Newport weekly independent., 1901-09-13

a member of the Armour Packing Company, died on the 8th.
 Rev. A. F. Goetz, father of the Roman Catholic Church at Lees Summit, Mo-, broke his priestly VOWS and married his housekeeper, Miss Gollhoffer.
 Bishop Charles B. Galloway, of Mississippi, preached the opening sermon at the Worlds Methodist Conference which convened in Lon don on the 4th inst.
 Mrs. W. R, Pigg, a bride of two months, shielded in St. Louis by swallowing morphine. The woman was deserted by her husband four weeks after their marriage.
 The famous Ruskin Colony in Georgia has been disbanded, the last of the property held in common by the members being sold last week by the sheriff to satisfy a mortgage.
 The engineer on a Gulf, Cobra do & Santa Fe passenger train pre- vented hold-up near Guthrie, Okla., by putting on extra speed and clear ing the track of Instructions placed by the would-be robbers.
 At the opening of the Methodist Ecumenical Conference in London on the 4th inst, a colored bishop named Walters, from New Jersey, creating a sensation by declaring that there is systematic effort on foot among white Americans to destroy the good opinion Eng lishmen have of the negro. His remarks have been severely crit icised.
 Probably the only man of any prominence in the United States who did not give utterance to sym pathy for the President and express indignation at the attempt on his life is Senator Wilmington, of Mary land. In an interview he is quoted as follows: "McKinley and I are enemies. 1 have nothing good to say about him, and under the cir cumstances do not care to say any thing bad I am indifferent to the whole matter.'
 The monthly report of the United States department of agriculture shows the average condition of cotton for August 24 to have been TIA, as compared with 77.2 the 25th of the preceding month 68.2 September 1, 1900, 6S.5 September 1, 1899, and a ten year average of 744. There was an impairment of condition dur Ing August amounting to IS points in Texts, 10 in Oklahoma, s in Ar kansas, Z in Alabama, 4 in Virginia, 2 ln Louisiana, and 1 point in North Carolina and Florida. On the other hand there was an improvement dur ing the month in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Indian Terri tory and Missouri, amounting to 8, ,, 3, 1 and f points, respectively. In Mississippi there was no apprecia- ble change in the condition. A con- dition below the ten-year average i5 reported in a majority of the states the deficiency being 15 points in Texas and Arkansas, in North Carolina, 3 in Tennessee and Vir- ginia and 1 in Alabama and Florida. In Oklahoma the condition is 10 points below the average of the five years and in Missouri 6 points be- low the average of the eight years for which statistics are available. On the other hand, the conditions in Georgia Mississippi, South Carolina and Louisiana are 4, 13, 5 and 4 points above their respective ten-year averages and in the Indian Territory 1 point above the average for five years. As compared with September 1, 1900, the conditions at the close of August were less favorable in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma to the extent of 21, 4 and 10 points, respectively, | and 1Nnrn nnorn fn rorn hln Ia 4Ln o..