Newport weekly independent., 1903-02-06
News of the World

1 'o.lI o1 Illc Ddllh at tolccINlllc, Iil., and secured $3,000 in cash.
 Charles Rowe, living a few miles from Tenah, Texas, while insane murdered his wife and three chil- dren, and then committed suicide. John D. Rockefeller has ex- pressed his intention of spending, if necessary, the sum of g.: 100000 in research for a cure for consumption. Great Britain, Germany and Ita- ly, at present maintaining a block ade of Venezuelan ports, refuse to sanction a proposed agreement that all creditor nations share equally in the settlement of claims against l Venezuela.
 A fatal railroad wreck occurred on the New York Central railroad at Graceland, N. J., a fast express colllding with a freight. Besides the injured twelve passengers were killed, the wreck catching fire and roasting to death some of the un- fortunates.
 Henry E. Youtsey, convicted of being insthe conspiracy to murder Gov. Goebel of Kentucky, is said to have made a confession. Yout- sey says the fatal shot was fired from window in the secretary of states office by J. B. Howard, and names Vim. s. Taylor, Chas. Fin ley, Caleb Powers, John l.. Powers, Wm. H. Culton, Wharton Golden and Wm. J. Davidson as conspira- tors with him.
 Congressman who represent the cotton-growing sections of the coun- try are very much alarmed over the receipt of bulletins of the depart ment of agriculture, in which it is predicted that the boil weevil, which created such havoc to the cotton crop of Texas last year, threatens to rap- idly spread over the entire cotton area of the United States. The de- partment frankly admits, in its bull letin, that the weevil is practically invulnerable against any known remedy or insccticit1e It is esti- mated that cotton to the value of $10,OO0,000 was destroyed by this pest in a small section of Texas alone last year.
 Esther Rudolph, ag.d 13, made a confession, duplicating her moth CT, father and sister witl. her broth- CT, Bill Rudolph and Fred Lewis in the robbery of bank at Union, Mo. Bill Rudolph and Lewis escaped after desperate battle with officers, in which a detective was killed. The money secured by the robbers was hid at he Rudolph home, but after the fig.:t with off, ficers all the stolen funds in gold were placed in satchels and taken by the fleeing bandits. Both the rob- bers are young men. It is believed old man Rudol ph and his wife shielded the robbers at their home near Stanton, Mo-, through fear of death at their hands if information of their guilt was made known.
 The old adage that fatalities do not come singly was proven true few days ago when the dispatches reported number of disastrous rail- road wrecks in different rarts of the country. The one resu ting in the largest number of fatalities oc- cured at Graceland, N. J., on the New York Central, where fast ex- press going fifty miles an hour crashed into local. In this wreck twenty were killed and f ety injured In rear-end collision between stock trains on the Chicago & North western near Lafoix, Ill.,, three were killed outright and five seriously in- jured. A fast mail on the Illinois Central running sixty miles an hour ran into thf rear end of local passenger. No one was fatally in- jured in this accident, but the escape of those in the rear coach of