Newport weekly independent., 1904-01-22

CdPdl lo negotiating WlIH CIllc and other South American govern ments for the purchase of a number of warships to add to her fleet.
 The death rate in St. Louis the week ending December 2S exceeded the birth rate by over 50 per cent, due principally to accidents and tragedies usual at Christmas time.
 Some unknown person sent to the city collector of St. Louis Christmas day $40O conscience money, stating the above sum was due on property that had escaped taxation.
 l.. F. Lore, president of the Bal timore and Ohio, has been chosen president of the Rock Island, ef- fective January l, to succeed w. B. Leeds. The latter will remain as member of the Rock Island ex- ccutlvo committee.
 At meeting of the state railroad commission, held at Texarkana, To- cal shippers and jobbers presented a petition, alleging that present freight rates of the various railroads discriminate against them in favor of other jobbing points.
 The withdrawal of the marines from the isthmus of Panama. to be begun soon after the ratification of the Panama canal treaty by the senate, has been determined upon. They will be replaced, however, by permanent garrison of soldiers.
 A company has been organized with the object of revolutionizing the labor question of Mexico by the flooding of that country with Japa- nese workingmen. The above com pany has secured the exclusive priv ilege of taking workmen from Ja- pan.
 The tallest building on earth is to be erected in lower Broadway, New York City, if the present plans are carried out. With five stories below the street level, forty stories high from the entrance to the top floor and surmounted by 60-foot tower, the gigantic new building will have a total height of 615.
 Gen. Powell Clayton, United States ambassador to Mexico, now visiting in Arkansas, when asked if he thought there was likely to be a change in the government of Mexi- co, said: q do not think 1t at all probable that Senor Limantour or any one else will succeed Presi- dent Diaz as long as he lives. The people have the utmost confidence in him, and he more nearly ap- breaches my ideal of a great man than any one else l know. He is the father of Mexico, and can be president as long as he lives and will hold the office."
 A cablegram from London says that 10000 Jews, trapped in Kish- ineff, await in terror for the com ing of the Russian Christmas day on January Z, when the brutal and infamed Russian population of that town plans to begin the new slaughter that is destined to leave the place without q living Jewish inhabitant. The horror of the sit uation is almost beyond compre- hension. No effort is made to keep secret the preparations for the wiping out of half the population ot the city. Daily pamphlets call ing upon the Russians to arise against the Jews on Christmas cir culate from hand to hand, and the distribution is aided by the police and soldier of the town. The Jews know the fate that is to be theirs, but can not eyade it.
 Two were killed and six injured in rear-end collision at Williams town, Ky, on the Cincinnati South ern railway. A wrecking train that was backing up from Mason, Ky, was met by freight train. The relief car and two cabooses on the wrecking train were wrecked, and afterward took fire. The cars burned so quickly that James Lux and Florence Crawley, two work men, perished. Two others in the