The Newark journal., 1903-05-29
News of the World

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 John Dixon was driven from the town of Toledo, O., by a mob be- cause he refused to join q party strikers.
 Two thousand houses in a sub urb of Manila were destroyed by fire, rendering homeless about 5000 peo- pie.
 E. E. Clark has been reelected grand chief of the Order of Railway Conductors, at salary of $6,0oo a year.
 Albert Wall, a white boy, years old, was brutally murdered near Elleyille, Ga, by two negro boys, aged 10 and 12 years.
 Amos Randall, white, and Dun Remedy and Henry Golden, colored, were killed by a mob at Mulberry, Polk county, Florida, for the mur- der of a prominent white planter.
 Nathan Levin, president of a Jewish political club at St. Louis, has been sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary for aiding in fraudulently securing naturali- ration papers.
 The monitor Arkansas, which was tied up several days at Ste. Genevia, Mo, on account of low water, passed down as far as Cairo on the 10th and 1t is believed will be able to reach the gulf waters
 The supreme court of Missouri has set aside the yerdicts of the lower court in the cases of Julius Lehman and II. A. Faulkner, con- vieted of perjury in connection with municipal boodling at St. Louis, and order new trials.
 One woman was killed and two persons severely injured by the col lapse of a veranda on the third story of a house at Fall River, Mass. Five others who were on the yeran- da at the time had miraculous es- eapes from injury or death.
 It Is estimated over 100000 vis- itors attended the Confederate re- union held at New Orleans. Judge John H. Rogers of Fort Smith was the orator for the opening day, and his address was a gem in rhetoric and replete with statistics of the Confederate cause.
 The town of Carmen, Ok, is re- ported to have been wiped out by a cyclone. The town had a popula- ton of 500. During a period of seven days, an average of one cy- clone day was reported in Okla homa. At Watonger the homes of J. P. Aterbery and Robert P-yne were demolished. Much damage to crops and orchards is reported.
 Under the designation "House- hold Effects" J. Pierpont Morgan will be able to bring into this coun- try most of his art treasures thst are now scattered through the museums of Europe or are in his London house These objects of art are ap- praised at not less than $2,000,000, and had Mir Morgan imported a year ago he would have been obliged to pay almost $300,000 as duty.
 An unsuccessful attempt was made to poison Curtis Jett, under arrest for the assassination of J. B. Narcum at Jackson, Ky. A party visited Jett in jail and left a bottle of whisky Before the prisoner could drink any of the liquor 1t was taken away by the jailer. A chem ical analysis showed that the whis- ky contained sufficient strychnine to kill a dozen men.
 A terrible snow storm fell from the 17th to 10th inst throughout the cattle range belt of Montana. In some sections fully 90 per cent of the sheep on the ranges perished. Three herders wandered away in the binding snow and were frozen to death. Nothing like the fury of this storm has ever before been witness ] ed in northern Montana. Of a con- { fsignment of 600 cattle bound from Hayre, all but five were frozen stiff. Losses are reported on every hand and this district will feel the effects of the loss for years.
 Dr. W. B. Fletcher, an alienist of some note, has caused something of a sensation by addressing a letter to the Michigan legislature, favoring the putting to death by the state of all hopelessly incurable insane.
 The strike of trainmen and switehmen of the Mobile and Ohio railroad was declared off on tho 20th. It is understood the men were hgranted an increase of ' 1-2 per kent. The demand was for a 1s perAcent increase.