The Conway log cabin., 1900-07-31
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

\ Ucus I0u 0faut W hf " China for duty.
 England has already voted $isS:- I SOC. GOO for the war in South Afri- ca.
 Ten assistant surgeons have neen l ordered to San Francisca for dusy in the Philippines or Chiha.
 The marine hosiptal service for Cuba reports an increase in the mum Der of cases of yellow fever Tn na. vana during the first three weeks or July.
 Alabama cotton growers have or qanized an association to secure re- liable statistics of the cotton crop and regulating the price of the staple.
 The board of missions of the M. F.. Church, South, has received mo- tice that nearly all the missionaries in China had left the interior and gone to Shanghai.
 The gold holdings in the United States treasury July 23rd amounted to s427, 49s. .49l. This is the greatest amount held by the government at any time in it's history.
 The Japanese government, in communication to Secretary Hay, has requested that the quarantine placed against Japanese subjects by the state of Colorado be raised.
 A belated message received in London from the British minister at Pekin, dated July 9th, states that over 10 members in the British le-s gation had been killed. and that the others could hold out but few days. In London it Is generally be- lieved all the ministers have been murdered, despite assurances of Chinese officials to the contrary.
 Because her sweetheart failed to keep his promise to meet her at the home of minister and marry her, Mamie Spencer, aged IA. of St. Jo- eeph. Mo. took large dose of car bolic acid and died after suffering great agony for an hour. The young man had lost his job and tried to pursuade the girl to postpone the wedding. to which she would not agree.
 Elijah Clark, black brute who assaulted l3-year-old white girl, tas taken from the jail at Hunts vile, Ala. by mob and left swing ing to telegraph .ole. Before dis persing the mob fired several hun dred shots into the rapist's body. The sheriff locked himself in a cell with the prisoner, butt he mob se- cured tar and feathers and smoked the officer out of his retreat.
 A decree calling for constitu- tional convention in Cuba has been promulgated. The elections will be held on the third Saturday iii Sep tomber. and the convention will meet in Havana on the first Monday in November. The convention, ac- cording to the terms of the decree, is called in conformity with the spirit of the joint resolution of con gress, and a part of its duty will be to agree upon the relations that are to exist between the government of the United States and the govern ment of Cuba.
 Y Gen. DeWet. with considerable force, succeeded in cutting off all communication of the British with Pretoria on July 22d, and captured n British supply train and 100 Highlanders.
 A colored highwayman made an unsuccessful attempt to rob a Mis- 'souri Pacific passenger train near Atchison, Kan. After failing to get the safe in the express car open the bandit took the messengers watch and escaped.
 The executive committee of the ,national gold democratic party held "a meeting at Indianapolis last week and decided not to nominate candi- dates for president and vice presi- 1 ~t