Newport weekly independent., 1901-06-28

Holland holders of Transvaal rail- way stocks.
 J. h ~hillips, president of the State Bank at Melbourne, Fla, was found dead in his room, his throat cut from ear to ear. In his right hand was bloody razor.
 With the exception of few help CTS, all the employees of the Newport News Shipbuilding Company were laid off on the 18th, due to failure of striking machinists to accept the company's terms.
 The secretary of war directs the publication of the following order for the information of the army: ''No malt, vinous or spirituous liq- uors will be purchased by the sub- sistence department for any purpose. Supplies thereof needed in medical and hospital practice for use in the diet of soldiers too sick to use the army ration will be provided by the medical department.
 Two negroes charged with com- plicity in the murder of J. G. Eos ter, planter, were lynched near Shreveport. Edwards, the man who fired the bullet that killed Foster, is still at large. It is claimed the mur- derer and his accomplices belonged to a secret order which had for its object the punishment by death or other means any person who incurred the enmity of its members.
 A terrific wind storm passed through portions of Indiana on the goth. At Marion the First Presby- terian church and a saloon were par tially destroyed by lightning At Roachdale the building occupied by the Roachdale News was destroyed. At Monticello the barn of Bert Hathaway was struck by lightning and Hathaway, who had taken ref uge from the storm in the building, was instantly killed.
 The second trial of Jessie Morri- son for the killing of Mir. Olive Cast tie at Fl Dorado, Kas., was begun on the 18th. The first trial resulted in a hung jury. Jesse Morrison killed Mrs. Castle at the latter's home, cutting her throat with a razor. At her first trial she claimed self-de- fense, alleging that her victim called her as she was passing, and after accusing her of intimacy with MT. Castle, tried to cut her throat; that in the scuf1le she secured the weapon and used 1t with fatal result
 The jury at Arlington, N. J., be- fore whom T. c. Barker was tried for shooting Rev. John Keller, re- turned verdict of guilty. Barker's wife testified that the minister had insulted her, but the trial judge gave instructions that if Barker shot to kill verdict of guilty should be returned, and that the contention of justification under ''the unwritten law" could have no bearing on the case
 The General Electric Lightning Company, of New York, of which J. Pierpont Morgan is the principal stockholder, has acquired a controll- ing interest in the British Thomson Houston company through purchas- es of stock from French and Ger man shareholders. This company holds the exclusive rights in Great Britain for the Edison, Thomson Houston and other patents for the inventions of the General Electric Company.
 A great deal of trouble is reported between officers, non-union men and strikers in the coal fields of West Virginia. The courts issued an injunction against the strikers, forbidding them interfering in any way with the operation of the mines, but this had little effect until troops were called out. Several non-union men were killed and in a skirmish