The Conway log cabin., 1900-07-31
GENERAL NEWS.

United States troops doing ser. vice in China will receive 20 per cent over the amount provided for in time of peace.
 A mob demolished Chinese laundry at Virden, Ill. The two pig-tailed proprietors had tc flee for their lives.
 Offers of volunteers to go to Chi na have been made to the president from nearly every state and terri tory in the Union.
 A distinguished French states hler asserts that his government will oppose any of@rse powers ae- quiring Chinese territory.
 Gernie Jones, aged 7 years, was shot and killed at Sedalia, Mo-, by Jimmie Ewing, aged 9 years. The boys were playing with an old army musket when the weapon was acci- dentally discharged.
 An unknown burglar was blown to atoms in an attempt to blow open the safe in dry goods establish ment at Naylor, Ga. The burglar was evidently green at the business, as he used sufficient dynamite to completely wreck the building.
 All vessels arriving at San Fran cisco from Hawaii will be subjected to quarantine inspection on ac- count of the plague. Health officers of San Francisco succeeded in pre- venting a spread of the plague from the three mild cases in that city and all danger is past.
 By the filing of a suit for divorce by her former husband, Samuel Jus tice, Mrs. Shipley, of Anderson, Ind, has been made acquainted with the fact for the first time that for twenty-three years she has had two living husbands. Justice and his wife separated twenty-five years ago, and two years later the wife, hear ing that her husband had been grant ed divorce, married Milton Ship ley. Justice recently returned from the west, and, finding his wife had married again, instituted suit for di' vorce.
 Passengers who have recently ar rived at Seattle, Wash, state thai the pesthouse at Nome is full of pa tients afflicted with smallpox, ana that the government officials art erecting two other large structures one of which, with additions, vii cover an acre of ground. The dis ease has spread rapidly, and largt number of cases are quarantined II the tents where they were discov. cred. Every government and cit, official and doctor in the camp art working night and day with tht disease, but it seems useless to try to stop it.
 On the 20th the Chinese minis ter at Washington received a cipher cable dispatch from United States Minister Conger. It was in the state department cipher, but bore no date. The telegram was as fol lows: "In British legation. Under continued shot and shell from Chi nese troops. Quick relief only can prevent general massacre" Upon receipt of Minister Conger's tele- gram, Secretary Long cabled Ad. miral Remey as follows: "Congel telegraphs that he is under fire ir British legation, Pekin. Use and urge every means possible for imme. diate relief"
 A dispatch received at Washington on the 16th gives an account of s terrible battle at Tien Tsin between the allied forces and the Boxers. The allied forces attacked the city of Tien Tsin proper and were met by 10000 Chinese with guns mounted on the walls surrounding the city, who poured deadly volley after vol. ley into the ranks of the attacking army The ninth infantry of the United States suffered greatly, losing in killed and wounded 25 per cent of the regiment. Col. Liscum. of the Ninth, wal killed, also Col. French, of tho Twenty fifth infantry, and Capt. Davis, of the marines. On the morn ing of the 14th the attack was re. newed, when the allied forces com pletely routed the Chinese and cap tured the city. The allied forces lost about S00in killed and wounded while thousands of Chinamen were slain.
 Crops in central Arizona have beer practically ruined by the drouth.
 President Mckinley returned tt Washington from Canton on tht