Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-15
ySFs Weekly Indspsndsnr UlHIpT. ARKANSAS.
ARKANSAS.

Negotiations between Japan and Turkey are still under way and it is given out there will be no war for several weeks, at least
 Several Chicago theaters have been closed by the authorities and : will not be re-opened until remod- eled with sufficient exits.
 The lower house of congress has passed bill appropriating $250,- GOO to be used in an effort to exter- minate the cotton boil weevil.
 Managers of leading railroad lines with headquarters in Chicago report the laying off within the past few months of over 1S, S,NL3 employees.
 The usual semi-monthly denial of Senator Hanna'ss candidacy for the nomination for president has been sent out from Washington
 By vote of 30 to 1 the Missis- sippi senate instructed the United States senators from that state to support the Panama canal treaty.
 aonv,nce aney mas Gen. Reyes and qf 2ff Robert ficials of the friendly hear rofs this government toward'ned while of their readiness to usg trash pile.
 fees in the settlement
 in dispute between Caerlcks, one of
 ma. lembers of tho
 T ATctic expedition, died at
 .4apolis, Ind, on the 9th inst. Hon. Charles Foster, ex-governor of Ohio and secretary of the treas ury under President Harrison. died at his home in Springfield last week.
 Forty-three persons were killed by the explosion of the boilers on the British cruiser Wallaroo. The ex- plosion occurred in New South Wales.
 Within the past few months no less than half a dozen people who resisted highway robbers in St. Louis, have met death at the hands "''Uf the bandits.
 Charles Kratz, wanted in St. Louis on the charge of boodling, and who forfeited $2o,00O bond when he fled to Mexico, has been return ed and must stand trial.
 John Alexander Dowie states that he will locate a Zion city at some point in Texas He recently visited the state and has several sites under consideration.
 Seventeen persons were killed in wreck on the Rock Island near Topeka, Kan. The wreck was due to the engineer of a passenger train misunderstanding orders.
 Considerable rioting between cp- posing factions at the recent munic- ipal election in Memphis, where the regular administration ticket was opposed by an independent ticket.
 In order to prevent the threat ened massacre of Jewish inhabi- tants of Kishincff January 2, the Russian Christmas, the governor placed the city under martial law and issued a proclamation threaten ing the scyerest penalties for dis turbing the peace.
 When bank examiner opened the vaults in the State Bank of Highland, Kan, which failed last week, he found only $1,S00 in cash. The deposits at the time the bank closed amounted to more than ESQ., 900. The cashier who wrecked the institution is in jail
 A majority and minority report as been made by the senate com 4'dee on military affairs on the omination of Gen. Wood to be ma or-general. The majority report avors his confirmation.
 Railway gross earnings in 1903 sere larger than any previous year, and exceeded the earnings of 1909 by $1,850,000, or about 8 per cent. The net earnings in 1903 were $5O0,- 100000 less than in 1902 because of the increased cost of traffic.
 Attorney General Knox of the United States has decided that rail- Soad companies have no right to con 1iscate private coal that may be on ,iheir lines, even for the transmission of United States mails.