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Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
A Special Grand Jury way De oalieo +o rnvas+;oo+e he Iroquois
 Theater t.o'
THE PROPOSITION DISCUSSElB BY
 STATES ATTORNEY AND CORONER.
Upon Report to Be Made " As- sistnnt States Attorney Birnes' After Thorough Canvass offhe Matter, VIII Rest the Final De- cision.

Chicago, Jan. GA special grand jury may be called to investigate the responsibility for the Iroquois fire hor- TOT The proposition has been dis cussed at conference between States Attorney Deneen and Coroner Traeger, and the decision was that Assistant States Attorney Barnes should be detailed to canvass the situation when the coroner takes Up his plans for the inquest. The coroner will inspect the ruins of the theater, after which the public prosecutor will be given an out line of the evidence to be adduced at the inquest. On the report of the as sistant states attorney will hang the decision as to the summoning of a special grand jury.
 The regular grand jury will be con vened on January 1S Its docket is already heavy Should the coroner's jury hold any persons to the grand jury as responsible for the fire the lat ter would bo swamped with work. On the other hand, on the thoroughness of the question depends the magni- tude of any subsequent investigation. If the coroner's inquiry is exhaustive. the grand jury will have nothing more to do than to examine She evidence brought out at the inquest.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
WAS FOUND IN 4 SNOW DRIFT
An Unknown Man Dead at a Hospital
 at Jacksonville, III.
he Is Supposed to Be George For- 'uise' of Kansas City-Card May
 Lead to Certain Identification.

bloomlngton, H., Jan. GA we'll oressed man with a heavy overcoat. supposed to be George A. Fortune. of Kansas City, died at hospital in jacksonville Monday night. from ths eHects of fall from Chicago & Alton passenger train near Prentice. lie was found in snow drift. and so badly frozen that death was inevitable. ne never regained consciousness. Pa pers found in his pockets indicated his name and residence, but his clothing pore the names of Chicago firms
 lie is 5Tfeet inches in height, slender, has brown eyes, black hair, a protruding upper lip, broad nose and will weigh about 1855 pounds. Two teeth, the middle one and the one be- side 1t, on the left side of the upper jaw, are gone. The remains will be held pending identification.
 In an inside pocket of the victim was found square, plain white card, on which was written in a business hand Julia Kinsley Chicago, IS West Huron street." and on the back side of this card, in the same hand, was written, William Davenport, Sa- voy Hotel'
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Sa ne Cold Wave Has Passed Eastward Growing in Intensity as
 H Went.
THE COLDfST WEATHER IN YEARS
 IN SEVERAL EASTERN STATES.
Railroad Travel Seriously Impeded Owing to the Inability to Main thin steam Pressure In the Face of the Intense CoId--Mnny Points Heard From.

New York, Jan. 6.-Traffic on land and water was in serious trouble Tues cay morning. Transatlantic liners arrived looking like spectre ships Both the East and North rivers were hardly navigable, while the Harlem river, for the first time in eight years, was impossible above Maccomb's dam bridge at One Hundred and F'ifty-ffth streeE Ferry boats and tugs were -sWepts out of their courses by the drift ice, and every ounce of power in them was required to reach their slips. The boats which land at the Battery had to turn battering rams to part the ice in their slips. Mails from the west and east were from six to ten kours late. Snow was not to blame Tor this so much as the inability of the Iocomoticves to keep steam up under the great outside cold pressure
 The severe weather, too, was the cause of an unusual number of fires. Between 2:30 and 8 a. m. thirteen alSrms were sent in. All were small fires.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
WORLDS FAIR BUILDINGS.
oiHcfa1 Report Shows That Little Work Remains to He
 Done on Them.

