Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-07

score injured by a tornado which swept over -Streator and Mendota, III.
 In speech delivered at a picnic given by Chicago democrats, Col. W. J. Bryan took occasion to again denounce the policy of ex-President Cleveland.
 Col. W. J. Bryan is going to Eu- rope to study sociological conditions in the various governments he will visit, and on his return he will write a book.
 President Roosevelt has appointed Brigadier General Robert Shaw Ol- iyer of Albany, N. Y., as assistant secretary of war to succeed William Cary Singer, resigned.
 Four state senators are to be tried at Jefferson City, Mo-, shortly for accepting bribes, and ex-I4ieut. Gov. John P. Lea is to be the star witness for the prosecution.
 "Every man who participates in the lynching or the burning of a ne- gro Is murderer, pure and simple" is the words used by Justice Brew CT of the federal court in express ing himself on the subject to a newspaper reporter.
 Some one of the great statisti- clans of the country has figured that there were forty-odd deaths att tributable to the manner in which the fourth of July was celebrated this year and more than three thou sand persons injured.
 Willard Lee, confined in iail at Atlanta, Ga, awaiting execution for the murder of his sweetheart made a desperate attack on Robert Jordan, his attorney, who was ad- mitted to the cell for an interview with the prisoner. The attorney was taken from the cell more dead than alive.
 It seems to be a general under standing among officials of the war department who ought to know that the name of Robert Shaw Oliver. who has just been appointed assist ant secretary of war, will be fayora- ply considered for secretary of war, when Secretary Root retires from the cabinet.
 An excursion train and a fast mail on the Missouri Pacific collid- ed near Independence, Mo, result ing in the death of three persons and injuries to sixty-ei Int others. The accident vas due to a brake down of~the engine pulling the ex- cursion train, the crew failing to signal down the fast mail train.
 Lying on the operating table in a hospital at Petroleum, Ind, half unconscious from a wound inflicted by John Terrell, his father-in-law, Melvin Wolfe Was shot dead by Ter rell in the presence of the doctors. Wolfe married Terrell's daughter four years ago, but afterward. the latter says, deserted his wife, leav- ing her with a child in her arms.
 Alfred Knapp, who confessed to murdering five women at different times, was sentenced to be hanged by a jury at Hamilton, O. The five eases to which Knapp confessed were as follows: Erma Littleman, killed in a lumber yard at Cincin- natl, June 22, 1891; May Eckert, murdered in a room on Walnut street, Cincinnati, August 1, 1894; Jennie Knapp, thrown into canal at Liberty street, Cincinnati, Aug ust 7, 1894; Ida Gebhard, found stranglcd at Indianapolis in July, 1895; Hannah Knapp, murdered at Hamilton, December 22, 1909.
 In number of the internal reve- nue districts there are several gaug- CTS and storekeepers on the list who only receive pay for services actual ly performed. The attention of the secretary of the treasury has been called to the fact that in making as signments preference is not always given to honorably discharged vet opo,,e of 4I,o ,,-o..