Newport weekly independent., 1904-02-12

The safe at the union ticket office at Birmingham, Ala, was robbed o1 l $7,000 in cash.
 A man by the name of Curtis Jett has been arrested, charged with the assassination at Jackson, Ky, of Attorney Marcum. Jett is also accused of assassinating two other parties interested in the election contests that resulted in Marcum's death.
 The strike of trainmen on the Mobile and Ohio extends over the entire system. Trains were desert ed at many way stations by crews, and all efforts to handle freight had to be abandoned. The effect of the strike is felt by shippers along the entire length of the system from St. Louis to New Orleans.
 Former State Senator F. l.. Busche of Missouri, laboring under a heavy mental strain owing to in yestigations into boodling in the Missouri legislature, has made a complete confession of the workings of the combine to Attorney Folk of St. Louis. Busche's declarations in- yolve several men of prominence, and he names those who have been conspicuous at the state capital as distributors of poodle.
 An officer of the monitor Arkan- sas, which is tied up at St. Gene vieye, Mo, states that. owing to low water, the vessel may be compelled to remain where she IS all summer, unless June rise comes. Some of the vessels crew will be transferred to other war ships in the cast and those remain. ing on the Arkansas will pass the summer and fall in the comprehen- sive drills which will probably make the boat an object of attraction tc the western people.
 Reports from Guatamala state that terrible destruction resulted from recent eruptions of St. Maria volcano. All the coffee plantations in the vicinity of the volcano have been destroyed for all time. Ashes from ten to fifteen feet deep cover the country. In the neighborhood of the volcano ashes are so deep that only some of the. tops of trees can be seen. Scoria and ashes cover 1000 square miles of land to a depth of five to fifteen feet and five thousand square miles to depths of from one to five feet. One-third of the coffee crop has been destroyed.
 Judge Dickinson of Omaha, upon application of an attorney representing labor unions, issued a sweeping injunction against busi- ness men from refusing to sell goods to dealers who employ union men, and forbidding tko merchants association from holding meet ings and conspiring against the unions, or in any way interfering in the management of union affairs. The court also enjoins the mer- chants association from importing or engaging agents or servants to import any laborers into the city of Omaha or state of Nebraska in pur- suance of any existing plan to de- stroy labor organizations or under any similar or new arrangement or plan.
 That the proposed road from Paris to Hot Springs, chartered as the Central of Arkansas, will be speedily constructed, there is nc doubt whatever expressed by those acquainted with the parties fnanc- ing the scheme. The directors are F. A. Molitor, A. W. Lefeber, J. c. Hart, W. W. Gardner and w. R. Abott, and it is reported Col. J. W. Mcleod will shortly be added to the board. All the above named gentlemen were directors of the Choctaw when that line was sold to the Rock Island and did much toward developing the Choctaw into a great railway. An agent for the Central has been at work several months buying up coal lands along