Newport weekly independent., 1901-08-23

hOIu hltCneneT repGGlS Illdt Oen- eral Botha has expressed a desire to surrender.
 The Boes declare no attention will be paid to Lord Kitchncr's banish- ment order
 New gold discoveries have recently been reported in McDuffie, Lincoln and Wilkes counties, Georgia.
 The president of Venezuela ac- cuses the government of Colombia of aiding a force of rebels to invade Venezuelan territory.
 Senator Platt> of New York ad- vises the republicans to nominate an independent democrat for mayor in order to defeat Tammany.
 About forty ocean steamers have been tied up for several weeks at San Francisco on account of inability to secure help to load their cargoes,
 Miss Myrtle Roessles, of St. Louis, attacked burglar at her home, and after a fierce scuf1le compelled him to drop an armful of plunder and flee.
 The severe gulf storm of last week did considerable damage at Mobile and to railroad and other property along the coast from Pensacola to New Orleans.
 It is reported there is great suffer- ing on the island of Panay, P. l., among the farmers from failure of crops and the death of thousands of head of cattle.
 Mrs. M. J. Moss, of Wheelock, Tex, killed twelve rattlesnakes with out being bitten, though she stepped into the nest before becoming aware of the presence of the snakes. Heavy rains in East Tennessee on the 14th and 18th washed away miles of railroad track and numer- ous bridges. The damage to crops and farm property is enormous.
 The commissioner of internal revenue has decided that the internal revenue bureau of the treasury de- partment has no authority to cancel imprinted stamps and then return them to the banks, individuals or firms who send the stamps in for re- demption. This will entail heavy loss to the national banks throughout the country. President Theodore c. Search of the National Association of Manu- lecturers has called special meeting of the executive committee of that organization for September 4 to con- sider the question of reciprocity in all its phases, after which it is said a call will be ssued for national rciprocity convention to be held in Philadelphia.
 The department of agriculture has received a cablegram from Buda Pesth announcing the official esti- mates of August 10 for the Hungar- ian grain crop of 1901. It shows in thousands of Winchester bushels the following estimate, compared with the figures for the crop of 1900: Wheat, 127,693.5 bushels, against 14o,500. Rye, 54,4o3.2 bushels, against 44,300. Barley, 46,S22 bush els against 52,300.
 Russia is on the eve of another famine from a failure of the wheat crop. The famine-stricken area ex- ceeds half a million square miles, and about the same area as that of the great famine of 1891. The popula- tion numbers 43,000,O0O. The hopes founded on the report of the two months have vanished. The havoc has been wrought by the intense heat and entire absence of rain when needed. Afterward there were tor rential downpours and hailstorms. The appearance of innumerable pests is completing the destruction.
 As a result of the steel workers strike great damage is being inflicted upon the United State steel corpora tion in the tin-plate industry. Every tin-plate worker in the United States