Newport weekly independent., 1903-01-30

lumber 10 per cent. ]
 The salary of President Mitchell, of the mine workers union has been increased to $3,OOO per an- mum. ..
 The Frisco system is taking up it's heavy steel on the branch rail- road from Rogers to Grove, I. T., and replacing the same with light steel. One million five hundred thou sand converts have been made by the Methodist Episcopal church during the four years of the twen- tieth century thank offering move ment. This is the spiritual accom- plishmcnt to be placed in church annals alongside of the $20,000,. 900 for beneyolcncc ralsed through the same movement.
 In a case to determine the legali- | ty of a divorce secured in South Dakota, after residence of six months, the United States supreme court held that inasmuch as the ap- pllcant hailed from a state requir- such application could not be made without the applicant was resident for one year, the Dakota decree is l yOil.
 Col. Arthur Lynch, who fought with the burghcrs in South Africa. has been sentenced to death for high treason against the British government. Col. Lynch, after hostilities ceased, returned to Ire land and was elected a member of parliament. His conviction has caused great indignation among lrlshmcn throughout the world. {, MT. and Mrs. Frank Cronk are under arrest at Binghamton, N. r., on the charge of starving their children. An officer found one child three years old chained in chair and starved until it weighed only twenty pounds. It had been in the chair all its life. The con- 1 dition of the other two children was | pitiablc. A fourth child died sev- cral weeks ago.
 Chas. G. Kelley, formc
 and cx-member of the S
 house of delegates, was
 of perjury in connection
 franchise scandal and gS
 years in the penitentiary.
 fled from St. Louis after the b. dle scandal was noiscd and made trip to Europe, where he spent sev- erai months. Upon his return he1 was arrested in New York. Mathew Clcary, city cl claali
 East St. Louis, was shot and mor- tally wounded in q street duel by Richard Buckley, the latter being also seriously wounded. Both men drew their weapons and fired sim ultaneously. At the first report both fell to the pavement. Each supporting himself on an elbow, the firing continued until they fell limp from the loss of blood. G In the city of Brooklyn crowd of men and women captured train of seven cars of coal. Tn, train crew tried to fight the crowd off, but it was too big, and the railroad men were forced to stand by while the people filled their bags, baskets, carts, wheelbarrows and even wagons. Many of those who took the coal say they are will- ing to pay for it and that it was only after efforts to buy hal re- suited in failure that they decided to raid a train.
 Secretary Hay and Sir Michael Herbert, the British ambassador at Washington, signed treaty provid- ing for the settlement of the Alas kan boundary question. Efforts in this direction have been put forth for long time, the pressure com ing from both sides. The treaty signed today provides for the refer ence of all boundary questions to a mixed tribunal of jurists, three on each side, to determine the inter, pretation to be placed on the treaty of 1895 between Great Britain and Russia, which defined the bounda- ries between British America and Alaska.