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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
MOB AT EAST ST. LOUIS.
The Entire Police Force Was Needed
to Protect Negro Prisoner
from Violence.

st. Louis, July 1.-THE entire po-
lice force of East ST. Louis, armed
with riot guns, guarded the police
station Friday night to prevent mob
from lynching Charles Russell, col
ored, arrested on suspicion of Grim
inally assaulting Annie Bryant near
the outskirts of the city at midnight
Sunday. A throng of 500 or more
visited the police station about 1890
o'clock Friday night, carrying ropes,
and demanded of Police Lieutenant
j. c. Kinney that Russell be given to
the crowd behind him that they might
lynch him. Lieut.. Kinney Immediate
1y ordered the crowd back, threaten
ing to shoot if they did not retire.
The entire night force of police was
called in at once, and Chief Hauss
sent for. Wien the chief arrived he
ordered 16 men armed with riot guns
to charge on the crowd still sur
rounding station, and it was dispersed
amid great disorder
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS.
Fraud Charged.

The National Life Co., the United
States, of Chicago; the Franklin, of
Springfield, Ill, and the United
States, of New York, are life insu-
rance companies which are COM
planning that an effort to swindle
them has been practiced in Bedford,
Rutherford, Moore, Lincoln and
other Middle Tennessee counties.
These companies were represented by
DR.. Ozment of Murfresboro as agent.
In Bedford county alone, it is al
legged by the companies, more than
$4,000 worth of policies have been
issued on the lives of persons noto-
riously unsound physically, and who
were rapidly approaching the grave.
These policies, it is claimed, were
issued at the instance of syndicate
of outside parties who paid the pre-
miums and who were to jointly share
in the money received on the early
expected death of the party insured.
Precisely who or how many belong
to this syndicate it is impossible to
learn.
The vice president and medical
director of the Chicago company,
who were at Shelbyyille last week,
claimed that the policies were OBJ
tanned by fraud and compulsion and
through their attorneys have filed
bills asking the cancellation of every
one of them.
It is stated that policies of the
same sort amounting to $4,000 have
been issued in Rutherford county.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Sequel to a Sensation.

Mrs. Kate Hutchinson, whose
marriage to Henry T. Elliott of Chi
cago, in the union station at Nash
vile, on the night of April 10, was
a surprise and sensation for sew
eral days thereafter, has sued Elliott
for a divorce. She claims he has a
wife in Rogan, Ark, that he left her
June 2, and is now in Michigan,
Ind, and that he abused and mis-
treated her because she would not
give him money to spend in riotous
living. Mrs. Hutchinson prays for
the restoration of her former name.
She married Elliott through an adj
vertisement in Chicago paper, be-
ing a widow with several children
and some money, left her by her
former husband.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
SUICIDE OF AN OLD MAN.
William Fable, of BeIIeviIIe, Ill,
Hangs Himself on His Fifty
Ninth Birthday.

Belleville, ILL.,, July 12.-Willia1n
Fable celebrated his f1fty-ninth
birthday Friday by hSnging himself
in a coal shed, in the rear Of his resi-
dence, All East street.
His body was found by Mrs. Jacob
Roth, who went to the shed to get
coal and bumped against the swing
ing form of her neighbor.
A faint heart caused Fable to end
his life. He was SO years old Friday.
His wife and six children were de-
pendent upon his labors. He was
without work and had passed the
meridian of his usefulness. Life held
barren hopes, he thought. So, while
his wife was preparing birthday din
ner, in order that the anniversary
should be fittingly celebrated, her
husband was soaping the rope with
which he ended his life.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Land of Milk and Honey.

