Newport weekly independent., 1903-02-06

the NanSaS leSlSlaturc to amend the state election law so as to partially exclude negroes from voting
 The entire framework of the San doval Coal and Mining Company's tipple and coal chutes, Sandoval H., was destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at S1o,000, fully insured
 Ex-President Grover Cleveland has consented to deliver an address upon the occasion of the dedication of the grounds and buildings of the St. Louis worlds fair t7 President Roosevelt April 30 next.
 There is revolution on in the Chinese province of kansu and mis- sionaries are leaving. The rebels, 10000 to 5O,000 in number. have taken possession of many districts and towns, and Pakngai, Pakshek, Sishing, Syan, Hingyip and Lau- chow are in their possession.
 Frederick Walker, aged 20 years, shot and killed his father. Smith Walker, a farmer and politician, while the latter was at dinner at his home near Jefferson, Okla. Young Walker became infuriated because his father chastised him. The dead man was 45 years old.
 Sheriff Oury was shot and killed in St. James parish, Louisiana, by a negro named Joe Thomas. A posse captured the negro, and throwing a rope about his neck, he was taken to his cabin and locked in. The house was then fired and Thomas body was cremated by the flames.
 A large boiler in the foundry of the Southern Car Company at An niston, Ala, exploded, killing six persons and injuring twenty others. Parts of the boiler weighing a ton or more were blown over the build ings standing a thousand feet from the place of the explosion. It will probably never be known what caused the explosion.
 A communication which will shortly be sent to the congress by President Roosevelt, with a letter of transmittal by MT. John Hay, secretary of state, will propose that the United States enter into an ar engagement with five other countries for the creation of uniform and international currency system for silver-using countries on a gold ba- sis.
 The unparalleled activity in those industries of the United States in which iron and steel man. ufactures are required is illustrated by the figures of imports and ex- ports announced by the treasury bu- reau of statistics simultaneously with the figures of pig iron produc- tlon announced by the American iron and steel association. The fg- ures of the iron and steel associa tlon show an increase of 2,OOO,OOO tons in production of pig iron in the United States in 1902 over 1901. a gain of more than 12 per cent yet, despite this enormous growth in home production, the importations of iron and steel manufactures in 1902 are actually double those of 1901, more than those of 1901 and 1900 combined, and are two and half times as much as those of 1899.
 China and Mexico have asked the cooperation of the United States in such measures as will tend to re- store and maintain a fixed relation ship between the moneys of the gold standard countries and the silver using countries. It is not asked that the United States modify its monetary system, and it is distinctly disavowed that any movement is contemplated for the restoration of international bimetallism. The opinion is expressed, however, by the representatives of both govern ments that the consultation between the United States and European