The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1903-07-03
News Of the World

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city is out on strike, the main
contention being the recognition
of the various unions by contractors.
Over 100000 men in the trades are
idle and building is at standstill.
In accordance with instructions
from their government, the minis
try Of England, France, Holland
and Turkey have left the capital of
Seryia. The above named powers
have demanded the punishment of
the murderers of King Alexandria
and Queen Draga, which threatens
the new dynasty, as those response
bic for the assassination are virtual
ly in control.
1t is stated that the United States
department Of agriculture has de-
cided to make Nacogdoches, Tex,
just north of Beaumont on the line
Of the Southern Pacific, the biggest
tobacco experimental station in the
world. On August l a plant for cur
ing all tobacco grown at the expert
mental stations in the various south
ern states will be opened, with leaf
tobacco experts in charge.
Former Congressman Diggs of
New York has been indicted by the
federal grand jury in Brooklyn.
The Indictment grew out of the in
vestigation into the postofice af-
fairs made by the grand jury. -Four
indictments were found, all practic-
ally alike. Each charges that
briggs, between July 20 and "a,
1000, unlawfully agreed to receive
and did receive a $500 check from
the Brandt-Dcnt Company for pro-
curing a contract from the United
States government for making and
delivering 250 automatic cashiers
for the postoffee department.
Mrs. Amanda DeLertigue was
acquitted by a jury at Spokane,
Wash, of the charge of murder af-
ter she made a confession of guilt.
Henry De Lartigue, a farmer, dis
appeared last September. His wife
said he had gone to Honolulu. Last
winter his body was found hidden
in a potato cellar near his home.
During the trial Mrs De Lartigue
confessed that she killed him Sep
TENDER % and hid his body. She
declared that he attacked her with
a gun and she hit him with an ak
Evidently the jury accepted this
theory, and she was aquitted.
The Gar of Russia is greatly dis
turbed ON account Of the rapid
spread of revolutionary movement.
1t is said that the anti-semitic agi-
tation at Eastertide extended
throughout the entire pale of the
Jewish settlements. The monarchi-
cal society organized at Pinsk cir
eulated leaflets beginning: Brother
Workers, Orthodox and Catholic:
Christ has arisen; let us embrace,
kiss and go kill the Jews" At
Rostoy-on-the- Don, it is said, an
officer of gendarmeries has been 60
ing about the bazar telling the peo-
pie that it is the jews and Socialists
who prevent their 'little father"
the car, from giving all his child
rem everything they need, and that
therefore the Jews and Socialists
must be killed off.
Two women, one white and the
other colored, were assaulted and
left for dead about three and half
miles east Of East st. Louis. One
of the victims, Mrs. Anne Greene,
a eolored woman, aged 25, was club
bed about the head, her skull frac-
tured and her left arm broken. Just
before lapsing into unconsciousness
she told of the assault and described
a light yellow negro, aged rs years,
as her assailant. She was evidently
the first victim of the fend, who
later proceeded to the home of John
Bruno, and assaulted his 17-year-
old daughter. She was alone at
home and shortly after the crime
was committed, her brother return
ed and found her on a bed uncon-
scious. Her skull was fractured,
and she was suffering from other in
iuries, and cannot recover. Should
the fend be caught a lynching can
hardly be averted.
New York City is to have the
largest bank in the United States
and in the world. 1t will be larger
than the Bank of England or of any
Of the famed financial institutions
of the old world. The capitaliza-
ton is to be 100000. This
will equal the governments gold
reserve.
A man giving the name of George
Marvin was fatally injured in an