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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
GRAFT IN PHILADELPHIA
A Alleged Scheme That Would Make
st. Louis Cheap.
A Rnke-On OF Five Millions Ont OF
a Twenty-Five Million Loan
Snfd to Be the Game.

Philadelphia, Nov. 23-This city IS
confronted with a S5,0OO,O0O theft.
Only the most heroic measures can
stay the hand of the plunderers. The
plot to loot the city treasury of this
vast sum is concealed in the S25,OOO,-
600 loan bill that is to be railroaded
through the council, and, if necessary,
passed over the veto of Mayor Weaver.
The corrupt political practice ma
chine that dominates the entire munlc-
ipal government has Matched it for the
sole purpose of making the greatest
raid it has ever had the effrontery to
undertake.
So cunningly has the loan bill been
formed by the machines hatchmen that
in every provision is loophole for
grating" Incidentally, it conceals
trap which is intended to ensnare May
or Weaver.
The leaders of the republican city
organization are using this bill to force
him to show his attitude toward the
machine.
The S25, 100000 loan is to be used for
building school houses, water works,
liberation of other big city improve
ments, all of which are to be done un-
der the gangs supervision.
The people vote on the subject in
February and arrangements for cast
ing So, 900 illegal votes are said to have
been discovered.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
MESSAGE FROM COGHLAN
The Commander of the Caribbean
Squadron Heard From.
Gen. Reyes, Special Commissioner OF
the BOgOta Government, Ten
ders Sincere Thanks.

Washington, Nov. -Rear-Admiral
Coghlan, commander of the Caribbean
squadron, cables the navy department
from Colon, under date of November
81. that Gen. Reyes, the special COM
missioner of the Bogota government,
tenders his sincere thanks to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary of the
Navy Moody for his gracious treat
ment at Colon by out naval force. Ad-
miral Coghlan confirms the press dis
patches that Gen. Reyes has departed
for Washington via Port Limon, Costa
Rica, for conference with DR.. Anna
dor, a member of the Panama commits
sion, and others in the United States
Before his departure he informed Ad-
miral Coghlan that the Panama gov
ernment had cabled DR.. Amador to
await his (Reyes) arrival. Admiral
Coghlan further states that Gen. Reyes
expects to make amicable relations
with the special commissioners from
Panama now in Washington.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
HOW CHEAP BAKING POWDER
IS MADE.

A recent seizure of lot Of Cheap"
baking powders by the authorities OF
a. neighboring city has exposed the
character Of the low priced brands OF
baking powders which many manufac-
turers are Offering throughout the
country. The price Of the powders first
attracted attention to them. Samples
were taken and analyzed. The official
report of the analysis showed the STUFF
to be ''alum powders" composed chiefly
of alum, sulphuric acid and pulverized
rock. The powders were declared dan
gerous to health and several thousand
pounds were confiscated and destroyed.
Physicians have frequently cautioned
consumers against mixing food with
these so-called Cheap" baking powders.
They are all found, when analyZed, to
contain large percentages of alum and
sulphuric acid to which are added vari-
Gus sorts of filling matter sometimes
both injurious and nasty.
The high class, cream Of tartar bak-
ing powders, are the most economical
and wholesome and should always be
selected for use. They will be found
cheaper in the end, besides making the
food better and more healthful.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
OPERATIVES SUFFER FIRST.
Retrenchment In the Southern New
England Cotton Mills Begins
on Employer Wages.

Boston, Nov. 23.-The first of the
numerous reductions in wages an
nounced in the cotton mills of southern
New England and with half dozen
points outside of that territory, went
into effect in all but one of the Fall
River corporations Monday, and at
number of outside mills. Although
about $4,000 operatives had their pay
cut down, no general strike occurred
in any mill The cut averages ten per
cent, and places the pay schedules on
q basis with those paid previous to the
advance of March, 1902. The reduction
affected 78 mills in Fall River, oper-
ating nearly $4,000 hands, and about
a score of corporations elsewhere in
New England, employing about 1000
operatives.
The Fall River iron works, operating
four print cloth mills, will cut down
wages next Monday, and on that day
also nearly all Rhode Island and Con-
necticut manufacturers will adopt the
lower schedule. A cut in New Bedford
will go into effect in two weeks.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
Peace efforts
UNSUCCESSFUL
A Commission Sent By President
Wos y Gill of San Domingo
to the Rebels Failed.
LATTER REFUSED TO ENTERTAIN
PROPOSALS, DEMANDING SURRENDER.
The Bombardment of the Capital
Has Been Resumed and VIII Con-
tinue Until the City CapituIates-
The United States Minister'S Resi-
dence is in Ruins.

