Newport weekly independent., 1901-06-28
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Dr. Franklin H. Kerfoot, secreta- ry of the Southern Baptist home mission board, died at Atlanta on the 22d.
 Formal announcement of the es- tablishment of civil government in the Philippine islands is to be made on July 4.
 A German missionary, who has spent several years in China, says the Boxer troubles are not over by any means.
 During a severe electric storm at Indianapolis, Ind, Bert Hathaway, Grace Larkin and Ira Smith were killed by lightning.
 It is said negro preachers of Ala leave Alabama in case the constitu- tional convention adopts a clause disfranchising them.
 The Goulds threaten to build a second bridge across the Mississippi at Memphis unless the tolls charged them are reduced.
 Adelbert s. Hay, son of Secretary Hay and former consul to Pretoria, fell from the third story of hotel at New Haven, Conn.,, on the 23d and was instantly killed. It is sup posed he went to the window to get some fresh air was overcome by dig ziness and fell to the ground.
 / The authorities at Washington have been notified that the Russian and Italian governments propose to increase the duty on American prod ucts exported to these countries The secretary of the treasury has sug- gested that such action is in viola tion of the trade treaty which this government has with Russia.
 On the 17th, twenty miles from Middlesburg, 250 mounted English riffemen were taken by surprise by a force of Boers, who crept up within short range and poured a deadly fire into the camp, killing two off, cers and sixteen men, and wounding four officers and thirty-eight men. Only two British officers and fifty men escaped, the remainder being taken prisoners.
 The United States Philippine com mission has modified the provision of the law providing for the use of the Spanish language in the courts for five years by permitting proceed ings to be conducted in English and native dialects, the same to be trans lated into Spanish unless the liti- gants stipulate otherwise. In the latter case the records are to be writ ten in both languages.
 A terrible cyclone visited the vi- cinity of Napcs, Neb, on the 21st. The four children of MT. Greening were killed outright and Mrs. Green ing was fatally injured. The father of the Greening family was found a quarter of a mile from the house, badly mangled. Both arms and legs and back were broken, and there is no chance for his recovery. Little Maggie and Jacob Grecning were found GOO yards from where the house stood. They were stripped of all their clothing, but were not dis figured The other two children were close to the house and were in full view of their mother and sis ter, who could see them, but could render no assistance. Of a family of six named Anderson two children Ida and Clara, aged and s, were killed. A daughter, Alberta, and a son, Theodore, aged 10 and 12, were seriously injured. The family of Ja- cob Berg and man named Metz were injured when their homes were demolished, but not seriously.
 Massacres of Christians by Boxers continue in southern China. About four weeks ago a number of Catho- lie priests and several converts were put to death by Chinese soldiers un, der Prince Yuan in Shansi province
 Seventy firms of Chicago have granted the demands of machinists