Newport weekly independent., 1903-10-16
News of the World

A strike of coal miners in Color ado, New Mexico and Utah has been ordered.
 Mrs. Dwight L. Moody, widow of the famous evangelist, died at Ter home in East Northfeld, Mass, on the 10th inst.
 Three members of the St. Louis police force were found guilty by a jury of shooting craps while on duty and fined $10O each.
 On the 9th inst. the heaviest rain fall in the the history of New York City flooded the streets and del stroyed thousands of dollars in property.
 Over 2,000 non-union miners are now employed in the Cripple Creek district, and the strike which was declared about three months ago has been a failure.
 Thomas F. Ward, vice president of a bank at Sioux City, la, plead ed guilty of embedding $30,000, and escaped with a jail sentence of thirty days.
 The last quarterly dividend de- clared by the United States steel trust was only 1 3-4 per cent, just half of that declared quarterly heretofore.
 George Formon and c. J. John son, federal officials stationed on the island of Mindanao, P. l., whose accounts are under investigation, took $6,000 of the government funds, seized a steamer and started for Barneo. A steamer has been sent to intercept the daring fugi- tives.
 The trustees of the estate of Mrs. Maybrick, the American woman now in a British prison serving a life sentence for the murder of her husband, are staid to have failed to account for about $75,000 of the funds. The original estate, com posed of lands located in Virginia, West Virginia, Illinois and Ken lucky, is valued at several millions. Mrs. Maybrick will be granted a pardon next year and will at once return to this country to claim her property. This has been one of the most noted cases in the criminal his tory of the world. Her husband, an Englishman, died from arsenic poisoning and after sensational trial his young American wife was convicted and given life sentence. Her friends have been untiring in their efforts to prove her innocence and secure her release, and have been rewarded with the promise that she shall go free next July.
 An increase in the death rate of the army from 1894 per 1000 in 1901 to 15.49 per 1000 in 1902 is shown in the annual report of Sur geon General R. NJ. O'Reilly for the fiscal year ending June 30 This increase is attributed to cholera, which caused 3.54 deaths per 1000. A slight improvement appears in the admission rate for disease and injury, which declined from 1791.59 per 1000 in 1901 to 1715.51 per 1000 in 1909. Gen. O'Reilly, speaking of the abolishment of the army canteen, says: ''It is impos- sible not to attribute a large part of the steadily increasing venereal disease of the army to the loss of the .canteen, where the soldier, if he so desired, could get his beer throughout the month, but was not subjected to the temptations to in- temperance and vice now attendant upon the expenditure of full months pay at the low resorts in- festing the outskirts of our military reservations. s."
 A gang of blackmailers recently notified officials of the Northern Pacific that unless a certain sum of money was left for them at a desig- mated spot on given date, that their property would be destroyed by dynamite. Notwithstanding hundreds of detectives have been at work on the case, the bandits have attempted to carry out their