Newport weekly independent., 1902-12-05
News of the World


 author, is in feeble health and friends and family are alarmed at his condition.
 Theodore Stenbel, a young Ger man, is under arrest in New York City, charged with sending letters to J. r. Morgan threatening his life.
 Francis I. Gowan, formerly pres ident of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf, has been appointed gen. cral solicitor of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
 A break in the furnace of an iron foundry at Birmingham, Ala, caus- ed mass of molten iron to gush forth and T. J. Edwards, the man. ager, was burned to death. Chas. w. Tucker and Ernest Damns, rivals for the affections of a young lady, fought pistol duel a few miles from Kansas City, Damns receiving a mortal wound. While trying to protect a woman from getting a beating, Fayette Graves was stabbed to death at Houston, Tex, by Bob Jackson, who was arrested. Graves lung was cut out.
 A general row occurred in the German Reichstag over pending tariff bill, during which several members came to blows. One par ty was bodily thrown down a flight of stairs and badly injured.
 Rules and regulations for pen sion system, which will go into eff feet January l, 1903, have been completed by officials of the Union Pacific Railroad, by which its old employees will be retired on pen sions.
 | Edward F. Croker, chief of the New York city fire department, has been dismissed from service, having been adjudged guilty of the hcarge of converting public prop erty to private use He is neprew of Richard Croker, the Tammany leader.
 Calvin Elliott, colored, was hang ed at Lincoln, Neb., for criminally assaulting Mrs. Caleb Brown near that place two months ago. After repeated unsuccessful attempts at lynching a special term of court was called and the sentence o1 death passed.
 The president has decided to ap. point Ashley M. Gould, United States district attorney for the Dis trict of Columbia, associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, to succeed the late Justice Bradley. He has also de- cided to appoint Francis M. Wright of Illinois, to the vacancy on the court of claims vacated by the death of Judge Davis.
 Secretary Moody's annual report on the navy shows that there were on June 30 last 21 ,433 enlisted men in the service. Many of these came from the middle western states. and at the time of their enlistment were unacquainted with the new life upon which they had entered Their progress has been eminently satisfactory. All men now enlisted are required to be either citizens or to have declared their intention tc become such. Eighty-nine pe1 cent of the enlisted force are now citizens and 16 per cent are native born. Nincty-three and three tenths per cent of the landsmen arc training and 94 per cent of the ap- prentices are native born. Secretary Moody recommends continuance of the increase of ships and the es- tablishment of naval station in the Philippines, and one in West In dian islands or the Caribbean.
 A regular Mexican bull fight ex- hibition took place at Kansas City without interference from the off cers.
 Recent investigations in the de- pertinent of agriculture discloses the fact that what is known as foot and mouth disease exists to an alarming extent among cattle in the New England states and an order has been made prohibiting the ex- | DOrtatiOn of all cattle from, tho port