Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28

time. His bride is said to be a young woman.
 A fast mail on the M, K. and T jumped the track twenty miles north of Nevada, Mo, and twenty one persons were injured in the wreck, but fortunately none fatally.
 Elihu Root will resign as secre- tary of war, the resignation to take effect about the first of next Jan- uary. He will be succeeded, un- less present plans miscarry, by Judge Wm. H. Taft, now governor of the Philippines. The above in- aformation is contained in a dis Latch from Oyster Bay. Secretary
 oot will return to his law practice
 New York.
 ye A committee from the Georgia legislature, after an investigation anto the management of the state R.nitentiary, has reported gross
 uelties on the part of wardens in
 number of cases. One in partic
 sr is in reference to the whipping Ro her bare back of young white Ioman because she was too i'll tc anrk. The warden charged witt SeE offense has been dismissed.
 The war situation in the Balkans
 grown serious and the insur-
 Is are up in arms in large num- bers. A garrison of Turkish troops at the town of Krushevo numbering 900 are reported to have been slain. The assassination of the Russian consul at MoEastir, M. Rostkoviski, the second murder of a Russian consular official in Mace donia within few months, has ere ated intense indignation in Rus sian official circles, and demand has been made for the immediate punishment of the murderers.
 4 terrible accident occurred in an underground railroad in Paris, France, in which over 100 people lost their lives. The accident was due toia dynamo setting fire to an engine which was pulling sixteen coaches, loaded with workingmen and women from a manufacturing center. Shortly after the first train became disabled another crashed is-nto 1t. Both were set on fire and he imprisoned passengers were as phyxiated or burned to death. Only a few passengers were enabled to make their way out of the tun- nel.
 In a letter to Gov. Durbin of Indiana President Roosevelt com mends him for his attitude in us- Ing every means at his command to reVent lynchings, and also to punish those taking part in mob violence. Following is an extract from President Roosevelt's letter to Gov. Ddrbin: "Men who have been guilty of crime like rape or mur- der should be visited with swift and certain punishment, and the just effort made by the courts to protect them in their rights should under no circumstances be pervert- ed into permitting any mere tech- nicality to avert or thwart their pun ishment. The substantial rights of the prisoner to fair trial must. of course, be guaranteed, as you have so justly insisted that they should be; but, subject to this guarantee; the law must work swiftly and sure ly,. and all the agents of the law should realize the wrong they do when they permit justice to be de- layed or thwarted for technical or insufficient reasons. We must show that the law is adequate to deal with crime by freeing it from every Eestige of technicality and delay"
 Because his intended bride in- sisted on going to Africa for a year as a missionary before marriage Otto Lockhart of Pana, H., sui cided by emptying the contents of a shotgun into his body.
 A cyclone swept over the thickly- populated mining district north and east of Pittsburgh, Kan, destroying hundreds of houses and causing the death of at least dozen people. The storm also destroyed the town of Metz, in Missouri.