Newport weekly independent., 1904-02-12
News of the World


 Sybil Sanderson, the well known American opera singer, died sud denly in France from pneumonia.
 Former Mayor A. A. Ames of Minneapolis has been convicted and sentenced to six years in the peni- tentiary for receiving bribes while in office.
 Chas. Hiatt has been convicted at Saltwater, o. T., of the murder of his wife. The crime was commit ted nine years ago to prevent the women testifying 10 another crime Hiatt committed. Hiatt was re- gently captured in Virginia.
 Former Lieut.. Gov. Lee of Mis- souri is said to have made state ment to Prosecutor Folk of St. Louis, admitting that he handled $15,0O0 poodle money during the last session of the Missouri legisla- ture.
 By a mistake in orders head-on collision occurred on the Missouri Pacific about twenty miles from St. Louis between the special train of General Manager Harding and an extra fright. The only one injured was colored porter, though both engines were demolished and the cars of the freight were piled in an indiscriminate heap.
 Wm. Mccarthy, condemned wife murderer, confined in jail at Lexington, Ky, committed suicide by swallowing morphine a few hours before the time set for his execution. The death watch sat within a few feet of Mccarthy the night he took the drug, but discovered nothing wrong until a few minutes before the man was dead. The poison was smuggled to Mccarthy by some friends.
 For the week ending the 18th, the commercial agencies report in- dustrial conditions over the county greatly disturbed on account of the unusual number of strikes being waged. Leaders of organized labor justify the demands of their various bodies for increased wages on ac- count of the greatly increased cost of living in cities and industrial sections the past few years, stating that while 1t is a fact that, as rule, labor has been steadily employed, at the same time rents, the cost of fuel and food stuffs, to say nothing of the cost of clothing, has increased in some localities as great as 40 per cent.
 
 According to census bulletin re- gently issued, the cotton crop of 1909 foots up 1O,63O,945 bales of 800 pounds, with some additions yet to be made before the cotton year ends in August. The total crop of 1902 is larger than the crops of 1901, 1900 and 1899 by from 5 to IA per cent. Yet the price is re- markedly high and the market un- usually excited. The value of the cotton crop of 1909 exceeded that of wheat by $34,0o0,o0o and was second only to the corn crop, valued at $921, 100000. For the year end ing June 30 last cotton held the first place in exports, representing a value of $290,0O0,000, which was $77, ,000,000 more than the exports of breadstuffs, and $90,O0O, ,000 more than the exports of meats and dairy products. Adding the cotton goods and cotton-seed oil to the item of raw cotton, the total value of cotton exported during the last fiscal year was S349,000,000, or one fourth the aggregate of all exports.
 The striking trainmen of the Mobile and Ohio railroad were re- inforced by a walk out of all the boilermen, blaclssmiths and machin ists in the shops at Mobile. The service of the road was greatly crippled by the strike, but officials of the road in many eases took the places of strikers and operated the passenger trains. One non-union brakeman was shot and killed hv