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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-10-25
Encouraetnp an Aut6or

Manuscript Reader-Here Is man.
uscript from some writer I never
heard of.
Great Magazine Editor-Well, no
use discouraging the poor fellow.
Kick it around the floor, so it will
look as If It had been carefully read,
and send 1t back.-N. Y. Weekly.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-10-25
A Verftable Fortnne

Church-She is Russian countess.
Gotham-Indeed! Has she much In
her own name?
Church-Has she? She's got nearly
the entire alphabet!-YonkersS States
man.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-10-25
Keen One Eve Down

To keep ones eyes upon the stars
And strive for Heaven Is sweet,
But not at risk OF tumbnng IN
The mudhole at your feet
philadelphia PresA
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-10-25
skeptIcaI.

They were married in haste, you
say?"
"Yes; each was afraid the other
would back out."-N. Y. Tines.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-10-25

at our theater party, but the employ
ment agent told me they We're out
Tit-Bits-
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
I'EAEGRAPHIC NOTES.

William I. Wilkins, president of
the Senter Commission Co., ST. Louis,
is dead.
Charles a. Gilbert, aged so, fell
down an elevator hatchway, at st.
Louis, and was seriously injured.
Father Coffey, the ST. Louis re-
former priest, delivered maledic-
tory sermon, Sunday, on political
bosses, their creed and practices.
An oil prospecting company, with
a capital of $1,OOO,UOO, has been or
ganized at Joplin, Mo.
George a. Baker, president of the
Continental national bank, st. Louis,
is dangerously i'll from pneumonia.
Clarence, Mo-, was visited by fire,
Sunday night, the opera-house being
lost and several stores burned or
badly damaged.
Prince Henry left Berlin Sunday,
for Kiel, and probably will not re-
turn before starting to the United
States.
While in Boston Prince Henry of
Prussia will visit Mrs. John L. Gard
ner's Venetian palace on the Fem
way.
Ben Masterson, emulating Carrie
Nation, smashed two drug stores at
Cedar City, Mo-, with hatchet, and
caused a riot.
Guatemala probably will sign the
treaty of peace entered into by the
presidents of the Central American
republics.
William X. Walther, secretary of
the German Mutual Fire Co., ST.
Louis, died suddenly at his home,
Sunday.
Fire at Waterbury, Conn, wiped
out large section of the business
part of the city. 1t is estimated that
the loss will reach 81 100000
Holland will remodel her offer to
Great Britain to seek a termination
of the Boer war. Rudyard Kipling
says no amnesty should be granted
rebels.
y mine horror occurred in one of
the Huntington mines at Hondo, Mex
leo, 20 miles southwest of Eagle Pass,
Tex. 1t is believed more than 100
lives were lost.
Cornelius NJ. Leelz, one of the best
known newspaper men of Illinois,
died, Sunday, from consumption. He
was born in Brooklyn, n. Y. in 1S49.
The pastors of nearly all the
churches in Butler, Pa, in their SER
mons, Sunday, referred to the sem
sational capture of Mrs. Kate SoffeI
and John and Edward Biddle. The
two latter died in the county jail Sat
urday night.
Miss Helen Hays marriage to Mr..
Payne Whitney next Thursday will
be the leading wedding event of the
season at Washington.
Armourdale, a suburb of Kansas
City, is terrorized by a runaway wolf
1t escaped from a cage in the gro
Gerry store of Charles Schreck
A small son of T. B. Dobbs, of
Hartville, Mo-, fell into the fireplace
and was burned to death before as
sistance could be rendered.
The severest epidemic of la grippe
that ever visited that section has pre-
vailed at TeXarkana, Ark, and vicini-
ty, since December 1. The disease
has been most malignant, the fatal
I
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
FOREIGN

The shortage in the Havana postal
account of Neely is declared to be $780,
691.
Ten missing marines of a party ex-
ploring Samar, in the Philippines,
were found in a starving condition
and delirious, and several of them
were likely to die.
Santos-Dumont made two success
full excursions over the Mediterranean
sea at Monte Carlo with his airship.
The emperor of Germany celebrated
his birthday by giving names TO num-
Der of his regiments and holding a
public levee at the palace.
The Holland government has made
a friendly offer to Great Britain to
act as diplomatic agent for the Beers
in negotiating peace terms and Eng
land is disposed to consider the ten
der.
Hollands move to end the Boer war
is said to have been made on her OWE
responsibility and in the name of hu-
manity.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
Damage by High Wind.

