The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-10-21
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PERSONAL AMI GENERAL

fOuT business DlOchS were QoSJrOyoQ
in the heart of Winnipeg, Man, on the
11th.
During an attempt to haze freshmen
made by party of sophomores at the
Michigan college of mines at HOugh-
| ton, Mich, on the 18th, serious in
Jury, which it is feared may result ia
tally, was done to one of the freshmen.
A Toxic dispatch of the 11th gives
the first account of the sinking of the
| Japanese gunboat Hei-Yen off Pigeon
bay, September Is, having come in con-
tact with mine during storm. All
on board. nearly 300 men, perished,
save four.
Three boys we're drowned, on the
l1th, by the overturning of skiff at
| Kingston Mines, Ill.
AS indicative of the desperate ma
ture of the fighting in the battle south
| Of Mukden, in Manchuria, it is said
that in single Russian regiment, out
| Of over a hundred officers, only eight
escaped either death or wounds.
A burglar who was shot and killed
while plying his vocation in the room
ing house conducted by Mrs. John
Volsmer, in st. Louis, early on the
morning of the 18th, was found to be
wearing corsets, probably to protect
his body in case of attack.
The Philippine Exposition board, in
addition to rs grand prizes to Philip
pine exhibitors, will have struck spe-
cial bronze medal commemorative of
woman and child, including the scouts
battalion and the Philippine constab-
ulary attending the Worlds fair will
receive one.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Co., on the 18th, paid into the United
States subtreasury at st. Louis $780,
900, being the ninth semi-monthly pay
ment on the $4,600,000 loan from the
government, leaving but $691,S50 yet
uue.
Official reports regarding Gen. Kuro-
patkin's side of the fight south of Muk-
len were lacking in st. Petersburg, on
the 18th, and, in consequence, there is
considerable uneasiness.
The Japanese government has decid-
ed to float domestic loan of $4,000
900, representing the balance of the
amount authorized by the diet.
Manuel Quintana was, on the 18th,
inaugurated as president Of Argentina.
The event passed off without especial
incident. The republic is calm.
John Harper, a negro, was hanged
at Magnolia, Ark, on the 18th, for the
murder of his wife last February. He
admitted his guat.
w. r. Eaves, former cashier of the
Citizens national bank of Arlington,
Tex, who fed from that town a year
ago, under a charge of embezzling
$4,000, was arrested in st. Louis on
the 18th.
Chicago is to have the largest hotel
in the world. 1t will cost $10,000,000.
be % stories high, and dwarf in size
and magnificence, it is promised, any
structure of the kind ever erected.
Miss Bessie Stone and Robert Gill,
who eloped from Ashland, Va, October
II, were found dead with their hands
clasped, near pond in that vicinity,
on the 18th, by searching party. Both
had died from pistol shots.
The William Rudolph murder case
was submitted to the Missouri SUI
preme court, on the 18th, and a de-
cision may be expected in about one
month.
Fire, on the 18th, destroyed three
buildings of the plant of the United
Zinc & Chemical Co. at Argentine,
Kas, causing a loss estimated at $780,
900.
The fourth day of the great battle
south of Mukden found the Russian
forces retiring under the terrible pres
sure of the Japanese, who had turned
assailants. The losses on both sides are
said to be very heavy. Upwards of
thirty guns had been captured by the
Japanese.
A st. Petersburg dispatch of the
18th said that five Japanese cruisers
were reported off Vladivostok. The
commander of the fortress had sum-
moned the inhabitants to surrender
firearms of all descriptions within a
week.
A Toxic dispatch, via Berlin, on the
18th, said: After an incessant bonn
bardment lasting three days the great
er part of Port Arthur is in flames.
Many of the Russian troops are hoist
ing the white flag and surrendering.'
QucSl1On VI 10 SdlQ
to be becoming serious factor at Port
Arthur. The immense expenditure in
volved in repelling Japanese assaults
and driving them out of captured posi-
tions is rapidly reducing the supply,
while the close Japanese blockade Is
preventing its replenishment.
A west-bound train on the Balti
more & Ohio railroad was partly de-
rallied at Garrett Park, Md, on the
18th.
King George of Saxony oied at Pill.
nitz on the 18th. His end was peace
full.
The officers of the American Euro
pean squadron were the guests at a
inner OF the Welsh regiment at
~esend, England, On the 1Stp.