Newport weekly independent., 1903-06-26
News of the World

soNANA NASAAAOSaUVs iluo bSSA uPPOihlCu member of the civil service com mission.
 In the recent national election in Germany of members of the reich stag, the socialists made gains of 25 per cent.
 The Cunard steamship line has withdrawn from the combine of At lantic steamers, and a bitter fight between the White Star, the Mor- gan combination, and the Cunard lines is predicted.
 The postoffice department is mak- duct of the New York City postof- ing an investigation with the con- flee. It has been charge that heads of departments secured rake-offs from appointees to lucrative posi- tions.
 Major J. B. Harlow, former post master at St. Louis and for thirty seven years in the postal service, is dead. He was a civil war veteran and after the close of hostilities en- tered the postal service at St. Louis in 1866, where he remained till his death.
 After serving twenty-seven years in the New York state penitentiary, Mrs. Emma Wimple was pardoned last week. At the age of IS years Mrs. Wimple, from jealousy of an- other woman, poisoned her husband. She was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
 A contract to build the first twenty-five miles of railroad of the Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas railway has been awarded and Kan work will begin at once. The $13,- 000,000 worth of bonds of the road have been purchased by an Eng fish syndicate. The line will ex- tend from Memphis, Tenn, to Chanute, Kan, distance of 45O miles.
 Reports received at the Washing ton weather bureau show that from May 24 to 27 fifty persons were killed and sixty injured by torna- does in the states of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri and the ter ritory of Oklahoma. For the week ending May 27 the loss of lives in these states and in other states of the middle west aggregated 100. If to this total the tornado at Gaines vile, Ga, is added the total of lives lost through tornadoes for the year aggregates about 250 Acurrate re- ports of the loss of life by the floods have existed for years, in some in tai Is known to be approximately four times that of the loss through tornadoes. This brings the total of loss of life in the United States through tornado and flood to ap- proximately 1 ,250.
 A dispatch from Belgrade says the position of King Peter, the new Servian monarch, promises to be little more than that of a royal cap- tive, and the real government of the country will be a military die tatorship under the leaders of the revolution, Col. Maschin and Col. Mitschitch. The new king is al- most without any personal adhe- rents, and the ruling spirits. of the army, it is thought probable, would just as readily murder him as they did his predecessor, should he op- pose their aims. At the present moment the whole country is under military rule, and although no prefects in the country districts have been removed, each is accom- panied by an army officer, who at tends the prefect wherever he goes, even to the telephone. This policy tends to lead to one good result, not single case of disorder any where has been reported. Extreme ly forcible arguments were found necessary to suppress the aspira- tions of the radicals for a republic.
 Fred Mink shot and killed N. w. Harris near Pittsfeld, H., be- cause Harris forbid him keeping company with his daughter. Mink then murdered his stepmother and made an atetmpt to get away. He was pursued by large posse and captured after a desperate battle