Newport weekly independent., 1901-09-20
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

ElHllld NOlulndn, lclldle dlldICll- ist, was arrested in Chicago upon her arrival from St. Louis, on charge of conspiring to murder the Presi- dent.
 Census statistics place the total value of all farm animals and live stock in the United States at $2,- O00,000,00O. More than half that value $1,2o0, 0,000,o00) is in COWS, oxen and other cattle.
 Secretary Gage announces that the government will receive bids for and purchase $2O,O00,0O0 of out standing bonds, and that deposits to the full amount of bonds held by the government will be placed with na- tional banks. This action will be taken in order to insure plenty of funds to handle the crops now be- ing gathered.
 In his annual address at the Cleveland reunion of the c. A. R., Commander in Chief Rassieus se- verely criticised the management of the pension bureau. The report of Adjt. Gen. F. M. Sterrett showed total membership June 30, 1901, of 269,507 in 6,6,70 posts. Gains dur ing last year were 30,O19 and losses 37,176. The number on rolls June 30, 1901, including 25,550 suspend ed, was 295,057.
 A report submitted to the inter national ecumenical conference of the Methodist church shows that there are 24, 4,S99,4 ,421 adherents of the Methodist faith. In the western section there are 6,437,361 actual church members, and in the eastern 1,221, ,S24 The total value of church property throughout the world is $200,000, 0,000 There are S9,OST churches and 4S,334 ministers. The estimated increase in adherents of the Methodist faith in the last de- cade is 2,536,93S.
 Messrs. Botkin and Bynum, mem- bers of the commission to revise and codify the criminal and penal laws of the United States since the as- sassination of the president have been Investigating authorities with view to the preparation of law making an assault upon the pres ldent with intent to murder cogni- zable in the courts of the United States, and punishable by death. They have prepared the draft of q bill to be submitted to congress mak- ing an assault upon the presidents life a felony and punishable by death, when the assault is for the purpose of obstructing the operations of the government.
 Hon. W. J. Bryan condemns an- archy in the following strong lan- guage: "Under a government like ours every wrong can be remedied by laws, and the laws are in the hands of the people themselves. Anarchy can be neither excused or tolerated here. The man who proposes to right public wrong by taking the life of a human being makes him. self an outlaw and can not consist ently appeal to the protection of the government he repudiates. He in- vites a return of barbarism in which each one must at his own risk de- fend his own rights and ayenge his own wrongs. The punishment ad- ministered to the would-be assassin and his co-conspirators, if he has any, should be such as to warn all inclined to anarchy that while this is an asylum for those who love lib- erty it is an inhospitable place for those who raise their hands against all forms of government"
 Two thousand socialists assem- bled in Chicago voted down a reso- lution of sympathy for the Presi- dent, the argument beiag made, "that his safety or danger are mat ters of no concern" to them.
 A farmer named Nieman, who had been under the delusion thai