Newport weekly independent., 1903-07-17
News of the World

the Boxer indemnity.
 Arthur Shaddon, a young Missis- sippi county farmer, was shot and killed by a negro tenant.
 Gen. Longstreet, the famous Con- federate commander, is critically i'll at his home in Gainesville, Ga. All American soldiers have been withdrawn from Cuba, with the ex- ception of four companies, which will guard our coaling stations in that country.
 Henrietta Distler, aged IS, sui cided at Cincinnati after discover | ing that her sweetheart was her own brother. They were separated in infancy and were raised under diff ferent names. They met about a year ago, and fell in love. Their relationship was discovered by acci- dent. A waterspout of immense pro- | portions struck the Bruch Creek Valley in Pennsylvania, causing a dam at Oakford to break. The waters rushed down upon the towns 1 of Jeanette, Penn, Laimer, Greens burg, Irwin, Bunell and Warner, destroying many houses and caus- ing the death of between thirty and forty people.
 George s. Morrison, who died a few days ago in Chicago, was one of the greatest engineers in the l United States. He built five great bridges across the Mississippi and ten across the Missouri river, the bridge over the Ohio at Cairo, H., and many others. His greatest feat was the bridge across the Missis- sippi at Memphis, which has sim gle truss span of 790 feet.
 Cato Garrett, colored, who stab bed a white man to death, was taken from officers by mob five miles from Vicksburg, Miss, and lynched A special grand jury was empaneled within three days after the killing and Garrett was indicted. He had been placed in jail in an adjoining county for safe keeping, and was being returned to Vicksburg for l trial when the mob met the train he was aboard at a small station and forcibly took him from the officers.
 After four days of general riot l ing at Evansville, Ind, a company of militia and a mob bent on lynch ing a negro had a clash that result ed in the death of ten people and the serious wounding of about twenty others. The mob, composed of about 1000 men, had gathered l about the jail and began an assault on the deputies and company of militia on guard. For several min utcs the contest was waged with stones and clubs by the mob, the officers using their bayonets and the butt of their guns, when shot was fired, apparently by some mem Der of the mob. Then followed a | fusilade from the jail of several hundred shots, which was returned by an occasional slot from among the mob. When the firing ceased 1t was found that ton people had | been killed and that at least twenty lay on the ground wounded. One among the dead was a young girl about 12 years of age who had stopped with her parents short distance from the jail out of curi- osity. Several others who were killed or wounded were attracted to the scene by the noise of the mob leaders Only four members of the l jail guard were injured, none of | them fatally.
 l Fwenty-four persons were killed and thirteen injured in a hcad-on collision on the Virginia Midland division of the Southern Railway at Rockfsh, Va. A passenger train going at full speed dashed into a
 local freight standing on the main track The fireman and engineer of the passenger train, two white
 and twenty colcred passengers were
 instantly killed. The collision was l 1nn 1o tho anoinanr of 4bo froi,rl |