The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-08-12
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recently.
Attorney General Crow of Mis-
souri, has asked the war department
to confscate the merchants bridge
at ST. Louis.
The Russian losses in the fight
of July 80, 81 and August 1 are
said to have been 1000 and the
Japs the same.
The Frisco "Meteor" was wreck
cd August near Vinita, l. T., and
thirty-four persons injured. The
| entire train left the rails.
Joe Rossi, an Italian pedler, was
murdered in Marshall, Tex. August
4. His wife and another Italian
are charged with the crime.
Thos. E. Watson, the populist
presidential nominee, will be off,
cially notified on August Is at
Cooper Union in New York.
There was a run on the Drovers'
Trust Savings Bank of the Chicago
Stock Yards August 5, but there
was plenty of money On hand.
The estrangement between men,
bers of the Vanderbilt family
through the marriage of Cornelius
Vanderbilt has been patched up.
While bathing in the Mississippi
river at Alton, Ill, on the 5th
inst, Michael Riley, his daughter
and six of the latter's girl friends
were drowned.
Mrs. Arthur Paget, an American
woman, fell down an elevator shaft
in her home in London and was
fatally injured. Her thigh, ankle
and wrist were broken.
| Twenty-Five thousand men will be
affected by the order issued the 9TH
er day increasing the salaries of
rural free delivery carriers, and it
will cost over $1,OOO,OOO more for
that branch of the service for the
ensuing fiscal year than it did in
the last year.
The announcement Of the en-
gagement of ex-Gov. Robt. L. Tay-
lor of Tennessee to Miss Mamie
st. John, prominent girl of Rich
mond, Va, has been made public.
This surprise follows closely upon
the announcement that a divorce
had been granted the noted lectur-
er and his wife
A hurry call for two million feet
Of lumber, mostly cypress, was re-
ceived by Secretary Murphy of the
Panama canal commission at Wash
ington from the isthmus. Besides
the lumber 10000 pieces of piling
also was asked for, with the re-
quest that the shipment be expedit-
ed. This is the second order for
lumber for the canal.
Miss Ruth Hofer, one of the rich
est and most beautiful girls in
Switzerland, will shortly be married
to Gladstone Dowie, son Of "Eh-
| jah ILL.," the founder of Zion city.
Her chauteau on Lake Constance
and her other real property will be
sold and all her money, said to
amount to $5,Ooo,OOO, will be turn
ed over to the Zion funds.
Tammany Hall adopted a resolu-
ton endorsing the national plat
form and pledging support to the
national ticket. The resolution de-
clares that the present depression is
due to the presidents absolute dis
regard Of constitutional limitations );
calls the president "the man on
horseback denounces protection !;
opposes monopoly; declares for the
independence-of the Filipinos and
denounces sectionalism.
Alton B. Parker ceased to be
chief judge of the court of appeals
of New York state at 3:20 p. m.
August ) and became the untram-
meled candidate of the democratic
party for the presidency of tho
United States His resignation,
handed to the secretary of state,
read: "Hon. John F. O'Brien,
Secretary of State: Sir-I hereby
respectful resign my Office as chief
justice of the court of appeals of
the state of New York, such resig-
nation to take effect Immediately.
Alton B. Parker"
Lieut.. Gen. Count Keller of the
Russian army was killed July %
while resisting the preliminary at
| tack of Gen. Kuroki's army on the
Yanzee pass, 80 miles east of Lioa
Yang
! Dowie has sounded the alarm
that the devil is gaining foothold
in Zion. He says some of his un-
derlings have been appropriating
his funds for their own use. He
says he will prosecute them for en-
bezzlement unless they pay up.
| Daniel J. Sully, the ex-cotton
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