There has been sold in this i'm
mediate section more than 81, 200
worth of tomato box timber and
more than 5000 bushel boxes for
beans and other things. The pro-
ceeds from the sale of these products
represent considerable sum of mon
ev and the tomatoes are still being
shipped every day by the carload
and though the price is not large,
being 40 and so cents per box, the
growers are getting fair returns for
their labor. With the present pros
poets for staple crops, which have
been very much helped by the recent
abundant rains, there is every indi-
cation that this will be, when the har-
vest comes, a land flowing with milk
and honey.-Crockett County Sen
tinel.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
HELD ON A SERIOUS CHARGE.
legged Connection with the Shoot
ing of Miss Maud Holmes.

Mcpherson, Kas., July 11.-Dr. A. B.
Ryno has been arrested on a warrant
sworn out at Galva for alleged con-
nection with the shooting of Miss
Maud Holmes, who was fatally wound
ed here on Sunday night, the 5th, by
some one who fired load of buck,
shot through her bedroom window.
DR.. Ryno is "a years old and the head
of family. He mas lied in McPher-
son county for 25 years. He was
77ercome by his arrest and to-day is
in state of collapse. He denies all
knowledge of the shooting. There is
no known motive for the shooting of
Miss Holmes, who belongs to one of
the most prominent families in the
community
Detectives have collected a mass of
letters written to Miss Holmes be-
fore she was shot, dated at various
points in Mcpherson county and
signed in different names. One writ
ten at Galva had first been sent to
the postmaster at Toledo, o., who re-
mailed it to her. Another represented
the writer to be a wealthy widower
seeking wife. The handwriting is
said to correspond with specimens OF
Ryno's penmanship. When arrested
Ryno was taken to the Holmes resi-
dence and identified as a man who
had previously called there under the
name of George A. Clark. Ryno has
a wife and grown children and is well
to do. He was so i'll to-day that it
was necessary to postpone his pre-
liminary hearing.
Miss Holmes continues in a critical
condition. She has been unable to
make a statement
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Killed by Lightning.

Daniel Long, a farmer living near
Thorn Grove, was killed by light
ming in a wheat field while the sun
was shining brightly. The lightning
came from a small cloud. A farm
hand was also badly shocked. Longs
clothing was burned from his body,
his wagon burned and one mule
killed
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Found FIonting I'm the River.

Fishermen found the body of P. A.
Tatum, of Birmingham, Ala, floating
in the Alabama river at Salem. Off
Gals are Investigating.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
VIII Build Immense Plant.

The United States Leather Com
pany will build an immense plant at
Chattanooga to manufacture liquid
extracts from cheap wood. The
plant will cost $250,O0O. The COM
pany already has mammoth tan
merry there. The company is known
as the leather trust.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Child Killed Her Uncle.

Susan Frazier, ten years old, of Pa
ducah, KY, is charged with the kill
ing Of her uncle, George James. The
child, it is claimed, saw her uncle
beating his wife, and, obtaining a
pistol, shot him in the stomach, In
hictinR a fatal wound.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Goes to Arkansas.

DR.. J. w. Carr, native of New
Hampshire, and former instructor
in Harvard and West Virginia univer-
stiles, has been promoted to the
Craftsmanship of the department of
English and modern languages in the
University of Arkansas.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Three New Banks.

Three new banking institutions
will begin business in Mississippi in
a few days. One Of these is at Mon
ticello, with a capital of 100000; an
other at Brownsville, with capital of
$25, 900, and another at Liberty, CAPT
talized at $4,000.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Tax Values of Shelby County.

The tax aggregate for Shelby
county has been reported to Comp
troller King by the county board of
'equalizers. The realty is assessed
at $39,O33,527 personally $6,254,-
500, total $45,28S,125, which is an
increase over 1901 of $1,741,1 99. OF
the increase that in realty was ST.
LOG, $50 and personally $634,613.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Woman Wants Her Share.

Denver, Col, July 12.-Mrs. Queen
V. Cole fled suit on Friday to recov-
er one-half the property, principally
Denver real estate valued at S40O, 900,
which was recently presented to the
Peniel trust, a Methodist organiza-
ton, by her husband, Henry Cole, de-
spite her protest.
The complaint alleges that during
the two years past Henry Cole re
fused to give his wife any money for
her own use or for the purchase of
articles needed in their home, and
charges him with cruelty in various
forms.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Jury. Disagreed.

