Newport weekly independent., 1901-06-28

the Philippines.
 Walter Self, son of a prominent citizen of New Orleans, was killed i'll a prize fight in the above city.
 Abe Barnett, colored, was lynched in Hancock county, Mississippi, for assaulting a 15-year-old white girl.
 A dispatch from London reports that over 5000 residents of Cape Colony, mostly sons of farmers, have joined the Boer army.
 Striking coal miners wrecked a colored church with dynamite near Madisonville, Ky, because two non- union men had taken refuge therein.
 The first bale of cotton of the 1901 crop was shipped by express on the 21st from Alice to Houston, Tex. The cotton was raised in Nueces county.
 Gen. Fitzhugh Lees friends are prevailing upon him to become a candidate for the United States sen- ate from Virginia.
 An explosion of fireworks in the factory of W. M. Rittenberg at Pat terson, N. J., killed sixteen work men and demolished a large build ing.
 The Alabama constitutional con- vention has adopted clause provid- ing for the removal of sheriffs and other officers permitting a lynching in their jurisdiction.
 The doctors have declared Mrs. Mckinley out of danger and conva- lescing. The president and his wife will spend the summer vacation at their home in Canton.
 When the reorganized army is re- cruited up to 75,000 men, it is the design of the war department to station 10000 troops in the Philip pines, 5000 in Porto Rico and 5000 in Cuba and Hawaii. This will leave just 25,000 men in the United States.
 W. G. Simpson, of Vinita, I. T., owes his life to the fact that his heart is not in the right place. Simpson sustained a gunshot wound on the left side, a ball entering ap- parently just over the heart. In making an examination the officers discovered that the mans heart was on the right side.
 Ex-Gov. H. s. Pingree, of Michi- gan, died in London on the 18th of cancer of the stomach. The deceased was born at Denmark, Me-, in 1S40 was a Federal soldier, and after the war engaged in the manufacture of shoes at Detroit, amassing a large fortune. In 1889 the republican party nominated him for mayor of Detroit and he was elected by over 5000 majority. He was reelected in 1891, '93 and '95, by increased majorities each time. In 1896 Mr. Pingree was elected governor ot Michigan by S3,000 plurality, run ming ahead of the national ticket by 26,O00 votes. He was reelected governor in 1898 by about 100000 ! plurality and served out his term which expired in 1900.
 An increase of 21 per cent in i'm ports and 49 per cent in exports ir Philippine commerce is shown in 6 comparative statement made public by the division of insular affairs war department, setting forth the trade returns for the first ten months of 1900, as compared with the same period of the preceding year. The total value of merchandise imported into the Philippines from January tt November of 1900 was $20,143, ,152 against $1G, ,56S for the same pc riod of 1899. The value of exports from the Philippines during the 1900 period is set down at $19,372, $50, against $12,975,6O5 in 1899 The greater part of the imports came from European and Asiatic countries, although this trade witt the United States showed an increase of $521,367, or 43 per cent. Ex