Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-02

Four persons perished in a fire which destroyed the Brunswick ho- tel at Rochester, N. H.
 A Berlin paper prints a charge that the United States has designs of annexing Hayti and San Domin- go.
 Lord Milner, the British high commissioner in South Africa, has declined the cabinet position of CO., lonial secretary.
 Curtis Jett, convicted of murder ing James Cockrill at Jackson, Ky, has been sentenced to be hang ed December 12.
 Hon. E. H. Roberts, treasurer of the United States, reports the larg- est holdings of gold in the history of the country-$653, 3,000,000.
 Minister Leishman has recom- mended that the American warships be not withdrawn from Beirut at present, as conditions are such as to require their presence.
 A bill has passed both branches of the Alabama legislature prohib- iting labor unions from issuing boycotts against firms or corpora tions. The bill is a strong one and members of labor unions are strong in denouncing its supporters.
 That person should lie i'll and actually die for the want of food in one of our thickly populated cities seems beyond comprehension but according to a doctors certificate Albert Hammock, who died at Montgomery few days ago, was a victim of starvation. The father and mother were factory employees and both were found to be too i'll to wait on the sick boy, and the.e was nothing in their home to eat.
 An unsuccessful attempt was made by an ex-convict to kidnap a child of the governor of Nebraska. The plot was matched out of re- venge for the governors failure to commute the death sentence of a noted murderer. The children were playing in front of the gov ernor's mansion when the ex-con- yict grabbed the 8-year-old girl of the governors and started on a run. The screams of the children attracted neighbors, and when they took up the chase the man drop ped the child and escaped.
 Passengers on a Kansas City ex- press had a miraculous escape from death at a point about two miles north of Independence, Kas. With the apparent intention of holding up the train, robbers twisted out two rails at the end of a high tres tie. The train was going down grade, and the engineer was unable to stop before the cars plunged across the trestle on the ties. At one place the trucks of the coaches were within four inches of the edge of the bridge, which is thirty feet above the bed of the river.
 When Oberlin NJ. Carter, former captain in the United States army, leaves the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth on November 28. he will begin contest for the prop erty taken by the court at the time of his conviction for embezzlement in connection with the Havana har- Dor improvement frauds. Since his imprisonment, Carter has been de voting himself to the study of law and has acquired knowledge of le- gal subjects, which will be used in his battle for the property he says was taken from him without war rant of law.
 Officials of the street car compa- ny at Lynn, Mass, have discovered that employees defrauded the system of thousands of dollars by using fraudulent transfer tickets. Sever al arrests have been made.
 The state of Texas has secured a writ of temporary injunction agains' the United States to prevent inter- ference with quarantine buildings on Galveston island. The land in question is claimed by both the state and federal governments,
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