St Louis, Jan. 6.--The progress re- port of work on the grounds and build ings of the Worlds fair up to Decem- Der 31 shows that but one of the build ings being erected directly by the ex- position management is 100 per cent. completed. That building is dairy barn B. Mr.Taylor's report to President Fran cis shows, however, that most of the exhibit buildings and main cOnstruc- tions are almost finished, nine of them being 99 per cent. completed These nine are the Education, Electricity, Ma chinery, Varied Industries, Agriculture and Liberal Arts palaces and the hos pital, colonnades and restaurants, and the east and west wings of the Art palace
 The following buildings are each 99 per cent. completed: Police station and the two remaining dairy barns. The following are the percentages of com pletion for the other buildings now be- ing erected by the exposition manage ment: Horticulture, Mines and Metal lurgy, 9S per cent. each; Manufactures. 97 per cent; Transportation, 96; power house, 95; Forestry, Fish and Games. S5; main Art palace, S4; frieght houses Mes. 1 and 2S, each, TO; Festival hall and Sculpture hall, each, 50 per cent.
 In the construction of the state buildings the following figures are given: Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arizona. Connecticut and Nevada, each. 100 per cent; Kansas and Iowa, each. 99 per cent; West Virginia, 9S; Missouri 96; Kentucky, 94; New Jersey, 93 Wis consin, 92; Ohio, Utah and Arkansas. each, 90; California, S5; New York. S4; Indiana and Illinois, each, 80; Penn sylvania and Rhode Island, each. 65; Indian territory and Texas, each, 60; Montana, 52; South Dakota, Washing ton and Massachusetts, each, 50; Mis- sissippi, 45; Idaho, 35; Michigan 15.
 Of the foreign buildings now under construction, only the Mexican is giv- en as completed. The others are as follows: France, 95; Great Britain, 92; Canada, 90; Ceylon and Brazil, each, S5; Germany, 70; China, 55; Nicaragua and Belgium each 30; Cuba,20 The re- port shows that the buildings erected on the Philippine concession and for the fraternal orders are we'll advanced.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
A THEATER IN DARKNESS.
Only the Presence of Mind of the Audience Prevented Panic
 at Kansas City.

Kansas City, Mo, jan. 6.-But for the presence of mind of the audience a panic would have occurred in the Willis Wood theater, Monday night a few minutes after the performance started.
 For 45 minutes the house was in all most total darkness two candles on the stage furnishing the only light
 chorus of the Sultan of Sulu" company was just marching on the stage when the whole house was sud denly plunged into darkness. The per- fermance continued in the dark. Then the lights were turned on and the play began again. The blowing out of 2 fuse in street transformer caused tbe accident
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.
Esfdcace Brought Out By the Fire
 Depa aSTment Inquiry

Chicago, Ja1. 6.-Evidence showing grosser criminal negligence than any thing previously developed was given under oath, Tuesday, in the fire depart ment investigation of the Iroquois hor- TOT. Jos. Daugherty, who had charge of the curtain, swore that, two weeks ago, during a matinee performance, there was fire on the stage, and when the attempt was made to lower the asbestos curtain it was stopped by the same obstruction that prevented it's op- eration last Wednesday, the fatal of terncon.
 The curtain manager declares that he protested at that time, but that no attention was paid to his warning. Tn his opinion, if the curtain had been run down during the fatal matinee the lives of many, if not all the victims of the disaster might have been saved. It was only by the merest chance that a panic was averted as the result of the first fire. The skylight at that time, he said, was securely closed.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
THE CoLDEsT SINCE 1875.
E6t Since 1875 Has It Been So Cold
 In January in New Yo~k

