Newport weekly independent., 1903-05-22

IcldIy O1 COIlIuGICe. ! ne uumDcI
 of forei gn-born persons now residing
 in the United States is more than
 10,000,00O, and the number of per-
 sons of foreign parentage exceeds / 26.0J0.00o.
 y t, The Russian Black Sea squadron, s hr;doaech was ordered to Turkish waters ,ted that which arrived at Iniada, East ,idge, she european Turkey, August 19, to nder the aort Russia's demands on the de of thetan growing out of the assassin ing nustn of M. Rostkovski, Russian con- stlons of at Monastir, has been recalled iendly lne'ebastopool, the squadron's point 'lnl'y nau departure, and has sailed for | TT Turkish waters. The recall followed ~ aa> notification from the porte that the K sultan had ordered all the Russian 5 demands to be complied with.
 Returns from the democratic pri-
 mary in Mississippi show the nomi- .,x nation of Major James K. Varda- o, man for governor, after one of the ' most interesting campaigns in the Q history of the state. In his cam 1t palgn Vardaman made the negro II question an issue. He strongly ad ass vocated division of the school or taxes so as to make the white sol schools benefciaries of the taxes m ;n< paid by white people, the negro ral schools to be dependent on taxes elf paid by negroes.
 Thirty or more passengers were ts seriously injured, some perhaps fa- Sa tally, by peculiar collision at the ep junction of the Illinois Central and q. = the Lake Erie and Western rail @ ,a5 roads, two miles southeast of Bloom ,er ingtn, H. While passenger train on west-bound on the latter road was
 passing over the crossing a car of
 stock which was being pushed by a
 switch engine on the Illinois Central
 broke loose from the engine and dashed into the side of the passenger
 train with terrific force, breaking the
 coach in two and injuring nearly
 everyone of the sixty occupants
 A company with $250,O00, 900
 capital stock is proposed with the
 object of building and consolidating
 lines already constructed connect
 ing Hudson Bay with British Co.,
 lumbia, Buenos Ayres, South Amer
 ica. The plan is to build line of
 railway extending from Port Nell
 son, Hudson Bay, in southerly di-
 rection, crossing the line of the Ca-
 nadian Pacific near Winnipeg, Man,
 through North Dakota, South Da- .,r, kota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory to Galveston, Texas; from Galveston through the Republic of Mexico to the boundary line of Central America through the Isthmus of Panama, thence through
 Peru to Beunos Ayres on the Atlan- tic ocean. Also a branch line be- ginning in the Republic of Peru and extending in southeasterly direc-
 ton through Brazil to Rio de Ja- neiro, also a branch line beginning in the Republic of Peru and extend ing in a southerly direction through
 Chile to Valparaiso on the south Pa cifc ocean.
 Prominent railroad traffic men who have toured the cotton states express the belief that the coming seasons yield will exceed 11,00O,. N 900 bales. This opinion is not 4 shared, however, by many promi- nent growers and buyers.
 It is believed in diplomatic cir cles that Turkey is enjoying the last days of grace permitted by the pow CTS in the matter of restoring tran quillity and civilized methods in Macedonia.
 A cyclone swept over the thickly- populated mining district north and east of Pittsburgh, Kan, destroying hundreds of houses and causing the death of at least dozen people The storm also destroyed the town of Metz. A Missouri.