Newport weekly independent., 1903-09-25

gress will be held at Fl Paso, Tex, in 1904.
 A violent earthquake lasting if teen minutes was felt on the 18th at Santiago, Cuba.
 It is authoritatiyely announced that the next session of information al peace congress will be held in St. Louis in 1904.
 James Culver, the oldest man in Kentucky, celebrated his 121st birthday at his home in Perryville few days ago.
 The Salvation Army corps which has invaded Breathitt county, Ken lucky, has been treated most cour- teously by the natives.
 Mine operators in the Kansas district announce that the price of coal will be increased, owing to the increase granted miners.
 The will of the late Lord Sails bury of England shows that he left an estate of $2,ooo,o0o. It was generally supposed that he was not wealthy.
 The city attorney of Springfield, H., has brought suit against a number of prominent citizens, charging them with visiting and gambling in public houses.
 Thousands of men in England are idle on account of the shutting down of cotton mills, which refuse to pay the high prices demanded by those who control the market.
 Miss Lula Cunningham shot and killed her sister-in-law, Mrs. John K. Wilson, at Nashville, Tenn. The murderess says Providence directed that she should do the killing.
 Chief of Police Fred Henke and Police Captain Brennocke, whc captured Fred Underwood, the Clarksville bank robber at Evans vile, Ind, were fatally wounded in fight at Evansville by Detective Hutchins.
 w. H. Gamble, a deputy United States marshal, who confessed to substituting aged Chinamen fol young Chinamen who were ordered deported from San Francisco, com mitted suicide rather than stand trial for the offense.
 State Senator A. E. Green of New York has been arrested in connection with the postal frauds. He is charged with conspiring to defraud the government in bribing c. W. Beavers to purchase certain supplies at extortionate prices.
 Seven hundred marble cutters of St. Louis are on a strike and not a marble dealer in the city is doing business. The bosses claim the mems demands are unreasonable, and that they will shut down all winter before they will give in.
 An American who has just re- turned from visit to Spanish Honduras brings back word that that country is rapidly becoming what the eastern imagination form erly pictured the state of Texas the home of crooks. In looking over the American colony in Puerto Cor tez, one finds some of the most mo- ted fnanciers and business men of several states holding either ordi- nary or menial positions or vainly scheming for return of the riches which might mean an ability to compromise with enemies in the United States and happy home coming after years of exile in the wretched torrid country to which crime forced them to fly. The only visible connecting link which they have with the land of their birth is an occasional steamer coming in- to port for a cargo of fruit and de- parting when the task of loading is over. Standing on the wharf as the steamer raises anchor, one may see former bankers, capitalists, state officials and ordinary criminals rubbing elbows, gazing wistfully at the retreating vessel which they dare not board.
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