Newport weekly independent., 1903-11-27

Ing himself. Platt fled from z S Louis several weeks ago. when
 was discovered that he was short
 the neighborhood of $2o, o,ooo
 me Hawaiian islands now star tnlrd Tn the list of sections produ
 Ing cane sugar for exportation. c,
 rlously all of the great cane-sugs
 exporting spots of the world 2,
 islands. Cuba stands at tho hea
 T the list, With an annual exporta
 tion under normal conditions lf
 over 2,000,000,O0O pounds. .Iav 2, next,with an average annual produe xck non of 1.500,0oo,0oO pounds. lwbil
 the Hawaiian islands have now near
 y reached the 1,o0o,0 ,ooo mark
 China and India are also large pro
 ducers of cane sugar but cons',ne
 practically all of their production
 their exportation being small
 Miss May Goelet, an American heafess, was married to John Innes-
 era British nobleman. in New into City on the 10th. Gathered lips Font of the church, where the man. ing occurred, was mob com "saxN almost exclusively of well cite, ls yssed women, who disgraced sav oHssssemsseses ssamlss 9fost shamefully in an
 effort to foeR view of the wedding
 party. When fhe bride and groom
 left the church woiile4ni rushed f their carriage and boldly thrust their heads in the windows, and it
 took an extra squadron of police to clear passage for the vehicle. As
 soon as the wedding party vacated ] the church women forcibly swept auniaside the ushers and proceeded to city tear the floral decorations from the VT chaneel and pews.
 ' The West Texas Stockman,
 which is an authority on live stock fot matters in Texas, says: Accord Of ing to the views of men who are Vii. well posted in all matters pertain digging to the cattle industry of Texas. has The total number of cattle in the soli atate today will not exceed 7.0oO.- | Ao00 head in round numbers In
 fact, these figures are generally re-
 garded as an outside estimate and | doubtless in excess of the real num-
 Der. Of these, 7oOo,ooo head of cattle Tn the entire state of Texas
 about 5,o00,o00 head belong to the range country, as they are what IS termed range cattle, and it is
 there the greatest loss has been sgg4a aimed throughout the depreciat- day nignt' lues. This depreciation of qaugn,gr grrs rsn ring the past year repre- T. -a.nsl S of at least $21, ,00o,o ,oo0 While out .,nen ;, I Eugene, the second h Mrs. Clay Sloan, of BlSumpacker has an arm badly shot by the acc-congress discharge of his gun. The wound %rep- of such serious nature that amputa- il . tion was necessary about halfway Mo between the elbow and the wrist. tor Percy Finch, the genial cotton man T. of Little Rock, and the great mine No promoter of the western district or eel Lawrence county, was pleasant da caller at this office Tuesday. Mir. Finch wanted to buy some cotton on Gc the Walnut Ridge market, but found an u our buyers had the price out of to hi each.-Lawrence County Blade. wi of the largest turnips ever he bro ht to Augusta was exhibited tn here Saturday, it being raised three tI miles and half east of Tupelo, and fl weighing eight pounds and half. F This is one among several different
 varieties of vegetables which have been on exhibition here. It was
 raj. ed on the Sam Davis farm.-Au ll gusta Free Press