Newport weekly independent., 1903-04-03
News of the World

olX men were killed by an explo- Slon ln a mine at Athens, III.
 A lone highwayman help up a stage coach near Ukiah. Cal. and killed the express messenger.
 Y. F. Reichenberg, wealthy young man from San Francisco, committed suicide in a St. Louis hotel.
 The British house of commons has appropriated $15O,OOO for an exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
 Several men were seriously in- jured in battle between union and non-union structural iron work CTS at Cleveland, o.
 In an attempted strect-car hold up at Los Angeles, Cal, one passen- ger was killed and three wounded and one of the highwaymen was wounded.
 1t has been announced that the English government contemplates introducing a bill into parliament providing a modified form of home rule for Ireland.
 A special grand jury was called at Jefferson City, Mo-, to investigate alleged boodling methods employed in the Missouri legislature during the session just closed.
 Sadie Henry, a 15-year-old girl, attempted to commit suicide in a school room at New Madrid, Mo-, because she had received low grade in one of her studies.
 A plot to dynamite the county jail at St. Joseph, Mo-, to release Charles May, sentenced to hang for double murder, was discovered and one of the conspirators arrested.
 A St. Louis man submitted to having his pocket picked on a crowded street car because he was afraid of dropping a bottle of nitro glyccrinc which he was carrying.
 Alderman Jonathan Ruxton, of Chicago, has introduced an ordi- nance into the city council, impos- ing a fine of $100 upon any land- lord who rejects a tenant on ac- count of children in the family.
 Arioch Wentworth, the Boston real estate millionaire, who died re- gently, left his fortune, estimated at $7,000,000 to be used in found- ing an industrial school to bear his name.
 The English home secretary has announced that Mrs. Florence May brick, the American woman who was sentenced to life Imprisonment at Liverpool in 1889 for the mur- der of her husband, will be released in July, 1904.
 After a search lasting several years, Moses F. Chase, a young man who formerly resided at La fayettc, Ind, was found in de- mented condition in hospital at Paris. The young man is said to be the owner of property valued at $1 ,000, 1000, his right to which is contested by certain persons in h. dianapolis, Cincinnati and other places.
 A confession of George Bissert, an cx-policcman in New York, has disclosed a regular system of black mail levied by the police upon the dives in that city, by which mil lions of dollars was collected by the police during the Devery regime. Bissert confessed that he alone col lected $190,000 in three years. This amount, he says, was turned over to a captain of police and he received 5 per cent of all collections which he made.
 The inquest into the death of Edwin l.. Burdick, who was mur- dercd at Buffalo several weeks ago, came to an end without furnishing any clcw for the officers to work upon. The Burdick inquest was followed by an investigation of the death of Arthur Penncll, who was correspondent in divorce suit brought by Burdiclz, and was sus- pccted of the murder of the latter, but who, together with his wife, was killed in an automobile accident