Newport weekly independent., 1901-08-09

The progressive democracy is the name of a new political party launched in Ohio.
 All cable and telegraph lines in the Philippines have been opened for comercial purposes.
 John Yodes, sexton at a cemetery in Cripple Creek, Col, fell dead in grave he had just finished digging.
 The cost of the war in South Af- rica to the British from April 1 to July 1 was $37,750,000 pounds, or $7,25O,000 a week.
 The business portion of the town of Clarksville, Mo-, was wiped out by fire on the first. Twelve blocks burned, the loss being over $5O,000.
 The British parliament has voted the sum of $500,000 to Lord Rob- erts in consideration of his services in South Atfrica.
 John A. Hinsey, former president of the Endowment Rank, Knights of Pythias, has been indicted by the Chicago grand jury for perjury in making alleged false reports to the insurance commissioner of Hi nOis
 The North China News an- nounces that there has been a re- crudescence of the outbreaks by the Boxers in the province of Shan Tung in consequence of the suc- cess of the allied villagers in Chi Lii province against the troops of Li Hung Chang.
 The preliminary report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue gives the receipts of the several states and territories in the South west for the fiscal year ending June 1 as follows: Alabama, $573,254; Arkansas, $265,999; Illinois, $55,- 407.024; Indiana, $23, ,466, 6,SS2; $23, ,466,8S2; Iowa, $1,S09, ,939; Kentucky, $25,1S1,305; Missouri, $17,5G5,649; Texas, $1,6S1, ASA.
 The town of Lawton, in Okla homa, sprung up in a night with a population of 1000 people. The town site is just outside the Fort Sill government reservation. It is twenty miles from a railroad, was without water for several days ex- cept what was hauled for miles and sold at 50 cents per barrel. There was much suffering from heat among the settlers, who had to pay as much as $3 per hundred for ice.
 Betsie McCrary, her son, Belfeld McCrary and daughter, Ida Me- Crary, were taken from jail at Car rollton, Miss, by a mob of five hun dred and lynched. The McCrary's were accused of murdering MT. and Mrs. Taliaferro, a prominent white couple. It seems the McCrarys did not actually commit the murder, but entered into the plot with other par ties. The McCrarys were servants at the home of the Taliaferros.
 Hundreds of homeseekers who failed to draw a claim in the new kiowa-Comanche country are selling their tents, horses and wagons at a sacrifice in order to reach their homes. Many others who camped on the borders of the land for months expecting that it would be opened by run" are destitute and already suffering is apparent. Hun dreds are drifting south toward the projected towns of Anadarko, Ho- bart and Lawton, hoping that some thing may turn up.
 In a terrible tragedy at Graham, Tex, Gland W. King and Roger Da- venport lost their lives at the hands of Will Rothwell, who is insane. Both were young men, just grown. They had been friends, and Rothwell, who recently lost his position be- cause of his mental derangement, was in the habit of sitting around the store where young King worked. He appeared at the store with Win chester and shot the two men down