The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-07-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Inc QudTFel WHICH enQeQ III muTu0T
dated to the time the two men were
boys in Italy.
With the reception given on board
Rear-Admiral Cotton's flagship, Kear-
sarge, on the 14th, the official visit
of the American squadron to England
terminated.
The statement of the treasury bal
nnces in the general fund, exclusive of
the $3.50, 100000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, on the 18th,
showed: Available cash balance,
S22S, ,331 ,673; gold, $1O2, 2,26O,O5S.
The room occupied by Gen. Cassius
NJ Clay, at Whitehall, KY, has been
stripped of weapons by an order of
the committee appointed, on the 14th.
by the Richmond court to take charge
of his affairs.
An express train on the Central
Massachusetts, division of the Boston
& Maine road, ran into the rear end
of an express train on the New York,
New Haven e. Hartford railroad at
the union station, Clifton, Mass, on
the 18th.
Lee Brown, alias John Tinsley, the
negro who killed Patrolman Massey,
of Evansville, Ind, was reported, on
the 18th, to be in a critical condition
at the JeffersonvilIe reformatory. His
illness is pronounced to be pneu-
monia.
James Allison Bowen, of Chicago,
on the 18th, resigned the post of dep
uty United States consul general at
Paris, in consequence of continued
i'll health.
Rear-Admiral Terry was ordered,
on the 18th, to command the naval
station at Honolulu, and Rear-Ad
miral Miller has been offered COM
mand of the South Atlantic station.
At meeting of the directors of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., in
Philadelphia, on the 18th, the special
committee appointed to consider
plan for the adjustment of the
finances of the company reported IA
vorably to the board.
Nothing was accomplished at Pitts
burg, Kas., on the 18th, in the con-
ference of miners and operators and
the joint convention stands adjourned
subject to call.
The American Hardware Manufac-
turers' association and the Southern
Hardware Jobbers' association held a
joint meeting at Saratoga, n. Y, on
the 18th.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the S15O,OoO,0OO gold reserve in the
division of redemption, on the 18th
showed: Available cash balance, $685.
COS ,O6O; gold, S1O1, ,729,749.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed, on the 10th, against
Frank Tennyson Neely, a New York
publisher. The alleged bankrupt, on
July Is, admitted his willingness to
be adjudged a bankrupt and notified
his creditors of his inability to meet
obligations.
Before Judge Mcmahon, in the court
of general sessions, New York, aP-
peared, on the 10th, for sentence,
Charles Stern, who, in 1896, while en-
gagged in a banking business in that
city disappeared with $4,000 of the
banks money.
While there are some Kansas coun-
ties which need more outside help to
harvest the wheat, the larger part of
the harvest is completed.
Frederick Nelson, of Newmarket,
N. d., a DTOIneT OF MIS-. OndFleS L air,
who was killed in an automobile ac-
cident abroad, had a narrow escape
from a similar death on the 10th.
After two days work, jury was
selected, on the 10th, in the case of
George Collins, the Union (MO.) bank
robber, charged with the murder of
Detective Schumacher.
Abner Mckinley, brother of the late
President Mckinley, was reported
dangerously i'll, on the 10th, at Somer-
set, Pa, with paralysis.
Three indictments were returned,
on the 10th, by the federal grand jury
in Brooklyn, n. Y. Two are believed
to have direct bearing on the post of
flee department automatic cash regis
ter scandal.
Maude JOrdine was declared not
guilty of the murder of her two-year-
old sister at Bloomington, H., on the
10th, the preliminary hearing ending
with her dismissal.
A verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree was rendered by the
jury at Hamilton, o.. on the 10th, in
the case of Alfred Knapp, the wife
murderer.
The Manchurian question has been
settled satisfactorily to this govern
ment. Assurances have been re-
ceived-from the Chinese government
that it will, in the near future, open
as treaty ports, with the assent of
Russia, several ports now closed to
the worlds trade.
Four persons lost their lives in 4
fire early on the morning of the 10th,
which destroyed Bonner Springs SAN
itarium, at Bonner Springs, Kas.
Wallace's circus train was wrecked |
at Shelbyyille, ILL.,, on the 10Th, while |
being sidetracked. One man was
killed and number injured, some Sc
riously. Several trick horses were so |
badly hurt that they had to be shot. |
The sixth annual convention of the |
Epworth league opened auspiciously |
in Detroit, Mich, on the 11th, with |
an estimated attendance of $4,000.
The statement of the treasury bal |
ances in the general fund, exclusive |
of the $15o,OOo,OOO gold reserve in the |
division of redemption, on the 18th. |
showed: Available cash balance, |
S22s, ,3O6 ,765; gold, $1oo,432,749.
A tornado at StIeator, ILL.,, on the |
nth, killed five persons, injured a
score of others and caused property |
loss of 100000,