The Bolivar County Democrat., 1906-04-14
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

story to the effect that strong belle
exists that dutiable goods valued a
about S750,000 were smuggled ashore il
| launches from the battleship Oregon
| just before she departed for the Brem-
| erton navy yard.
Louis Perseil, a military prisoner al
Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta, Ga, was shot
anc killed by guard while making his
| third attempt within four months t6
| escape.
DR.. Seal Harris, professor of medicine
in the University of Alabama, ex-
| presses the opinion that the negro race
is destined . eventually become ex-
tinct through the ravages of disease
especially consumption
Official advices from Japan say thai
! over 100000 persons in the famine re-
gion are dependent upon outside help
The Exchange bank at Frankfort, III.
| private concern, has closed its doors
The straits of Mackinaw are open tc
navigation.
Rev. Moses Goldstein, for 25 years
| contor of Mound Street temple in Gin
cinnati, and composer of music used
in Jewish synagogues, is dead, aged &C
years.
M. Geny, manager of the Creusot
works at St. Nazaire, France, fell into
the dry dock while the new cruiser
Ernest Renan was being launched and
was killed.
Owing to the indisposition of Chief
Justice Fuller and Justice Brewer, OF
the United States supreme court, the
calling of the docket of original
causes. set for April 8. was postponed
until April 16.
At meeting held in London it was
decided to form q British baseball as
sociation.
J. F. Bunnell, general auditor of the
Wells-Fargo Express Co., died at
Berkeley, Cal, where he was visiting
his daughter, Mrs. Chas. Keeler.
Reports received from Naples up to
the night of April 9 showed that at
least 2S6 persons had lost their lives
consequent upon the eruption of Mount
Vesuvius.
Ohio, was the guest of honor at a din
ner given by the Hamilton club, of
Chicago, in celebration of the forty
first anniversary of Appomattox day.
Rev. James r. Wylie, former Meth
odist minister in New York, and Mrs.
Fannie NJ. Green, of New York, to
whom he was married in Los Angeles,
Cal, in August, 1905, have been held
on charge of bigamy.
Apostles Matthias F. Cowley and
John Taylor of the Mormon church
have been dropped from the quorum
of the church. They are polygamists,
and dropped out Of sight when wanted
as witnesses in the Smoot case
A socialist meeting in San Francis
co, held in sympathy with Meyer,
Haywood and Pettibone, of the West
ern Federation of Miners, under ar
rest in Idaho in connection with the
Steunenberg murder, ended in a riot,
In which several heads were cracked.
The Zionist church in London has
confirmed the deposition of John AL
exander Dowie.
Bishop Benjamin Wistar Morris,
of the Protestant Episcopal church for
the diocese of Oregon, died at Port
land, Ore. He was born at Wells
borough, Pa. in 1919.
L. w. Hoch, of Worcester, Mass, a
travelling man, committed suicide in
a Kansas City (Mo.) hotel.
William j. Bryan expects to return
home in September, coming from In
dia by way of Egypt, the Holy Land,
st. Petersburg and
other European capitals.
Representative James S. Sherman, of
New York, has been elected chairman
of the republican congressional COM
mittee Representative Tawney, of Min
nesota, president; Representative
Loudenslager, of New Jersey, secretary,
and Representative Mckinley, of Illi-
nois, treasurer.
Mrs. John A. Dowie, at a meeting of
the overseers of Zion, related her hus-
bands alleged efforts to convert her
to further his plans for polygamy, she
declared, that he developed the Para
disc Plantation" project to be carried
out in Mexico
Secretary of State Root, after attend
ing the international conference at Rio
de Janeiro, will extend his trip so as to
circumnavigate the southern continent,
visiting Buenos Ayres, Montevideo,
Santiago de Chile and Lima, coming up
the west coast to Panama ans crossing
the isthmus at that point.
On April 2, 1906, there were in op-
Grafton throughout the country 35,2O5
rural free delivery routes, as against
80 .055 on June 80, 1905.
Ex-United States Senator John r.
Henderson, who has been critically Ill
In the Pennsylvania sanitarium, Phil
delphia, is recuperating.
Capt. Curtis w. Benton, First Kan
sas infantry in the civil war, died at
his home in Leavenworth, aged 80
years.
Earl and Lady Grey and other men,
bers of the Canadian vice-regal party,
while in Washington, paid visit to the
tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon.