Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-02
News of the World


 Hon. Seth Low has been renomi- mated as fusion candidate for mayor of New York.
 Joseph Wolf, fireman, and John Armour and Chas. Los, laborers, were killed in collision of street car and freight train at Marion, Ind.
 The captain of a wrecking schoon- CT reports the finding of treas ure ship off Miami. The ship is said to be loaded with silver and went down in 1885
 The Mexican congress has ap- proved the action of President Diaz in issuing government bonds for the purchase of the National and Inter Oceanic railways.
 Four hundred messenger boys employed by the Illinois Telegraph Company in Chicago left their po- sitions because the company em- ployed a few negroes as messengers. Frederick s. Gibbs, member of the republican national committee from New York state, is dead. He was prominent politician and had been a member of the national com mittee since 1896.
 The district judge of Teller county, Col, in which is located the Cripple Creek mines, has order ed the militia, which has been on duty for several weeks, to turn all prisoners over to the civil authori- ties. The courts order declares the civil authorities able to preserve the peace, and that the civil courts alone have the authority to punish offenders. Since the strike several months ago many people have been held under arrest by the militia, whose commander refused to turn them over to the civil authorities for trial. The courts ruling is claimed as victory for the strikers
 A movement is on foot for a convention of superintendents of education of the southern states to consider action relative to the dis position of the Peabody educational fund, George Peabody, on Febru- ary 7, 1867, gave $1,000,00o to the cause of southern education, and supplemented the gift with a like amount on June 29, 1869. The fund has grown by careful manage ment to over $3,O00,O00. MT. Pea body said: My desire, when the trust is closed and final distribution is made, is that all the southern states shall share in the distribution according to their needs.' The southern state superintendents will stoutly oppose concentrating the fund in one large teachers college.
 It is the general opinion at Wash ington that the American claims against Turkey on account of the attempted assassination of our vice | consul at Beirut are not receiving the prompt attention they deserve. Communications have reached the state department urging this gov ernment to say or do something that will put stop to the atrocities in Turkey. It is said that this pres hsure does not emanate from the missionaries. Officials at the state department are reticent about the probability of the United States giv- ing expression to the feeling with which the alleged atrocities in Fur key are viewed by the people of the United States, but they say reports show that the deeds daily perpetrat- ed in sections of that country are of such character as to shock civili- zation, and necessarily are of deep concern to the United States.
 After trial lasting eight days, the jury at Cynthiana, Ky, in the case of Curtis Jett, charged with the murder of Town Marshal Cock Till at Jackson, in 1902, rendered a verdict of guilty and fixed the pun ishment at death. This has been the second trial of Curtis Jett on the charge of murder. In his first trial for the murder of J. B. Mar cum at Jackson, Ky, Jett and Thomas White were sentenced to life imprisonment.
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