The Conway log cabin., 1900-11-27
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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 The czar of Russia has typhoid fever.
 The Paris Exposition was formal ly closed on the 18th. Killing frosts over the cotton growing states sent cotton up sev- eral points.
 II England has already expended $500, ,000,000 in an effort to subdue the Boers.
 Senator Hanna says all talk of himself as presidential candidate in 1904 is absurd Il Hon. w. J. Bryan has declined an offer of $10,0O0 a year as editor of a Denver paper.
 l A monument to commemorate the victory of Admiral Dewey at Ma nila is to be erected at San Fran cisco.
 An English physician reports that ftherc are 100000 cases of lepro- sy in China and India, and 2OO,- 900 in Japan.
 The population of Michigan as an nounced by the census bureau, is 3, ,420,982. an increase of 15.6 per cent in ten years
 In some provinces of China thou sands of natives are reported starv- ing on account of the failure of crops and the war. . Virginia College, a school for young ladies at Roanoke, Va, was totally consumed by fire on the 14th. All the inmates escaped. l Secretary of the Navy Long has made a contract with the Carnegie land Bethlehem Steel Companies for 36,0O0 tons of armor plate. l The feeling between English and French papers is bitter on account of the latter caricaturing Queen Victoria in disgusting manner
 Both Tanner and Cullom, repub- lican, claim q majority in the Hi nois legislature for the United States senate. The fight has been a bitter one.
 John Porter, a 14-year-old negro boy. assaulted and then murdered the 1l-year-old daughter of cat tleman near Denver, Col Porter confessed his guilt. Immigration Commissioner Frit- chic, of the port of New York, de- clares that immigrants. have ar, rived in this country at the rate of 1000 per day since July last. A considerable portion of the press of Russia expresses alarm at the probable dismemberment of China, and declares such an event would ruin the czar's empire. Capt. Lawrence Murray, who com manded the Confederate cruiser Nashville before her capture by the federal government, died at his home in Kingston, N. Y., on the 12th.
 l. 1T. P. Brady, prominent busi- ness man of Nashville, Tenn, was arrested upon federal warrant, charging him with defrauding a To- cal bank out of $4o,OOO by collision with an individual bookkeeper of the bank, whereby his deposits were fraudulently increased The statistician of the govern ment department of agriculture es- inmates the average yield per acre fof corn in 1900 to be 25.3 bushels. IS compared with an average yield 1of 25.3l bushels in 1899. Average yield per acre of'potatoes, sos bush els, as against SS.63 in 1S99
 The Chinese emperor has declin- ed to acccde to the demands for the punishment of Tung Flu Hsiang, and consenting only to the hanish- ment of Yu Sien, two notorious Boxer leaders.
 The comparative statements of estimates for appropriations for the navy for the fiscal years 1901 and 1909 show the total appropriations for the year 1901 were $65, ,130,916, and the total estimates for 1909 are $Ss s,1S2,6 ,63l.
 The Tammany organization of New York City has appointed committee to make an investigation and devise means of ridding New York City of vice
 Many complaints have been made to the war department against the kaki uniform worn by the Ameri- can soldiers. It is claimed the.