Newport weekly independent., 1903-01-16
News of the World

Webster, Col, summer resort, has been totally destroyed by fire.
 Hard coal is selling in New York City at $12 and soft coal at 8 per ton.
 The State University building in Norma, Okla, was totally destroy ed by fire.
 The town of Vista, in southeast ern Oklahoma, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $25,O0O.
 Senators Penrose of Pcnnsylva- mia and Hansbrough of North Da- kota have been reelected.
 Bishop Gulston F. Report, head of the Roman Catholic church in the Hawaiians islands, is dead.
 The Houston, Texas, labor coun- cil has invited the trades unions composed of negroes to affiliate with 1t.
 A financial panic was caused by the announcement of the Bank of Venezuela of its failure to meet ob- ligations.
 Hon. W. J. Bryan, who has just returned from tour of Mexico, declined to be interviewed by a re- porter on the financial conditions of the above country.
 At Oakdale, La., thieves broke into the Watkins railway office, blew the outer door of the safe off the hinges with gunpowder, and se- cured $4 and some express pack ages.
 A result of collision between a passenger train and the rear end of freight train on the Mononga- hela division of the Pennsylvania railroad near Pittsburg. Pa, seven men were killed and five bad ly injured.
 J. A. Traylor, manager of a mine near Eureka, Neb., was attacked by a crowd of miners, when he drew a pistol and killed three of them and wounded two others. The miners had delcared they would run Tray Tor out of the community.
 Fire followed by an explosion at Hobart, Okla, caused a loss of $50,- 900. The fire started in hardware store where dynamite was kept. The force of the explosion was so great that towns thirty miles from Hobart reported the shock.
 The president has directed the appointment of Capt. Louis B. Lawton, twenty-sixth infantry, to be major in the judge advocate gen. erals department Maj. Lawton was badly wounded while with Col. Llscum's column on the assault on Tien Tsin. His injury is perma- nent and he will be retired at once with his increased rank.
 The bureau of insular affairs of the war department has prepared for publication a comparative statement showing that for the ten months ended October 31, 1902. the customs and revenues in the Phil ippine archipelago were $7,475,5SG against $6, ,559 in 1900, and $3,, T59,993 in 1899. The figures rep- resent the total customs house re- celpts expressed in United States currency value.
 Mr. Wilson, secretary of agricul- ture, has ordered printed 100000 copies of the report made by Mr. w. D. Hunter, a specialist of the de. partment, on the results of his in- vestigations in Texas during the past year on the ravagcs of the cot ton boil weevil. Mr. Hunters re- port is the most complete that has ever been made upon this subject, and there is a great demand among cotton growers for copies of it.
 The people all over the country are greatly aroused over the coal shortage. In many sections it is inn possible to secure fuel at any price, and the extent of suffering is wide spread.
 It is understood President Roosc- vek will shortly appoint Governor Taft to be associate justice of the supreme court to succeed Justice Shiras. Gen. Luke F. Wright, of