Philadelphia, Feb. 3.-But little
snow has fallen in this section of the
state during the last "a hours, but
high wind has done. considerable
damage to telegraph and telephone
wires. Reports from the coal regions
state that the cold s. intense, in
many places the mercury having fall
en- 80 degrees in IL hours.
Only one serious disaster to ship
ping had been reported to the mari
time exchange from the life-saving
stations between the Delaware break
water and Barnegat up to ten o'clock
Monday morning. This was the
grounding, on Brigantine shoals near
Atlantic City, of an unknown four
masted which went aground
during the night near the big steam
ship Cloverdale. Barnegat reports
that an unknown five-masted schoon-
er,with all sails torn away except the
jib, passed that station Monday
morning bound north. The wind at
the Delaware breakwater, which
reached a velocity of nearly fifty
miles an hour Sunday night, had fall
en- to 33 miles an hour at nine o'clock
Monday morning.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
Personal AND POLITICAL.

The New Jersey Legislature has elect
ed John f. Dryden (rep.), of Newark,
United States senator.
Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly,
distinguished for bravery during war
and in a hurricane at Samoa, died at
West Newton, Mass.
Mrs. Elizabeth Shoemaker died in
Monmouth, H., aged 100 years and two
months.
Byron Terrill, the last of the famous
stage drivers of Kansas, died at Gueda
Springs.
Charles E. Pearce. who represented
a ST. Louis district in the Fifty-ffth
and Fifty-sixth congresses, died in ST..
Louis.
Rev. DIR. A. B. Miller, for Al years
president of Waynesburg college,
died of paralysis at Waynesburg, Pa.
Ex-Congressman Charles f. F.Sprague,
of Massachusetts. died at sanitari-
um in Providence, Il. /.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
DOME STIC.

The Washington CORES spOndent of a
London paper declares England went
further than mere diplomatic friend
ship in preventing European inter
ventiOn in the Spanish war.
The Pioneer Limited, of the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul road ran into two
street cars at the West Chicago avenue
grade crossing in Chicago Twelve
persons were injured, one of whom
may die.
Three eX-members of the ST. Louis
city council and house of delegates
have been arrested charged with
bribery in connection with street rail
way legislation.
Six persons were killed, over hun
dred were injured and property loss
of over $1,000,O0O was caused by an ex-
plosion at the Park avenue shaft of
the New York Rapid Transit tunnel.
The Murray Hill hotel is so badly
shaken that it has been abandoned as
unsafe.
At Branchville. S. c., robbers terri
fed the passengers on a train, stole
two safes, loaded them on wagons and
disappeared, the attack being made
Mt seven o'clock in the evening.
Joseph Calvin, lately from Carmi,
H., and a young son and daughter of
Cleve Smith were drowned while skat-
ing near Alli, Wash.
a dispatch from Washington TO the
New York Herald says that President
Roosevelt will decide Rear Admiral
Schley's appeal adversely to Schley.
The United States supreme court
heard arguments in the case of the
state of Minnesota against the North
ern Securities company on the mat
ter of jurisdiction, and took the pleas
under advisement.
The mine workers convention voted
to levy an assessment on all members
of the organiza tion "to carry to
speedy and successful termina ton" all
pending strikes.
Gov. Mclean, of Connecticut, may
succeed Secretary Long.
Ten lives were lost in a tenement
fire in Boston and several persons were
injured by jumping from windows.
Five hundred persons, many in scant
attire. fled from a fire in the Lindell
hotel in ST. Louis, with the thermom-
eter near to zero. The building was
only slightly damaged.
The Platte Valley state bank at
Bellwood, Neb.. closed its doors.
The United Mine Workers in session
at Indianapolis adopted a new scale
providing for a general advance of ten
per cent. for bituminous mining.
Prison guards at South McAlester,
]. T., prevented the escape of 142 con-
victs by firing upon them and two were
shot and the rest surrendered.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
4 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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESSIONAL.