N0t since 1875 Has It Been So Cold
 in January in New Yo~k.
 New York, Jan. 6.--When the gov ernment thermometer reached 4 below zero at five o'clock Tuesday morning all local January cold records since 1879, when 6 below was registered, were beaten. Thermometers in vari- ous outlying parts of the city went sew eral degrees lower, and in the suburbs from 8 to 12 below zero was reached. At nine o'clock, the official thermome- ter had gone up to below and the ab- sence of wind was some relief.
 The intense cold interfered consider ably with all outdoor occupations and delayed all regular and suburban trains from a few minutes to several hours. The effects of the heavy snow had been overcome, but it was difficult to keep steam and many local trains had to be abandoned on account of dis abled engines.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Panama navy is declared by press correspondent to be a huge joke Delaware's whipping post and stocks will be exhibited at the Worlds fair. The closing of the Chicago theaters throws over 5000 people out of em- ployment
 A model Indian school will be carried on at St. Louis during the progress of the Worlds fair. SaMuel G. Jarvis, deputy grand lec- turer for the Masonic order in Illinois, is dead Galesburg, III
 It is reported that Germany may of fer her good offices for mediation be- tween Japan and Russia.
 Rev. Dr. J. N. Beard, of San Fran cisco, died at the Terminal hotel, St. Louis, from heart disease.
 Asbestos curtains in all the St. Louis theaters will be tested by Building Commissioner Hamburger.
 The national guard of Uruguay has been called out to suppress the revolu- tion in the province of Maldanado
 James w Corcoran has been selected for jury commissioner of St. Louis to succeed Col. ]. G. Prather, deceased.
 From mail advices, Worlds fair of ficials are apprised that hundreds of tons of exhibits are on their way to St. Louis.
 William A. Kena, a farmer, was found frozen to death in a lot within short distance of his house near Pana. III.
 Winter wheat is suffering in the southwest because of drought Alter nate freezing and drawing is also quite injurious.
 George P. Morehead, wealthy mer- chant of South Bend, Ind, died with in half an hour after the marriage ceremony was performemd.
 The joint army and naval board, of which Admiral Dewey is head, recom- mend the fertilization of a Philippine port for a naval base in the far east.
 E. P. McNamara, a former St Louis patrolman, is charged by Charles Wehmeyer with having been one of three who held him up and robbed him.
 The work of building the United States governmemnt's monster bird cage for it's pathological exhibit has been commenced at the Worlds fair grounds at St. Louis
 Mondays fire in the Iowa state capi- tol ruined the northwest wing of the building, where the chamber of the house Of representatives is located en- tailing a loss of about $500,000.
 A committee appointed by the may or of Springfield, H., to report on the condition of laeal halls and theaters, declares that in its opinion not one of them is safe in case of fire or panic.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
IN PENNSYLVANIA.

Some Low Temperatures. and Min-
 ing Seriously Hampcrcd.
 Wilkesbarre, Pa, Jan, 6.-The tenn perature, Tuesday, was the seyerest in many years in this section of the state At Glen Summit the thermometer was 2S below zero; at Hillside, 25 degrees below; at Mountain Top, 29, while in this city it recorded as low at IA below. below
 Coal mining is seriously hampered, and while the demand for coal is great, and many companies have been unaole for week to make deliveries.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
THE SAME N PHIEADELpHIA.
The Delaware River i. F, -n Fron Shore fn GIln.

The Delaware River is F, 1.z.n From l, shore to sho Philadelphia, Jan. S@OfficiaI figures E t4is to be the coIdest January c3 this city mas experienced since LS75. At seven o'clock Tuesday morn ing the weather bureau thermometer registered 2 degrees below zero, while in the subrubs the mercury ranged from to 10 degrees below
 The Delaware river, below this city, is frozen from shore to shore for the first time in years, interfering seriously with the movement of shipping
 In the mountain districts and coal regious the thermometer ranged from to 25 degrees below zero, and coal mining has been seriously interfered with, many mines being unable to op- crate.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Mercury Hunting for Bottom.

Amsterdam, N. Y, Jan. 6-The av- craze temperature in this city, Tues day morning, was 26 and 29 degrees be- low zero. The electric system between this city and Gloversville and Scnnec- tady is tied up. Trains on the New York Central railroad are from three to five hours late.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Rev. E. W. Cook.

New York, Jan. 6.-Rev E. w. Cook, one of the three survivors of Yale's famous class of 1887, Is dead at his home in Brooklyn. Before he took up missionary work in 1868 he filled several pulpits in the west.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Extends over Delaware.

Wilmington, Del, Jan. 6.-The cold wave extends over Delaware with prac- tically no variation Monday night the thermometer ranged from 6 to 8 de- grees below zero In this city many large industrial establishments suf- fered from bursting pipes, and were compelled to shut down
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
watchmnn Burned to Death.

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. CT. J. Craw- ford, night watchman in the Cushman motor factory here, was burned to death in the factory early this morn ing. He was sitting at desk sleeping, with his lantern on the floor at his side, and it is supposed the lantern ex- ploded and Crawford was burned to death.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Coin Counting nee.

St Louis, Jan. 6.-More than 9,000,- 900 silver dollars and s11,000,0 ,00O in gold, which are deposited in the St. Louis subtreasury, are being counted by treasury officials. The work was begun last Saturday and it will take several weeks.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
ottawa tontl Post Office Burned.

Ottawa, Ont, Jan 6.-With the ther- ommeter 23 below zero this city, Mon day night, was threatened with another destructive fire. The post office, a four story building in the center of the bus mess section, was destroyed involving . loss of S100,000.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Thfrty-six Below Zero.

