Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-09
News of the World

southern states this fall.
 Yellow fever is spreading at La redo, Texas, and several deaths have occurred.
 George K. Thomas, county clerk of St. Clair county, Illinois, is said to be short $8,640 in his accounts. Warrants have been issued for twenty-seven men who participated in the lynching of a negro at Lynchburg, Tenn, charging mur-j} der.
 | The gunboat Nashville has been sent to St. Andrews Islands, off the coast of Nicaragua, to protect American citizens who have been mistreated by natives.
 Harry Deveraux, the young may or of Springfield, ILL, has been in- dicted on the charge of permitting gambling houses to run wide open, and collecting money for the privi- lege.
 While making an inspection of deep sewer, R. l.. Johnson, superin- tendent of public works at Colum- bus, Ga, together with two work men, were killed by a great mass of dirt caving in on them.
 Five persons were killed in a col lision between a Chicago street car and Wisconsin Central passenger train. The street car was returning to the city from the race track and was crowded with passengers.
 The town of St. Charles, Minn., was almost completely wiped out by a tornado on the Sd. Besides large number of injured, six per sons were instantly killed. On the same date tornado swept the town of Independence, Wis, and surrounding country. Many houses were demolished and five persons killed.
 The pope is gradually bringing all his family to Rome. His broth : CT Angelo is to retire from the post mastership of Mantua, and will be appointed accountant of the vati- can, position which requires a trustworthy employe. Other Vene- tian ecclesiastical friends of his ho- Illness have been appointed to lucra- tive posts at the vatican, much to to the disgust of the local clergy.
 At a conference between Presi- dent Roosevelt and several leaders among labor unions, the president stated that his action in refusing to permit the discharge of Foreman Miller from the government print ing office because he had been ex- pelled from the unions was final. The president takes the position that under the laws of the land the government in no department can discriminate against an employe on the ground that he does or does not belong to labor union or any other order.
 Willis, Frederick and Burton Van Wormer, brothers, were put to death in the electric chair at Danne- more, N. Y., for the murder of their uncle. The three men went to the home of their uncle, Peter Hallenbeck, four miles from Hud- son, N. r., on Christmas eve, 1901, for the purpose of robbing him. The old man resisted and was lit orally shot to pieces. The murder CTS were tracked through the snow and arrested few miles from the scene of the crime. This is the sec ond time in the criminal history of New York state that three brothers have been put to death together for murder in which they were jointly concerned.
 While running at high rate of speed, a fast mail train on the Southern railroad jumped from a 75-foot trestle north of Danyille, Va. Of the crew of sixteen men, nine were killed, as follows: En- gineer J. A. Brodie and Fireman Clarence White, Conductor Tom Blair and Mail Clerks J. l.. Thomp- son, W. T. Chambers, D. T. Flory, P. N. Ardanwright, a fagman and a brakeman whose names are not known.