Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-22
News of the World

ASA uuSt1CctS IcpOII du uuuSudl Christmas trade throughout the country.
 Sixty-four people lost their lives in wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Connellsville, Pa., Christmas eve The wreck was due to a carload of lumber becom- ing loose and being scattered along the track. The passenger train was going at the rate of sixty miles an hour, and the cars were piled upon one another and the track torn up for several hundred yards. Added to the horrors of the scene ghouls are said to have robbed the dead and injured passengers before the ar- rival of officers.
 Frank M. Higgins, chief examiner of the civil service commission, in hls annual report, says during the last fiscal year there were 112,624 persons examined for classification service of the government and 40, ,423 appointments; 24 per cent were to purely clerical positions, per cent to professional, and 76 per cent to skilled labor positions, not exactly mechanical, requiring no education. Of all those examined nearly 80 per cent passed and 36 per cent of all examined were successful in secur- ing appointments.
 Diplomatic pressure will be brought to bear upon Colombia by several European powers to prevent war between that country and the United States. The first step in this direction already has been taken by several powers through their repre- \ sentatives, who have informed Gen. Rafael Reyes of the futility of any )ttempt by Colombia to retake Pan anna, declaring that it will result only in precipitating the Bogota gov ernment into war with the United States, and have said to him that the result of such catastrophe Co., lombia herself must realize.
 The capture in South Texas, few days ago, of Jim Moody, alias Jack Wilson, recalls the many des- perate encounters Texas and Terri tory officials had with the famous feacbs Jack gang of highwaymen and; Y bropa robbers. All the members of of hang are either dead or in prison nth the exception of Bill Taylor, Fho is known to be somewhere inf Mexico. Taylor made his escape from the Texas penitentiary several years ago, and, after killing a former member of the gang who turned states evidence and delivered him to the authorities, fled to Mexico. A fast train on the Frisco was wrecked at Godfrey, Kan, on the 21st, in which eight persons were killed and thirty-two injured. Of the injured five will die. The dead: James Kirkpatrick, Mosby, Mo. George Hoyt, conductor, Sapulpa, I. IT; D. A. Dewers, engineer, Fort Scott, Kan. Theo. Bishard, fireman, Fort Scott, Kan. James H. Wyman (colored), Fleming, Kan; Asa Moreland, Lenox, Kan; Leon Cor bin, Bessie, Okla; Joseph Corbin, Bessie, Okla; John Bluebacker, news agent, Kansas City. Fatally injured: Sheridan Kanable, Hop pertown, Okla; F. B. Carroway, Jonesboro, Ark. John Bell, express messenger, Kansas City; H. B. Dar- lington, mail clerk, Kansas City. When the train reached Godfrey 1t was behind time and running full speed. The crew of a freight train which had preceded left the switch are n and the passenger jumped the f,stk and rolled down a slight em- bankment. All the coaches with the exception of the sleeper, turned over sand were completely wrecked.
 George Calhoun, negro, ran amsck at Montgomery, Ala, and shot and killed his wife, Fannie, and wounded four other negroes. Cal houn called his wife to the door, and standing within ten feet of her, fired both barrels of double-barreled shotgun into her body and, calmly reloading, made sure of his work with another shot. He then fired into the house, wounding two. The other two received their wounds