to be as rich as the
Rand.
Three persons were killed, another
fatally injured and many hurt in
street car wreck at Wilmerding, Pa.
Fire wiped out nearly the entire
business section of Wolcott, Ind.
A sleet storm swept the south from
the Ohio river to the northern part of
the gulf states and from Texas as
far east as Chattanooga and Atlanta,
doing damage estimated at thousands
of dollars.
The Peoples church at ST. Paul was
burned, the loss being $1O5, 900; insur-
ance, $4,000.
Edward Kent, of Colorado, has been
appointed chief justice of Arizona.
Joseph E. Williams, of South Bend,
Ind, has been elected president of the
National Associa tion of Retail Grocers.
Gov. Van SAINT, of Mime sofa, has de-
chned TO drop the fight on the railroad
merger at the request of Minneapolis
business men.
A Hamilton CO., judge decided that
failure of faith curists to call medical
aid for their daughter constitutes no
crime.
Andrew Carnegie made formal trans
fer of $1OOOO,O0O to the trustees of the
Carnegie Institution, and DR.. Daniel c.
Gilman. has been elected president of
the institution.
The late President McKinley's birth
day was generally observed through
out the country.
Miss Alice Roosevelt will attend King
Edwards coronatio as the guest of
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
Admiral Schley's appeal to the presi-
dent from the decision of the court
of inquiry has been made public by
the navy department.
"Cale" Mitchell, of Saratoga, n. Y,
a noted gambler, killed himself. He
was the fourth member of the fam
lily to commit suicide.
A highwayman who held up a farm
er near Upton, Ind, was killed by
the latter's dogs.
Admiral Schley was given a recep- |
ton and ball by the knights templar
of Louisville, Ky.
The Carnegie institution has COM |
pleted its organization by electing an |
executive committee.
James Howard has been convicted |
a second time at Frankfort, KY, of |
completely in the Goebel murder and |
given life imprisonment.
Paderewski arrived in New York on
the Oceanic to make an American tour.
Edward and John Biddle, brothers,
awaiting execution for murder, es-
capped from Jail at Pittsburg, Pa.
Judge Advocate Lemly has filed com
ments on Schley's appeal, declaring he
was in command of only one ship at
Santiago.
The first snow in the memory of
the oldest inhabitant fell at San
Diego, Cal.
Fire destroyed the Atlantic hotel
and other property in Norfolk, Va,
the loss being 100000.