An animated and prolonged discussion
was precipitated in the senate on the 9th
over the right of army officers to criticise
utterances made in the senate or else
where on the conduct of affairs in the
philippines. Gen. Wheaton was taken
sharply to task for statements attributed
10 him in dispatches from Manila. The
house passed bill to provide for the com.
pulsory attendance of witnesses before
registers and receivers of the general land
ONCE. a bill was introduced providing for
coinage of 21A-cent pieces to meet de-
mands for small change. A bill TO appro-
PIRATE 100000 for establishing homes for
the teaching of articulate speech to deaf
children was defeated. Adjourned until
Wednesday.
Senator Nelson's bill creating a depart
ment of commerce was passed in the SEN
ate on the 2Sth and the Philippine meas
ure was debated. Senator Hoar reported
favorably his bill increasing the salaries
OF federal judges and senators and repre-
sentatives. a substitute for the Nicaragua
Dill was introduced which authorizes the
president to choose between the Panama
and the Nicaragua routes....The house
committee on commerce reported in favor
of government construction, operation and
maintenance of a Pacific cable.
In the senate on the 29th discussion of
Philippine affairs and that portion of the
Dingley act which authorized the nego-
tiations of reciprocity treaties occupied
the time....In the house bills were re-
ported for a permanent census bureau,
to prevent the false branding or marking
of food and dairy products by providing
heavy penalties, to punish anarchy, and
granting a pension of S25 per month to the
last surviving soldier of the war of 1912,
Hiram CrOk, of Oneida county, n. Y,
aged 1O2 years. The republican members
of the ways and means committee voted
unanimously for the repeal of all the war
taxes.
On the S0th bills were passed! iff the SEM
ate appropriating $150,O0O for improving
the public building at Springfield, H., and
granting to the state of Wyoming $4,000
acres of land to aid the state soldiers and
sailors home. n joint resolution was
adopted respecting the succession of the
presidency in case the president-elect
should die between the time of his cleo
tion and the date of his inauguration. -. In
the house the bill for the creation of a per-
manent census bureau was passed and the
ways and means committee reported a bill
repeating all that remains of the Spanish
war tax
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
storms i'm Western Europe.

London, Feb. 3.-Forty lives are re-
ported to have been lost in ship
wrecks ON the Italian coasts. Several
persons have been killed by ava
lanches in Italy. Rivers there have
overfiowed their banks, score of
bridges have been broken and many
towns are blockaded by the snow.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The Worst SnOwstorm Experienced
in Recent Years.

Ebensburg, Pa, Feb. 3.-The worst
snow storm that has visited the
mountains in recent years has been
blowing here for the past "a hours.
Business is almost suspended. All
trains on the Ebensburg branch of
the Cambria and Clearfield division
9rc moved up. The regular pas
senger train is stuck in a drift east
of VintondaIe, and traffic has been
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
Three Feet of Snow.

Malone, n. Y, Feb. 3.-No storm in
recent years in northern New York
has reached serious proportions as
the one now prevailing. 1t COM
menced at noon, on Sunday, and in
less than eight hours three feet of
snow had fallen. For the last ten
hours the wind has been blowing
gale. Train service greatly delayed.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
The Worst of the Season.

Newark, n. Y, Feb. 3.-The worst
storm of the season is raging in
Wayne county. At a. m. it was
four degrees above zero. Trains on
the New York Central, West Shore
and Pennsylvania roads are delayed
and all country roads are blocked.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
GREAT EASTERN STORMS.
New York and Pennsylvania Swept
By the Worst Storms of
the Winter.
SEVERAL WRECKS ALONG THE COAST.
Heavy Snow BIOckades the Roads
and Traffic Considerably Imped-
ed-MaiIs All Late-The Wind At
tanned a Velocity of 65 Miles an
Hour.

