The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-12-09
CURREN T TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Fire in the fifth floor of ST. Mary's
hospital at Pueblo, Col, on the 30th,
did $4,000 damage and caused much
excitement. Most of the patients were
removed from the building, and some
of them are suffering from shock.
William H. Woodward, president of
the Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co.,
OF st. Louis, one of the largest con-
Germs of its kind in the west, dropped
dead of heart disease on the Both.
One man was killed and several were
injured, on the 3Oth, by an iron beam
which fell from the roof of the Park
building in New York into throng of
people passing through Nassau street.
The beam, weighing 500 pounds, was
being hoisted, when it slipped from its
fastenings and fell to the ground.
Acting Secretary Of War Oliver has
directed the discharge, without hon
or" of Private John T. Smith, hospital
corps, stationed at Fort Mott, N. j., who
is said to have married a negress, and
whose discharge was recommended by
Gen. Grant.
Nan Patterson, the actress, awaiting
trial charged with the killing of her
lover, Caesar Young, was, on the Goth,
reported i'll in the Tombs prison with
tonsilitis.
At a meeting of the Cuban cabinet,
on the Goth, it was decided to set aside
the credit of $4,000 for the erection of
a hospital for infectious diseases at
Santiago.
Michael Kelley has sold his coal in
terests near Danville, Ill, to an east
ern syndicate for s3,2OO.OOO.
Mrs. George Henry (Grandma) Gill
bert, the oldest actress on the Amer
ican stage, died in her rooms at the
Sherman house, Chicago, on the I'd,
shortly after having suffered a stroke
of apopleXy. Mrs. Gilbert was SO years
of age.
Fire, which broke out about mid
night, on the I'd, destroyed or dam
aged Ancient Rome" "Old st. Louis"
Fair Japan" Quo Vadis" and "On
the BOwery," Pike concessions On the
ST Louis Worlds fair grounds, and
threatened, for a time, to do still
greater damage. Arthur c. Dunn was
arrested while trying to extend the
fire into the Hereafter" Three Japan
ese were injured.
With confirmation Of the news of
ure of their forces to recapture it, the
Russian war office is prepared to near
of the fall of Port Arthur at any time.
Chief Justice Robinson of the Mis-
souri, supreme court issued a tempo
rary rule in prohibition against Judge
Foster, of the st. Louis criminal court,
to prevent him from proceeding with
the trial of Edward Butler in his court
on the charge of bribing Charles F.
kelly to leave the state and avoid tes-
tifying against him in the Doodle
cases.
Gen. Porforio Diaz was inaugurated
president of the Republic of Mexico
for the seventh time, on the 1St, under
the most aUspicious circumstances.
The Japanese having accomplished
the capture of 203-Meter hill, overlook
ing the harbor of Port Arthur, are in
a position, as soon as they get the
necessary guns mounted, to destroy or
drive out of the harbor the remnant |
OF the Russian feet.
The last night on the Pike at the |
Worlds fair in st. Louis was a scene |
of revelry. Gayety reigned supreme |
from the time the lights were turned |
on until midnight. The presence of a |
large force of police. mounted and on |
foot, jefferson guards and armed pa
trolls of the Sixteenth United States
infantry kept any disposition towards
rowdyism in check.
President David r. Francis and
Treasurer William H. Thompson of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co.
were the recipients of costly souvenirs
at the hands of the directors on the
closing day, consisting of 500-piece
solid silver table services costing S17,-
900 and $4,000 respectively. The pre-
sentations were made at the public
ceremonies on the Plaza of st. Louis.
The attendance on the closing day
of the Worlds fair. Francis day"
was about 225, 900, making the total at
tendance during the seven months, in
round figures, 1S,500,000. The day
was an ideal one for December.
A head-on collision between two
trains on the DanvilIe & Western di-
vision of the Southern railway at
Stokesland, Va, on the 1st, resulted in
the death of Fireman o. G., Minter, of
Stockton, and Sam Staples, a colored
brakeman.
AL plOolOA, OA Il1C 1St, dJ Tic On |
ion Electric Light & Power Cos plant
at Tenth and st. Charles streets, st.
Louis, wrecked all the dynamos and
generators in the building, and left
part of the city in total darkness.
The top works of the central shaft.
of the Woodside Coal Co, located
south of Springfield, Ill, caught fire,
on the 1st, and were destroyed.
President Roosevelt announced, on
the 1st, that he would appoint grand
sen of Gen. Stonewall Jackson to West
Point.
Three man were killed by head-on
collision of Rock Island freight trains
near Peabody, Kas., on the 1st
The great Louisiana Purchase expo
sition at ST. Louis closed on the lst.