The Conway log cabin., 1900-10-02

-AUout 1oVV coIofeu people lOSL their lives in the disaster at Gal weston and about 5000 are left des- titute. The colored people should contribute literally to their sup port until such time as they will be able to look out for themselves.
 ernments at Washington have bee1 that the United Staes troops will remain in Pekin until further de- velopments.
 Germany is not at all pleased with the idea of withdrawing troops from Pekin. The German press argue that the withdrawal at this stage of negotiations is likely to eventuate in disturbances in other parts of China, where the people are certain to attribute the evacua- ton to a defeat of the European forces. Even the Chinese, as a whole, do not believe that the allies have reached Pekin. They think the story a fabrication, concocted for the purpose of imposing on the officials.
 The recent election for delegates to the Cuban constitutional conven- tion resulted in a complete victory throughout the province of Santiago de Cuba for the black party. The whites have declared in favor of an- nexation. The night following the election 10000 colored men paraded the streets of Santiago wearing badges containing skull and cross bones, signifying death to the op- posing political party.
 Mayor Jones of Galveston makes the following statement of condi- tons inthat city: 'It is almost i'm possible to speak definitely as yet of the needs of our people. We arc broke, the majority of us. Calves ton must have suffered, in my esti- nation, based upon all of the re- ports 1 have, loss of $20,o00,000. We now need more money than any thing. From the advices l have re ceived l believe that the shipments of disinfectants and food supplies now on the way will be sufficient to meet the immediate wants. By the time these are used we shall have re- gained our transportation facilities, so that we can use money more ad- vantageously. It Is impossible to state just how mrrh money has So far been contributed We have re- ceived from the governor at Austin $100,000 in cash That is, from the general fund Special contri- buttons have come through the Cot ton Exchange and various other channels. We have between 150o and 5000 men at work searching for bodies, cleaning streets and do- ing other things that are necessary. Of this work, which ought to be done as fast as possible in the inter est of the living, there is enough to keep 4O0O employed for forty or more days, although the principal streets will be cleaned up in abour two weeks. I hesitate to say how much it will take to put Galveston where her people can care for them- selves. think $5,O00,000 a very moderate estimate. There is not building but what is damaged. There isn't~a house of those left standing which will not have to be reroofed There are very few that will not need to be strengthened on their foundations. If Galveston could get $lO,000,000 it would be used judiciously to enable her peo- pie to become self-supporting. It is true Galveston is represented as be- ing one of the wealthiest cities of the country. But our rich people had everything here and are crip- pied. The people of moderate means who had homes andworked for salaries are, with scarcely an excep- ton. ruined. The class dependent upon their labor must be furnished something to do or must suffer.