Newport weekly independent., 1903-04-03

A dozen men were required to pull a tooth of young elephant at St. Louis.
 A negro was hanged at Birming- ham, Ala, under a new law impos- ing the death penalty for highway robbery.
 It is stated that movement is on foot for the consolidation of all the important telegraph and tele- phone companies in the country.
 In an investigation of the police department at Kansas City, Mo-, of- ticers have been accused of stealing money from drunken prisoners.
 In defending her daughter from an attack by the latters enragcd husband, Mrs. Kate Stacktale, of Cincinnati, was shot and instantly killed.
 Fourteen natives were killed and forty wounded and government buildings were destroyed in one days rioting at Port of Spain, on the Island of Trinidad.
 The International and Great Northern railroad has granted an increase of 12 per cent in the wages of passenger trainmen and 15 per cent for freight trainmen and con- ductors.
 Judge Kohlsaat, of the United States court at Chicago, issued an injunction against ten coal compa- nies and ten individual operators, restraining them from continuing their alleged combination for the regulation of coal prices and output.
 The National Steel Company has been incorporated in New Jersey with capitalization of $63, 0,O0O. In this company are merged the Carnegie Company, the American Steel Hook Company, and the American Steel Company, with q combined capital of $252, ,000, 1000.
 The bodies of A. NJ. Betty, a prominent business man of Cincin- natl, and his wife and child were found at their home and an open gas jet showed the cause of the trag- cdy. Betty left note saying that his wife had killed the child and it is supposed that he and his wife committed suicide.
 Six well-known residents of Good- water, Ala, were arrested by United States deputy marshals on a charge of kidnapping Madison Davis, a negro, and selling him to Elijah Turner, to be worked in limcworks at Calcis, Ala. It was alleged by Davis that there were twenty seven other negroes confined in stock adc at Calcis and compelled to work in the lime works. The &C., cused deny the charge.
 J. c. Fremont, negro lecturer disclosed to Congressman Tawney at Winona, Minn., an alleged plan of a band of desperadoes to kidnap and hold for ransom Secretary of the Treasury Leslie NJ. Shaw, Sec rctary of War Root and Attorney General Knox at some point in Mon- tana Or Colorado during the vest crn trip to be taken by the presi- dent and his cabinet. Fremont alleged that the first plan of the plotters was to assassinate Presi- dent Roosevelt.
 The English government has in- troduced bill into the house of commmons, which it is expected, will furnish a solution to the Irish land question and abolish the land- lord system in Ireland. The bill, which was introduced by the Irish secretary, MT. Wyndham, provides for advances of money by the gov ernment for the purchase of land by the tenants in Ireland. The cash for this purpose is to be raised by the floating of stock to the amount of $500,OOO,0OO, if neces- sary. These advances will be in the nature of loans and will be Him. ited to $2,5oo in the congestcd dis tricts and $5,000 elsewhere, to each tenant. In addition to this the government proposes to make a free grant of $6o,0oo,o00 for the pur- pose of carrying out the provisions of the bill. The bill, if passed by