Newport weekly independent., 1901-07-19
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

The striking machinists at the Newport News ship yards have re- turned to work at the old wages.
 The report that Kid Mccoy, the pugilist, is to wed and Oklahoma heiress, is denied by the young lady.
 It is reported Ambassador White will resign his post at Berlin next year, upon reaching his 10th birth day.
 The total number of plague cases reported at Capetown up to July 10 has been 760, and the deaths num- bered 426.
 A bridge on the Nickle Plate rail road gave way beneath a freight train near Springfield, Pa, and nine men were killed outright
 It is estimated visitors leaving for vacation during the heated term have drawn over 15,000,000 from the banks of New York City.
 Mrs. Martha Patterson, the last of the children of cX-Prcsidcnt An drew Johnson, died at her home in Greenville, Tenn, on the 10th.
 Kansas Is suffering from the worst drought in forty years. Stock is dying from thirst, and in many sections crops have been ruined
 A British army of 100000 men is still employed in waiting and watching for force of Boers rang ing between 1000 and 10000 men.
 The supreme lodge, K. of F., has decided to raise the rate of insur- ance in order to raise the sum of $500,O00, the amount of the treas ury deficiency.
 Returns made to the United States department of agriculture show the total acreage of corn throughout the country is 5 per cent less than last year.
 The United States goyernmen has received from Turkey the sum of $95,000, the amount of indem- nifty due an account of the massa- ere of Americans in Armenia.
 Sixteen persons were killed and a large number injured in a head end collision between a passenger and stock train on the Chicago & Alton near Norton, Mo- The train . was loaded with Epworth League delegates en route to the convention in San Francisco.
 A collision occurred between a Rock Island freight and a Kansas City Northern passenger train one mile from Weatherly, Mo-, Elijah Pin, a passenger, was instantly kill ed, and w. J. Stoneburncr, Otto Bal lew and Express Messenger Gage were seriously injured.
 The number of persons employed by the railways of the United States as reported by the interstate com merce commission, on June 3O, 1900, was 1,O17,G53, or an average of 529 employees per 100 miles of line. As compared with the num- Der employed on June 30, 1899, there was an increase of SS,,29, or 34 per 100 miles of line. From the classification of these employees it appears that Az 2,S37 were cngincmcn, 44,13O fremen, 29,95r conductors, and 74,274 other trainmcn. There were 50,789 switchmcn, hagmcn and watchmen. During the year ending June 30, 1900, 511,264,S41 were paid in wages and salaries, an amount $131, ,TjG, ,5S0 in excess of that paid during the fiscal year 1895. The compensation of the cm- ployes of railways for the fiscal year 1900 represents 60 per cent of the operating expenses of the roads and 39 per cent of their gross earnings.
 The minister of the powers are still far apart as to the disposition of the indemnity demanded of Chi ma. The American idea of referring the whole matter to the Hague con- ference may yet be accepted
 Gen. Wood has issued a circular