Newport weekly independent., 1903-05-22
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 Four men were killed and several badly injured by an explosion at a powder manufacturing plant at Joplin, Mo.
 Seven deaths per month by street car accidents have been the average in St. Louis since the opening of the present year.
 Photographic communication is now established in all parts of Alas ka covered by the United States signal corps lines.
 A number of houses in the town of Marysville, Kan, were washed away by sudden rise of Big Blue river, due to a cloudburst. Major Charles H. Smith, widely known by the pen name of Bill Arp; passed away at his home at Carters- vile, Ga., a few days ago. Major Smith was a veteran of the Confed- eracy, and his humorous philosoph- ical letters which appeared in the Southern press from 1861 to within a few months ago will be recalled by almost every reader of newspapers l Senators Dillingham; of Vermont Burnham of New Hampshire, Pat terson of Colorado, and Nelson of Minnesota, comprising the senato- rial party which went north two months ago to investigate Alaska, have returned. They are not in fa- vor of territorial form of govern ment for Alaska at this time, but they think Alaska should have a delegate in congress.
 The treasurer of branch of the St. Louis Brewery Company has been arrested charged with appro- priating $1,500 of funds belonging to the beer trust When 1t is re- membered that his salary was but $60 per month and that he is a man of family and the mother of his children an invalid, 1t is not much of mystery what became of the money.
 Minister Leischman, who is in the field and knows the true condi- tions in Turkey, cabled the war de- | pertinent as follows: sThe troub- les in Macedonia become worse and more extended each day, and out side of the necessity which may pre- sent itself of sending a ship to Beirut at a proper time, it seems to me advisable to keep ship within easy range of Turkish waters in or der to be in position to more fully 1 protect American citizens" MT. Leischman has been instructed to notify the Turkish government that 1t must keep the peace and that it will be held to a strict accountable | ity for any lawless act toward Amer ican citizens.
 | The third trial of ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers for compile ity in the murder of Gov. Goebel of Kentucky in January, 1900, re- suited in verdict of guilty with the extreme penalty of hanging. Powers has been convicted twice be- fore, this being the third trial in which the jury brought in a verdict of guilty against him. On his pre- vious trials he escaped with a sen tence of life imprisonment, as the evidence was not sufficiently strong against him to lead the jury to in- fict the extreme penalty. All three trials were held at Georgetown. An appeal will be taken to the supreme court, and should the verdict be ap- | proved an effort will be made to get the case before the United States supreme court.
 Col. Morris Belknap, republican nominee for governor of Kentucky, Is a son-in-law of ex-Gov. Buckner. While democrat, Gen. Buckner will strive to elect his son-in-law. Jack Thomas, negro, terror ized the population of the town of Himrod, Ind, by parading the streets for whole day and firing at every person who dared to venture out. He was placed under arrest after having exhausted his ammu- milton.