Newport weekly independent., 1903-12-18

Gen. Reyes, the soldier-statesman, has been elected president of Colom- bia.
 The Associated Press reports that Colombia has abandoned the idea of invading the Isthmus of Panama.
 President Roosevelt has nominated W. J. Buchanan of New York to be United States minister to Panama.
 In his annual report Secretary of War Root urgently advocates a reduction upon Philippine imports into the United States.
 Gov. Beckham of Kentucky, re- gently inaugurated, is the first gov srnor to succeed himself in that state in ninety-two years.
 Gov. Hunt has pardoned Father Villahoz, the priest who was con- ncted of violating the civil mar riage law in the Philippines. :?
 Gen. Wood has been subpoenaed to appear before the senate committee on military affairs to answer some of the charges preferred against him.
 A Mexican federal judge has rem dered decision granting the ex- tradition of Kratz,. one of the St. Louis boodlers who, fled to Mexico about year ago.
 Gen. Reyes, special commission CT from Colombia. has notified his government of the hopelessness of mission to this country regarding the new republic of Panama.
 In addition to the sum appropri- ated the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- ton Company has asked congress for loan of $4, 100000, to be paid back in installments without interest.
 The final steps have been taken for the formation of permanent republican form of government in Panama by the calling of constitu- tional convention to meet January 20.
 The body of Avery Crockett, a grandson of David Crockett, was found near Thorpe Springs, Texas, suspended from tree, to which he had hanged himself in a fit .of de- spondency.
 A shortage of $5,ooo,ooo, coupled with charges of misappropriation of funds and criminal mismanagemcnt Tn the special assessment department of the Chicago municipal govern ment, has been laid bare and proved by expert accountants as the result of two years of investigation.
 It is said no change will be made in the name of the Protestant Epis- copal church in the immediate fu- fure, and the next triennial council of that church will take no action whatsoever on the movement which has been on foot for a change in name of the church to the Catholic church of America.
 Secretary R. w. Richardson of the National Good Roads association has announced the special committee of the association which is to meet in Washington next month and pre- sent to congress the resolutions adopted by the National Good Roads convention in St. Louis last April. Every state and territory is repre- sented on the committee, which has nearly 200 members.
 One thousand dollars fine for il- legal acts as corporate body was im- posed upon Franklin Union, No. 4, press feeders, by Judge Jesse Hol- dom of Chicago. The court found ~l s-< the union, as corporation, guilty of contempt of court for violating an injunction restraining it from intcr- fering with the business or employees of ten printing firms. Judge Hol- dom's action creates a precedent, it being the first time in the history of trade unionism in this country that a court has fined union as corpor- ation.
 Alexandria Dowie declares that he will have built wall eighteen feet high and two feet thick around Zion City and; that after this is ac- complished none but his followers will be permitted to enter the city.
 H. Clay King, an Confederate soldier, and once prominent citi- zen and lawyer of Memphis, died last week in the penitentiary at No ch<,,11n ,..o. f.