The Newark journal., 1903-07-24
VOL. III-NO. 80.

aeoIe injured by tornado WHICH
swept over Streator and Mendoza,
I'll.
In speech delivered at d picnic
given by Chicago democrats, Col.
". J. Bryan took occasion to again
denounee the policy Of ex-PresideRt
Cleveland.
Col. W. J. Bryan is going to Eh-
rope to study sociological conditions
in the various governments he will
visit, and on his return he will
write a book.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Brigadier General Robert Shaw OF
iger of Albany, N. Y, as assistant
secretary of war to succeed William
Cary Singer, resigned.
-Four state senator's are to be
tried at Jefferson City, Mo, shortly
for accepting brides, and ex-Iieut.
Gov. John p. Lea is to be the star
witness for the prosecution.
Every man who participates in
the lynching or the burning Of a me-
gro is murderer, pure and simple
is the words used by Justice Brew
er of the federal court in express
ing himself on the subject to a
newspaper reporter.
Some one Of the great statisti-
clans Of the country has figured
that there were forty-odd deaths at
tributable to the manner in which
the fourth of July was celebrated
this year and more than three thou
sand persons injured.
Willard Lee, confined in Jail at
Atlanta, Ga, awaiting execution
for the murder Of his sweetheart
made desperate attack on Robert
Jordan, his attorney, who was adj
mitted to the cell for an interview
with the prisoner. The attorney
was taken from the cell more dead
than alive.
1t seems 70 be q general under
standing among officials Of the war
department who ought to know that
the name Of Robert Shaw Oliver,
who has just been appointed assist
ant secretary of war, will be favora-
bly, considered for secretary of war,
when Secretary Root retires from
the cabinet.
An excursion train and fast
mail on the Missouri Pacific collid-
ed near Independence, Mo-, result
ing in the death Of three persons
and injuries to sixty-eight others.
The accident was due to brake
down of the engine pulling the ex-
cursion train, the crew falling to
signal down the fast mail train.
Lying on the operating table in
hospital at Petroleum. Ind, half
unconscious from a wound inflicted
by John Terrell, his father-in-law,
Melvin Wolfe was shot dead by Ter
rell in the presence of the doctors.
Wolfe married Terrell's daughter
four years ago, but afterward, the
latter says. deserted his wife, leay-
ing her with child in her arms.
Alfred Knapp, who confessed to
numbering five women at different
times, was sentenced to be hanged
by jury at Hamilton. O. The five
cases to which Knapp confessed
were as follows: Erma Littleman,
killed in lumber yard at Cincin-
natl, June %, 1894; May Eckert,
murdered in room ON Walnut
street, Cincinnati, August l, 1894;
Jennie Knapp, thrown into canal
at Liberty street, Cincinnati, Aug
ust Z, 1891; Ida Gerhard, found
strangled at indianapolis in July,
1895; Hannah Knapp, murdered at
Hamilton, December %, 1902
In number of the internal reve-
nue. districts there are several gaug-
ers and storekeepers on the list who
only receive pay for services actual
~ performed. The attention of the
secretary of the treasury has been
called to the fact that in making as
signments preference is not always
given to honorably discharged vet
Grams Of the civil war, and the sec
rotary has issued an order to the ef-
feet that the old veterans must be
given first chance at these jobs.
The state department has given
notice that it has construed the
naturalization law passed BY the last
congress as requiring it to reject all
certificates Of naturalization issued
after July 8, 1903, which fail to
set forth the fact that the person
naturalized is not opposed to ali
organized governments, and likewise
is not affiliated with any organiza-