Newport weekly independent., 1903-01-16

All gambling joints have been 1 closed at Joplin, Mo.
 The net earnings of the United States steel corporation for the year 1902 amounted to $132,6 ,602, 1000.
 Daniel J. Hill, assistant sccre- tary of state, has been appointed minister to Switzerland.
 The city of Detroit, Mich, is go- ing into the coal business and will supply the people at cost prices.
 After a recess over the holidays. the anthracite coal strike commis- sion resumed its task sof taking tes- timony on the 9th.
 Near Joplin, Mo-, in the eastern part of Jasper county, an 11-foot body of coal was struck at a depth of 40 feet, and the coal is of the finest quality.
 Four persons lost their lives in fire at Chicago which destroyed the Somerset hotel on Wabash av- enue. The fire was caused from bed clothing igniting from a cigar cite.
 Carl Scholz, manager of the min ing department of the Choctaw, is giving much attention to a project for increasing the output of the mines along the line of the Choc- taw.
 As result of a collision between passenger train and the rear end of freight train on the Pennsylva- nia railroad at Cochrane station, just above Dubuque, seven men are dead and seven others injured.
 The demand of railway men in the south and west for 20 per cent increase in wages may result in trouble on some of the large sys- tems. A number of roads have flatly refused to accede to the de- mands.
 Cole Younger has applied to the Minnesota pardoning board for a complete pardon, in order that Le might return to Missouri, his old home. The terms of his parole forbid him leaving the state of Min nesota.
 Mrs. Amelia Rollo, of Palmyra, Wis, hanged her two children, Ar thur, aged 3 years, and Clarence, aged 5, and then committed sui ced by hanging herself. In a note written to friend before the trag- edy Mrs. Rollo said: <I am driven to it by gossips of Palmyra"
 Citizens at Arcola, H., held up an Illinois Central freight train and contiscated a carload of coal. Act i've among the contiscators were the pastors of the Presbyterian and Free Methodist churches, the presi- dent of the bank and one policeman. Each load was weighed, and strict account kept, in the hope of making a satisfactory arrangement with the owners.
 A decision of more than usual in- terest was recently rendered in the United States district court for the southern district of Illinois. An express messenger was indicted for the sale of liquor in prohibition ter ritory. It was sought to convict on the ground that he delivered pack ages of liquor ordered in licensed territory, or in other words, the prosecution contended that the place of delivery should be held the place of sale The court held that the express agent had no knowledge or the contents or the packages, hence could not be held as guilty of violating the federal liquor laws
 The census bureau report on the cotton ginned from the 1902. crop up to and including December 3l last is 9,31l,S35 bales, irrespective of shape or weight, equal to S,0o5,- 503, according to the commercial counting. The ginners' estimate is 1,057,7T1 bales. This is 9O.2 per cent of the crop.
 Capt. Marmaduke and his crew of Americans, who about six months ago took charge of a Colombian gunboat, have resigned.
 The colored postmistress at h.