Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
News of the World


 sponsibility for the uprising in Macedonia.
 Grace Golden, well known ac- tress, died at Mount Vernon, Ind, last week after a lingering illness.
 A squadron of the Russian black fleet has sailed for Turkish waters to enforce demands of the czar in the Balkans.
 The Memphis grand jury return ed sixty-four indictments against parties charged with operating gambling devices.
 Adyices from Colon state that 1t is by no means certain that the Panama canal treaty will be rati- fled as it now stands.
 The general superintendent of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad has issued an unique or der, warning trainmen that it will be sufficient grounds for dismissal when complaint is filed against them by any lady along the line charging them with flirting.
 ''The land can not be cleansed of the blood shed upon it save by the blood of him who shed it." quoted Thomas Marcum in closing a most dramatic address to the jury at Cynthiana, Ky, trying Curtis Jett and Thomas White for the assassi- nation of his brother in the court house at Jackson, Ky.
 According to a bulletin issued by the census bureau there are 226,- 205 acres of land under irrigation in the state of Texas. The system includes 1,075 miles of canal; and cost $5,191,815. The widest, appli- cation of the system has been made in connection with the rice indus try. The irrigated rice plantations number 557, with an acreage Of 170,396.
 N. R. Tisdale, trans-Mississippi commander of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, has request ed each of his personal staff to ex- hibit an active interest and to CO., operate in accomplishing results for the organization. In making staff appointments Commander Tisdale departs from the usual GUS tom and has named three young ladies to serve on his staff.
 Rufe Cantrell, whose confession of the operation of gang of grave robbers at Indianapolis, Ind about year ago, caused great sensation, has now confessed that his gang even went so far in the traffic of bodies as to commit mur- der. Several physicians of local prominence were arrested on Can trelPs evidence, and it was proven by examination of graves that hun dreds of bodies had been stolen and used in medical colleges in the vicinity of Indianapolis.
 In his annual report, Gen. Fred Grant, in command of the depart ment of Texas, urges the establish ment of better protection for de- fense purposes along the Mexican border. He states that Mexico is enlarging its military post at Nueyc Laredo and has recently purchased a lot of ground there. A new Mex ican post is to be established oppo- site Fort Mcintosh, and this is talk en to indicate the general policy of the Mexican government in offset ting all American posts. Another point strongly urged is the estab- lishment of a large arsenal at San Antonio. He says; 'However re- mote or unlikely may be regarded any exigency of warlike operations, the question of ready supply di munitions of war should be kept al- ways in mind"
 The gross receipts from the sale of seats at the Jeffries-Corbett prize fight in San Francisco amounted to $62,340 Of this sum the pugs re- ceived $43,62O, JefTries getting $33,728 and Corbett $1o,910. There was very little betting on the re- suit of the battle.
 A serious clash took place at Wheeling, W. Va, between strik-