Newport weekly independent., 1902-11-21

eral increase in wages.
 The New York Herald has nomi- mated Roosevelt and Dewey as the republican candidates for 1901.
 This years corn yield in Indiana is estimated at 175, ,SS6.900 bushels, the largest in the states history.
 The St. Louis city school board has decided to supply free text books to the children of that city.
 Many tinplate mills in this coun- try which were idle during the sum- mer have been started up, giving employment to large number of men.
 A report is current to the effect that the Arkansas Southern, which runs between Fl Dorado and Rus ton, La., will be extended to Little Rock.
 A conelaVe of all the Indian tribes of the west has been called for the purpose of asking the gov ernment to grant them the privilege of voting.
 President John Mitchell, of the miners union, refused to stand for election as president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, to suc- ceed MT. Gompers.
 Capt. Edward Williams, wanted in Chicago on the charge of acting as bribe giver for large property in- terests in evading paying taxes, has been taken into custody.
 The czar has issued a proscriptive order in regard to foreigners visit ing Turkistan the object being to keep secret the movements of Rus sian troops in that territory.
 Dispatches from Hawaii state that the republicans swept the is- land in the recent election. The republican congressional delegate elect is a full-blood Hawaiian
 Sylvester Richardson, a 15-year- old boy, is under arrest at Mays field, Ky, on the charge of attempt ing to wreck a fast mail train by placing Instructions on the track.
 For the first time since the civil war there is one regiment in the United States army without an off cer in it who participated in the great battles between the states.
 At the annual meeting of the American Federation of Labor held Tn New Orleans, a resolution oppos- ing ship subsidies and in favor of the lsthmian canal was adopted.
 There is some talk among politi- clans of opposition to the re-elec- tion of Senator Platt from New York. It is said Gov. Odell is de- sirous of the defeat of Senator Platt, owing to certain opposition shown in the last campaign.
 An Italian anarchist fired three intellectual shots at King Leopold while he was passing through the streets of Belgium. The would-be assassin was rescued from a mob by the police. The unfred cartridges in his revolver were found to be blank, and it is thought those dis charged were also harmless.
 Astonishing revelations of great loss of life and property caused by the eruption of the Santa Maria vol cano in Guatamala are being made daily. Eruptions continue. Many hundreds of human beings perished and the destruction of property is considered greater than that in the island of Martinique by the erup- tions of Mont Pelee. All the es- tates in the neighborhood of the volcano are buried under volcanic ashes which reach to the tops of houses. The richest coffee estates are completely ruined
 Representative Babcock, of Wis consin, has declined to permit the use of his name for speaker of the next house, and the Wisconsin dele gation decided to vote for Mir. Can- non, of Illinois.
 The German reichstag adopted a paragraph in the new tariff bill an- thorizing the government to retail fate against any country discrimi- hating against German goods. This may bring on tariff war between the United States and Germany.