Fishkill Landing, N. Y, Jan. 6.-At Fishkill, at five o'clock Tuesday morn ing, the thermometer registered 36 be- tow zero. Along the Newburg bay sec ton of the Hudson river it registered gariously from 20 to 36 degrees below.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
IRoaUoIs THEATER SITE.

Proposition to Replace the Theater
 With Memorial Building.
 Chicago, Jan. 6.-Use of the Iroquois theater site as memorial through the erection of church or memorial build ing to replace the present scared scared structure, is suggested The idea is to emulate the people of Vien- na, who, in memory of 500 lives lost in the Ringstrasse theater, in 1881, have erected magnificent church on It's site.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
More Toy pfstoI yic,t,nx

Pine Bluff Ark, Jan. 6.-Mls. Frank Walker, of Sulphur Springs, near here, and Frank Swab. Jr, of Pine Bluff. died as the the result of lockjaw caused by injury from toy pistols dur ing Christmas tide.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Mrs. Margaret o.Nein Ryan.

St. Louis, Jan. 6.-Mrs Margaret O'Neill Ryan, mother of Judge O'Nein Ryan, died, Monday night, at her home, in this city at the age of S1 years. She had been in poor health for several months Mrs Ryan, who was born in Derry, Ireland, had lived in St. Louis over fifty years.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Galleries Ordered Closed.

Cleveland, O., Jan, 6.-The fire de- pertinent officials have ordered the galleries of the Cleveland theater and the Lyceum thea'sr closed to patrons until safety precautions order have been put into effect.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
A Candidate for ne-EIcc,Ion

Louisville, Ky, Jan. 5.A special dis patch to the Times from Washington quotes United States Sentor Blackburn as announcing himsef for reelection. This has been matter of much spec ulation throughout Kentucky.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Hay For the Philippines.

San Francisco, Jan. GA govern ment contract for 110.00o bales of wheat and oat hay, or about 5,40O tons has just been let to merchants of this city for a total price of S1Oo,OOO, for army use in the Philippines.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Mrs. Mary E. w.. Latimer.

Baltimore Md, Jan. 6.-Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wormely Latimer, novelist, writer of historical works and liberal contributor to the magazines, died here Monday. She was S1 years old. She began writing when 27 years old.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
MANY CHURCHES UNSAFE.
Trustees Are Taking Steps to Meet
 Requirements for Safety.

Chicago, Jan 6.-That many places of worship in Chicago are not entirely safe from fire disaster such as oc- cured in the Iroquois theater is now admitted by chu ch trustees. The first steps have been taken by the Hyde Park Baptist church to secure improved conditions. The board of trustees, at meeting, have decided to write to Mayor Harrison and ask him to have competent building in spector examine the cuhrch.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Killed DN n ,CrniIl

Dubuque. Ia. Jan 6-George Dun kley, aged II, and Clifford Dunkley, aged nine, were killed here, Monday, at a grade crossing by Chicago Great Western passenger train, and Edward Koch was fatally injured.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Indicted for EmbexxIement.

Washington, Jan. 6.-The grand jury has reported three indictments for embezzlement, aggregatiEg S73,- 900, against James M. A. Watson, for merly clerk in the office of the au- ditor of the District of Columbia. Wat con has been in jail since last June.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
COLD IN CONNECTICUT.
The CoIdest Morning Experienced
 In the Last Five Years

Tn the Last FIve fcars.
 New Haven, Conn, Jan 6.-Tuesday was the coldest morning in the last five years in Connecticut, according to the measurements of the weather bu- reau station. From midnight until s d. m. the official thermometer reading in this city was below zero. Inland points reported much lower tempera- lures, the lowest among them being Danbury, 26 below.
 Traffic on all divisions of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad was again delayed on account of the dif4edlty of making steam"
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Albany Ikn't MeItinc,.

Albany, N. Y, Jan. 6.-Twenty five degrees below zero, the lowest tenn perature in 2S years, was recorded here.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
ANOTHER VICTIM DEAD.

