Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-07
News of the World

"A 1O1A NoD MI II tO S-N Il lNpAStNAAN and Mrs. Cleveland on the 18th.
 At least 3o,oo0 delegates attended the Epworth League convention at Detroit.
 Cleveland Kelley, negro charged with assaulting a white woman, was iynched near Madison, Ga.
 The territory of Hawaii has ap- propriated $30,000 for an exhibit at the St. Louis worlds fair.
 A negro tramp named Adams, who assaulted negro woman near Lake Butler, Fla, was captured by 2 mob of negroes and lynched. The body was cut into shreds by the mob and severely disfgured.
 Fifty Boer families will start from South Africa for the new Boer colonies in Mexico next month. A large supply of farming implements, wagons, blooded cattle, etc., have been ordered. The first colony to be established will be in the state of Chihuahua by Gems. Snyman and Viljoen.
 Marconi has discovered new principle in wireless telegraphy and has perfected an instrument by means of which he no longer needs high towers for transmitting his messages across the ocean. He can now send them skipping thousand of miles from wave to wave along the very surface of the sea.
 After being in session since May 1, the United States grand jury at Montgomery, Ala, returned indict- ments against eighteen persons, charging them with conspiracy in detaining persons of their liberty. It IS claimed system of peonage has been carried on through conspir- acy between justices and planters, innocent parties being convicted and sentenced to long terms on farms.
 The first bale of the season of 1903-4 raised in the United States was sold at Galveston on the 18th and brought 28.93 cents. The bale came from Zapata county, and was the first ever raised in that county. It was hauled 107 miles to a gin and railroad station. Eighteen months ago contributions were talk en up in various parts of Texas for citizens of Zapata county, who were suffering from drouth.
 It is stated by the secretary of state that the incident created by the question of the presentation of the Jewish petition to Russia is closed. The correspondence con- sists of an instruction to Mr. Rid dle, United States charge at St. Pe- tersburg, reciting in detail the pc tition and directing him to present the same to the foreign office if it were willing to receive it. It is stat ed by Mr. Riddle that the foreign office would not receive it under any circumstances, and Secretary Hay so informed the B'nai Birth commit tee in a brief telegram
 By the explosion of large quan- tity of dynamite and blasting pow der stored in a magazine near Pear ishing, Giles county, Virginia, two men were killed outright, sixteen were more or less injured and about 100 others severely shocked. West bound passenger train No 1 on the main line of the Norfolk and West ern was going at full speed past the magazine, which was located 200 yards from the tracks, when the ex- plosion occurred. The windows of the train were broken and the coach es were in other ways damaged. Not a single person on the train escaped injury or shock. It is not known what caused the explosion.
 After a session extending over a year, with the exception of short re- cesses, the first Cuban congress ad- journed on the 18th. What is con sidered the most important legisla- tion enacted during the session is that covering the proposed loan of $35,O0O,000 and the process of aud iting and paying the claims of the rpV0mtiOnorv eO1diarc oil Of ,,l;ob