The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-24

over $4,000 visitors attended the
Confederate reunion, which opened
at Nashville on the 14th.
A mine has been leased by the
Western Federation of Miners in
New Mexico, which will be worked
by the men deported from Colorado.
Attorney General Knox, recent
ly appotat United States senator
from Pennsylvania, is to be sue
ceeded by Mr.. Moody, secretary of
the navy.
Several appeals from bodies of
organized labor have been forward
ed to President Roosevelt, asking
him to investigate conditions in the
Colorado mining district.
E. J. Maupin of Nevada, Mo-,
fireman of a Missouri Pacific
freight train, fell from his train
while passing over the tender and
was so badly mangled that he died.
Fritz Zaner of Buckholts, Tex,
had gun set in his barn to shoot
some one who had been stealing his
corn. The gun fatally shct his IL
year-old son while he was feeding
the stock.
The total admissions of the
worlds fair during the month of
May were 1,0O1, ,391, not including
those of opening day. The passes
recorded at the gates for May num-
bered $4,000, or an average of ~
653 and fraction day.
On and after July l, 1904, car
riers on rural free delivery routes
will not be allowed to solicit bust
ness or receive orders of any kind
for any person, firm or corporation,
and shall not, during their hours of
employment, carry any merchan-
disc for hire, except upon the re-
quest of patrons along the route.
Eighty-seven warrants are out
for Cripple Greek miners who are
accused of completely in the explo
sion at the Independence station
and the rioting at Victor. Among
those wanted are: Sherman Par
ker, secretary of the Altman un-
ion, who was acquitted after hav-
ing been held in the bull pen three
months on the charge Of having
conspired to wreck a Florence and
Cripple Greek train.
A company Of militia escorted
seventy-six union miners from the
Cripple Greek district across the
state line into Kansas, where the
deported men were compelled to
leave the train at a point several
miles from a house or town. The
men were fired upon by members
of the militia as the train moved
away toward Colorado, and a short
time thereafter the sheriff of the
county in which thew were dumped
appeared with a nun Der of deputies
and forced the miners to turn back
into Colorado. Gov. Peabody of
Colorado says if these men should
return to the mining district they
will be killed. As soon as Gov
Bailey of Kansas heard of the ac-
tion of the sheriff toward the home
less men. he wired the official dis
approving of his act and stating
that all men on a peaceable mission
will be welcomed to Kansas
One of the most appalling disas-
tcrs in the history of New York,
tragic in its immensely, dramatic in
its episodes and deeply pathetic in
the tender age of most of its vic
TINS, took place on the 10Th inst.
in the East river, at the entrance to
the Long Island Sound, within a
short distance of the New York
shore, and within sight of thousands
of persons, the majority of whom
were powerless to minimize the ex-
tent of the catastrophe. By the
burning to the waters edge of the
Gen. Slocum, a three-decked excur- !
sion steamer, more than six hundred |
persons, the majority of whom were |
women and children, were burned to |
death or drowned BY jumping over-I
board or being thrown into the
whirlpool by the lurching of the |
vessel and the frantic rush of the |
panic-stricken passengers. The
fire was started by the oyerturning
of a lot of grease at lunch stand |
on the forward deck.
A switch engine coilided with an
excursion train bearing 700 people |
at Minneapolis, MINI. Many per-
sons were killed and injured
Gen. Bell, commander of the
state militia in the Cripple Creek
mining district, declares that he
has between thirty and forty union
miners confined in the bull pen who
will hang. lie charges that they
are responsible for the explosion at
independence whigh caused the
death of twelve non-unionists. /