Newport weekly independent., 1901-09-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Shamrock Il, ln defense of Amer ica's cup.
 Two hundred and twenty-six sol diers stationed at Fort McPherson were made dangerously sick by pot maine poisoning.
 An offer of mediation has been made by the United States to Col ombia and Venezuela, and Colombia has signified her willingness to ac- cept.
 Charles Ward who at the breaking out of the civil war invested large fortune in Confederate bonds, died last week in the poor house at Chat tanooga, Ala.
 It is reported that the Danish ministry had decided to accept the offer of the United States for the purchase of the Danish West Indies.
 James Howard and ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers, convicted as Goebel murder conspirators, quarreled in jail at Frankfort when Howard threw heavy inkstand at Powers, striking him on the head and knocking him senseless. Both men occupied the same cell, and had been the best of friends The trouble was over the division of funds collected for their defense.
 In all 10,462, ,000 pieces of money were coined at hints of the United States during the month of August. Ot the total there were 1.932 .OOO silver dollars, 9G0,O00 half dollars, and 1,109,000 quarters. The other money included 154,O0O double ea- gles, valued at $3,OSO, 1000; 1S7 ,O0O eagles valued at $1, ,81O, ,00O; 366,00 half eagles valued at $1,S3O,OOO D. cent pieces, 3,174,OOO, valued at $158, zoo; 1-cent pieces, 6,061, ,O00, valued at $60,610. Of the coinage 707,OO0 gold pieces were made, with value of $6,7SO,0O0, and of silver there were S,52O,00O, valued at $3,- 141,00O.
 Recent reports show the reason for the immense cost of the South African war to the British govern ment, when 1t is revealed that 25O,- 900 men are kept in the field at such a long distance from the source of supplies of all kinds. In may last the British force in South Africa included 249 ,416, officers and men, made up as follows: Regulars, 13S,O62; militia, 20,104; colonials, 5S,o21; imperial yeomanry, 23,1O4 volunteers, 9,3S5. Classifying diff ferently they are as follows: Cav airy, 14,0O0; artillery, 11,50O; in- fantry and mounted infantry, 95,- zoo; others, 13,619.
 The totals of Hester's report of the cotton crop of the United States show total crop of 190O-1901 of 1O,274, $40 bales, against 9,436,41 last year and 11,274,94O the year before. The mills of the south used 1,620,931 bales, which was 23,S19 bales more than during 1899-19OO, against consumption by the north of 2,050,000. The cotton crop for the different states is given as fol- lows: North Carolina, etc., 542 1000 South Carolina, 911,00O; Georgia, 1895, 1000; Alabama, 1,0OO,OOO; Florida, 45,000; Mississippi, 95O,- 900; ouisiana, 719, LOGO; Arkansas, 5000; Tennessee, 5o,oO0; Texas, 3,8O9,OOO.
 Orders have been issued by the war department for the opening of a war college at Washington barracks, near the national capitol. This col lege vii be for the theoretical and technical training of the officers of the army. The plan of the Secre- tary of War is for a school for army officers similar in many respects to the naval college which the navy de- partment maintains at Newport. The location close to the national capital was decided upon by the Sec rotary hncauCn Of tho location o+ |