The jury in the Rush case at Jack
eon, Miss, disagreed. Raiford, the
ex-cashier of the state treasury, who
admits that he concocted the scheme
for lending the hundred thousand
dollars, has been placed under bond
to secure his attendance as a witness
at the next trial.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.
Crime Was Revealed.

The mutilated body of Otis Bunch.
q young electrician employed in the
steel mills at Ensley, Ala, was found
in the burning ruins of n boarding
house. The authorities believe he
was murdered and the house fired to
hide the crime. His head was almost
severed from the body, and his dis
membered limbs were found in vari-
Gus parts of the house.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Negro Murderer KILLED.

Dr. j. c. Bats, city coroner of Nor
folk, Va, was murdered by a negro
named Graves, to whose house Bats
had been summoned to attend Graves
wife. Police surrounded the house
and Graves, who refused to surren-;
der, held the police at bay for an
hour, and was riddled by bullets from
the officers and fatally wounded.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Killed His Sister. Lover.

Harry Ison, aged IS, shot and fatal
ly wounded Thomas Smith at Chat
tanooga, Tenn. Smith had gone
driving with Ison's sister against
Ison's command. An alteration en-
sued, and Ison shot Smith three times
in the stomach, and made good his
escape.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
President of Emory College.

Rev. J. E. Dickey was elected presi-
dent Of Emery college, Oxford, Ga,
by the board of trustees of that in
stitution, to succeed DIR. c. E. Bow
man, resigned
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
The Mexican weeviI.

For the first time the Mexican
weevn is reported in the state of Mis-
sissippi, having made it's appearance
in large numbers in Holmes county.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Cant. Richard Irby,

Capt. Richard hby, treasurer of
Randolph-Macon college, Ashland,
Va, and well known throughout Vir-
ginia, died the other day, aged II.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Contractors Enter Suits.

Nichols & Son, W. H. & J. W.
Brooks and George M. Webb, con-
tractors, filed a bill against the Ten
nessee Construction Company, the
Tennessee Railway Company, the
Tennessee Railroad, the Callahan
Construction Company, and Gala
han, Mcdowell & Co., seeking to re-
cover for alleged work performed
and materials furnished in the con-
struction of the Tennessee railroad.
The compliments ask that they be
given a lien on the road and that q
receiver be appointed to sell it and
liquidate their claims out of the pro-
ceeds. The claims aggregate 81
1880. The parties were subcon-
tractors on the road.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
cold Amt EASTER.

"Old Aunt Easter" slave owned
in ante-bellum days by John D. Stock
EFT, died near Turnbull, Miss, few
days ago, aged over hundred years.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Shot by sweetheart's Brother.

Harry Ison, aged 10, shot and IA
tally wounded Tom Smith at Chatta-
nooga few nights ago. Smith had
gone driving with Ison's sister
against Ison's command. An alter
cation ensued and Ison shot Smith
three times.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Girl Drowned I'm Cistern.

Octave Blaine, an orphan, eight
years old, fell into a cistern near Ed
dyville, KY, and was drowned. She
had gone after a bucket of water.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Col. j. b. Rose.

Col. J. B. Rose, of Ocean Springs,
Miss, died recently in New York. He
left Ocean Springs few days before,
apparently in good health, for New
York. Col. Rose was a man of the
most sterling qualities,a man of large
means and generous almost to q
fault.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Acouitted of Murder Charge.

The jury in the case of Ed Hill
charged with the murder of Thomas
L. Breen, at Vicksburg, Miss, after
being out Is minutes, returned a YER
dict of not guilty.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Pleaded Guilty to Forgery.

