The Bolivar County Democrat., 1907-08-03
AN EPiTCME OF THE Most IN.
pOaTkET EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
4 Carefully pigested and Con-
6ensed Compilation OF Cur.
rent News Domestic
and Foreign.

Murders and attacks ON women and
girls appall New York by their fire.
quency, and the police are powerless
to cope with the situation.
Mother pursues clipping couple,
captures them at the nluzZle OF re-
yolver, and marches them to the -po-
lice station at Davenport, Ia.
Aladar Stolincki. an aristocratic
lieutenant of the Hungarian Hussar
regiment, has resigned his commits
sion to become an apprentice to a
pork butcher in Budapest.
Prof Charles j. Bushnell, of Wash
ington, asserts the nation is rushing
into bankruptcy by spending yearly
billion dollars more on the vicious
and pauper classes than the increase
of wealth amounts to, and backs up
his position with startling array OF
figures.
Civic Federation committee, in its
report says that municipal utilities
must be controlled by cities either by
ownership or regulation, the choice
depending on local conditions.
Do good to others and shun butter
fly pursuits and you will be happy and
successful, says John D. Rockefeller,
addressing his Cleveland Sunday
school.
Governor Swanson, of Virginia, bit
terly denounces the railroad rate law
injunction issued by Federal Judge
Pritchard, and advises that it be ig-
nored.
Vice President Fairbanks is charged
with having used bad faith and mis-
representation, when senator, to de-
feat a bill to protect seals, by Prof
Henry W. Elliott, of Cleveland, gov
eminent agent.
William Jennings Bryan talks on
.Prince of Peace" at Epworth League
Chautauqua, but state democratic
leaders fail to appear for conference.
Torture for the tax dodger would
be a good thing, according to ser
mon in the Austin Baptist church by
Rev A. H. Harnly.
Mrs. Lucinda NJ Morton, widow of
Morton is dead at the age of 50. She
had been in feeble health for years.
After working for months and
spending thousands of dollars spread
ing dragnet that has caught men in
three states, the United States Steel
corporation has rounded up what is
believed to be the worst gang of black
hand assassins in the country. Forty
men are now in Jail in Newcastle,
Youngstown, Sharon, Pa, Plainfeld,
n j., and Rochester, N Y
White and STANDARDIZATION runa-
first day of extra contest with perfect
scores in journey from New York to
Albany.
New York cotton market consider
ably nervous. Close is steady at net
decline of 9 to q points.
Decline of / cent in Chicago wheat
prices. Fractional losses experienced
by corn and oats. Provisions also
down. Little trading in cats.
Investigation by the federal govern
ment shows that the number of men
held in peonage in the South Is ap-
palling; renewed efforts will be made
to crush evil.
Anti-prohibition members OF the
Georgia house, though few in number,
by filibustering keep bill from coming
to vote and may Gefeat it.
Police Com missioner Bingham Of
New York says his department is pow
erless to protect the city from the
horde of criminals preying upon it.
Love letters written by John Warner
to Isabella Robinson before their mar
riage are brought into the famous case
at Clinton, Ill.
Wisconsin bankers plan to put a
check on "shaky" borrowers by regu-
larIy auditing affairs of firms.
Impeachment proceedings In Con-
gres against Federal Judge Peter c.
Pritchard are rumored because of his
decision in the North Carolina rail
way rates case.
Accused of tearing down United
States flag and then trampling upon
it, James Grant, a British subject at
Birch, was sentenced to serve thirty
days In jail and pay fine of $40.
The severe drouth on Long Island
has produced new industry, that OF
selling water to the farmers whose
cisterns and wells have become dry.
The farmers are paying 10 cents
barrel for water, which they have to
haul themselves.
Charles Warner, insane man, kills
woman clerk in a New York store, IA
tally Injuries a friend and is fatally
hurt before he is subdued.
Board of review raises taxes OF 300
members of Chicago's smart set by
reading OF new yachts and autos in
society columns of newspapers.
Georgia and Florida lines are to be
merged into a new system for the
South, extending to the gulf.
Baron Grattan wins Detroit pacing
feature in fastest time Of year.
Orby, Richard Croker's English |
Derby winner. is beaten at Liverpool.
Many politicians attend the Love
10Y celebration 1t Greenfield. ILL.,. but
the weather is too hot for political |
work.
Secretary of War Taft plans trip OF
Pacific states in the interest of his
candidacy for the republican nomina-
ION for president.