The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-07-08
News Of the World

IN the large cities has greatly IN
creased since the warm weather set
in.
Among the kilograms of congrat-
ulation received by President Roose-
velt upon his nomination, was one
from Mrs. Mark Hanna.
According to all official report
1,031 persons lost their lives in the
destruction of the steamer General
Slocum, which burned near New
York city several weeks ago.
The method of teaching geogra-
ply and the shipping routes of
steamers plying between Philippine
ports and various cities of the world
is one of the unique displays in the
educational building of the Philip
pine section at the st. Louis exposf-
ton.
VIII Hammond and G. P. Cole
were instantly killed and Chas. Ie-
ley and Joseph Besser badly in
jured in a street fight at Leaven-
worth, Kan. The fight was the re-
suit of an attempt to place Cole, a
deserter from the army, under
arrest.
Jim Potts and George Watkins
were found at the Katy stock yards
in Windsor, Mo-, the former dead
and the latter in a dying condition.
The men had fought terrible bat
tie. wounds on their scalps showing
that they had butted each other IN
til there was no SKIN on their era
NUNS.
The numerous defeats for the
Russians has caused the Manchuri-
ans and the bandits to openly favor
the japanese. Large bands of rob
bers are giving the Russian out
posts mueh trouble northeast Of
New Chwang The japanese, it is
said, have supplied the robbers with
1000 modern rifles and much am
munition.
Sterling Durham, negro was
hanged by a mob in the public
square at Eupora, Miss. Durham
. had assaulted three little girls on
different occasions. His last vic
tim placed the moose about his neck
and after the rope had been made
fast to the limb of tree led from
under him the horse on which he
was seated.
Henry Bragg of Wabash, Ind,
who was sent to Jail for refusing to
pay dog license, has appealed to
the British consul at Chicago to
make his case an international af
fair because he is IA British subject.
About the only consolation Bragg
can get is a lot of free advertising
and ridicule for being chump Of
the rankest type.
Crazed from fear of starvation
and with her husband hopeIessly in
sane in the asylum, Mrs. Anna
kelsdzick of Chicago gave up the
struggle for existence, killing her
three small children and then end
ing her own life. Illuminating gas
was the means of destruction she
adopted, and when the bodies were
found all four had been dead sew
eral hours.
While Joseph Folk received the
democratic nomination for govern
or of Missouri, as per instructions
cf the voters, the convention was
controlled by the StOne-Cook-Allen-
Dockerv clement. who dictated the
platform and selected the following
delegates at large to the national
convention: Senator Stone, Gov.
Dockerv. Congressman Champ
Clark and Congressman DeArmOnd.
Because Mrs. J. w. Fix, wife of
a farmer of Wileyville, w. Va, re-
fused to cook him d breakfast, an
unknown tramp blew off the top of
her head with a shotgun. The man
appeared at the Fix house just af-
ter the farmer had finished break
fast and asked for something to eat.
He was offered cold meat, bread
and butter, but refused that, and
on the refusal of Mrs. Fix to pre-
pare a meal he pushed by her,
seized shotgun and shot her head
almost from the shoulders.
Forty-three firenen were over
come by smoke and gas in the cellar
Of a building in New York city.
The men were rescued with diff
Guilty, and four of them could not
be revived.
The president has denied the ap-
plication for pardon of Charles H.
Cole, convicted in Boston of misap-
plying funds of the Globe National
Bank, and sentenced May IA, 1900,
to imprisonment for eight years in
the Jail at Greenfield, Mass.