Newport weekly independent., 1903-05-01
News of the World

ernment between Seattle, Wash, and Alaska.
 The city of Rome recently cele- brated the 2,656th anniversary of its foundation.
 An explosion of gas in mine at Glace Bay, N. S., resulted in the death of five men.
 An attempt to reorganize the Boxer movement in China was stcp- ped by the beheading of number of the rebels.
 An electric car at Pittsburg be- came manageable and was wrecked, injuring forty-fve passen- gers, one of them fatally.
 The declaration of independence is to be kept henceforth in g fire proof safe and will never be exhib- ited again at any exposition.
 The Marconi wireless telegraph service is to be installed in Alaska by the United States government for the use of the signal service.
 With a hat-pin as her only weap- on, Miss Mayme Andrews, of St. Louis, put to >rout highwayman who attempted to hold her up.
 United States Deputy Marshal James c. Asher was killed and two alleged moonshiners were wounded in battle near Whitesburg, Ky.
 Ia an engagement in Somaliland between the British forces and the Mad Mullah's forces, 2,000 of the latter are reported to have been killed.
 The grand jury at Hillsboro, Ill.,, warned the public to cease holding progressive euchre parties under penalty of being indicted for gambling.
 Mrs. Marshall Hodge, the 21- year-old wife of coal miner, was killed and three men were injured in a shooting affray at a dance in Bay City, Mich.
 The amount of gold deposited in the United States treasury has reached the sum of $641, 100000, the largest amount in any single de- pository in the world.
 William Florence, a telephone employe of Lexington, Ky, was blown to atoms by the explosion of two sticks of dynamite which he was carrying in his pocket.
 Julius Tretbar, a wealthy farm CT residing near McPherson, Kan, was shot and fatally wounded by a burglar whom he surprised in the act of going through the house.
 Captain Alfred Dreyfus, whose famous trial by courtmartial and subsequent conviction and pardon caused scandal in French military circles, has asked for a. re-opening of hisScase by means of an investi- gation by the minister of war.
 During the twelve months end ing with March, 1903, the imports into the United States for the first time in the history of the country, exceeded $1,OOO,OOO,OOO. During the same period the export record was also broken, with total of $1,414,736,954.
 Congressman James D. Richard son, democratic leader of the house, in which he has served nine terms, has announced that he will retire from politics and devote his entire time to the furtherance of Ma sorry, of which he is the highest ranking member in the world.
 The Tuskegee Normal and h. dustrial Institute of Alabama has received a gift of $600,O0O from Andrew Carnegie, the only reser- vation being that a sufficient amount shall be taken from the gift to pro- vide for the wants of Booker T.. Washington and his family during his own or his wife's life.
 Senator Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia, has been sued for $5OO,000 by two men who claim that they were to receive this amount for securing certain infor- nation for Senator Elkins which enabled him to gain control of the Western Maryland Railroad Conn pany, making several million dol lars out of the deal.