Newport weekly independent., 1903-07-17

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 Ex-Gov. Hogg of Texas announces his candidacy for the United States senate.
 Foreign powers will insist on their demands for open ports in Manchu- ria, regardless of Russia's objec- tions.
 Chicago has passed the two mil lion mark. Its present population Us 2,231 ,000, according to the new cav directory,
 Russian authorities have caused the arrest of several hundred niem- Aers of the mob which murdered so many Jews at Kishineff last spring.
 The cotton acreage of Texas has been reduced 8 per cent. This re- duction is due to the great damage done to the crop in recent years by the boil weeyil.
 After investigating the escape of Rudolph from the St. Louis jail in broad daylight the sheriff has dis missed all the guards on duty at the time of the escape.
 Within the last few months the Chinese government has enlisted as officers over 200 Americans, whose terms of service in the Philippines had expired. Those enlisted are in most cases commission ed officers or privates in the Ameri- can army, whose terms had expired.
 A woman in the role of Enoch Arden has returned to Rockford, H., after an absence of twenty-five years The chief figure in the cu- rious history is Mrs. Louise Olison. Twenty-Five years ago Mrs. Olison was injured in railroad wreck near Buffalo, N. Y. She was taken to hospital but recovered. Her mind was not clear, however, and she wandered to France. Another victim of the wreck died in the hos pital, and by mistake was buried as Mrs. Olison. When Mrs. Olison re- turned to Rockford she found two babies she had left, "Hilda" and Frank" full grown and surprised beyond measure at her return Alexander Olison, her husband, she found living with his third wife, the second Mrs. Olison, whom he married while believing fully in his first wife's death, having died some years ago.
 A dispatch from Bluefelds, W. Va, gives the details of one of the most reyolting crimes ever commit ted. The victim was a 14-year7old girl. She was caught a short dis tance from her home by a burly ne- gro who carried her into the woods, where she was gagged and bound to a tree. She was missed by friends, who instituted search and found her in an almost dying condition, but she was able to tell the horror stricken searchers the story. Think ing that her assailant would return to his victim, the searchers decided to lay in wait for him. In short time he appeared and was just renewing his assault up on the helpless child when the entire mob of concealed searchers emerged and made for him. He would have been torn limb from limb on the spot, but the hor- rible crime demanded a more cruel death, and cool heads kept the en- ragged mob back The negro was taken to the village of Devon and bound to a tree His clothes were torn from his body and pins and Jacks, penknives and every conceiv- able weapon of torture was stuck into his skin. The almost lifeless form of his little victim was then placed before the glaring eyes of the negro, while willing hands cut the tongue from his swollen mouth. His cries became incoherent and before the enraged citizens could be check cd thes kin was literally cut from his body and distributed among the villagers. He died with his eyes on the little girl whose life he had ruin ed the skin was literally cut from was then soaked with kerosene and