Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06
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PERCY \. VAN DYKE Publisher and EdItor
IEWPoRT. ARKANSAS.

hA0 1ol y 7AAeh MI ehu1J OStopO1 .27th.
 Mrs. L. Q. c. Lamar, wife of the noted Mississippi statesman, is dead.
 The yellow fever situation in Tex as is improving with the advent of cold weather.
 Chamberlain is waging a vigor- ous campaign in England in favor of his policy of protection.
 The union express drivers en- ployed by all the express companies in St. Louis are out on strike out of sympathy for the Pacific strikers.
 Santos Domingo is in the throes of another revolution, said to be the result of custom house frauds and corruption of the minister of finance.
 It is generally understood that Senator Hanna will retire as chair man of the republican national committee at the expiration of his present term.
 A white man of the name of Me Alpin was lynched by a mob in Smith county, Mississippi, after a difficulty in which he fatally wound ed neighbor.
 An appeal is to be made to the Red; Cross Society for aid to the in- surgent victims of the Turks. It is said that over 100000 women and ychildren are fugitives and starving.
 In the case of Napoleon Hixon, the first to be tried on the charge of being member of a lynching party at Thebes, H., the jury fail ed to agree on verdict. The mem- bers of the jury who stood out for conviction were negroes.
 Sagatet Sagouni, president of the Armenian revolutionary society in England, was assassinated as he was entering the door of his residence i'll London. His murderer is not known, but it is believed the crime was of political character.
 A convention of contractors of the United States has been called to meet in Chicago, December 10 next. In the call the object is stat ed to be to perfect an organization to protect its members from strikes of building trades employees.
 Soon after congress convenes the president will send to the senate the nomination of Judge Vim. C.. Hook to the United States circuit judge for the Eighth circuit to sue ceed Judge Henry c. Caldwell, Judge Hook is now district judge of Kansas.
 The annual report of Commis- sioner General Frank P. Sargent of the bureau of immigration shows a large increase of steerage immi- grafton over that of the preceding year, the aggregate for the fiscal year of 1903 being S57,O46, an ex- cess over that of last year of 208,- 303, or 32 per cent.
 The will of Morris Reiman, who died in California in 1902, is being contested on the ground that he was of unsound mind when he be- queathed $1,000 to the Boston h. vestigator Company for the purpose of distributing Robert c. Inger- soils lectures among Christians in order to civilize them"
 A band of Kansas bank robbers were captured on an island in the Arkansas river near Burton, Kas 1, after a desperate battle. The men give their names as James Bell. aged 25; George Olson, aged 28; E. H. Johnston, aged 36, who was severe ly wounded; Thomas White, aged 24, and Frank Harwood, aged 28. Several thousand dollars was recov- cred from the bandits.
 The Interstate Mississippi Riv- CT Improvement and Leyee Associa- ton concluded its session at New Orleans October go after adopting series of resolutions in favor of goyernmet jurisdiction of levees and for appropriations for their control if government control is not proper, and endorsig the water way from the gulf to the great lakes
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