Newport weekly independent., 1902-12-05

pugilist, has been declared a bank rupt.
 W. J. Decarz, a Hot Springs dry goods clerk, has fallen heir to large fortune in France.
 The First National Bank at Nor gan, Tex, was dynamited by rob- bers, who secured $6,O0O.
 The police are complaining of the large number of beggars and idlers Hooking to the larger cities since cool weather set in.
 The hints of Siam have been closed to the free coinage of silver, and the currency of that country is now on gold basis.
 The Goulds have decided to build branch of the Missouri Pacific to Springfield, Mo-, and there come into direct competition with the Frisco.
 The right of the new constitution of Virginia to bar certain class of colored men from exercising the right to vote Is to be tested in the courts. Hon. John G. Carlisle has been employed to conduct the case for the plaintiffs.
 The commission of Sheriff Dud- ley, of Sullivan county, Indiana, has been revoked by the governor for failure to protect negro from a mob. The Indiana law provides that d sheriff shall vacate his office when prisoner in his charge is lynched.
 Rev. James ". McGarvin, presi- dent of the bible college of the Ken lucky university at Lexington, has Withdrawn his membership from a local church, of which he was for merly pastor, because the congrega- ton decided to use an organ in the services.
 Sam Miller, a tailor, shot and killed his wife at Memphis in the presence of their 17-year-old daugh- ter. About year ago the couple
 
 separated, Miller going to Kansas City. Upon being notified that his wife had instituted suit for divorce, Miller made threats that he would kill her, and immediately upon ar irving in Memphis he went to the woman's home and shot her four times.
 John w. Yerkes, the commission CT of internal revenue, in his report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902, says that by the two acts abol- lshing the war revenue taxes inter- nal revenue taxes have been reduced about $100,00O,O0O. There has been, however, an increase of reve- nue from taxes laid on distilled spirits and other objects that were not affected by war revenue legisla- tion. Receipts of the bureau for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, were $306,S11, ,6G9, and for the fis- cal year ended June 30, 1902, $271,- S6r,990.
 Secretary Hay will take up nego- tiations direct with Colombia on the questions involving the building of the Isthmian canal. There are in dications that Colombia has listen ed to the representations of foreign governments who hope to secure a foothold on the isthmus, or to the representatives of private corpora tiOns who hope to see this govern ment abandon its plans for a canal and then take it up as private en- terprise. The administration will indicate to Colombia that under the Monroe doctrine this government will not tolerate an indefinite lease to a foreign government of canal strip.
 William II. Murray, who, it is all legged, murdered a man named Woodroon, near Williamsburg, h., about twenty-eight years ago, was arrested for the crime last week at Dunlap, Tenn.
 An attempt to rob Chicago and Alton passenger train near Indepen- dence, Kan, was frustrated by the trainmen offering resistance. A brakeman, who first refused to offer resistance to the bandits. was shot