Newport weekly independent., 1902-05-16

According to recent dispatch Pat Grove, accused of kidknaping the son of Edward Cudahy, has re- appeared and is now at point near Omaha.
 Famine, flood and postilence are destroying life so rapidly in the province of Demak, Java, that in some districts there are not enough survivors to bury the dead.
 A peculiar fight is on at Marion, Ind, between the telephone compa- ny and retail groccrs. The grocers' association determined as body to resist an increase in the rental of phones, and each subscriber had his instrument taken out. The tele- phone people .retailated by engaging in the meat and grocery business, and declare they will sell groceries at cost unless the boycott is raised
 It is announced that new com- bination of interests in the steel in- dustry has just been perfected. The name of the new company is to be the American Steel Foundries Com pany, with a capital of $40, 100000 equally divided between common and preferred stock. The compa- nies that will enter the combination are engaged in the manufacture of steel castings, about the only branch of the steel business that has not been consolidated.
 British physicians and deep-soa cable constructors are taking a pro- found technical interest in the vol canic destruction of St. Pierre In the midst of hurried preparations in many parts of the United Kingdom to cooperate with France in relicv- ing the population of Martinique that depended on the business capi- tai of the island for food, scientific societies are formulating plans for the investigation of the causes, character and results of the erup- tion. It is the purpose of the socie- ties interested to thoroughly explore and reduce to recorded knowledge the physical condition of the lesser and greater Antilles, together with the entire eastern coast of South America.
 News comes from the orient of bloodshed and death following on the trail of tax collectors who are attempting to collect the indemnity to missionaries and converts who suffered during the Boxer disturb ance of 1900. In Shante Chi Li province the inhabitants turned on the tax collectors and, shouting that they would die sooner than give money to the foreign devils, stoned the tax collectors, killing some of them with clubs. The governor call ed out the militia, but the villagers, armed with Mausers and breech- loading rifles, kept the soldiers, al- though ten times their number, at bay until the arrival of natives of other villages, when the soldiers were defeated, a large number being killed. All northern China is ioin- ing in league to resist the tax, and the collectors are being murdered at every opportunity.
 Rear Admiral W. T. Sampson passed away at his home in Wash lngton on the 9th inst. He had been failing for the past two years, and the immediate cause of death was cerebral hcmorrhage. Admiral Sampson was born at Palmyra, N. r., February 9, 1S4O. He entered the naval academy at Annapolis in 1857, and graduated at the head of his class in 1861. He immediately entered service and Tn 1862 was commissioned lieutenant. In 1864 became executive officer of the iron clad Patapsco, stationed with the South Atlantic blocking squadron. He was on the Patapsco in Charles