San Domingo, Republic of Santo
Domingo, Nov. 23.-President Wos y
Gil, in his efforts to bring about a
peaceful arrangement with the insur-
gent forces which are besieging this
city, Sunday, commissioned American
Minister Powell, the Belgian minister
the minister to Hayti and the Spanish
consul to visit the insurgent camp.
Consequently, an armistice was
agreed upon, to expire at noon, and the
peace commission consulted with the
insurgent leaders.
The latter, however, refused to en-
tertain the peace proposals, and de-
manded the surrender of the city, but
they prolonged the armistice until six
o'clock in the evening, after which
hour the bombardment of San Domin-
go was resumed, and will be continued
until the capital falls.
The United States minister's resi-
dence was destroyed during the pre-
vious bombardment.
The inhabitants of this city are in a
state of panic.
The Italian third-class cruiser Lii
guria and the Dutch cruiser Deruiter
have arrived here.
The Dominican warship Presidente
went to Azua de Compostela, about
sixty miles from here, Sunday night.
The sanitary condition of San Do
mingo is good, but the poor are suf-
fering for want of food. The prices
of provisions are very high
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
| erlnessee State News
Full Moon Problem.

Hon. Edmund p. Mcqueen, of
Loudon, grand master Of Masons of
Tennessee, has had knotty PROPOSE
ton called to his attention by GER
tain country lodges regarding their
December meetings. 1t has been the
custom from time immemorial for
country lodges to select a certain day
of the week, generally Saturday, and
make their regular monthly meeting
Saturday on or before full moon"
This Is done so as to give the mem
bers, many of whom live from two
to ten miles from the lodge room,
the light of the moon to go home
by. As the moon fulls on Friday,
December 4, of coure lodge meet
ing on Monday or Saturday ''on or
before full moon" would have no
meeting night This would not mat
ter so much but from the fact that
the constitution of the grand lodge
provides that the officers of subordi-
nate lodges shall be elected on the
first stated meeting in December
and installed prior to January 1.
The grand master has been getting
letters from all over the State the
past week asking what to do.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
THE BIG STORM IN GERMANY.
Traffic Delayed. TeleSraphic Com
municatiOn Interrupted and
Immense Damage Done.

Berlin, Nov 23.-The high winds
which have been sweeping over Ger
many for sc hours, accompanied by
heavy rainfall, continue to delay traf
fic and interrupt telegraphic communi-
cation, and have caused several rail-
road accidents.
At Schlebusch the wind started
freight cars, which were on a switch,
in motion, their speed accelerated, and
finally they ran onto the main line and
collided with an express train. No
one was badly hurt.
The Hamburg-American line steam
er Deutschland, during the storm on
Saturday, tore out the pile to which
she was moored, while unloading at
Hamburg, and went adrift. The moor
ing chain and pile struck the vessel
and broke a plate forward. She is
now at Cuxhaven, and will go to Kiel
or Stettin for repairs.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
VALUE OF TRADE SCHOOLS.
Than Year Spent i'm
Large shop.


