Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28

f been notified of the appearance of yellow fever at Victoria, Mex.
 John K. Brown, cashier of the Union Bank at New Holland, O., has skipped with $75,oo0 of the banks funds.
 The government report of August 10th shows that the seasons harvest of all grains will be slightly below the average.
 Bee Washington, colored, who killed young white man near the Louisiana-Mississippi line, was cap tured and lynched near the scene of the crime.
 Postmaster Genefal Payne has decided to make the experiment of employing baggagemen on trains which are not provided with mail clerks to take charge of and deliv- CT and open newspaper mail. This decision has been reached after much consideration and in response to a petition filed by many of the leading newspaper publishers of the country, who asked the postof- flee department to provide facilities for distribution of open bundles of papers along the lines from trains which carry only closed pouches.
 A mob at Whitesboro, Tex, got charge of negro suspected of crim- inal assault, and, taking him to the woods, placed rope about his neck and swung him clear of the ground. Just at this stage a posse of officers dashed through the crowd and let the negro down in time to save his life. The mob then visited the section of town in- habited by negroes and cruelty whipped a number of men and warned them to leave the commu- nity. The governor and local au- thorities declare they will exert every effort to punish members of the mob.
 The terrible storm which swept over the West Indies last week seems to have wrought the greatest havoc on the Islands of Jamaica and Martinique. At Port Antonio on the north coast of Jamaica, only six houses were left standing. Yes sels were blown from their moor ings and dashed to pieces at sea, while wharves and store houses were completely demolished. On the island of Jamaica hundreds Of lives were lost, and it is said the property loss will exceed ten mil lions. The storm was equally se- we're in the eastern and western ends of the island.
 Dr. Frankenfeld, an attache of the weather bureau at Washington, in a special report on the floods of the Missouri valley which created such havoc recently places the prop erty loss in excess of $7,O0O,000. The report, when completed in ev- cry detail, will be transmitted to congress. It will include estimates of the cost of the erection of flood gauges at different point along the Missouri and its tributaries and the expense of sending the special in- formation gathered from them to the headquarters of the bureau in Washington. It will be the design to show that if the government had been able to maintain few river observers along the tributaries and the channel of the Missouri ample warning could have been given to the people so that they could not only have reached places of safety themselves, but removed their stock and bulky household goods also.
 Bulgarian insurgents are report ed to have massacred the inhabi- tants of Turkish village near Monastis August II. In diplomat ic circles grave concern is shown at the news from Macedonia, where the whole population seems to be be- coming. involved, even the women participating in the fights against the Turkish troops. Russia has de- handed that the murderer of the Russian consul at Monastis be exc cuted.
 The grand jury of Vermillion