The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-11-11
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

DR.. n. NJ. Smith, chairman of the
county central committee at Washing.
ton, Kas., was shot and killed at thai
place, on the 1st, by S. H. Bonar,
farmer. They quarreled over bill, anc
Bonar fired at the physician twice, one
ball entering his abdomen and one
piercing his breast.
Four heavily armed outlaws attempt
ed to rob the bank at Cody, Wyo., OF
the list. In the fight which followed
the cashier was killed The robbers
escaped to the mountains, but secured
no money.
Seven young Indian girls left tbs
Worlds fair, on the LIST, to enter Vas
sar college.
Col. A. NJ. Flagg, who, until few
weeks ago, was editor Of the Duluth
tMinn.) News-Tribune, committed sui
eide, on the LIST, by drowning.
A reservoir of the municipal water
works, located near the center of Win.
ston Salem, N. C., broke, on the I'd
causing the loss of nine lives and the
injury of four or five persons.
Rev. John Evans, a colored preacher
of st. Louis, shot and seriously wound
ed Bud Harrington, one of his par.
ishioners, on the I'd. Evans says he
fired in self-defense.
Thomas Baldwin's airship, the Cali
fornia Arrow" broke loose, on the I'd
at st. Louis, and was carried away tc
the northwest, after two unsuccessful
attempts at fight. 1t landed in the
river at Keokuk, Ia.
The fleeing outlaws who killed
Cashier Middaugh, of the First nation
al bank, of Cody, Wyo., on November
1, were still at large on the Sd.
A cage in mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
fell, on the I'd. and ten miners were
killed.
The British three-masted schooner
DOrthy, from Black Tickle, New
Houndland, bound to a south Euro
pean port, was sunk, on the Sd, in q
coAhsion with the British steamer
Adana, from New York for Calcutta.
The crew of the Dorothy was saved.
Hereafter no person suffering from
consumption will be employed in Unit
ed States post offices or other govern
ment positions from which they are
likely to spread the disease.
The bodies of the ten miners who
we're killed at the Auchincloss colliery,
In Nanticoke, Pa, on November 2, were
removed from the dump at the foot OF
The shaft or the Sd.
Postmaster-General Wynne, on the
Sd, signed a supplemental treaty with
the Hungarian government, relating to
money orders passing between the two
countries.
Incomplete returns from elections in
Nova Scotia, on the Sd, indicate a
sweeping liberal victory.
Baldwin's dirigible balloon, the Cal
ifornia Arrow" which went of on
trip on its own account, from the |
Worlds fair, on the hight of the I'd, |
after being enormously reported as
having dropped into the river at Keo- |
kuk, Ia, was found, on the Sd, practi- |
cally unchanged, anchored to a tree |
limb by one of it's drag ropes, in |
ravine on the farm of Henry Mildt, |
near Fern Ridge, St Louis county, Mo. |
4 dispatch was received in London,
on the Sd, saying that Lieut. Gen.
Stoessel, commanding the Russian
forces at Port Arthur. was reported to
De WOUNDED IN the leg.
Russia is said to have experienced a |
feeling of relief over the fact that
November Sd, the Japanese emperor's
birthday anniversary, passed without
bearing news of the fall of Port Ar
thur.
A Cheyenne CWyo.) dispatch of the
Sd said that posses were closing in on
the bandits who killed Cashier Mid
daugh in an attempt to rob the bank
at Cody. They were said to be in the
Bad Lands, % miles north of Their
The rewards for their cap
ture, dead or alive, aggregate $15,-
600.
President Roosevelt issued a signed
letter. on the 4th, replying to Judge
Parker's accusations that Chairman
Cortelyou was using knowledge gained
while a cabinet member to secure
funds for the republican campaign.
After ordering her own coffin to be
made out of pine boards at lumber
factory, Mrs. A. d. Low, of Palmyra,
Wis, a rich woman, killed herself, on
the 4th with strychnine because she
had been threatened with lawsuits
Andrew Carnegie has been unani.
mousIy reelected lord rector of st. An
drew's university at Edinburgh, Scot
land.
Fire swept Triton, Ga, on the 4th,
destroying several business blocks and
loss of $25o,000. There were
no casualties.
A masked man, armed with pistol,
entered a saloon at Cottonwood, Cal.
on the 4th, lined up six men with their
faces to the wall and their hands ever
their heads, while he relieved them of
$500 in cash and $500 in checks.
A hundred persons were drowned by
the sinking of the French steamer Gil
ronde after having been in collision
with the French steamer A Schiaffno,
near Herbillon, % miles from Bona,
Algeria. The Gironde left Bona with
10 passengers, of whom i09 were Al
geriap natives.