The Conway log cabin., 1900-09-25
NEWS OF THE WORLD

Dakota on the 10th.
 Smallpox has made its appear q ae ill number Of towns in h. dana.
 4..c latest estimate of loss of life at Galveston is placed at between e.sOe and 5000.
 ' es;dent Mckinley will not re- IT C in Canton to receive delcga- ma as he did in 1896
 The allies at Pekin are sending ut expeditions to rescue foreigners surrounded by Boxers.
 A tornado destroyed a number ol lses at Madison, Ga, on the 16th and two people were killed.
 line trial of John Howard -as principal in the Gocbcl murder ia progressing at Frankfort, Ky.
 Richard Croker has bet, up 10 date, ss0,o0O to $225,0oo that the democratic national ticket will be tleeted.
 Seth Abbott, father of Emma Abbott. the famous singer has be- come insane over the fortune left a'n by his daughter.
 X freight train was wrecked near
  Muncie, Ind, through the mischiey- ousness of two small boys who wedg- td broom handle in crossing freq" The damage done is placed ht &60,000.
 A call has been issued to all the cietics of the Daughters of the Confectionery for funds to help re- moye the Confederate dead from the Arlington National Cemetery at Washington to the Hollywood Confederate Cemetery at Richmond, Va.
 Mrs. Glenn, wife of the sheriff, prevented the escape of five prison CTS from jail at Macon, Mo- The prisoners sawed the bars to their cells with saws made from springs in their shoes. Reaching the outer door to the prison, they began ham, mering it down, when Mrs. Glenn appeared with a revolver and com pelled them under threats of death to 20 back to their cells
 The poor people who are unable to lay in large supply of fuel in advance are the greatest sufferers from strikes like that now being waged in Pennsylvania. The time is fast approaching in this country when the public, for its own protec- ton against such occurrences, will demand and compel the enactment of laws providing for compulsory ar- bitration of differences between large corporations and their em- ploNes.
 Both Protestant and Catholic ministers in the anthracite coal re- gions of Pennsylvania are using their influence with the opera tors and strikers to induce them to arbitrate their differences. In m open letter President Mitchell, of the miners union, declares that the union officials do not demand that they be recognized in negotiating settlement, but will be satisfied if the operators will give hearing to committees from their respective employees and endeavor to reach an agreement with them directly.
 The supreme court of the United States will meet for the October tcrnl on Monday, October 8th. When the court adjourned on May 2Sth last, there were undisposed of 3o3 cases, of which number thirty seven had been argued and submit- ted Since the adjournment of the court to date, there have been Ill cases filed, making a total of All cases on the docket, against 391 cas- G on the same day in 1899, showing an increase of twcnty-three.
 The foreign troops in China are conducting an aggressive campaign against the Boxers, The Pei Tong and Lu Tai ports near Taku were taken by the allies on the goth after a fierce battle.
 A branch nursery of the Salvation Army at Cincinnati was destroyed by fire on the 17th. Six of the in mates were cremated, two fatally in. Hured, and four seriously injured. There were twenty persons in tlle nursery, all children except three.
 Twenty-Five thousand people of lGalveston have been left dependent On the charity of their more fortu- nate fellow-beings, who express through their liberal donations 8 willingness to bear the burden.
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