Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-09

negro, and hanged him to a tree Tn the edge of town. Davis was charg- ed with murdering an officer by shooting him from ambush.
 Fearing an epidemic of yellow fe- yer, number of persons living along the Rio Grande have appealed to the war department for the es tablishment of a shotgun" quaran- tine, and that soldiers be ordered for this duty. The department does not regard the situation so serious as to warrant this course.
 Clad in uniforms of blue and gray, emblematic of the reunion as comrades of men formerly separat- ed by sectional strife, one thousand soldiers of the Spanish-American war marched in parade September 2S at New Haven, Conn, as a pre- liminary to the opening of the fourth annual assembly of the na- tional army and navy Spanish American war veterans. The mem- bership now numbers 140,000.
 At meeting of a special com mittee of the Northern Presbyte- rian church, held to discuss the status of the negro in the church, 1t was decided to recommend to the general assembly that no race dis tinction be made. By this action the 15,000 negro members of the church will not be set apart as separate denomination, nor will the church take part in any class legis- lation-that Is to say, the word me gro'' will not be used as a qualif- cation of any of the church laws or regulations. There is nothing in the committees report, however, to prohibit the forming of presbyteries composed wholly of negroes.
 A bloody riot was started at Ox- ford, O., on the 1st inst. by two brothers named Joe and Louis Spi- yey getting drunk and trying to run the town. Town Marshal Wood ruff arrested Louis and started to take him to jail, when Joe Spiyey deliberately shot the officer down. When the populace realized that the officer had been murdered, large crowd started after the Spiveys, and a running fight took place in which several parties were wounded, among them Joe Spivey. The two men were landed in jail, but a few min utes later mob, led by the father of the dead officer, battered down the door to the prison and, with a rope around Joe Spivey's neck, haul ed him to a tree a few hundred yards away. He was twice strung up, but just before life was extinct officers made their way through the crowd, cut the rope and succeeded in getting the prisoner out of the city.
 MT. George Lynch, representa- tive of the St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat, now in Macedonia, has cabled his paper of some of the sights that he has personally witnessed in the Balkans. In describing the situa- tion at Monastir, after several days fighting, the correspondent says: "Scores of bodies, with limbs liter ally torn away, as if by wild horses, block the narrow streets, while the weeping and wailing of mourners make the day and night hideous. It is impossible for me to estimate with any accuracy the number of dead and injured, but from all ac- counts it must run between 5000 and 10000. It is impossible to fix the number of Turkish losses dur ing the recent skirmishcs.
 Swift < Co.,, the Chicago packers, are said to have lost in the neigh borhood of a million dollars in an unsuccessful attempt to corner the supply of lard, being forced to sell their holdings at loss of ? cents
 Joseph Chamberlain, who re- gently resigned from the British cabinet, has issued a manifesto, setting forth his opposition to the English custom of free trade. MT. Chamberlain will make this an issue in the next British campaign.
 Two of the leaders who took part in the murder of King Alexander