The Bolivar County Democrat., 1906-04-14

others from their foundations.
The body of Christopher Sven, a
farmer, who disappeared from Sioux
Falls, S. D., the latter part of Febru-
airy, has been found in the river there,
and it is supposed he walked into the
river while intoxicated.
Former Representative William Sey-
mour, of Michigan, died at his home
in Washington from heart trouble.
Thomas Jackson, aged 92 years, a
confederate veteran, and one of Ken
tuckys distinguished sons, died at his
home in Mt Sterling, Ill.
Mrs. Roosevelt and the children
have returned to Washington from
their trip to Cuba.
Robert z. Proctor, private secretary
of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, has
been arrested charged with embezzle-
ment of $225 handed to him by John
E. Bestgen, of Quincy, Mass, as a
campaign contribution, on promise of
aid in securing a consulship, and OF
which contribution, it is alleged, no
accounting was made.
The conference on Moroccan re-
forms at Algeciras, Spain. dissolved,
after nearly three months of labor,
after the formal signing of the pro-
tocol at a plenary and final sitting
There was a general exchange OF fe-
licitations.
Amid scenes of SURPRISING grandeur
and detonations resembling the dis
charges of great parks OF heaviest ar
tilery, Mount Vesuvius is relentlessly
carrying destruction to the towns
around it's base. Boscotrecase, town
of 10000, is completely obliterated;
Tore Annunziata, 10000, was almost
surrounded with lava at last accounts,
and the lava was rapidly approaching
San Sebastiano and Tore del Greco.
A panic has been created in Rus
sian government circles by the sur
prlsing strength developed by the
constitutional democrats in the cleo
tions, which, it is said, may have i'm
mediate and dramatic consequences.
All the plunder stolen by Thomas
J. Wainwright from DR.. Joseph Pc
nault, of Minneapolis, with the excep-
ton of about $100 worth, has been re-
covered.
In cyclonic storm that swept over
ST. Clair county H., large number
of buildings were unroofed or other
wise damaged and at least ten persons
injured, some of them quite seriously.
The secretary of the navy has ac-
cepted the resignation of Midshipman
John C. Campbell, fourth class, at the
naval academy, on account of defec-
tive eyesight. He halls from Mis-
souri,
The belief is prevalent among the
church officials of Zion that Dowie
was plucked for about $1,200,000 by
Wall street sharks in stock deals.
Fire destroyed the upper story of
the Chamber of Commerce building
in Portland Ore, causing loss of
100000, and, indirectly, the death of
Homer H. Hallock, a prominent rail
road man, who in a frenzy of fear
jumped down the light we'll and was
instantly killed. There were some
spectacular rescues by the firemen.
Att'y-Gen. Hadley of Missouri is re-
covering very slowly from his recent
attack of pleurisy.
The business portion OF the town of
Butler, Ga, was destroyed by fire;
loss, $4,000.
Typhoid fever is almost epidemic
in Pittsburg, Pa, due, it is said, to the
swollen condition of the rivers.
D. c. Smith, president; Conrad
Luppe, cashier; D. c. Smith, Jr., book
keeper; Habbe Velde, Henry Block
and E. F. INLAND, partners in the
Ties-Smith bank at Pekin, ILL.,, which
failed April 2, have been arrested on
charges of embezzlement, on COM
plant of depositors.
Gen. Russell A. Alger has an
nounced his determination, on ac-
count of failing health, to not again
be a candidate for the United States
senatorship for Michigan.
The steamer Burrsfeld is detained
at quarantine at Philadelphia with
cases of suspected bubonic plague on
board. A archaeological examination
will be made.
of St. Louis, died of
pneumonia.
Clarence NJ. Stark, the Louisiana
(Mo) nurseryman, has been declared
insane by the probate court at San
Tex, and his wife will take
him to a sanitarium at Waukesha,
Wis.
Jennie Rogers, a st. Louis panel
worker, told the board of police COM
missioners that in two houses she
operated during the Worlds fair an
average of about 5000 daily was taken
from suckers" and that she paid
three policemen IS a week regular
and percentage of the spoils.
John Norcross, who was arrested in
northern Mexico in connection with
he recent hold-up of the Dolores mine
treasure train, has confessed and
his alleged accomplices.
The license of the Metropolitan Coal
Co., of Boston, has been revoked by
the secretary of state because of ex-
prices fixed for coal since
he strike movement was inaugurated.
James P. Nolan, who, two years
ago, was candidate for secretary of
state in Wisconsin, has been arrested
at the instance of Peter Blesser, a
who charges that Nolan ap-
propriated $500 which he had collect
ed for the complainant
White cappers at Cripple Creek, Col,
are threatening to deport Judge w. P.
Seeds, of the district court, for his ac-
ion II, doo1ipu cavoraIv with yiO1atnrS