Mary McSheshe, full-blood Choc-
taw, pleaded guilty to a charge of for
gerry, at Waxahachie, Tex, and was
sentenced to serve two years in the
penitentiary.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Shot Bx = Sheriff.

At picnic in Franklin county.
Miss. Thomas Pritchard was shot
through the legs by Sheriff PROXY.
while resisting arrest.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
weather and Crops.

The weekly crop report, issued on
the Sth, says hot and dry weather has
favored the work of saving of hay,
threshing wheat and of giving the
final cultivation to early corn and
cotton. These latter crops are in fine
condition. Wheat threshing is about
over. Oats are being harvested with
fairly good yields. Tobacco is grow
ing off fairly well. Early Irish pota-
toes show only fair yield in the
middle division because of drouth.
Fruit prospects show little or no i'm
provement. Pastures are in good
condition.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Vegetable and Fruit shipments.

Eighteen carloads of tomatoes
were shipped from Humboldt one
day last week. A considerable
amount of peaches, apples, cucum-
bers and other fruits and vegetables
was also shipped, which brought
fancy prices.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Home For EIks.

The order of Elks have purchased
o hotel at Bedford City, Va, and will
use it as a national home for INDECENT
members
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Great Reunion of Veterans.

Stonewall Jackson bivouac, q. G.
v, of Mckenzie, is making great
preparations for the annual reunion,
on the 10Th instant. From 5000 to
10000 people generally attend these
reunions, and large crowd is ex-
pected this year. The transporta-
ton committee has secured one and
one-third rate from Waverly to
Hickman and from Danville to
Memphis, tickets good for three or
four days.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Was Tired of Life.

F. II. MCGOWAN, proprietor Of the
Beaumont Cycle Works, Beaumont,
Tex, committed suicide at that city
by swallowing a large dose of NOR
phine.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
States Cash.

The available cash balance in the
State treasury at the beginning of
business on the 5th was $499, Alb, as
against $361,966 year ago.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Murder at a Picnic.

At Catlettsburg, KY, Jesse Rule,
retired merchant, was stabbed and
killed at picnic. Fred Brochett,
timberman, was arrested.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Ennnd Dead I'm the Woods

James 2. Sellers was found dead
In the woods near Memphis, Tenn.
with an empty laudanum bottle in his
hand.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Another ..Trnc" Biography

l note from a recent announcement
that Philadelphia publishing house
Is having prepared a biography to be
called THE True Andrew Jackson"
This same house has published sew
eral lives of statesmen-"The True
Thomas Jefferson" THE True Benja-
min Franklin" etc. They show up the
worst side of those they sketch, and
the result is that much of our high
opinion of the forefathers is dissi-
pated.
We have had an opinion, from read
ing the early stories of Washington,
that he was virtuous, sober, and a fine
soldier. In his life of the Father Of
his Country, Paul Leicester Ford
makes him fond of drink, hints that
his relations with women were not al
ways above criticism, and that he was
little short of being a poor comman-
der.
pretending to be true" and dealing in
nothing resembling whitewash, what
will be said of Jackson?
Will his sensational marriage be
placed before the public in a more SEN
sational way?
Will anything be made of the fact
that he was great friend of Mrs.
Eaton, who caused so much trouble in
his cabinet?
Will the facts in his duels and the
courtmartial and execution of John
Woods, an 1S-year-old soldier, be aired,
with the intention of making "Old
Hickory bloodthirsty?
We may look for the startling and
sensational in the forthcoming book on
Jackson.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
But Two Left.

Mrs. Nancy Jones, a revolutionary
war pensioner, died last week at her
home near Jonesboro. Her death
leaves only two persons on the pen
sion roll of that war. In 1882, when
Is years old, she married Darling
Jones, then 68 years old, who was a
revolutionary war soldier. He died
in 1848. She had two sons in the
civil war on the Union side and
grandson in the Spanish-American
war. She, her sons and a grandson
drew pensions from wars covering a
period of 119 years.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Tennessee Central Composition.

