The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-08-12
News Of the World

~ lCI pO1I Morgan HdS Ill oh
automobile wreck recently, but was
not injured.
Daniel S. Lamont may run for
governor of New York on the dem
ocratic ticket.
Tammany, it is claimed, will re-
tire w. r. Hearst from congress
and will elect Charles A. Towne
from a Tammany district.
It is probable that ex-President
Grover Cleveland will take the
stump in Illinois for Judge Parker.
An invitation has been extended
him.
The positive statement is made by
cabinet members that President
Roc>evelt has never had any idea of
intervening between packers and
their striking employees.
A contest for the fortune, esti-
mGted at $2,OOO,OOO, of the late
Bertha Dolbeer, who committed sui
eide at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in
New York, has begun at San Fran
cisco.
Democratic nominations for gov
ernor have been made in various
states, as follows: Michigan, Wool
bridge n Ferris of Big Rapids; In
diana, John w. Kern of Indianap-
oils; Kansas, David NJ. Dole, of
Wichita, who will also be the popU-
list nominee; West Virginia, W. R.
Thompson Of Huntington; Texas,
S. W. 7. Lanham.
John A. Shields of Holton, Kan,
wrote on a typewriter in st. Louis
243 words, or 1,063 letters in 60
seconds. The test matter which he
wrote contained every character up
on the machine and also contained
the letters Of the alphabet in regu-
lar order. In making the record
Mr.. Shields was blindfolded, writ
ing entirely from memory.
Chas. W. Fairbanks was on Au-
gust 8 formally notified of his nom
ination as vice president by the re-
publican convention. The notifica-
ton address was made by Elihu
Root, ex-secretary of war. The ex-
ercises were held on the wide We
rauda of Senator Fairbanks home
in indianapolis in the presence of
members of the notification commit
tee and the governor.
In reference to the charges made
that he had reflected upon the good
n;.rae Of President Roosevelt's moth
er through the columns Of his pa
per, the Commonwealth, Gov. Jas.
X. Vardaman of Mississippi says:
"I have never in all my life written
or said anything derogatory to or
that reflected upon the fair name of
the good mother of Theodore Roose-
velt, or any other good woman. l
am not responsible for what cam
paign liars in Mississippi ascribed
to me last year."
Chairman Taggart of the nation
al democratic committee announces
the following executive committee: {:
National committeee-Delancy Mic
ol, vice chairman, New York; Geo.
Foster Peabody treasurer, New
York. Executive committee
F. Sheehan, chairman, New York !;
August Belmont, New York; John
R. Mclean, Ohio; United States
Senator Thomas S. Martin, Scotts-
vile, Va; Col. J. NJ. Guffey, Pitts
burg, Pa: ex-United States Senator
James Smith, Jr., Newark, n. ]. !;
Timothy E. Ryan, Waukesha, Wis.
The republican executive COM
mittee for the national campaign
follows: Chairman, Geo. B. Cor
telyou of New York; secretary, Ell
mer Dover of Ohio; treasurer, Cor
nelius n. Bliss of New York; SER
geant at arms, VIM. F. Stone of
MARYLAND. Eastern headquarters
Chas. F. Brooker of Connecticut, n.
B. Scott of West Virginia, Franklin
Murphy of New Jersey, VIM. l..
Ward of New York. Western head
quarters, Chicago-Harry S. New,
of Indiana, Frank 0. Lowden of
Illinois, r. B. Schneider of Ne
braska, David w. Mulvane of Kan
sas.
A Toxic dispatch August 2 says
that after two days fighting, Gen.
Kuroki defeated the Russian forces
in two separate actions, fought at
Yushulikzu and the Yangse Pass.
The Yangse, or Yangsee, Pass is
situated thirty miles east of Liao
Yang. The Russian army engaged
there is generally known as the
eastern army, and was commanded
by the late Lieut.. Gen. Count Kel-
Ter, who was killed by the explosion
pf 3 shell.