The Conway log cabin., 1900-07-10
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Chinese at Berlin have been warn-
 ed by the police not to show them-
 selves in public.
 From June 26th to July 4th,
 Gen. Wood reported ten deaths from
 yellow fever in Cuba.
 England has scandal over the
 manner in which her soldiers were
 treated in the hospitals in South Af-
 rica.
 That the Fourth was duly cele-
 brated all over the country is eyi-
 lenced by the large number of fa
 talities reported.
 Gen. Chaffee, who is to com
 mand the United States troops in China, sailed from San Francisco ,n the transport Grant July 1st The American mule is to play q part in the Chinese trouble. A
 transport loaded with these animals
 sailed from Cuba for Taku on the 1st inst.
 Advices from South Africa say that the Boers are deserting Gen. De Wet. A number of deserters who were captured have been or aercd shot
 During the two weeks ending June 30th, Gen. Macarthur re- ports that the Philippine rebels lost pS in killed. 107 in wounded and 65 taken prisoners.
 The battleship Oregon is aground in the gulf of Pechi Ii, fifty miles west of Che Foo, China. Command CT Wilde reports the vessel only slightly damaged.
 Storms swept over portions of Indiana June 30th. destroying con siderable property. A number of people were killed in demolished building and by lightning. A heavily loaded street car at . Tacoma, Wash, jumped the track
 and plunged one hundred feet into a
 gulch. Thirty-five passengers were
 killed outright and sixty wounded.
 Every pier and all the dock prop ertv belonging to the North German
 Steamship Company at Hoboken, N.
 r., were destroyed by fire June Soth, The ship. Main, the Seede
 and Bremen were also burned. The
 lives of number of persons were
 lost. The loss is placed at $l0,000, poo.
 According to reports from off
 cers of steamer which arrived at Portland from Cape Nome last
 week, the latter place now has pop
 plation of 10000 souls, all but 5000
 of whom are living in tents. Most of the gold seekers, it is said, are
 disappointed with the country. Ev-
 srything is very high, good,
 square meal costing $4. The census recently taken of , Porto Rico shows that in total population of 935,243. there are s. , .21 more females than males. The persons over 45 years of age is given at only 1l.S per cent of the entire population. The number of chil- 1ren between 5 and F years of age is shown to be 322,393. Prof. Schmuaches was killed at r Columbus, Ind, in attempting to make balloon ascension. The bal [ loon caught fire, and Schmuaches
 fell a distance of several hundred
 feet.
 At a fireworks display in Phila-
 aelphia on the fourth four children
 were killed and three others pr0ba-
 ply fatally injured, while score of
 others received less serious injuries.
 The premature explosion of fire
 works caused the accident. |. Archbishop John Joseph Keane, founder and the first rector of the Catholic University at Washington has just been appointed archbishop of the see of Dubuque, to succeed the late Archbishop Hennessey. The results of the last census of Mexico, just made public, gives the total population at 12,491,573. Of these l,7S2,S22 can read and write, B23, ,336 can read, and more than 5000, 1000 who have attained suffi-
 cient age can neither read or write. The Chinese government for some
 time past has been purchasing large quantities of war material It is said great deal was secured from American firms, but the bulk of it
 was purchased in Europe. Admiral J. W. Philipps, in com
 mand of the Brooklyn navy yard,
 died June 3Oth of heart disease. U N~~..x,