Newport weekly independent., 1901-10-04
NEWS OF THE WORLD.


 The army in the Philippines is to be reorganized with a view of re- ducing the expense in that quarter.
 Ten Boer leaders, captured since the 18th of September, have been permanently banished from South Africa.
 Miss Ellen Stone, an American missionary, has been captured by bandits in Turkey and spirited across the border into Bulgaria.
 State troops were ordered to Hop klns county, Kentucky, to prevent threatened destruction of property by striking coal miners and sympa- thizers.
 The Southern railway threatens to remove their shops from Memphis to Sheffield, Ala, because, it is al- legged, non-union machinists are not protected by the officers.
 For the second time requisition has been made by the governor of Kentucky on the governor of h. diana for ex-Gov. Taylor, on the charge that he was accessory to the Goebel killing.
 The first yacht race between the English challenger Shamrock and the American defender Columbia took place September '. Neither boat reached the finishing line in the time limit and the race did not count, but the Columbia was four miles ahead of the Shamrock.
 The will of the late President Me Kinley has been made public His estate, including $67, ,000 in life in- surance, amounts to only $225,OOO. All the property is left to his wife during her lifetime, and at her death Is to be divided share and share alike between his brother and sisters.
 President Schaffer, of the amalga- mated association, has made a state ment giving history of the late steel strike He attributes the loss of the strike to lack of support from other organizations, and accuses the press of prejudicing the minds of the general public against the strik- CTS. MT. Schaffer also says the strike was weakened considerably by failure of some of the steel workers to go out. The amalgamated asso- citation came out of the conflict weaker by the loss of six of the larg- est steel mills in the country, which were formerly union.
 The government report on the cot ton ginned in the United States shows the crop of 1900 to have been 10,4S6, 148 commercial bales (bales as marketed), equivalent to 10,123,- 027 bales of the 800 pound standard, or to 5,061,513,294 pounds. This is an increase of S40,1T4 commercial bales, or more than s per cent in ex- cess of the 1899 crop. TXesas grew 34 per cent of the entire crop of 1900 and one-fourth of the worlds crop of that year. Its crop increased 33 per cent over 1899, the 1900 crop being 3,536,50G commercial bales, and the 1899 crop 2,658,555. East of the Mississippi the production de- creased.
 Gen Wood, who left last week for Cuba, expects to return to Wash ington in November, and bring with him deputation from the Cuban constitutional convention authorized to negotiate a reef procity agree ment. Secretary Root some time ago directed that preliminary ar engagements be made for formulat- ing such an agreement, and this has been done. Assurances were given by the late President Mckinley, when the delegation from the Cuban convention visited Washington, that every effort would be made to bring about closer relations between the United States and Cuba About 100 articles produced in the United