Newport weekly independent., 1904-03-18
News of the World

with cotton in Texas.
 A mild earthquake shock was felt at St. Louis and vicinity on the 17th inst.
 Fifty-eight persons have lost lives through street car accidents in St Louis since January 1.
 A squadron of the Russian black fleet has sailed for Turkish waters to enforce demands of the czar in the Balkans.
 The collection of internal reve- nue for the month of July was $22,- 16S,4S0, decrease, compared with July, 1909, of $111, ,291.
 Dan Patch, the we'll known pac- ing horse, broke the worlds record at Brighton Beach by going a mile in 1:59. The former record was 1 :59 IA.
 The Missouri Pacific and other southern lines have given notice that from September 1 the rate on yellow pine lumber will be increas- ed two per cent.
 Hon. David P. (Pop) Hadden, for many years president of the Memphis taxing district, and ono of the best known men in south ern public life, is dead.
 A dispatch from Mexico an- nounces that Minister Powell Clay, ton has returned to his post after visit to the states. Col. Clayton is said to be in very poor health. !
 In head-on collision between electric cars at Webb City, Mo, Mo- torman Baker was killed, Motor man Edge fatally injured and over a dozen passengers were badly hurt.
 The 2-year-old child of William Hopkins, of Elwood, Ind, was att tackled by a game cock while play ing in the yard at its home, and so badly injured that it died few hours later. The spurs passed through the breastbone and pene- trated the lungs. Both its eyes were pecked from the sockets by the rooster.
 Colorado and Texas cattlemen vigorously protest against ruling of Chief Coburn of the live stock department of the worlds fair to the effect that range cattle will not be exhibited at the big show in St. Louis. A committee representing western cattlemen will visit St. Louis and endeayor to have the or der rescinded.
 Dispatches report that in Mace donia Albainian troops pillaged many villages and massacred the Christian inhabitants. The bodies of women and children were terri bly, mutilated and thrown into riv- CTS. It is charged that the massa- cres were committed by Bashi.Ba- zouks, with the connivance of Turk ish authorities.
 A bill has been introduced in the Colombian congress, authorizing the government to make new treaty with the United States pro- viding for constructing the Pana- ma canal. Since the defeat of the treaty adopted by the United States senate, advocates of the Nic- araguan route will vigorously op- pose new treaty with Panama.
 The census bureau has published as a bulletin discussion of the in- crease of population in the United States, as shown by the census of 1900. The principal results of the study of these figures are as follows !: The increase in the population of continental United States (that is, the United States exclusive of Alas ka and the recent insular access sions), was 13,o46,S61, or 20.7 per cent. Only one country, Argen- tina, has shown by the most recent figures a more rapid rate of growth. The present rate of growth in conti- mental United States is estimated as double the average rate of Europe. It is nearly double that of Canada, and exceeds by one-sixth that of Mexico and by one-tenth that of Australia. in the decade 1890 to 1900 for thp first tima in 0ur na-