Death of Miss Josephine Spence.
 One of Those Severely Turned.
 Chicago, Jan. 6-The Iroquois thea ter fire claimed fresh victim Tues day, making the total number of deaths 591. Miss Josephine Spence was one of those severely burned in the fire She was found by relatives and taken to her home where she died.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Coolest in rrox,s History.

Troy, N. r., Jan. 6-In exposed 32 degrees below, and at other points 22 below, the coldest in the history of Troy and vicinity.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
Pretty Cola in Ohio.

Youngstown, O., Jan. 6.-The mer- enry registered 16 degrees below zero at seven o'clock Tuesday morning, the toldest weather here since February
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Resolution Adopted Tn the Senate Calling for Report on Condition
 of Washington Theaters.

Washington, Jan 6.-When the sem ate met Tuesday, MT. Hale introduced a resolution requiring the commission CTS of the District of Columbia to re- port upon the condition of theaters in Washington: It was agreed to with out debate.
 MT. Lodge then began his speech on Panama.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
IIouse.

In the house the resolution, offered by MT. Emerick Qll.) was agreed to, rendering sincere and tender sympa- thy with the striken citizens of Chica- go and elsewhere in their sad bereave- ment and desolation.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08

10, 1899, when the mercury dropped to
 24 degrees below.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-06-09
Babe Blown from Mothers Arms.
A RIOT AT ST. LOUIS.
When the Bull Flight" Was Stopped the
Crowd Went Wild and Buildings
We're Wrecked,

st. Louis, June 6.-Incensed over
their failure to see genuine Span
ish bull fight" which the authorities
had ordered stopped, riot was started
in an arena near the worlds fair
grounds yesterday evening by crowd
Of $500 men and boys, who were I'M
able to get their money back, and the
building was burned to the ground.
The price Of admission charged was
81. Four men were placed under ar
rest by the authorities Of st. Louis
county, charged with the destruction
of property. The crowd, thinking
these men were connected with the
show, made an attempt to mob them
and in their encounter with the deputy
sheriffs q number were roughly ham
died and some received scalp wounds.
The building is a total loss, with no
insurance, 1t is reported.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-06-09
CALIFORNIA DOG PAINTER.
Painted the Animals So Well That
They Had to Have Chains
on Them.

eyes, sir. For instance" said painter,
relates the San Francisco Post, there's
mammoth winter storm landscape I've
just finished for Mr.. Mudd, the bonan-
"a king. It's called A Hailstorm in
sat down near It the other day caught
sore throat in less than 10 minutes.
The illusion is SO perfect, you understand.
Why, had to put in the finishing touches
with my ulster and arctic overshoes on"
Don't say"
Fact, sir; and then there's q little
animal gem / did for Gov. Gierkins the
other day-portrait of his Scotch ter
rier Snap. The morning it was done
cat got into the studio, and the
minute i saw the picture it went through
the window like lO-inch shell"
did, eh!"
"Yes; and the oldest thing about IL.
was>that when next looked at the cam
vas the dogs hair was standing up all
along his back, like q porcupine. Now
how do you account for that!"
Dunno"
1T just beats me. When the governor
examined the work he insisted in my
painting in q post with the dog chained
to it. Said he didn't know what might
happen"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-06-09
Improbable Mining.

The most recent report on mining
in the United States is for 1902. Dur
ing that year there were 1916 mines,
quarries and wells in operation, CIV
ing employment to 619,S56, and cost
ing their owners or operators s624,-
245,330. The value Of the product
mined was $796,S26.417. So the net
gain over and above expenses for
labor and material was $172,5S1 ,0S7.
The number Of operators was 46,S56.
The net profit to each operator, there
fore. was only 1864, or for each mine,
81. 139.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-06-09
IN FEVER OF ANXIETY.
British OmcIais Want TO succor Col. Young
husband and Bis Little Hand BE-
sieged by Tibetans.

London. June 7.-British govern.
ment officials are in fever OF anxiety
as to the fate of Col. Younghusband
and his gallant little army Of $500
men, who are beseiged by 10000 fanat-
zeal Tibetans far up amid the frozen
peaks Of the Himalaya mountains. The
Indian government is rushing relief
expedition Of native troops to Gyang
Use, where Col. Younghusband's force
was encamped when last heard from.
The house of commons has. by vote
Of 270 to 61, declared that no expense
shall be spared to save the expedition.
and hundreds Of thousands Of pounds
are being expended with that end in
view.