The Conway log cabin., 1900-09-18
GENERAL NEWS.

| Chicago wood workers went on a strike on the 9th inst. for nine hour day.
 Russia is being severely censured for carrying on merciless warfare n Manchuria.
 Ex-Populist Senator Peffer, of Kansas, is billed for speech-mak- ing tour in Colorado for Mckinley.
 Gen. Lee, commanding the de- partment of Cuba, arrived at his home in Virginia last week on leave of absence.
 The New York republican state convention nominated Hon. B. B. Odell for governor, and Timothy Woodruff for lieutenant governor.
 The new English torpedo boat, Destroyer Viper, in a trial trip, broke the record for vessels of its class, making thirty-four knots an hour.
 Members of the National Street Railway Employees Union are to be assessed to raise fund with which to purchase automobiles for use in cities when strikes occur. The democratic convention held at St. Paul and the populist conven- ton held at Minneapolis renominat- ed Lind for governor of Minnesota. The other state officers were divided between the two parties. A strike of anthracite coal miners will not only affect the coal market of this country, but will be felt across the ocean. England and Rus sia are known to have agents in this country at the present time, negoti- ating for the delivery of large quan- titles of American coal for ship ment.
 Hester's annual report of the cot ton crop of the United States for the year 1S99-1900 shows receipts of cotton at all ports of 6,734,364 bales, against s,575,426 the previous year. The report places the total crop at 9,436,416 bales, against 1,274,S40 last year and 11,199,- 994 the year before.
 Complete official returns for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, show that LAC vessels of 393,168 gross tons were built and documented in the United States. Since 1853 this record has been exceeded only twice in 1864, when 415,740 tons were built, and in 1874, when 432,735 gross tons were built.
 The national party, the official name of a new party, held Q con- ventionin New York City on the 5th, adopted platform and nomi- hated Donaldson Gallery, of Louis- jana, for president, and A. M. Howe, of Massachusetts, for vice. president. The platform opposes imperialism and favors the present gold standard.
 It is reported over 200 corpora tions doing business in Texas have refused to sign the affidavit that they are in no way connected with trust, as required by the Texas antitrust flaw. If these corporations do not immediately cease doing business in the state they will be prosecuted for alleged violation of the antitrust law. Among the concerns that have signed the affidavit is the American Cotton O., of which Hon. James K. Jones, chairman of the national democratic committee, is the pres ident.
 Failures in the United States for the calendar month of August, as reported by Bradstreet's, number l 7o5, with aggregated liabilities of S6, 255,092 and assets of $2,956,- 047 In number the failures arc the fewest reported in any month for eleven months past. Comparl- sons of the number of failures and the liabilities with August d year ago are not so favorable, there being thirty, or A per cent more failures than year ago in August, while the liabilities are 3S per cent larger and assets are 36.2 per cent heavier.
 The Kentucky campaign was opened on the 2nd inst, the repub- lican candidate for governor speak ing at Bowling Green, and the dem ocratic candidate at Henderson.
 The factional fight between the Evans and Brownlow factions of the republican party in Tennessee has been patched up, and but one republican state ticket will be put in tha field The nlacps on tha flick