The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24

The Russian minister at Berne,
Switzerland, was shot and seriously
wounded. His would-be assassin
was arrested.
The Russians are said to have a
food supply at Port Arthur sufR-
cient to last two months, but their
coal supply is very low.
Abner Mckinley, brother of the
late president, was found dead in a
chair at his home in Somerset, Pa.
Death was due to Bright's disease.
John Mitchell, president of the
United Mine Workers, has sailed
for Europe, where he will spend sew
eral months studying labor ques-
tions.
During severe storm at Warrens-
burg, Mo-, G. l.. Clements and Fred
T Miller were struck and killed by
lightning while sheltering them
selves under a tree.
While the japanese naval trans
port 1aihoku was engaged in lay
ing mines at the entrance to Port
Arthur a mine exploded, killing one
officer and eighteen men and wound
+, ing two officers and seven men.
An important step in the prog
ress of Japan is apparently about
to be taken in the compulsory
teaching of the Roman alphabet, as
well as Romanized japanese al
phabet, in the government primary
schools.
The union butchers of Chicago
have withdrawn from the local
trades council, giving as their rea-
son the many strikes in which they
have been involved by order of the
council through sympathy for 9TH
er strikers.
A plot to assassinate the car of
Russia was frustrated by the dis
covery of two Internal machines
that had been smuggled into his
palace. The mechanism in each
was working when the machines
were discovered.
The Kentucky court of appeals
has refused rehearing in the case
of Jim Howard, sentenced to life
Imprisonment for completely in the
Goebel murder. The case will be
taken to the United States supreme
court.
Miss Kate Sendry, aged % years,
shot and killed Nelson Prowse, her
brother-in-law, at Austin, Tex. The
young woman when arrested said
she shot ProWse to protect her sis
ter's life. Prowse was a prominent
printer, being foreman in the States
man office.
DIR. Baker of Illinois, a member
of the state board of health, after
visiting several mussel fishing
camps, declares that the decompos-
ed meat from the pearl-producing
mussefs is the cause of epidemics of
illness along the streams from
which they are taken.
A serious hitch has occurred in
negotiations for the release of Per-
dicaris and Varley, the men kidnap-
ed by Morocco brigands. The de-
tails as communicated to the state
department by Consul Gumeere in
dicate that Raisui has vastly en-
larged his original demands.
Gen. Boberickoff, governor gener-
al of FINLAND, was shot and NOR
tally wounded as he was about to
enter the hall of the Finnish senate
at Heltsingfors, by man named
Sechanmann, who Immediately COM
mitted suicide. The assassin was a
member of the Finnish patriotic as
sociation, and,the killing of the gov
ernor general was due to Finnish pa
triotism ~
Officials of the pension office have
been considering the case of an ap-
plicant for government aid who has
the most extraordinary matrimonial
career, according to his own ac-
count, of any man who has ever
applied for pension The man is
Peter West, veteran of the Sew
enth Iowa cavalry. He has been
married ten times, and to do so has
been compelled to divorce himself
eight times.
Judge Parker of New York will
have a large instructed delegation
at the national democratic conven-
ton, but the Hearst men claim he
will never receive the necessary
two-thirds vote
The supreme court of Missouri
has confirmed the verdict of the
lower court In the cases of Julius
Lehman and Emil Hartman, two of
81. Louis boodlers, ard they
will have to serve a term of five
years.
In a collision between two Bal
timore and Ohio passenger trains at
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