The Conway log cabin., 1900-12-11
Next door to Bank

News comes from Pekin that the ministers have reached an agree ment as to the terms to be submitted to the Chinese government.
 The London war office annonnc- on the 1st that Lord Roberts had handed over the command of the British troops in South Africa to Lord Kitchener.
 United States engineers in charge of work in the Philippines, report that the islands are practically cov- cred at every practical point with a thorough system of wire communi- cation.
 1 The New York police received a letter the other day, claiming that plot had been matched in Paris to assassinate President Mckinley. The writer, who is thought to be a crank, claims that the men selected to kill the president are now in this country.
 The population of Texas, as off, 1cially announced, is 3,04S,710, as against 2,235,523 in 1890. This is an increase of S13,1S7, or 36.3 per cent The population of 1880 was 1,591,749, showing an increase of l643,114. or 40.4 per cent, from 1880 to 1920.
 At Baskerville, w. Va, three boys were instantly killed and fourteen wounded by the explosion of a can of nitro-glycerine. The boys were playing around campfire when one of them, not knowing the con- tents, threw can of the explosive into the flames.
 A melee between some union and non-union electrical workers at San Antonio cost the life of Will Lacey, l policeman, who was protecting the non-union men, and also the life If 0. D. Blanton, d union lineman. Both men were shot through the body near the breast by non-union lineman named Sandy Smith. Pres dent Martin Wright, of the local electrical union, was shot through the arm by Smith. Officer Lacey was in the act of arresting the man who struck Smith, when the latter drew his pistol.
 The annual report of the commis- sioner of internal revenue for the fiscal year shows the aggregate col lections of internal revenue in sev- cral states of the west and south west to be: Arkansas, $260, ,418.99 ; Colorado, $1,313,596.46 (including the state of Wyoming); Illinois. S52, ,237, ,729.32; Indiana, $23,229,- 623.S1; Iowa, $1 1874, ,S03.s7; Kan sas, $1,010,71S79 (including the Indian Territory and the Territory of Oklahoma) :; Missouri, $16,694,- 1.1.67; Nebraska, $3.3s3, 3,91S.23 (including the states of North Da- kota and South Dakota) New Mex ico, $131,256.6s (including the Territory of Arizona); Tennessee, $2, ,295, ,606.01; Texas, $1,541 ,474.- 41.
 J. E. Gibson, a contractor, was arrested at Jackson, Miss. on a warrant sworn out by Gov. Longino, charging him with attempted brib- cry to secure the contract for build ing the new state capitol. Accord
 ng to the governors story. Gibson tried to induce him to open the state house bids on the day preced- ing the letting of the contract and furnish his firm with the figures. so that they could prepare bid lower than the others.
 While the postoflice department aas not made announcement of the policy to govern changes of fourth class postmasters during the next four years, it is believed that the department prefers that there be no more changes than the interests of the service require, and that esne- cially in the southern states fourth class postmasters will continue to serve during the next four years of the administration, unless there is some good cause for making a change
 Officials at Washington call at tention to the fact that in some parts of the South schemers are still taking advantage of the blacks | to organize them into societies, charging fees for their services and arranging for the creation of funds to he used in forwarding legisla- ton for pensions for ex-slayes, The government has refused the use oi the mails to several of these soci- eties, and in almost every case those who contribute to such funds arc simply putting money into the pock-