Newport weekly independent., 1903-07-03
News of the World

| The Ziegler expedition sailed June "A to explore for the north pole
 | Charles Jones, accused of assault ing a 12-year-old girl, was hanged by mob at Elk Valley, Tenn.
 Sir Thomas Lipton, challenger for the American cup with Sham rock III, arrived in New York from London June 24.
 | To date the St.. Louis Worlds | Fair Company has expended the sum of $s,5oo,ooO. There yet re- |. mains at the disposal of the com mission the sum of $5,000,000. l President Roosevelt has instruct cd the attorney general to lend ev- cry assistance to the head of depart ments of the postal service in the in yestigations now under way by ap- pointing special counsel when nec- essary.
 1 Emperor William made person. al inspection of the American quad ron, in charge of Admiral Cotton, | upon its arrival at Kiel, Prussia, on a maneuvering cruise, and personal | ly complimented the officers on the perfect condition of the warships. l Work has commenced on a sys- tenn of wharfage and drainage at l New Orleans which is destined to make that city one of the best sani- tated in the world. The improve ments will cost in the neighborhood of $18,000,000, the people voting to tax themselves for that sum.
 l The owners of The Picket, win ner of the American derby at Chi cago, did not have a dollar bet on their entry. He is owned by Mid | dleton & Jinglebluth, who breed and raise all the horses they race, but they never wager any money on re- suits. Both are wealthy manufac- turers, and own a fine stock farm near Boards, Ky, where The Picket was raised.
 The Iowa state democratic con- vention refused, by vote of 463 to 354, to reaffirm the Kansas City national platform. The following ticket was nominated: Governor, J. B. Sullivan; lieutenant governor, D. B. Butler; judge of supreme court, John R. Caldwell; superin- tendent of public instruction, A. B. McCook; railroad commissioner, W. s. Porter. The platform denounced the tariff policy of the republicans ; vigorously opposes imperialism, condemns the republican financial policy, deplores the corrupt condi- tion of the postal service, demands that tariff schedules be adjusted with view to tariff for revenue only, and asks for a law limiting charges by railroads.
 A mob of 4,O00 at Wilmington, Del, burned a negro rapist and murderer named George F. White. The mob overpowered the guards at the work house where the negro was confined, battered down the door to his cell and hustled the prisoner away He was taken to a point about four miles from town, near the scene of his crime, where pile of brush and dry timber had been gathered. The mob formed circle while the leaders bound and chain ed White to a post. The dry tim Der saturated with coal oil was then piled about his body and a match applied. When the rope about the miserable mans legs burned away he leaped from the roaring flames, but was knocked down and thrown back into the burning timber. Fuel was piled upon the body until it was almost entirely consumed. White confessed to assaulting and murder ing the 17-year-old daughter of Rev. E. A. Bishop. The crime was most fendish one. The victim plead piteously to be spared, but after accomplishing his hellish purpose the fiend cut the girls throat. He was captured and held in jail for several days, and when the court set his trial for the Sep tember term, instead of holding a special session of cnurt and giving him an immediate hearing, the peo- nle became indiUnant and took the