Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-13
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sprt establishing an army post ln ]. cry state in the Union.
 The Bi-metallic Bank at Cripple Creek and the Pueblo Trust Com pany are in the hands of a receiver.
 Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks, wid- ow of the late vice president, passed away at her home in Indianapolis, Ind, a few days ago.
 Louis Morthfeld shot and killci his wife and then shielded at a boarding house in Washington q few hours after being released from an insane asylum.
 The vatican buildings at Rome had a narrow escape from destruc- tlonb y fire on the list inst. After fighting for three hours the fremen succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but considerable damage was done.
 The comparative statement of the governments receipts and expendi- lures show that for October. 1903, total receipts were $46,963,213, and the expenditures $51, ,901,47S, leav- ing a deficit for the month of $4,- 947,265.
 q Secretary Shaw has given notice ' that on February 2, 1904, interest will cease on such of per cent bonds of 1904 as may be outstand- ing on that date. The redemption of these bonds will continue with interest until maturity.
 Jacob Bishop, white, who mur- dered his wife i'll populous sub eurb of Louisville, Ky, was savei from being lynched by two officers, who for two hours stood back to back and kept off the mob until ' endorsements arrived.
 A series of earthquake shocks were felt at points in Missouri, Illinois, EIlndiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and ' Mississippi on the 4th inst, No damage was done, but in Memphis and St. Louis occupants distinctly felt tall buildings swaying.
 A battle took place in Weston county, Wyoming, between sher ifs posse and band of Sioux In dians, in which Sheriff Miller, Dep- uty Rosenberg and six Indians were killed. The Indians were from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agen- cies in South Dakota and were violating the game laws of the state,
 Lieut.. A. M. Beecher, ordnance officer of the battleship Maine, fell from the forward turret to the hand ling room, distance of forty feet, and died within a few hours. At the time of the accident the battle ship was off Gay Head, en route from Menemsha Eight, to engage in target practice. Lieut. Beecher was examining articles of ordnance when he lost his balance and pitched head foremost through the turret to the handling room. His skull was frac- { tured.
 Formal announcement has been received at Washington from Pan- anna of the establishment of a new government at that place. The cause of the revolution may be briefly summed up as being the re- suit of the action of congress of Co., lombia at Bogota in rejecting the Hay-Herran canal treaty. The Pan amaians are almost to a man in fa- vor of the construction of the canal by the United States, and it had re- peatedly been prophesied before and after the meeting of congress that Panama would secede if the treaty was rejected, and would probably come to terms with the United States for the building of the great isthmian waterway.
 Charles Beeler, who has just com- pleted a sentence of four years in the Texas penitentiary for robbing tie Wells-Fargo Express company of S52,0o0, has engaged extensively in the mercantile business at Austin.
 The strike of Pacific Express em- ployes, inaugurated October 15, has been declared off, and many of the old men have returned to work. The failure of the strike is said to have been due to break in the ranks at St Louis.
 Samuel Parks, the walking dele