Newport weekly independent., 1903-09-25
News of the World


 Great Britain and Japan have filed protest against any delay of Russia evacuating Manchuria. The Mckinley statue at Toledo, O., was unveiled on the 14th, the second anniversary of his death. The Standard Oil magnates have added $19,600,O00 to their wealth, which sum was distributed a few days ago as quarterly dividend. As a whole the indications are that farmers in the lower cotton belt will raise all the cotton they can gather owing to the scarcity of ! labor.
 A corps of the Salvation Army has invaded Breathitt county, Ken lucky, with the avowed purpose of converting some of the assassins of that section.
 The newspapers are determined that Miss Ruth Bryan shall wed at an early day. She is now reported engaged to W. H. Leavitt, an artist of Rhode Island.
 l Curtis Jett, sentenced to life im- prisonment for the murder of Law yer Marcrum, is now on trial at Cynthiana, Ky, for the murder of Marshal Cockrill of Jackson.
 Chas. J. Boneparte has been se- lected by Secretary Hitchcock to make a thorough investigation of affairs in the Indian Territory. Grave charges have been made against federal officials of the Ter ritory, and it will take considerable time to make thorough inyestiga- tion.
 The northwest is experiencing one of the earliest autumns for many years. In northern Minneso- ta snow fell on the 14th and the damage to crops will run into the millions. In Manitoba the storm was so severe many heads of cattle perished. At Minot, N. D., two feet of snow fell, and trains in that section were greatly delayed. |
 The president has granted full and unconditional pardons to Geo. D. and Barnacas F. Crosby, con- victed at Montgomery, Ala, of vio- lation of the peonage law. These men were indicted for holding Pike Swanson in condition of peonage, pleading guilty on June 30, 1903, and on the same day were sentenced to imprisonment for a year and a day in the United States peniten- tiary at Atlanta.
 A conflict of opinion between the postmaster general and the civil service commission has arisen as a result of recent construction by MT. Greene, civil service commis- sioner, of the presidents civil ser vice order of last March, by which it is claimed that the 7O,OOO or more fourth-class postmasters are brought within the classified service. Post master General Payne contends that postmasters of the above class do not come under the civil service law, and that they can be removed or appointed at pleasure.
 The secretary of the treasury has determined upon the immediate distribution of an additional $4,- 000,000 of the $4O,0OO,000 he set aside for making special govern ment deposits. The secretary has already prepared lists of banks tc which these deposits will go. The amounts to be given each will range from $5O,0O0 to $200,000, with a majority at the minimum figure. The average of the deposits in each will be $8o,OOO, and there will be about fifty of these institutions The secretary has tried in prepar- ing the list to select those banks which lie in the centers or the i'm mediate vicinity of the great agri- cultural sections. The bulk of the funds designated for deposit will go to the agricultural regions of the Mississippi basin Since September 1 government bonds tc the amount of $2,592, 300 to secure deposits made at national banks