Newport weekly independent., 1903-01-23

seriously injured.
 Oi! in paying quantities has been discovered on the ISthmus of Tehauntepec, in Mexico,
 It is more than probable congress will rcmovc>the export duty on coal, to relieve present conditions.
 Tom Johnson, of Ohio, has an- nounced as a candidate for the dem ocratic nomination for governor. Joseph Gotsch, who is serving sentence at White Plains, \. Y, for stealing coal, had $220 in bills strapped around his legs.
 Mrs. Stanislaus spycho1ski, of Toledo, Ohio, has distinguished her self. She gave birth to three babes one night and the fourth next day.
 Mrs. Hannah Goodnight, aged G3, and John Smith, aged 49, of Arkansas City, Kan, were mar- ricd. The bride has ten great-grand- children.
 Winnie D. Mercer, a pitcher of the All-Amcrican Baseball team, vas found asphyxiatcd in his room, in the Occidental Hotel, San Fran cisco, Cal.
 Charles Yowlcr hanged himself in a cell at the county jail at Bloomington, i'll. He was charged with forging orders for nursery stock and collecting the commis- sion.
 The Bryans InGrma1y, pcnsa- cola, Fla, was totally destroyed by fire. One man was burned to death and six other patients will prob ably die as a result of excitement and exposure. The mysterious death of Mrs. Kate Noelpcl, of New York City, about a year ago. has been cleared up by the death-bcd confession of a wealthy man, who assigned jeal- ousy as the cause. The crime baf- fled the skill of the shrcwdcst de- tectiyes and was a big sensation.
 At Toledo, Ohio, the workhousc 1 board has issued an order setting at liberty all prisoners held for stealing coal from the railway wards and tracks The order includes directions to the superintendent to receive no more prisoners from any court sending them in for petty coal thcfts.
 James McWhortcr, young mar ried man living near Danvillc, Ky. was mysteriously shot in the head and is in a dying condition. A number of young people gathered at the McWhorter home to spend l the evening, and while engaged in playing blindfold the sudden crack of pistol mystifcd the guests, and in the midst of the cy- citemont McWhortcr fell to the floor mortally wounded.
 1 Lieut.. Gov. Tillman, of South Carolina, shot and probably fatally wounded N. G. Gonzales on a pub lie street at Columbia. The shoct- irG was the outcome of q bitter TO- 1 litical fight waged on the Tillman faction by Gonzales, editor of the Daily States. When shot Gonzales was unarmed. and had no warning l whatever from his assalant. Only one shot was fired, and Gonzales, supporting himself against tee- phone pole, dclicd Tillman to sh ot again.
 l While C. F. Baker, an under taIler at Camden, four miles north of Flora, Ind, was preparing the remains of Louis Kuhn 6., for in- tcrmcnt, the corpse came to life and sat up, gEaring wildly about the room. NIr. Baker was badly fright cncd and ran from the room into the street, relating the story to passers-by. A physician was sum- moncd and Mir. Kuhn restored to his normal condition. He says h4 knows all that transpired from tn, time he was pronounced dead up to the time the undertaken began prep. araiions for his burial, but could not speak a word or move a muscle It is believed he will recover. Six men were killed and three others wounded by an explosion of