Newport weekly independent., 1903-09-18
News of the World

Over 400 cases of yellow fever at Linares, Mex, were reported last week, with ffty-two deaths.
 It is said that the cmr and King Victor Emmanuel contemplate union of Servia and Montenegro.
 A Washington dispatch says Pres ident Roosevelt will not convene congress in extra session in October.
 Father M. J. Ward, a Catholic priest of Wisconsin, caused some thing of a sensation by declaring that he will not give absolution to any member of the Typographical Union, stating as his reason that the oath taken by members of the organization Is in violation of the Catholic faith.
 The navy department is experi- encing considerable difficulty in se- curing volunteers for the battleship Maine. It is said that more than 200 of the sailors on the ship when she met with an accident several months ago have deserted rather than go back to her. The ship is declared to be hoodoo by the su- perstitious tars.
 Customs Inspector Thomas P. Coates and Lieutenant Osborne, constabulary supply officer, both stationed at San Ferdino, P. l., who were arrested recently on the charge of misappropriating govern ment funds, have been tried and convicted of the crime. Lieut.. Os- borne has been sentenced to ten years and Inspector Coates to eight years imprisonment.
 The bureau of insular affairs of the war department has prepared for publication a comparative state ment, showing the customs revenues in the Philippine archipelago for the first five months of 1903. as compared with the same period of 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1902. The statement shows that for the five months ending May 31, 1903, the customs revenues were $3,759,S3 32; for the same period in 1902, l $3, ,539, ,866.74; /; in 1901, $3,509, ,976.- 62; in 1900, ,571,635.29; and in 1899, $1,7o7,29725.
 Senator Hoar, the venerable statesman of Massachusetts, in a re- cent address before the Essex Club of Salem, referred to the race prob- lem in the following language: 'I know, my friends, that there are special difficulties in this problem, as it affects our colored fellow-citi- zens. l know how deeply moved are the feelings of our southern breth- ren. l would not utter toward them word of reproach. I know how near to their homes and how close to their social and political life comes this cloud and shadow. 1 see that one enthusiastic southern man has renewed the proposal that we send the ten million negroes out of the country. This is totally inn practicable. Let us not delude our selves. We have this question to meet squarely at home. The negro will stay. The European and Asi- atic will come. You cannot turn them out and you cannot keep them out"
 Anthracite coal to the amount of 5,160,40 tons was produced during August, which is about the same as the previous month. For the eight months of the calendar year the shipments have been 42,431 ,949 tons, an increase over the same pe- riod last year of 13,O46,O0O tons. This increase far exceeds any here- tofore made in the anthracite coal trade. Coal men deny an overpro- duction and report an increased de- mand.
 Bill West, Lee Smith and James Paris, who robbed the Wells, Fargo X Co., express in the state of Duran. go, Mex, in July, 1909, have just been sentenced to fifteen years each in prison. They secured over $50,- 900 in money, most of which was recovered.
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