New York, Feb. 3.-The strong gale
from the west-northwest, which be-
gan early Sunday evening, continued
Gll through the night and Monday
morning. The maximum velocity of
the wind was 65 miles an hour, and at
a. M, Monday, the local weather
bureau instrument showed that it
was blowing at the rate of Sc miles
an hour. All the nearby marine sta
tions reported the sea rough, and
from different points along the
coast there came news of wrecks and
of vessels ashore. The tugs John E.
Berwind and Z. S. Atwood, which
were sent to the stranded steamer
Cavour, at Long Beach, Sunday, were
unable to return to port, and both
sank about eleven miles east of the
Sandy Hook lightship. The crews
were rescued by the German steamer
Barcelona. The tugs left the Cavour
about four o'clock Sunday afternoon,
and within an hour both were in a
sinking condition. The seas broke
over the craft and washed away ev-
erything movable, the water gradual
ly filling the holds until 1t was above
the floor of the fireroom and began
to put out the fires. The Berwind's S
pilot house was smashed and the wa
ter flooded her fireroom.
About $3.50 o'clock the Barcelona
was seen approaching, and the tugs
steered toward her to ask assistance.
She stopped and made a good lee SO
that the tugs were able to run
alongside. A rope ladder was lowered
and the men from the tugs scrambled
on board. Fourteen men all told were
saved, seven from each tug. Fifteen
minutes after the rescue the Atwood
went down, and some time later the
Berwind disappeared.
Fire Island reported a ship ashore
at Point Lookout and barge in dis
station. The barge was anchored
about two. miles off shore and was
rolling badly. Those on shore could
not tell whether there was anyone on
board the barge. The name of the
ship could not be seen from the Point
Lookout station.
Atlantic City reported that an un-
known four-masted schooner went
ashore during tie night on the Brig
antine shoals, near where the Clover
dale grounded Sunday. Fire island
also reported that the beach, five
miles east of the Bellport life-saving
station, was covered with wreckage,
and it was believed that coal barge
had been lost.
The steamship CavOur, which
stranded, several days ago, off Long
Beach, Long Island, weathered the
gale well, and with the kedge and
lines which she has out, held her po-
sition well. No effort will be made
to pull her off till the weather has
settled
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
Ok1ahomaes school Enumeration.

Guthrie, Okla, Feb. 3.-The new
school enumeration of Oklahoma ter
ritory, just completed, shows the
number of school children in the ter
ritory to be 146,O49, a gain of 1928
for the year, The receipts from
rental of territorial school lands for
the past six months were $135,S25
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
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BiddIe Brothers Dead.

Butler, Pa, Feb. ED and Jack
Biddle, the condemned murderers
who escaped from the Pittsburg Pa.)
Jail with the assistance OF the war
den's wife. Mrs. Soffel, died Saturday
night, as foreshadowed.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
All Mails Are LRte.

Buffalo, n. Y, Feb. 3.-The snow
storm which prevailed Sunday abat-
ed during the night. Mails from the
east and west are from one to four
hours late. The mail from Pitts
burg, due at z a. M, has not been
heard from, while the mail train on
the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
road for points in Pennsylvania has
been abandOned
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
A EenrfuI Blizzard.

Utica, n. Y, Feb. "a fearful
blizzard prevails in central and
northern New York. The railroads
are tied up and there is no prospect
of the north and south lines getting
open for several days. Freight trains
are abandoned.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
suspended. Drifts ten feet high in
many places block country roads.
worst blizzard i'm Many years.

Cory, Pa, Feb. 3.-The worst biz
zard for many years has ragged in
this region for the past "a hours. 1t
has caused great damage to the rail-
roads and to telegraph and tele-
phone wires. A dispatch from Mead
vile, Pa, says all Erie trains are
from four to ten hours late, and
freight has been abandoned.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-02-07
Most Severe in Many Years.

Ballston, n. Y, Feb. 3.-Alternate
rain and snow, Sunday, were succeed
ed, Sunday night, by the severest gale
that has blown here in many years.
The highest velocity of the wind
was 60 miles an hour, and many tele-
graph, telephone and electric light
wires went down before it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-18
THE ASPARAGUS BED.
1t Needs Considerable Care IN the
Fall and a Layer of Salt In the
Early Spring.

