The Newark journal., 1903-05-22


 Minneapolis has been convicted and sentenced to six years in the peni- tentiary for receiving bribes while in office
 Ghas. Hiatt has been convicted at Saltwater, O. T., of the murder of his wife. The crime was commit ted Rine years ago to prevent the women testifying to another crime Hiatt committed Hiatt was re- gently captured in Virginia.
 Former Lieut.. Gov. Lee of Mis- souri is said to have made a state ment to Prosecutor Folk of St Louis, admitting that he handled $15,000 poodle money during the last session of the Missouri legisla- ture.
 By a mistake in orders a head-on collision occurred on the Missouri Pacific about twenty miles from St Louis between the special train of General Manager Harding and an extra fright The only one injured was a colored porter, though both engines were demolished and the cars of the freight were piled in an indiseriminate heap.
 Wm. Mccarthy. condemned wife murderer, confined in jail at Lexington, Ky, committed suicide by swallowing morphine q few hours before the time set for his execution. The death watch sat within a few feet of Mccarthy the night he took the drug, but discovered nothing wrong until a few minutes before the man was dead. The poison was smuggled to Mccarthy by some friends
 For the week ending the 10th, the commercial agencies report in-  dustrial conditions over the county greatly disturbed on account of the unusual number of strikes being waged. Leaders of organized labor justify the demands of their various bodies for increased wages on ac- count of the greatly increased cost of living in cities and industrial sections the past few years, stating that while it is a fact that, as a rule, labor has been steadily employed, at the same time rents, the cost of fuel and food stuffs, to say nothing of the cost of clothing, has increased in some localities as great as 40 per cent
 According to a census bulletin re- gently issued, the cotton crop of 1909 foots up 1O,630,945 bales of 500 pounds, with some additions yet to be made before the cotton year ends in August. The total crop of 1909 Is larger than the crops of 1901, 1900 and 1899 by from to II per cent. Yet the price Is re- markabiy high and the market un- usually excited The value of the cotton crop of 1902 exceeded that of wheat by $34,o00,000 and was second only to the corn crop, valued at $921 ,000, ,000 For the year end ing June 30 last cotton held the first place in exports. representing value of $290,000,000, which was SIT, ,000,000 more than the exports of breadstuffs, and $90,000, ,000 more than the exports of meats and dairy products. Adding tAe cotton goods and cotton-seed oil to the item of raw cotton, the total value of cotton exported during the last fiscal year was S349, 900, 900, or one- fourth the aggregate of all exports
 The striking trainmen of the Mobile and Ohio railroad were re- inforced by walk out of all the boilermen, blaci;smiths and machin ists in the shops at Mobile, The service of the road was greatly crippled by tlie strike, but officials of the road in many eases took the places of strikers and operated the passenger trains. One non-union brakeman was shot and killed by unknown parties at Jackson, Tenn. The strikers succeeded in complete ly tieing up freight traffic on the road.
 The governor of Kansas has is- sued a proclamation ordering that all cattle brought into that state must be dipped to relieve them of all disease.
 Capt. Oyerton of the Fifteenth cavalry and Private Harry Moves were hacked to death in an encount- CT with Philippine insurgents in a fight at Sucatlan, Island of Minda- enoa. Capt. Overton was appointed f the military academy from Tex as lsst