Newport weekly independent., 1903-06-12

Ol UuslHcSS InWy 60, Iooo, lllS lptd4 debt, less cash ia the treasury, amounted to $1,31O,S5o,9922n, a de- crease for the month of $3,247,3S5. The debt is recapitulated as follows: Interest bearing debt, $914,541,- 360; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,924, 900 :; debt bearing no interest, $395, ,100,- gro; total, $1,310, 0,S56,930. This iiiaont, however, does not include $693, ,?62,869 in certificates and treasury notes outstanding.
 The republicans of Ohio, in state convention, unanimously adopted a resolution endorsing President Roosevelt for a second term. The convention was harmonious. Sen ator Hanna was temporary chair man and Senator Foraker presided as permanent chairman. The ticket nominated Is as follows: Govern or, Myron T. Herrick, Cuyahoga :; lieutenant governor, Warren G. Harding, Marion; auditor, W. D. Guilbert, Noble; treasurer, W. S.. McKinnon, Ashtabula; attorney general, William D. Ellis, Hamil- ton; judge of the supreme court, A. N. Summers, Clarke.
 John Barrett, commissioner gen eral of the St. Louis Exposition to the countries of the Orient and Australasia, in which position she has been eniisting the participation of oriental nations in the St. Louis Exposition, has arrived home. Mr. Barrett left for the orient thirteen months ago, and has since travelled approximately 45,000 miles on bus mess connected with the exposition. He says that he has conducted nego- ~fiations with no less than fifteen countries for their participation in the exposition, the number including Japan, China, Korea, eastern Sibe- ria, Siam, French Indo- China, the Philippines, Java, Ceylon, India, and the Asiatic and Pacific colonies of France Holland and Great Brit ain. In round numbers, he says, Asia will spend over $2,000,00O in display; Japan about $450, ,000 :; China, $300,000; Siam, $100,000, and the Philippines $500,000
 While the first reports of loss of life from the floods at Topeka were exaggerated, the suffering of the people of that town cannot be real ized by outsiders. Thousands have been rendered homeless, all their earthly possessions being swept away. The loss was equally great in Kansas City, Mo-, and suburbs Armourdale, the site of numerous packing houses, was completely sub merged, and forty lives were lost at this point. Railroad service was en- tirely abandoned in the Kaw val ley, and it will take months to re- pair the damage to railroad tracks and bridges The floods extend over Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ken lucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. At Topeka and other Kansas points where the damage was the greatest, epidemics of disease are threatened after the water receds, but every thing possible is being done to avert this calamity. Summed up as whole, the losses will be the great est in the history of the country.
 The supreme court of Tennessee has ruled that the act passed by the last general assembly providing for separate compartments on street cars for whites and blacks, is unconstitu- tional.
 A strike insurance company, in- cepted at the meeting of the Nation al Manufacturers Association in New Orleans, and since promoted by Louisville men, is under consid- eration by eastern capitalists, with fair prospects of becoming reality.