Newport weekly independent., 1902-12-26

were discovered on a ship entering New York harbor from South Africa.
 John Bozarth, of Bloomington, H., rich retired farmer, dropped dead on his way home from church December If.
 The Texas cotton yield, according to a report of the Santa Fe Rail- road Company, is 95,000 bales less than last year.
 Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, wife of the late Gen. Grant, who passed away at Washington last week, was laid to rest in New York City on the goth.
 It Is expected that the gap be- tween Beaumont and Dallas, on the Texas and New Orleans road, will be completed by the 1st of January to Cushman.
 The lower house of congress passed bill reducing the duties on imports from the Philippines from 75 per cent of the Dingley rates to 25 per cent.
 At Valentine, Texas, December IA, Mrs. Tesusita Salcide dropped dead while standing beside the grave into which the corpse of her baby was being lowered.
 Judge Alexander Martin, who has been dean of the law department of Missouri University for the last fif- teen years, died December 15 at Columbia, Mo-, of paralysis of the heart. He was prominent in poli- tics and bore a wide reputation as a legal authority.
 Rev. Edward Hannin, one of the best known Catholic priests in the county and the pastor of St. Pat rlcks church at Toledo, Ohio, for forty years, died at 80 D. m. De- cember II. He was 76 years of age. and on April 14 last dedicated a $140,000 church, which he had. de- signed himself.
 The supreme court of Missouri has handed down a decision. reyers- ing the convictions in the case of E. A. Mysenburg, the first man tried m connection with municipal boodling in St. Louis. The case was remanded for a new trial for errors ill the indictment and of the trial judge in his instructions to the jury.
 Dispatches announce a desperate battle between starving Yaqui In. dlans in Mexico and government troops. Two gangs of fifty Indians attacked ranches which were guard ed by federal forces under Capt Rlvieras and Lieut.. Remes. The Mexican captain of the zone had learned from a loyal Yaqui spy that the Indians contemplated an at tack. The fights at both ranches were bloody, six Indians altogether being killed, besides a number whe were carried away wounded. The 4aquls were routed by Mexican sol- dlers, who outnumbered them. and retreated in disorder to a hiding place in the mountains from which they descended to make the attack Almost score of Mexican soldiers were wounded, some receiving only slight wounds while others were more serious.
 Great Britain and Germany are threatening Venezuela to collect an indefinite claim not exceeding $2,- OOO,00O. Germany's claim is the largest. About $1, ,oOO,OOO of it is defaulted interest upon Berlin loan of 1896 of $10,OOO,O00 at 5 per cent. The balance of the Ger man claim is for depredations and debts to German subjects incurred during the revolution just suppress ed. One German and three English firms secured railroad concessions. Under these they constructed 200 miles of track and charged Venezue- la $20,oo0,O00, or $10O,OO0 a mile. In 1896 these companies pressed for the balance of their money. and Venezuela foated loan of $1O.- OOO,O0O in Berlin to pay its war