Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-06
A call for a boil weevil conven-

November ,, has been issued. The object IS to discuss means of fight ing the cotton boil weevil, which has this year devastated whole coun- ties Ill Texas and is spreading north and east. An invitation is / extended to all southern states
 A Fort Worth, Texas. fire com pany recently lowered the worlds record Ill making connection for fire. The contest was to run 2e0 feet; lay 100 feet of hose, total run, 3SO feet, make plug connections and set water. The time made was S2 4-5 seconds. Up to last year Kansas City held the worlds cham pionship. its tlNe being 26 seconds, making the run s09 feet, laying 100 feet hose.
 Fully 95 per cent of all employes of the Pacific Express Company in five states went on a strike at 6 80 P. m. on the 10th. The strike affects every employe of the company below the rank of superintendent, route agent and local agent. Officials of the company had been anticipating the strike for several weeks, and orders had been given local agents to accept no perishable freight, TO freight of any kind without the stipulation that it was subject to delay. Shippers of perishable freight bear the heaviest loss of the strike, and the general public has been greatly inconvenienced. The main cause of the walk out was the refusal of the company to recognize the Brotherhood of Railroad Ex- pressmen and the refsal to grant 15 per cent increase in wages. The states affected are Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma and Indian Territories. The problem at all the main offices of the company following the strike was the handling of freight on incoming trains, and hundreds of business men to whom goods had been shipped secured the packages themselves from the depot plat forms, loading the packages on wag- ons themselves and giving the com- pany their personal receipt, settling later. Immediately after the strike was declared all local agents went to work securing new men, but Su- perlntcndent Johnson gave out a statement to the effect that no money or perishable goods of any kind will be handled until the new men are broke in. The men who obeved the strike order declare that they have not been receiving as good wages as paid by other express com- panies, and that without the recog- milton of their union, through which individual grievances might be ad- justed, they have no recourse to se- cure just and equal treatment be their employer. The president of the company says the union will never be recognized, as he regards this demand as dictation by en- ployes. An officer of the union, in statement to the press, denies that the company offered to grant the in- crease demanded, but refusedshrdlu crease demanded.
 An equestrian statue erected at Washington, D. C., to the memory of Gen. William Tecumseh Sher- man, was unveiled on the 18th. President Roosevelt delivering the unveiling speech.
 An injunction has been issued against the local Typographical Un- ion of Hamilton, O., the Central Trades Council and a weekly trades journal, cnioining the defendants from prosecuting boycott against the Republican News, a daily pa- per. It is said to be one of the most sweeping injunctions ever is- sued by an Ohio court.
 The authorities in the Philip pines have recently been given some trouble by anarchists, and at San Juan the reds went so far as to at- tack the police A number of this class have been convicted of insult