1t has been well said that Time de-
termines all things" and time has
evolved a solution which though but
in its infancy, is destined to grow and
be the most important development in
educational lines that the world has ever
seen. l refer to the trade schools, says
James NJ. Dodgels, in THE Money Value
of Training" in st. Nicholas. Locally
we have some splendid eXamples-the
DreXel institute, the Williamson trade
school, the manual training school, and
others. But scattered all over the coun-
try arc schools of this character, which
undoubtedly will grow more rapidly
than any educational institutions of the
past.
Within comparatively few years this
lack of opportunity for proper training,
making itself manifest, and finding the
law of supply and demand in good work
ing order, registered its want, and for
tunately the method of supply was de-
veloped. This training is now being
given by many institutions in this
country, in shops equipped with the
most modern tools and employing up
tO-date methods, and supervised by in
structOrs Of marked ability and fully
imbued with the Importance and far
reaching benefits of their calling. The
instruction is systematic and individual,
and 1 feel fully justified in saying that
month of such training is of more value
than a years time spent by a young
man in large shop, in which he is as
likely to absorb error as truth.
1t has been said that three years
course in a trade school, in which an
average of but few hours day are de-
voted to actual manual work, can in no
way compare with three years time
spent in actual work in a shop. l feel
that this is a popular error. In shop
work man may spend months in repeti-
ton of the same task, to no ultimate
advantage to the worker. Instead of
his skill being quickened, it is dulled.
He very quickly acquires the skill which
is unconscious in it's operation, and, like
the old lady with her knitting needle,
he can talk to a fellow workman, or
think and dream about far-distant places
and matters, without in any way lessen
ing the rate of production. In fact,
sometimes his pace might be actually
quickened by some mental emotion hav-
ing an exciting effect upon his nervous
organization, in the same way that the
old lady, in chatting with her friends,
the dullness or animation of the con-
will knit fast OF slow in harmony with
versatiOn. 1t is quite obvious that repe-
titive routine work is not desirable for
young man of natural ambition and
aptitude. In the trade school he escapes
routine, but is instructed in the under
lying principles of his work, and does
enough manual labor to familiarize him
self with the various tools required, and
to prove the correctness of the theories
in which he has been instructed.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
MARINE SERGEANT KILLED.
Result of Sunday Night visit to .
Questionable Resort in
ST. Louis.

st. Louis, Nov. 23.-Sergt. J. w. Eek,
of the United States marine corps, was
found dying on the sidewalk of 311
South Third street at 1880 O'Clock
Sunday night He had been shot
through the lungs, and died on the
way to the hospital from the dispen-
sary.
Three negro women are under arrest
in connection with the affair. They
say that Eek was shot by Jessie Hun
ter, mulatto woman, who, they say,
disappeared after the shooting.
Eek, who had been in the service for
many years, had been in charge of the
recruiting station here.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
SOCIALISTS MUST PAY UP.
They Can Not Repudiate Just Debts
Simply Because They Were
Not Incorporated.

New York, Nov. PA verdict of
$3.50 has been awarded in the city
court to Peter Feibiger, against Eber
Forbes, as treasurer of the Socialist
labor party, for money loaned to the
newspaper called The People, which is
managed by a board of trustees elected
by social labor board convention.
Counsel for Forbes argued that the
party, through its treasurer, could not
be sued, because it was an unincorpo-
rated association, but Judge Seabury
Charged the jury that the board of
trustees was an advance agent of the
party, with power to borrow money
if necessary to continue the publica-
ton, and that the party was bound by
the act of its agenta.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
JONATHAN RICE DEAD.
A Leading Figure in ST. Louis Com
Inercial and Religious Circles
Has Passed Away.

st. Louis, Nov 23-Jonathan Rice,
first vice-president of the Rice-Stix
Dry Goods Co., vice-president of the
Mercantile Trust Co., and leading
figure in commercial and religious cir
cles, died at his residence at 7:15
o'clock Monday morning.
Mr.. Rice had been in poor health
for about two months, his illness be-
ing attributed to an affection Of the
heart For five weeks he had not been
able to go to his office. His condition,
however, was not considered critical.
and his death came unexpectedly.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
How Rafting Improves Wood.

German experts say that wood
which has been floated in RATS. or 9TH
erwise, gives more trustworthy ma
terial for joinery and building pIr-
poses than does that which has been
carted, or otherwise carried dry, to the
sawmill and workshop. The reason is
that while the wood is lying in the
water its sap and albuminous and
salty materials are dissolved out If
these substances remain in the wood
they readily absorb moisture from the
atmosphere, after coming out of the
drying rooms, and the wood swells
Artificial processes of washing out the
microscopic substances from wood
which has not been f1oated are prac-
ticed in Germany.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
"GET-RICH-QUICK'
arnold ON TRIAL
The Man Who Stood at the Head
of the Great Turf Investment
Scheme at Bar of Justice.
THOUSANDS LOST THEIR SAYINGS
IN HIS ALLURING SC0OPNET.
The Charge Against Him is Grand
Larceny, and the Evidence of
One of His Victims, With Sup
porting Testimony. is Relied Up
on to Secure His Conviction.

