Newport weekly independent., 1901-06-21

renee county, Ala.
 Spain will negotiate loan for the purpose of recognizing her navy and preparing for territorial de- fense.
 The British government has de- clined to reimburse German and Holland holders of Transvaal rail- way stocks.
 Jim Deems, colored highwayman, who held up several trains in the vicinity of Atchison, Kan, was sen- tenced to twenty years in the 'Kap- sas penitentiary.
 Gen. Shafter and Col. Manns, in- spector general of the department of California, and the federal grand jury are Investigating the numerous charges of fraud committed sn the commissary department at San Fran cisco.
 The British government has de. cided to levy $25O,000,O00 on the Transvaal gold mines to pay half the cost of the war. As these gold mines were the real underlying cause of the war, it Is maintained that their owners should be made to bear a large share at least of its heavy ex- pense.
 John G. Foster, son of a wealthy planter, was murdered on a planta- tion, near Shreveport on the 12th. by a negro named Edwards. Foster was shot from a cabin in which was huddled about a dozen negroes. all of whom with the exception of Ec- wards were taken into custody. For few hours 1t looked as though all the parties under arrest would be lynched, but the absence of the real culprit held the mob in check.
 President Harper, of the Univer- sity of Chicago, announces that the university has begun to establish affiliated preparatory schools in diff ferent parts of Europe These schools will be branches of academies which are affiliated with the univer- sity in this country. The purpose of this plan is to give opportunity to the children of the college age whose parents are travelling abroad during the year to have the benefits of foreign residence without ob. structing the progress of their studies.
 The trial of Mrs. Lula Kennedy for the murder of her husband at Kansas City came to an end on the 18th when the jury returned a yer dict of guilty and fixed her punishment at ten years in prison. Mrs. Kennedy is not yet 20 years of age. Kennedy was compelled by the girls relatives to marry her, but refused to recog- nlze her as his wife. January 10 last Mrs. Kennedy went to her hus- bands office, and after pleading with him to recognize her as his lawful wife, which he refused to do, she emptied the contents of a revolver into his body, death resulting in- stanly. The defense contcnded that Kennedy had ruined the girl and driven to desperation by her shame and his action in filing a suit for di- vorce, she shot him while in state of mind bordering on insanity. She will seek a new trial.
 Secretary of War Root is credited with the statement that troops in Cuba will not be withdrawn for at least year. The secretary says : The adoption of the Platt amend ment by the Cubans as a part of their constitution does not close the responsibility placed upon the presi- dent by congress. 1t will be the duty of the president to see that the conditions imposed by the amend ment are satisfactorily carried out. The language of the Platt amend ment directed that the withdrawal of the troops should occur 'so soon as government shall have been es- tablishpd undor q constitution which