The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-07-22
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


of manufacturing buildings at Fresno,
Cal. The losses aggregate 1925, 900.
The heaviest losers are: Madary Plan
ing Mill Co., $50, 900; HelIenbeck plan
ing mills, $4,000
A tornado struck BoneSteel, S. D.,
Just before dark on the 18th and played
havoc with the hundreds of tents and
cheaply-constructed rooming houses
erected for the thousands of homeseek-
ers registering for the Rosebud reserva-
ton lands.
President LOubet of France has sig
nified his intention of comforting the
grand cross of the Legion of Honor
upon Secretary Hay, in recognition of
his efforts during the past five years,
to strengthen the bonds of amity be-
tween the United States and France.
1t was reported On the 18th that
great battle was in progress at Ia
Tche-KiaO, in which the Japanese were
in strength on three sides of the Rus
slams. Military men were of the opin-
ion that it would prove the biggest bat
tie of the war so far.
The strike situation at Chicago, on
the morning of the 10Th, looked omi-
nous. The packers and their striking
employees had not been able to agree
upon an arbitration proposition, and
the foreign element among the strikers
seemed ripe for riot.
President Roosevelt has notified the
members of his cabinet that he will be
back in Washington on July %, and
that he wants all of them to meet him
there during the first week of August.
Meat from cattle alleged to have been
affected with Texas fever and blood
poisoning were seized on the 18th by
Chief Meat Inspector Thomas Stringer,
of st. Louis, as it was being delivered
to the poorhouse, insane asylum, female
hospital, city hospital and emergency
hospital The meat was>supplied by a
Chicago contractor.
William T. Scott, nominee for Presi-
dent of the United States by the l@>grO
Civil Liberty League, was arrested in
East st. Louis, ILL.,, on the 18th by a
deputy sheriff on an old capias for
fine and costs aggregating $99.S0, as
seSsed for running a disorderly house.
Twenty people were killed and about
twenty-five injured, ,on the 18th, in a col
lisiOn on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
railroad at Glrnwood. % miles south of
Chicago. The collision occurred be-
tween a picnic train from that city,
which was returning from MOmence,
Ill, and a freight train, into the rear
end of which it dashed at high rate of
speed.
Two hundred persons in MillingtOn,
Md, are homeless and without shelter
and food as the result of the fire, on
the 18th, which destroyed SO dwellings
and II places of business. The loss is
placed at $15O,OOO, with practically no
insurance.
Despondent because of poor health, |
Edward Niemann, former employe of !
the Bourbon Mercantile Co., 2OS Wal
nut street, St. Louis, Mo, committed |
suicide in Denver, Col, on the 18th, |
by firing a 32-calibcr bullet into his
brain.
According to a London dispatch of |
the 14th, Santos-DumOnt, the famous |
aeronaut, has given up the idea of re-
turning to the United States to take |
part in the airship contest at the |
Worlds fair in St. Louis.
Toxic dispatch Of the 18th says |
the Japanese forces have occupied Vim |
Kow (the seaport of New Chwang) |
without opposition, the Russians retir-
ing This would indicate the fall of !
New Chwang.
The honorary board Cf Filipino COM
missioners reached st. Louis on the
14th, and were escorted to their quar-
ters by a special reception committee
and the batalions of Filipino constabu-
larry stationed a. the Worlds fair
grounds, led by their band of 80 pieces.
They will remain in St. Louis about
month.
Charles w MurtfelGt. a newspaper
writer and an authority on agricUI-
tural subjects, died at his home at
Kirkwood, Mo, on the 18th, at he age
Of 81 years.
Early results of the strike of the
butchers and meat cutters were OBJ
servable, on the 14th i'll an advance all
along the line in the price of meats,
both fresh and cured. Restaurants in
the cities either put up the price of
meat orders or cut down the size of the
portions.
Two negroes, Frank Ousley and John
Johnston, were hanged together in the
Jail yard at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 14th.
The execution was witnessed by a son
of James Donnelly, whom the negroes
murdered. Just as the trap was sprung
q member of the jury and two specta-
tors fell to the ground in a faint
On the 14th, a two-headed girl was
born at Cairo, Ill, to a negro family
of the name of Shane. 1t died shortly
after birth. The heads were both we'll
formed, and rested on the shoulders at
about the same angle. The features
we're perfect. The body of the infant
was fully matured.
After quarreling with his wife. who
had left him, over a picture of a dead
daughter, Sam Baldwin, of Cedar
Rapids, Ia, on the 14th, cut her throat
from ear to ear with razor He then
slashed at his own throat, dying before
he could be taken to the hospital.
On the 14th, a fire destroyed all the
surface improvements of the American
mine At Gladstone, Col. The loss is es-
tinated at S125,000
Seven stores at Overlook. kas.,
were destroyed by fire on the 18th,
causing a loss of over $4,000, with
small insurance.
The Baltimore & Ohio grain elevator,
Eighty-seventh street and Ontario ave
nue, South Chicago. was burned on the
18th. A quantity Of grain was i'll the