st. Louis, Nov. 23.-With his jaunty
manner considerably subdued, E. ].
Arnold Of get-rich-quick" fame ap-
peared, Monday morning, at the four
courts to answer to the charge of grand
larceny.
The state will rely particularly on
the evidence of Mrs. William Sievers,
in it's efforts to secure the conviction of
Arnold. >izt
Of the many thousands who claim to
have lost their savings in collapse of
the racing concern February 8, 1908,
Mrs. Sievers is believed to have the
best evidence that the promoters were
guilty of thefts.
The specific charge is based on the
assertion that E. ]. Arnold & Co, re-
ceiVed after it's insolvency was known
to the directors, money from custom
erS.
Drew Money From Trust Company.
Mrs. Sievers states that $400 in cash
was accepted from her on Monday aft
ernOOn, February 8, when the books of
the establishment, so far as payment
of investments on demand were con-
cerned, had been closed for several
hours.
Mrs. Sievers' story of her experience
is:
81 lost $500 in all Part of it, $4OO,
went up in the Arnold puff and 500
was sunk in the Ryan and Christie
companies. 1 did get $3.50 out of the
latter tangle.
Il understand that l was one of the
last to put in my money. On the morn
ing of the Monday that Arnolds sus-
pension was announced in a night eX-
ira of the Post-Dispatch l went to my
bank and drew out $500. l had been
eight years saving that amount and
had denied myself and my three little
girls many comfort to lay little by
for rainy day.
After getting the cash about noon
time, we, my sister and 1 went to Ar
nold's Office and paid in $400 of the
money. There was $500 in twenties,
and 500 in smaller bills.
81 secured a receipt which l still
have and it is regarded as the best bit
of evidence 1 have. My sister was
with me, as well as an agent for the
company.
Did Not Tell Her Husband.
just 10 snow now was mlSlead, L
understood later that the very man
who got me to go there got a percent
age Of the money. I had been led to
believe by friends that he was work
ing on a salary and that I was helping
him make good with his employers by
investing.
After leaving Arnold's 1 put $50
each in the two companies have men
toned. l did not tell my husband of
it at the time, as thought to surprise
him with an investment that wouN
yield SIS week-we had been prom
ised three per cent. on the money.
1T seemed as if 1 had hardly
reached home before the extras were
out announcing the suspension of Ar
mold. l kept quiet about it for a day
and then l had to tell my husband to
relieve my mind"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
Half Dozen Indicted.

Hill Perryman, Boze Erwin,
George Claude and will Cheves and
Bob and Rose Darnell, charged with
whitecapping a negro and his wife
near Pennington some time ago,
have been indicted by the grand jury
at Lewisburg. a hearing of the case
has been set, and Gov. Frazier has
appointed c.. A. Armstrong to assist
Attorney-General Faulkner in the
prosecution.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
FOR THE AMERICAS CUP.
The Latest Suggestion With Refer
ence to the Intentions of the
YacIItsmen of the Clyde.

Glasgow, Nov. 23.-The reported in
tention of Clyde yachtsmen to char
lenge for the Americas cup is con-
firmed by the Glasgow Herald. The
paper adds:
THE latest suggestion on the sub
ject, which is favorably received, is
that Messrs. Coates, Clark and Donald
son should head three separate syndi-
Gates and have three yachts designed
respectively by Watson, Fife and Myl-
no, the yachts to be raced throughout
the summer and the best one to be Sc
lected to challenge in 1906"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
Fell on the Track.

Charles Dearing, a prominent
young man of Chattanooga, was
killed in that city last week. He
was crossing the tracks in front of
an outgoing car of the Chattanooga
Electric railway when he fell. The
car struck him and before the motor
man could stop\carried him several
feet, completely crushing the life
out of him.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
MORO'S SUFFERED HEAVILY.
Five Days Severe Fighting in JOIo,
in Which the Hostile MOrOs
Suffered Heavy Losses.

Manila, Nov 23-Three hundred
Moros are known to have been killed
and many others were carried off dead
or. wounded as a result of five days
severe fighting in Jolo between the
American troops under Gen. Leonard
Wood and the insurgents. Maj. H. L
Scott, of the Fourteenth cavalry, and
five American privates were wounded.
The fighting took place in a country
covered with swamps and wrecks. The
Moros were driven across the country
from Sietlake to the town which Has
sen had made his headquarters, where
it was reported the Moros were 2,0OC
strong.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
Making II a Million.

