Newport weekly independent., 1901-08-16
NEWS UF THE WORLD.

A financial crlsls IS sad to De lm- pending in Germany.
 Empress Frederick, mother of Emperor William, of Germany, died on the 5th.
 Many persons who drew land in Oklahoma for speculation, have be- come discouraged and forfeited their claims.
 Steps are to be taken to upset the recent land lottery in Oklahoma, on the ground that the scheme was illegal.
 Since free trade went into effect in Porto Rico, coffee has been inn ported into that country from Brazil and sold at less than the home grown product.
 Nathan Caruthers, colored, was legally executed at Memphis on the 9th for the murder of Officer Mod hem. The crime was committed in June, 1900.
 The farmers of the south will be among the greatest sufferers from the strike of steel workers, as cotton ties will greatly increase in price if the trouble is not speedily settled.
 Ex-United States Senator Chand- Ter has prepared charges against Ad- miral Bob Evans for conduct un- becoming an officer of the navy, al leging that the admiral, in his '1og book," criticised his official action while secretary of the navy.
 One of the biggest and most dar- ing robberies on record is reported from San Francisco. The Selby Smelling Company is the victim, and the loss is placed at $290,000. The thieves tunneled under the outer wall of the building to the vault and carried away 12,000 ounces of gold, worth $2O an ounce
 Gen. Richard Page, who in 1861 resigned his commission in the United States navy and joined the Confederacy, died at his home in Norfolk, Va, last week, aged 94 years. He commanded the outer de- lenses of Mobile bay at Fort Morgan and with 400 men held Farragut's fleet at bay for two weeks.
 War is being waged between work men of very nearly every class and employers at San Francisco, the question being the recognition of the various unions. The trouble started by the strike of dock laborers, anC soon extended to other callings. Fol over a week business was practically suspended, and even city employe: quit work out of sympathy for tho dock laborers.
 Hon. w. c. Price, United State' treasurer under President Buchanan died at his home in Chicago las week. When Buchanan ordered Ma jor Anderson to transfer his fore to Fort Sumpter Judge Price be lieved the south was being betrayeC and resigned his office in anger. H. was with General Price at the battl of Pea Ridge and captured by tn Federals and confined in prison a Alton, H., till September, 1862 when he was exchanged.
 United States Pension Agen J Jonathan Merriam, of Chicago, ha / rendered a pension ruling which, S far as known, passes upon a question never before raised under the pen sion laws. It is to the effect tha marriage does not invalidate or at feet a pension drawn by mino daughter of a soldier. In othe words a minor child of a soldier wh marries may continue to draw per sion until it reaches its majority.
 John Wesley Pennington, negro was burned at the stake near Entel prise, Ala, before a crowd of 50 enraged and determined citizens ( Coffee county. The assemblage WE composed of both whites and black and though the suffering wretc pleaded for mercy and franticall endeavored to break the chains ths