The Conway log cabin., 1900-11-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

season is said to be less than half the usual yield.
 Ex-President Cleveland refused to be interviewed on the result of the national election.
 After shutdown of three months the Piqua roller mills, of Piqua, H., have resumed operation.
 The corn crop of the United States for the year 1900 is now estimated at two thousand millions of bushels.
 The Carlist movement ill Spain has been put down by the govern fnent, and the leaders have fled to France.
 Gen. De Wet, the Boer command der, was seriously wounded in bat tie last week, and narrowly escaped capture by the British.
 A Washington dispatch, says At torney General Griggs and Secre- taries Hay, Long and Root will re- tire from the cabinet. ig
 Senator Hanna declares he has had enough of politics. Mir. Hanna admits the republican victory was greater than he anticipated.
 
 Matt Quay claims that his friends will control the next legislature of Pennsylvania, and that he will be returned to the United States sen ate.
 American capitalists have formed a syndicate with $20,000,000 capi- tai, and will invest the sum in sugar plantations and street railways in Cuba.
 The population of Indiana, as of- ficially announced by the census bu- reau, is 2,516,462, as against 2,192,- 4O4 in 1890. This is an increase of 324,05S, or 14.7 per cent. The pop ulation of Florida is 52S,542, as against 391, ,422 in 1890. This is an increase of 37,120, or 35 per cent.
 The report comes from Cleveland. O., of gigantic railroad pool form
 
 ed by the Goulds, E. H. Hartman, and John w. Gates. The new syn dicate has under it's control the Chicago X Alton and its allied inter- ests, the Kansas City Southern. the Wabash, the Missouri Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas and other properties in the Southwest. Under the new arrangements these roads are to be put into the pool, The object is to lessen competition and to make possible new through service to Texas territory which has not hitherto been obtainable out of Chicago. The combination of the Texas railroads, which has been impossible hitherto, may be accom- plished virtually, if not in reality, | through this agreement. The story has it that the syndicate is to reach into this territory, as we'll as control certain western situations by buy ing in the Clover Leaf and then making overtures for the possession of the Wheeling of thesay ksrG,o of the Wheeling & Lake Erie. It is also said to be the nucleus for a larger syndicate in the West that will try to gain control of the larger roads there.
 Additional reports from Minister Conger record the progress of ef- forts being made at Pekin to bring the foreign ministers into an agree ment as to the basis of negotiations with China.
 The Boers are making it interest ing for British troops, notwithstand- ing South Africa has been annexed as British territory. No less than eight battles took place in that coun- l try last week, in which the Boers more than held their own. |
 Jerry Lynch, aged 7S years, said l to be the last surviving member oi the crew of the Confederate battle. ship Alabama, died at lnman, { suburb of Atlanta, Ga, on the Stf inst,
 When asked by reporter for in. formation as to probable cabinet changes, Senator Hanna replied "You don't get word out of me or that subject, for it is none of my | business"
 The wheat crop of 1900 in Rus sia is reported as the best since 1896. According to the report re ferred to, the wheat crop is 45,150, 900 quarters, rye, 97,s50,0oo quar- ters, oats, ss,O00,000 quarters; bar. ley, 25,T50,000 quarters. Col. Bryan sent the following tel egram to President Mckinley: "A1