Newport weekly independent., 1901-08-30

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 The population of Canada has in- creased only 10 per cent within the past ten years, as compared with 21 per cent for the United States.
 At the end of six weeks the strike of steel workers is as far from settle ment as on the day the strike order was issued,
 One man was killed and seventeen injured by a head-end collision on a rapid transit line, a suburban road, near Atlanta, Ga.
 The resolution to impeach State Treasurer Robbins of Texas for de- posting state funds in the First Na- tional Bank of Austin, was defeated in the legislature.
 Thirty-three warrants were issued at St. Louis the goth against off, cials and bookmakers of Delmar race track by Acting Prosecuting Attor- ney Eggers. The warrants were sworn out by John Monihan, who charges the defendants with main taining a common gambling house. President Adler said the matter will now have to be settled by the courts, and that in the meantime there will be no cession in racing at Delmar. nor any change in the plans of the movement.
 The National River and Harbor convention will be held at Baltimore, Md, October 8 and 9. The people of the south are specially interested in this convention, and no doubt the boards of trade throughout the south and other commercial organizations will take an active interest in the matter. The object of the conven- tion is, as stated by the New Orleans committee, ''to emphasize in the most general and positive way the public's support of rivers and har- bors appropriations, and to impress that emphasis upon the congress of the United States and the executive departments of the government"
 In fight at party near Nacodo- chess, Texas, Sam Scott was shot and instantly killed and Hammond Scott, his brother, will die as a result of knife wounds. B. w. Beard was shot in the stomach and can hardly recover. His brother was wounded in the leg and foot, and Jasper Mo- Daniel was hot in the hip and may lose his leg. The three last named were attendants on the party which was given at Beard's home and had to do with the fight The Scotts and a neighbor, Osceol Bar ker, were the principals, there being an old grudge between them.
 William M. Hoye, collector of cus- toms at Nogales, Ariz. B. F. Jossey, immigrant inspector there; Frank Howe, a Chinaman, and another Chinaman, living across the border at Clifton, Mex, have been arrested by the federal secret service officers on the charge of smuggling Chinese immigrants into the United States. The arrest of these men brings to light one of the most extensive and most successfully worked frauds in the history of the immigration ser vice of the United States. The se- cret service officers have been at work on the case for a month past and the information which has come to the treasury department indicates that nearly every member of the GUS toms and immigration force at Nogales is implicated. Hoey makes a complete denial of any wrong doing on his part or any of his deputies.
 Bradstreet's report of trade condi- tions for the week ended August 23, says: Evidences multiply that the tide of trade has turned, and that it is now setting strongly in tIs Sirec- lion of an enlarged tnsiness, at steady or higher prices. Crop i'm provcment, particularly in the ccn- tral west and the Mississippi valley,