The asparagus bed is usually plant
ed in light soil, if possible. The roots
should be planted in trenches about
six inches deep and ~ inches apart
in the row., and covered with only
three inches of soil at first. The
trenches should be filled in as tia
plants grow. In preparing for mar
ket, asparagus should be cut four
or five inches under the ground when
about three inches high.
The asparagus bed is much more
likely to be neglected in the fall
than in the spring. Before Septem-
Der the tops should be cut and the
beds cleared of weeds. 1t is very
important that all seeds should be
taken off, as the most troublesome
weed in an asparagus bed is the
asparagus between the rows. Next
the bed should be covered with about
three inches of coarse manure to en-
rich the soil and keep out the frost.
In the spring the coarsest manure
should be removed and the finest
forked in very carefully, so as not to
iniure the asparagus itself. Forking
the beds is very important, as the
early admission of the sun and rain
into the ground induces the plants
to throw up shoots of superior sizs
and quality. The best growers gen
orally cover the beds with a half
inch layer of salt IN the early spring
Prairie Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-18

A native named Rios, in Tayabas
province, styles himself the descend
ant of God. He will be a God-for-
saken hombre if the constabulary get
hold of him.
Rios, the self-styled descendant OF
God, should be given an opportunity
TO visit the home of his ancestor.
Tayabas is not a fitting place for a
nam of his, illustrious descent.
There was a young man from
Shanghai, who remarked: Il cannot
see what, with bloomin' club dues and
the high price of bues, those blokes i1
Manila don't dali"
The Cavite Chino who poured
molten brass into a retort which was
partially filled with water or n.onal'
loving material did not live to learn
better, but his fate should be a warn
ing to others who do not know that
all material substances do not hal'
monte with each other.-Man1la Il
~ Freedom.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-18
HASH N REHASH.

Europe's beet sugar crop for l9o2-
1903 will, it is estimated, be about
100000 tons.
The government has bought 175,'
700 pounds of California prunes for
distribution to the Indians.
The water power available oh the
Pacific slope for producing electric
energy is equivalent to the combus'
ton of 800, 900, 900 tons of coal a
year.
On completion of plants now build
ing, the capacity of steel works in
this country will be 24,ooo,ooo tons
a year. During last year, the United
States Steel corporation produced 81
per cent. of the total output OF IL,
O00, 900 tons.
The four-year contract for United
States stamped envelopes, calling TO.
an annual output of S51,0o0,0oO en-
~velopes, has been awarded to tn
Hartford Manufacturing company
The contract is the largest TO
stamped envelopes that has bee
awarded in the history of the pos
office department.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-18

of this kind that the portable irrlgator
here pictured will be found OF service,
owing to the direct treatment OF the
roots which it makes possible.
At first glance This implement might
be mistaken for an ordinary garden
fork, and, indeed, it may be used as n
when not in service as an irrigator.
The tines are hollow, with passages
leading into the shank and connecting
with the hose through which the ir-
rigating or fertilizing liquid is sup
piled. At each tine point is an enlarged
cap, with sharpened end to penetrate
the earth easily, the openings in the
soil being slightly larger than the body
of the tine, in order that the earth
may not clog the ~perforations through
which the liquid escape.
Not satisfied with allowing the water
to flow through the tines of its own
accord, the inventor has provided
pump in connection with the handle
which first draws the liquid from the
reservoir and then forces it into the
earth in proximity to the roots OF TIM
shrub the gardener is treating. job,
F. Chase, of st. Petersburg, Fla, is tint
inventor.-Chicago Daily News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-18
ON RAILS OF STEEL.

On the railroads in Canada it is nee
essary to keep over 600 snow plows in
operation every winter.
A Japanese railway company has
girls as mattresses for their passenger
trains, and intends to employ women
in the ticket service,
More than one-tenth of all the men
in the French railway service get less
than SIT a month; a little more than
one-third receive from SIT to $22, and
more than half get less than $25 per
month, The men work from even tt
IL hours per day, and on the average
about 2Sh days per month.
A series of experiments at the Beth
lehem (Pa,) steel works has resulted
in the perfection of a process for the
manufacture of steel wheels for
| freight cars. Heretofore the cost has
been too great, and the freight cal
wheels now in general use are made OF
cast iron, with the thread or wearing
surface chilled. The car wheel prob
lem has become more and more impor
tant as the capacity of freight ears
has been increased. Should thu
p~ressed-steel wheel prove successful
it will mean a sweeping but welcom'
innovation in rolling stock.