Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-20
News of the World

| Federation of Labor.
 Holland is passing through a financial ctisis, owing to decline in American railway stocks. The Indiana National Bank at Elkhart, Ind, has been placed in charge of a national bank examiner. The Farmers National Bank at Henrietta, Texas, has been closed by order of the comptroller of the currency.
 Several prominent planters of Bossier parish, La, have been in dicted in federal court on the charge of practicing peonage.
 Theodore Hayes, aged 15, shot and killed his 3-year-old brother at St. Joseph, Mo, because the infant was crying and he was left to attend 1t by the mother
 An ordinary walking cane pre- sented to President Lincoln by ar admirer in 1860, was auctioned off in New York City few days ago and brought $1.45.
 Mrs. s. D. Bush is under arrest at Lawson, Okla, on the charge of complicity in her husbands murder two months ago. Ed Parks, on the same charge, and Rube St. Clair. who did the killing, are both held without bond, the grand jury re- turning true bills. An attempt to kill Parks was made by Bush on the day before Parks death at the hands of his brother-in-law, St. Clair.
 Two million dollars a day is a snug sum for the total receipts from the sale of a single agricul- tural product in single country, even such country as the United States. That is the figure shown by the report of the department of commerce and labor, through its bureau of statistics, as the value of the cotton exported from the Unit ed States in the month of October, 1903.
 The department of agriculture, in its official Crop Reporter for No vember, announces that the indica- tions are that the world has enter ed on new era in the production of cane sugar. The department quotes estimates placing the total sugar production of the world in the year 1903-04 at 10,425, 800 tons of 2,240 pounds each, including 4,- 342,800 tons of cane sugar and G. 083,000 tons of beat sugar, and says as to cane sugar: "During the I past five years the worlds output of this product has increased from B. 100000 to upward of 4,000,O00 tons, quantatively the greatest in- crease ever made tn any fme-year period in the history of this indus try"
 Five million dolEars a day is aI snug sum for the people of "a single country to realize :as the sale of the products of Glreir Earn, factories, forests, fisheries and mines. The exports of domestic 1Ecoducts o6f the Jenit1G States in tine s,aO-st4Ie-a4f saa, to6er, IyU3, averaged more than $5,0O0,000 for every day in the month, and forj every business day in the month averaged practically | $6, 6,o0O,00O a day The total ex- ports of the months, as shown by | the figures of the department of commerce and labor through its bureau of statistics, amounted to $160 ,37O,059 which would average more than $5,000,0o0 for every day in the month, and practically $6,- 100000 for each business day in the month:
 The papers in the case of Kratz, the St. Louis boodler, have been forwarded to Mexico. It has not been determined by the Mexican | government whether or not Kratz will be delivered to United States authorities. He will make a deter mined legal fight, and as the Mexi- l an, oo,,rtc nro clnm and act in