Newport weekly independent., 1901-11-29

the late Senator Davis.
 The chief collector of internal revenue has rendered decision to the effect that beer, whisky, etc., exported to the Philippines is liable to the internal revenue tax.
 United States Commissioner F. s. Goodrich and Indian Inspector Mar tin J. Bentley have been appointed delegation to visit Washington and urge President Roosevelt to pardon the Pottawattomie county citizens who are now in United States pris- ons charged with Kidnapping and burning two Seminole Indians at Mound, Okla., in 1898.
 Richard Croker, leader of Tam many, asserts that during the recent city campaign in New York he was denounced as a thief and boodler by his opponents, and now that they are in power, he calls upon them to prove their assertions. There seems no legal way in which MT. Croker's connection with the administration of New York City, through Tamma- ny, can be legally investigated. The internal revenue department has de- cided that the Vanderbilt heirs must pay into the United States treasury the sum of $360,000 as inheritance tax. The heirs have already paid on inheritance tax to the state of New York of $520,995.
 N. c. Rathbun, who attempted to fraudulently collect life insurance by substituting corpse for that of his own, has been indicted at Jef- fersonville, Ind, for murder in the first degree for the killing of the man supposed to be Chas. Goodman, of Evansville. There are six counts in the indictment, as follows: That of administering a poison to Chas. Goodman; giving laudanum to male person, unknown to the grand jury; giving an unknown poison to an unknown male person; admins tering an anaesthetic poison to Chas. Goodman; administering an anaesthetic poison to an unknown person, in each case unlawfully The new treaty between the Unit ed States and England was signed on the 18th inst. by Secretary Hay for the United States and Lord Pauncefote for Great Britain. The principal point of difference between the new treaty and the one defeated by the senate is the withdrawal of Great Britain from the joint guar antee of the neutrality of the canal, thus leaving the United States the sole guarantees. The excision of the old provision respecting the right to fortify the canal leaves that right by inference optional with the United States. All commerce of whatever nationality passing through the canal will fare alike; there will be no discrimination in rates in fa- vor of United States shipping. Full text of the new document will not be made public until it is submitted to the United States senate for rati- fcation.
 Indian Commissioner Jones, in his annual report to the secretary of the interior, gives brief resume of the educational work of the Indian Ter ritory nations. In the Choctaw na- ton there are five academies and 160 day or neighborhood schools. The total attendance is 2,555 and the cost $96,00S.56 per annum. The Chickasaw nation has an average att tendance of 315 at its five principal schools, which are maintained at a cost of $14,025 year. The Creek nation has 9 boarding schools, 6 for Indian children and 3 for children of their freedmen. There are also GA neighborhood schools, of which Al are for Indians and 23 for negro children. The average attendance is 1,407 and the total annual cost $6S,- l OSO L., Iln Gln.a1-an