Newport weekly independent., 1901-07-26
7 Over Sl21.0Oo worth of bushes

stroyed by fire on the 17th.
 Crops in Ireland and Scotland will be almost a total failure on account of drought.
 Ex-Governor Stephens, of Mis- souri, will be a candidate for Con- gress at the next election.
 Gov. Jennings, of Florida, called out company of militia to prevent the lyching of a negro murderer at Lake City.
 Earl Russell, arraigned before the British house of lords for trial on the charge of bigamy, entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to three months imprisonment. Earl Russell secured a divorce from his first wife in the United States, where he mar ried Lady Somerville. A divorce se- cured in this country by an English subject is not held to be legal in England.
 A dispatch says one of the large trust companies of New York city | has decided to make an effort to col lect or compromise the bonds issued by the Southern states during the reconstruction period following the | civil war, and since repudiated in whole or in part by those states. It Is further said that an official of the company admitted that circular inviting cooperation in this venture had been sent out to persons known to hold some of these repudiated bonds.
 A head-end collision between two local freight trains on the M, K. & T. road near Wymark, I. T., killed five men and probably fatally in- jurcd three others The dead: Joe Morris, Parsons; James .Levelle, head brakeman, Parsons; Frank Fitzgerald, head brakeman. The collision occurred on a bridge over the Arkansas river. There Is a sharp curve near the bridge, and when the engineer saw the danger the engines were too close to each other to be stopped. The two en- zines came together in the middle of the bridge. the bridge collabsing, and both engines fell into the river.
 Despite the dropping of 38,0S2 names from the pension rolls through the death of that number of pen sioners during the fiscal year ended June 30, there was a net increase of 4,305 names to the rolls by the granting of new pensions, and the number of names carried on the rolls on June 30 was 997,S34. There was an increase of 2,213 in the num- Der of pensioners who died during the year, as compared with the record of the previous fiscal year, The total expenditures on account of pensions and administration was $13S, ,531 ,494, being an increase of S69,353 over the disbursements of the previous year. The number of claims filed with the pension bureau on account of disabilities incurred in the Sparish-American war az gregated up to June 30 45,710, of which 1,0S6 were granted and ..059 were rejected.
 The census office has issued bull letin concerning the urban popula- tion of the country. It shows that 2S,411 ,G9S people in the United States live in cities and towns of over 1000 population. This is 3;.3 per cent of the entire population, a gain of almost , per cent since the census of 1890, when the percentage was 32.9. Compared with the re turns of 1880 the report shows a gain in the urban population of more than third in percentage and oi considerably more than double ir actual numbers. There were in 1886 5S0 places of more than 1000 per sons each, with an aggregate popu- lation of 12, ,936, ,110, or 25.S per cent of the then population, The per, : 1 oontnro of r,onnlo liI-inoc ;,, o;4:n-