The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-10
News Of the World

Ihe Panhandle railroad system
has dismissed over 5000 men from
its shops and train crews the past
six weeks
An historic relic, a copper plate
from which the Continental congress
printed certificates emitting the
holders to ''thirty Spanish .miiled
dollars" was recently unearthed on a
farm in Orangeburg, S. c., where it
was probably dropped by soldier
of the British army in the march
to the South in 1777.
By the decisive vote of AL to
1S8, the Methodist general confer
ence in session at Los Angeles de-
cided not to make any change in
the church discipline in the matter
of prohibited amusements. The
question is one which agitated the
minds of the delegates to the pres
ent general conference perhaps more
than any other single problem.
The bandits who captured a rich
American named Perdicaris and his
stepson in Morocco, demand a large
money ransom, absolute immunity
from pursuit or punishment for the
kidnapping and other crimes, and a
guarantee from the United States
and Great Britain that these stipu-
lations will be observed. The de-
mands are too preposterous to be
considered.
Japan paid heavily for her victo-
ries at Kin Chou, Nanshan and Ia
lien Wan, losing 5000 men in kill
ed and wounded in the repeated as
saults against these positions, but
she scored sweeping and valuable
victory over the Russians, capturing
fifty guns, clearing the way to Port
Arthur and infiicting losses on the
Russians which, in the end, are ex-
pected to total 1000 men.
John Barrett, the newly appoint
ed United States minister to Pana.
ma, while minister to Argentina
made study of cotton growing in
that republic and declares that
there is a section of Argentina and
Paraguay as large as the combined
area of Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Georgia and South Carolina
equally well suited in climate and
soil for raising the best quality of
cotton.
United States Senator Mathew
Stanley Quay died at his home in
Beaver, Pa, May %, of chronic gas
tritis. Senator Quay's indisposition
began about a year ago. 1t was a
recurrence of the trouble that beset
him during the latter part of 1900
and the early days of January, 1901,
when he was undergoing the strain
of campaign for reelection to the
senate. Never a strong man physic-
ally, the senator's capacity for work
was marvellous. He realized several
months ago that the end was near,
and awaited the summons with the
stoicism of an Indian. He was 20
years old.
Reports received in Washington
from the far east dwell at length on
the terrific power of the japanese
shimose powder, the nature of which !
is an absolute secret. 1t is not used
to propel the shot, but for bursting
the charge of the army and navy ex-
plosive she'll. The result of the ex-
plosion has astounded the United |
States army observers. The heav-
lest armor-piercing shell, with its
small cavity, is rent into countless
of sharp fragments which |
are hurled through the air with
such force that they tear through
the sides of an iron ship as would |
a projectile from a machine gun.
Crazed from jealousy, Mrs. Clara
Jones of Batson, Tex, shot and kill
cd her husband, Graham Jones.
The woman fired five shots, all Of
which took effect
Clara Adams, Melissa Brown and
Mary Adkins, cousins, engaged in
a desperate fight near Whitesboro,
Ky, in which the two first named
we're fatally injured. The girls are
all under 20 years of age and the
trouble was over men of the COM
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
has telcgraphed expert entomologists
Of the department to visit Bexar
county, Texas, and make a thor
ough investigation of the fields of
cotton which are said to have been
cleared of the boil weevil
1y the aid of ants.
Seven freight and coal piers Of
he Delaware and Lackawana rail
-oad at Jersey City were destroyed
oy fire The loss is placed at ST.
100000.