The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-12-02
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

counsel for Senator Joseph r. Burton,
of Kansas, were filed, on the 22d, in
the United States supreme court.
Rear-Admiral John Russell Bartlett,
United States navy, retired, died at the
Marine hospital in st. Louis, on the
22d, of pneumonia, contracted while on
q tour of inspection of government
steam vessels plying on the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers.
President Francis of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Co. announced, at
a meeting of the board Of directors, on
the 22d, that the Worlds fair had no
bills payable beyond the comparative
ly insignificant current accounts.
Senator r. B. Tillman, of South
Carolina, has Withdrawn his bitter op-
position to DR.. Crum as collector of
the port of Charleston, and he is re-
ported by his friends as having passed
up" politics for the time being.
Benbow's Montana Meteor" made a
flight from the Worlds fair aerodrome,
on the 22d, but it's dirigibility was not
demonstrated, as the motive power
went dead" almost Immediately after
the ascension was made, and land
ing was effected at Underwood, four
miles away.
Six negroes engaged in a deadly
fight in a 14-foot room near Curtis.
La, on the 23d, the participants be-
ing armed with shotguns and pistols
After the battle, three lay dead. The
other three escaped.
By the explosion of the boilers in
D. r. Middleton's cotton gin in the
town of Walters, Miss, on the oath,
two lives were lost and five persons in
jured, two of them seriously.
One man was killed and three others
injured in a freight wreck on the Gin
Cinnati, New Orleans e Texas Pacific
railroad at Highbridge, KY, on the
oath.
A monument to the memory of Pres
ident William Mckinley was unveiled,
on the oath, at the main entrance of
Golden Gate park, at San Francisco.
Otis LoveIand, who killed George
Geyer, farmer, near Alton, o., was
electrocuted in the annex at the Ohio
penitentiary on the oath.
Dom Paul Kruger left a fortune esti-
mated at So, $50, 900. A large part was
bequeathed for the maintenance of the
Dutch language.
Five Italians perished in fire
which destroyed the old Noble grain
warehouse at North Bend, Pa, on the
oath.
The special train bearing President
Roosevelt and party arrived in st.
Louis at $40 a. M, on the Goth. and
was at once switched to siding inside
the Administration entrance to the
Worlds fair, where it's occupants were
left to repose undisturbed until the
official day opened.
A Stockholm dispatch of the 26th
says that Heinrich Ibsen has had sew
eraI attacks of heart trouble, and that
his condition is such that there is little
hope for recovery.
Tremendous excitement prevailed in
st. Petersburg, on the 26th, when it
became known that the czar had re-
ceived in audience a delegation from
the zemstvos for consultation over the
demands contained in their memorial.
1t is believed in Toxic that impor-
tant developments in the siege Of Port
Arthur are impending. The belief
seems to be based mainly on the un-
OlECldl IcpO1Io VI IAIO OuSNSooIul pAOS-
ress of the sapping against the Er
Lung, Sung Shu and Tung Kekwan
forts
1t is said that the dispatches sent
by Gen. Stoessel, commander at Port
Arthur, sent by the destroyer Rasto-
ropny to Che Foo, contained frank
statement of the hopelessness of the
situation. He said: 'The garrison is
being starved out"
The Thanksgiving day attendance at
the Worlds fair was 1S1, SCI. 1t would
probably have been larger had the
transportation facilities been adequate;
but the Wabash shuttle trains had
been taken out of commission and the
street car companies were caught nap
ping, having retired many cars with
the advent of cool weather.
Si~ Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Can
ada. accompanied by Lady Laurier,
was a visitor at the Worlds fair on
Thanksgiving day. Sir Wilfrid ex-
pressed his amazement at the eXposi- |
tion's magnitude and comprehensive
ness.
Paul Strasser, union veteran, and |
who was an inmate of the soldiers |
home at DanviIle, Ill, died suddenly |
at Union station, st. Louis, on the |
morning of the oath, while en- route to |
Sebring, O., to visit his family.
A great wolf drive occurred in the |
pasture reserve near Chattanooga,
Okla, on the oath. Forty square miles |
of territory was covered and about fifty |
wolves corraIed, ten of which were
captured and killed. 1t was the larg-
est hunt ever held in the territory.
Sixteen persons were hurt, two prob
ably fatally, on the 25th, when a pas
senger train on the Pennsylvania rail-
road crashed into trolley car at Bed
ford, o. The trolley car was filed with
passengers.
Francis Buell. Cooley, founder of the
wholesale dry goods house of Cooley,
Farrell & Co., from which sprang Field
& Letter, Marshall Field & Co., and
many other dry goods houses in Chi
cago, died at Hartford, Conn, on the
25th, aged 50 years.
The American Federation of Labor,
in convention at San Francisco, on the
25th, decided to reinstate the striking
engineers and mechanics who walked
out of breweries in ST. Louis, No, anF
2elleVille. III. !