Newport weekly independent., 1903-01-09
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 necting St. Louis, via Kansas City, with Gasveston, the new line to cross the Indian Territory from north to south.
 Mrs. B. Lane, of Deatsville, Ala, shot and killed negro burglar named John Watkins. Mrs. Lane, who was alone, awoke and found the negro ransacking the house. She ran from the house and went to her fathers. Watkins followed and at tempted to kill Mrs. Lane, but she secured shotgun and emptied both barrels into his body.
 Santos Dumont, the great aero naut, declares the time is fast ap- preaching when the building of air ships will be as common as the nowaday construction of ships. Du- mont at present is at work on an air ship which he declares will easily carry a dozen persons and will be used in transportation of passen- gers in Paris.
 Mrs. Jessie Benton, Fremont, widow of General Fremont, died last week at her home in Los An geles, Cal. Mrs. Fremont left three children, Commander Fremont of the United States navy, now in Washington; Captain Fremont, who is with the army in the Philippines, and her daughter, Miss Isabel, and also a grandson, Midshipman Ere mont.
 The army is suffering from q shortage of officers in both the medi- cal department and ordnance de- partment. Neither branch of the service seems to offer sufficient in- ducement to secure the necessary number of officers to perform the work of these departments, and, notwithstanding several recent ex- aminations, the surgeon general of the army has been able to obtain but few properly qualified medical officers. The conditions prevailing in the ordnance corps are nearly as serious in the navy, where they are no naval engineers.
 There has been much skirmishing and many fierce sallies on the part of the sultan's troops around Fez, at which place the rebels have shut in their ruler The rebellion is rap- idly spreading throughout the prov inces and from all reports to the advantage of the insurrectionists. The Spanish troops at Cadiz and Algeciras have been ordered to pre- pare to mc.ve on short notice The British warships, Canopus and H. lustrious, and cruisers Bacchanta have been ordered to join the de- tached fleet at Gibraltar. The sit uation Is assuming serious aspects and grave consequences are facing the several powers whose interests are at stake
 Miss Tony Dunlap was acquitted at Aledo, H., of the charge of murdering Miss Allie Dool, after a trial lasting three weeks The girls were old acquaintances. Miss Dool was clerk in dry goods store, and one day in company with an- other young lady, Miss Dunlap visit ed the store and tender Miss Dool girl some chocolate drops. Shortly after eating the candy Miss Dool was taken with convulsions and died in great agony. The prosecution proved the chocolate candies con- tained poison, and that Miss Dun- lap gave them to Miss Dool was ad- mitted. The testimony also devel- oped the fact that Tona Dunlap and another young woman had eaten candies taken from the same paper bag, and that neither suffered in- jury. Miss Dunlap stoutly main tained her innocence, and her law yers tried to establish theory of accidental poisoning. Lack of mo- tive for the murder was also a strong argument in defendants fa- vor.
 After tying a rope which was at taohed to a mule around her neck, Mrs. Harriet Farley, of near Ava, Okla, frightened the animal to make him run. Before she was in- jurpd har 11voarol1 oon o,,+ +bo