Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-08
News of the World

Every state republican convention held so far has indorsed President Roosevelt for the nomination. Hon. Joe Cannon, speaker of the house, is being urged by his friends as the logical candidate for vice president as Roosevelt's running mate.
 The department of agriculture is parlng for an active war during
 he year for the eradication of the Zcotton boil wcevil, and have great hopes of success.
 Despite the fact that there has been alleged concentrated effort to discourage trade unionism, the New York state department of la Dor reports a great increase in membership and in unions estab- lished.
 John M. Glover, an ex-congress- man from Missouri, was shot and Tounded by posse of militiamen
 Cripple Creek, Col. The com
 aander of the militia ordered all c1tizens to surrender arms kept at their homes and places of business, and Glover refused to comply. He barricaded himself in his office and " defied the officer with Winches- Ter. until he was wounded.
 After being crazed by stron. drink during his Christmas spree, William Shepherd, Kentucky m6Iltainer, shot and killed Riley Webb, aged 2s, a teamster. Then, turning upon his own wife, Mary Shepherd, who was carrying her lO-months-old baby for protection, shot them both fatally. The mur- derer was captured in the noun l tains after a desperate battle and lged in jail at Whitesburg.
 Details of eleven months com merce of the United States of the year 1903 have been made public by the department of commerce and labor through its bureau of statis- tics. They show an increase in practically all of the great groups into which the bureau of statistics divides the exports and in all of the groups into which it divides the i'm ports. Agricultural products, as a whole, show an increase of S14,- 100000; products of the forests, n$10, 100000; products of the mines, ISS,000,000; manufactures, $5,00O,- 900, and miscellaneous articles, $2,000,00o. In the single group, fisheries, is shown a slight decrease of a little mors tp il $1, 100000.
 Frank Rose, a barber, formerly of St. Louis, deliberately murdered his wife at their rooming quarters < Tn Salt Lake City, Utah, as the wo- man lay on her bed, holding in her arms their 2-year-old babe, and pleading for her life. After com hitting the awful crime Rose wan dered around for several hours and then went to the police station, re- lating the manner in which the crime was committed. When off cers entered the room the child was sitting in the bed, half froze. his nightgown saturated with his moth er's blood. The scene was so pitt ful the police, used to vice and crime as they necessarily arc, burst into tears. Jealousy was the only reason the cold-blooded murderer gave for the crime
 The News, in its annual edition, says: Galveston has broken all rec ords as port and city during the year 1903. There have been expend- ed for private ana municipal inn provements in the city, $S72,000 ; for rebuilding Notifications and jet ties, $430,000, and contracted for continuance of this work, 1,O59,- 900; spent in the construction of the sea wall, $S05,000, leaving balance of $695,000 for completion of the work and filling behind the sea pro- tecti T, all of which has been con- tracted for with the wall two-thirds completed. The port has made a remarkable record, as the following figures willAshow: The total value of freight passing over the Galveston wharyes for the past year was $52s,- 602,561, compared with value of $347 ,993, 163 for the total amount of