Newport weekly independent., 1902-12-26

as her son man only ten years her junior.
 The bank at Clarence, Ford coun- ty, H., was opened by robbers and $3,0O0 taken.
 John D. Rockefeller has contrib uted another $1, ,OO0,000 to the Uni versity of Chicago.
 Thieves broke into a grocery store at Joplin, Mo-, and carried away half the stock in a wagon.
 Iowa produced for the crop year 1902, 29G, G,95O,230 bushels of corn, valued at $93,000,00O.
 It is said the late Thomas B. Reed accumulated over $200,000 af- ter retiring from congress.
 Hon. Andrew Carnegie, who ar rived from Europe last week, an- nounces that he has fully recovered his health.
 Ex-Gov. Hogg, of Texas. is said to have been squeezed by the Gates faction in a recent oil deal to the extent of $25,000.
 A coterie of New York capitalists are trying to secure control of the lighting interests of the city of Par is, France, for the purpose of com bining the big gas and electric light companies.
 President Castro, of Venezuela, is full-blood Indian and an ener- getic man without political wisdom. He rose suddenly from magistrate of remote village at the, foot of the Andes to the presidency, and his rapid rise made him over-conf- dent.
 The Pullman company is build ing dining car for the American tourists association, which will be the largest in the world, seating for ty persons in a main dining com partment and eight in a private dining room. The car is to be pro- vided with an automatic musical de- vice which changes the tunes, and is available for both the main and the private dining rooms.
 Judge Munger, of the federal court at Omaha, Neb., has discharg- ed the 21 Union Pacific strikers charged with contempt in maintain ing ''picket line" and intimidat. ing workmen.
 December 15 the treasury bal ances in the general fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold reserve in the division of redemption, were: Available cash balance, $209,44 575; gold, $120,3O9,902.
 There has been falling off in the exports for the seven months ended July 31, 1902, of nearly $1,000,000, as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, the fig ures for 1902 showing $13,SS3,263 against $14,S15,761 in 1901. Gold and silver was exported to the value of $2,019,717 in 1902, against $435,- 1S1 in 1901. The general decrease, however, did not prevent a compar- ative increase in shipments destined for the United States, the value of merchandise exported to this coun- try in 1902 amounting to $4,709,- G30, a gain during the past two years of more than $3,25O,000.
 The bureau of insular affairs of the war department has issued the following comparative summary of the commerce of the Philippine ls- lands for the seven months ending July 31, 1902, and 1901: The to- tai value of merchandise, exclusive of gold and silver, imported during the seven months ended July 31, 1902, was $19,310,437, as against $17,132,205 for the same period of 1901. The principal increase in 1909 was in foodstuffs, the purchase of rice alone exceeding the figures for 1901 by nearly $1,500,000. Gold and silver was imported during the seven months of 1902 to the value of $3,O26,747; same period of 1901, $1,230,294. The value of imports cOmino from the TTnitnd States in