Newport weekly independent., 1903-07-10

tempting to make balloon ascen- sion.
 All the ore smclters at Denver, Col, were compelled to close down on account of a walkout of work men, entailing great loss.
 i Newton Van Horne, aged IF, was killed while playing a game of base ball at Cohocton, O., by being hit by a foul tip ball, his skull being fractured.
 Ex-Gov. Stevens of Missouri, be- fore the grand jury at St. Louis, testified that after he signed as governor the bill which legalized the consolidation of all St. Louis street railways he was offered $100,- GOO in transit stock and the further sum of $20,000 if he would ap- point James J. Butler excise com missioner of St. Louis. He de- clared both propositions were re- jected.
 Four people met death in a pe- culiar manner at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 4th. A large American flag was blown against a heavily charg ed wire, which broke loose and fell into shallow pool of water. Short ly after the wire fell into the pud- dle, Joseph Visa, while running through the binding rain to seek shelter, stepped into the pool and dropped dead. Three other per sons followed him and all were in- stantly killed.
 The government joined with the citizens of the district of Colum- bia in a general commemoration of Independence day. The features were a military procession, in which all arms of the regular ser vice-army, navy and marine corps were represented, together with the national guard of the district and the high school cadets and a public meeting, in which Admiral Dewey, Secretary of the Navy Moody, M. Jusserand, the French ambassador, participated. The pa  rade was witnessed by large crowds and was reviewed by Gen. $. M. B. Young, the grand marshal.
 During the first half of the year there was a notable activity in organizing companies for the erec- tion of oil mills. According to the Manufacturers Record, the new capital invested in this industry during the past six months is great CT than the whole capital repre- sented in cotton oil mills in 1880. In that year the south had forty oil mills, with capital of $3,500,- GOO. During the past six months ninety-four new companies were or ganized to build mills at an esti- mated cost of $3,675,O ,O00. In this movement the greatest activity was in Arkansas, where seventeen new companies were formed, with a to- tai capitalization of $1, 1,17O,0O0.
 A suit was filed at San Antonio, Tex, last week, the outcome of which will be awaited with much interest by members of labor unions and the public in general. The style of the suit is State of Texas vs. The Trades Council and the Electrical Workers Union of San Antonio, and the officers of each or ganization. It grew out of the boy colt of the Hcrf building, a big business block in the best business part of the city, which was boycott ted by the unions because the elec- tric wiring was done by a firm that was on the unions "unfair" list. Negotiations were pending for the lease of the building when the par ties who wanted to lease were noti- fled by the unions that they would be boycotted if they attempted to do business in the structure. This threat caused the proposed lease to fail and no man nor firm will now lease the block, which is one of the finest in the city. The matter was placed before the attorney general and the suit filed followed. It is regarded as the most import ant law suit ever filed in Texas, as the decision in it will determine the ov,,,4oy,oo Of Lovoo44