The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-10

closed down ard will ren.ain idle fo
two months.
President Roosevelt will spend
the summer at his home in Oyster
Bay, where he will be formally no
titled Of his nomination for the pres
idency.
Pat Grove, of kidnapping fame
has been heard from again. Grove
is alleged to have been member o1
gang who almost beat to death 10.
seph Lilliger and his aged wife neal
st. Joseph, Mo-, about two weeks
ago, in an effort to make the couple
divulge the hiding place of their
wealth.
A great scandal was created al
Joplin, Mo-, by an assault mad.
upon Miss Maude McGee, who hal
been chosen queen of the carnival,
by Mrs. Weyland, a prominent So
ciety leader. Mrs. lVeyland ac-
cused Miss McGee Of having hcr
deposed as matron Of honor, and
when they met at the headquarters
of a prominent cluD, Mrs. Weyland
attacked and severely beat the
queen.
| The long deadlock in the Illinois
republican convention was broken
on the Sd inst. by Gov. Yates throw
| ing his influence to Deenen. The
nomination was made on the seven
ty-ninth ballot, which stood: Yates
| 1, Lowden 522 1-2, Deenen 957 1-2,
Warner, 21. L. Y. Sherman of
| McDonough was nominated for lieu
tenant governor; James G. Rose of
Golconda (present incumbent), for
secretary of state; Len Small of
| Kankakee for state trearurer; James
Mccullough of Campaign (present
incumbent), for state auditor; w.
| Fl. Stead Of Ottawa, for attorney
general.
| According to a story told by a
miner named Phil Robertson, Tas-
colt, the alleged murderer of Mil
lionaire Smell Of Chicago, and for
whom the entire detective force of
the world searched for years, lies
buried in an unmarked grave in
Alaska. Robertson says that he
came upon a miners shack while on
a prospecting tour, and found a
man lying on a cot in helpless
condition. At moments the sick man
appeared to be rational, at other
times he acted and looked a maniac.
! Both in his sane moments and while
delirious. Robertson states, the man
insisted that his name was Tascott,
and begged that his fate be made
known to the world The Smell
murder occurred at the victims
home on the night of February 1,
1888. Robbery was declared to have
been the motive, though it is believ-
ed by many that this story was con-
| cocted. The crime was laid at the
door of Willie Tascott, then a mere
youth, and his disappearance from
the Palmer house, where he was
employed to operate the elevator, the
night the murder was committed,
pointed strongly to his guilt. Wheth-
er the man who lies buried in the
far-away gold region is really the
missing Palmer house bell boy, or
whether he was really the murderer
of Smell, may never be known, as a
positive fact, but the author of the
above story is known to be reputa-
bic, and until the story of the
crime was related to him by the dy-
ing man he knew nothing about the
circumstances.
A tornado swept through the town
Of Tekamoh, Neb., destroying an
area half a block in width and twelve
blocks long. Twenty houses were
entirely demolished, a large num-
Der shattered and nineteen persons
injured. Following the wind was a
heavy downpour Of rain which
caused the Teke Nah river to over
flow and add to the damage in the
business section.
The Worcester (Mass.) Spy, a pa
per founded in 1870, has suspend
cd publication, owing to financial
troubles. This was probably the
oldest paper published continuously
under one name in the United
States.
Hon. W. J. Bryan heads the Ne
braska delegation to the national
democratic convention. The state
convention unanimously adopted a
resolution endorsing Col. Bryan and
the Kansas City platform.
= Four men were killed in a dyna-
mite explosion at a railroad cut on
the Jellico branch of the Louisville
& Nashville, near Warwick, Tenn
The dead are James Berchall and
son, John; Berry McAlester and
John H Huntley.
Five persons were seriously hurt
in a riot between blacks and whites