Newport weekly independent., 1903-07-10

were killed.
 Mrs. Emil Gronle, wife of a farmer living near New Braunfels, Tex, was assaulted and brutally murdered by an unknown negro.
 The United States packing com pany, organized in opposition to the supposed beef trust, proposes to erect a million dollar plant at Kansas City. The president of the company says the stock has been subscribed principally by western eattlemen, small dealers and con- sumers in the east represented in labor organizations.
 The worst coal mine disaster in the history of Wyoming occurred in mine of the Union Pacific Coal Company near the town of Hanna. The explosion was caused by a mi her entering a condemned section of the mine, where gas had accu mulated. About 250 men were in the mine when the explosion occur red, over half of whom were killed outright.
 Miguel Escobedo and his wife of Cholulu, Mex, fought duel which resulted in the death of both par ties. After a bitter quarrel the couple decided to fight a duel with ut seconds or witnesses. Armed with revolvers, the husband and wife took positions in a room in their home and fired simultaneous N. The woman was shot through the head and died instantly. The man was shot through the head and mor- tally wounded. He lived long enough to tell about the duel, but refused to divulge the cause of the trouble.
 R. M. Love, comptroller of the state of Texas, was assassinated in his office at the state capitol in Austin by W. G. Hill, a former clerk Hill entered Loves office, and, while conversing pleasantly, suddenly pulled revolver and fired two bullets into his body, death re- sulting instantly. Hill searted to leave the office, when a clerk grap- pied with him. In the scuffie Hills revolver was discharged, the bullet fatally wounding the assassin. Hill had been clerk is the comptroller's office for several years, but was dis missed when Love took charge. It is believed the man had brooded over his discharge until his mind became deranged.
 A dispatch from Lexington, Ky, says that Gen. Cassius M. Clay and his former child-wife, Dora Rich ardson, will be reunited, living un- der the same roof, at least, if not remarried. When the girl, then in her fourteenth year, was married to Gen. Clay she had been courted by Riley Brock, a neighborhood boy, who was running barefoot about the little village of Valley View, and she could not forget him. When her childhood sweetheart signifed his wish to make her his wife she became indifferent to her aged hus- band, and told him she wanted her young sweetheart. The Sage of Whitehall did not wish to give up his young wife, but when she cried and begged, he consented to divorce her. Brock had joined the army, and, returning, and, in the eyes of his sweetheart, although she was the wife of the former minister to Russia, the famous abolitionist and duelist, he was a hero. Gen. Clay gave her home in Woodford cour ty and furnished 1t for her, even to having hung on her walls the costly bric-a-brac and beautiful paintings he had secured while in the land of the czar, as the representative of the United States. Brock soon tired of the place, and sold out every thing. Gen. Clay sought to get the girl to come back to him, and she did go back to Whitehall, but took her husband with her. Gen. Clay ran him off with a shotgun, and soon the girl followed. Brock was Killed few days ago by a railroad train at Longview, H., and upon learning of his death Gen. Clay sent fo1 fl,o y,v, ,1crv, 4o