Promoters of the McMinnville,
Woodbury. & Nashville electric rail
road have decided to increase the
capital stock from $4,000 to ST.
100000. Later it is proposed to
raise this to $2,5OO,OOO. 1t is said
the contract for building the road
has already been let to the Ellis Con-
struction Company of Chicago. One
of the directors says the road will be
extended into the coal fields beyond
McMinnville some twenty miles.
The road will haul both freight and
passengers.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
Good Sport on ReeIfoot.

Ducks and geese are now coming
into Reelfoot Lake in large numbers
and some excellent bags are being
made. There are but two licensed
hunters on the lake who can shoot
for profit, one of them is Jim Cav
horn, who last week brought down
108 ducks in one day. Other good
bags were made, a pleasure hunter
dropping sixty-four. The cold
weather of the past week VIII bring
in great many more water fowls,
and sport viii be better
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
Secession Talk in Henry.

The reform contemplated by the
act of the last legislature, cutting
down the number of justices and
constables in Henry county, by abol-
ishing certain districts and attach
ing the territory to others, reducing
the representation in the county
court by one-half, may cause a loss
of a valuable portion of the county.
Citizens of the district formerly
known as the Twenty-third, and ly-
ing between the Tennessee and Big
Sandy rivers, have been deprived of
the two justices and cOnstables and
are now compelled to 90 twelve miles
when either of these officers are
needed. In the event that the law
is permitted to stand, the citizens
intend to make application to the
next legislature to be detached from
Henry county and be attached to
Benton, which the district touches
on the north. The district has
about 800 inhabitants, 10000 acres
of land and about $4,000 of taxable
property and the citizenship is as
good as the county affords.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
SAWED THE BARS AND FLED.
Escape From the Topeka O<aso Jail
of Four Prisoners, One of Whom
Has Been Recaptured.

Topeka, Kas., Nov. 23.-Some time
during Sunday night Albert Bigley,
Grant Jones, Joe Dwiggins and Hayti
Wetherly, state prisoners, sawed the
bars of the city prison and vanished.
One of the men, Hayti Wetherly, was
recaptured Monday morning. He says
the wife of Albert Bigley slipped the
saw with which the work was accom-
plished, into the Jail Sunday afternoon.
All the men had their cases set for
hearing at the present term of court.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27

The family of E. X. Wentz, who
has been missing from Big Stone
Gap since October II, has finally de-
cided that he has been murdered. A
report is current that moonshiners
tortured Wentz to death in revenge
for the death of one of their num-
Der, named Daniels, by a raiding
posse.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
LOST WITH ALL ON BOARD.
Little Doubt Remains in Relation to
the Fate of the Nome Steamer
Discovery.

Seattle, Wash, Nov pa special
to the Post Intelligencer from Juneau
Alaska, announces that ]. Bent, a pas
senger on the steamer Excelsior
which arrived there Monday reports
that mass of wreckage from the
Nome steamer Discovery has washed
ashore at the mouth of Seal river, &c
miles below Yakutat. Bent's informa-
ton makes it practically certain that
the Discovery is lost and leaves little
hope for either passengers or crew. 1t
is believed that everybody on board
periShed.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
AFTER CENTURY AND A HALF.
The Location of Gov. John Endi-
colts Tomb in Boston Discovered
by Search of Records.

Boston, Nov. pa search of the
old town records of Boston, family rec
ords and the original plan of the
south burying place as resulted in
the discovery of the location of Gov.
John Endicott's tomb, which has been
unidentified for more than $50 years
The tomb is in the northwest corner
of the old Granery burying ground.
where the first tombs were built soor
after the establishment of the GENE
terY in 1860.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
THE CASE OF GEN. WOOD.
The Senate VIII Send a Committee
to Cuba to Examine Witness
In the Case.

Washington, Nov 23.-The senate
committee on military affairs will des-
ignate a subcommittee to go to Cuba
to take testimony regarding the con.
duct Of Gen. Wood. The personnel of
the committee has not yet been agreed
on. nor the number of members, 1t is
asserted that so much has already beer
said about the conduct of Gen. WOOD
in Cuba that it will be necessary tt
examine witnesses in that island who
can not come to the United States.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-11-27
sbot bv Non-Union Men.

Chicago, Nov. 23.-Two non-union
men who had applied for work at the
plant of the American Hide & Leather
Co., where a strike is in progress, shot
and seriously wounded two members
of a crowd of strike sympathizers
Monday The men escaped.