The Conway log cabin., 1900-07-10
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 Peter Maher knocked out Steve | ODonnell in one round before club in New York City
 Fire at the Standard Oil Compa- ny's works, near Bayonne, N J., de stroyed $s, 100000 worth of proper | y. The fire was caused by lightning striking a large tank in the oil de- fpartment.
 The internal revenue collections for the Oklahoma and Indian Ter ritory district for the fiscal year 1899, ending June 30th. amounted to $1,010,719. This is an increase of ST6,000 over the collections ose a year ago, and the largest in the history of the district.
 The water works reservoir at Grand Rapids burst, letting loose a deluge of more than 100, ,000 gallons of water upon a thickly- populated district on the hillside immediately beneath it. The dam age is estimated at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Houses and rns were washed away, others badly damaged and the district of three blocks square partly wrecked.
 Baron Non ketler, German min ister at Pekin, was brutally murder ed by Chinese troops and Boxers June 18th. The ambassador was riding along the street when he was taken from his horse and his body ] literally hacked to pieces. The Ger man legation was then burned and a number of servants of the lega- tions were killed and their bodies thrown into the flames.
 By order of President Mckinley the provisions of the civil service law have been extended to all positions in the treasury department in Porto Rico and Hawaii This order places under the civil service regulations the employees of the customs, inter nal revenue, marine hospital, and all others classified under the treasury department
 Bradstrcet's review of the first six months of 1900 shows bank clearances to have been smaller by II per cent than they were in the first half of 1899, but railway earn ings are about 10 per cent larger and business failures the fcwest re- corded for eighteen years back, with liabilities of failing traders the smallest, with one exception, and that last year, since 1899.
 According to figures compiled by the Railway Age, there were 1860 miles of railroad laid from January 1st to June 30th, 1899. With number of lines to hear from, reports show that not less than 1854 miles of track have been laid during the first six months of the present year, on l35 lines in fortv-onc states and territories. For the entire year 1899 the new mileage added aggregated l,5SS miles, and 1t is estimated that this year over 5000 miles of new track will be add ed to the railway systems of the country Of new lines, states west of the Mississippi have built 917 miles of track, and states south of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi AT miles. The total mileage of the United States today is about 193,- coo miles. Construction is in prog ress on fully 300 different lines, and grand total of l96.000 miles in op- cration is predicted by the end of the year.
 Sipido, the youth who attempted to assasSinatc the prince of Wales while the latter was passing through Brussels several months ago, has been liberated.
 The St. Louis street ear strike has been declared off The compa- ny signed an agreement to fill all vacancies from the ranks of former employees, until all who apply arc reinstated, but no one who has been guilty of any aet of lawlessness is to be re-employed.
 Two people were killed and thirty, three injured in a wreck on the Montana Central near Butte, caused by spreading rails.
 A switch engine in the yards ol the Ohio River railway al Pittsburg collided with an oil tank. A hole was knocked in the top of the tank and the oil ignited A terrific ex- plosion followed, pieces of the tank being blown several hundred feet Six men were blown to atoms anl many others injured.