At the quarterly meeting of the
directors of the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga & st. Louis Railway Compa-
ny last week, President Thomas was
authorized to have surveys made for
the construction of railroad lines
from Lebanon to Smithville and
from Murfreesboro to Woodbury.. The
first line will be about twenty-five
miles in length and will parallel tho
Tennessee Central for a part of the
route. The other line will be about
eighteen miles long. Both project
ions will open up rich agricultural
and timbered country.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Important Libel Suit.

W. ]. Cunningham is publisher and
editor of the Confederate Veteran of
this city. 1t is an illustrated monthly
magazine, devoted to the things that
interest the veterans, and has a circu-
lation of more than 10000. Its editor
Is a gentleman and hustler. A year
ago he was sued for libel, and judg-
ment of $4,000 rendered against him.
He fought the case hard, and as a con-
sequence, he has had the case reversed
by the United States Supreme Court,
on account of certain erroneous rul-
irgs by the trial judge. 1t is predicted
he will finally win out" His
publication deserves to succeed.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Tennessee Writers

An interesting new novel by a Ten
nessean has appeared. Its author is
Judge W. c. Tyler Of GAINESVILLE, and
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Two Competing Lines.

1t is said that physicians are the bit
terest rivals in the world. But if one
wants to witness bitter rivalry he
might take a look at competing rail-
road lines.
For instance, the new Tennessee Cen
trail and the L. & N. railroads are very
much incensed toward each other. The
former has a line from Hartman, East
Tennessee to Nashville. Thirty miles
parallel the L. & n. from Lebanon. The
latter now say that the Tennessee Cen
trail, whose promoter is Col. Jere Bax-
ter, has no switching facilities at
Nashville-cannot reach the stock
yards, commission houses and grain
emporiums-a that if stock and pro-
duce are to be carried beyond the city,
it will all have to be transported on
the L. & N The L. & N. refuse to al
low their switches to be used for this
purpose.
"The Tennessee Central will be bot
tied up, therefore," the L. N. has
averred.
But I have carried a corkscrew
since l was a boy, and will unbottle
any road" Col. Baxter has replied.
1t will be interesting to watch the
future proceedings of these competing
lines. The fur is going to fly.
The Tennessee Centrals schedule
was made public June 2, and trains be-
gan running regularly on that date
from Nashville to Hartman.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18
Cumberland Unirerslty.

One of the best known educational
institutions in the South is Cumber-
land University, at Lebanon. 1t is I'M
der the patronage of the Cumberland
Presbyterians, and was founded before
the civil war Hundreds of its grad
yates are scattered throughout the
United States. One of its founders was
Judge Green, a Supreme Judge of the
State for many years, and connected
with it up to his death, in the COS. His
son has been Chancellor for thirty-five
years, but retires this year, to be sue
ceeded by David E. Mitchell. Mitchell
is 20 years of age, and a native Of
Pennsylvania. Though young, he has
amassed fortune by individual effort,
and his spent considerable money on
Cumberland University and in estab-
fishing a training school at Lebanon.
Fourteen men have just been sent
out to solicit patronage for the Univer-
sity.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-07-18


The nomination of Judge Frazier of
Chattanooga for the governorship
seems to give general satisfaction
among the Democrats Of the State
politicians and all.
1t is to be hoped that he and the
Republican candidate for the same Of
fee will meet in joint debate, though
this has about become obsolete.
The platform-which, it appears to
me. is uncommonly silent on some
questions-is not being criticised much
by any faction in the Democratic par
ty. The campaign will probably be a
harmonious one.
The Republicans of White county
are previous" set of men. In their
convention at Sparta the other day,
they declared for Mark Hanna for
president Said one of them to the
writer: 20, course, we like Roose-
welt, and still we do not indorse the
Booker Washington affair. Hanna is
more conservative: He has a bar1,
and we think him the right man for
the Republican nominee for president"