The Conway log cabin., 1900-09-11
GENERAL NEWS.

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 An effort is being made to merge the principal banking institutions of New York City into a syndicate.
 Typhoid fever has become epidem- ic at Paris, France, and the mortal ity from the disease is unusually large.
 Eight hundred miners employed in the coal mines at Leavenworth, Kan, struck for an advance of 14 cents per ton.
 Twelve men alleged to have taken part in the recent rioting at Akron, O., have been indicted and placed under arrest.
 Dr. J. N. Mccormick, who at tended Vim. Goebel after he was shot down at Frankfort, received fee of $10,000 for his services.
 Four tramps insulted two young ladies in the outskirts of Marshall town, Iowa. When an old colored drayman went to their rescue he was shot dead.
 The transport Logan sailed from San Francisco for Manila on the 1st inst. with 1,638 enlisted men, who are to take the places of the volun- teers in the Philippines to be mus tered out.
 Gen. Otis has been selected to fill the post of commander of the depart ment of the lakes, to succeed Gen. Joe Wheeler, retired. Gen. Chaffee succeeds Gen. Wheeler in the list of brigadier-generals.
 Fifty-three people mysteriously disappeared from St. Louis during the month of August, and of this number four are known to have sui cided, as their bodies were identi- fled at the morgue.
 Gov Brady, of Alaska, in let ter to the secretary of the interior, reports much sickness and suffering in that country, and urges the gov ernment to furnish supplies for the relief of the sufferers.
 Henry Bachner, a 16-year-old boy, was arrested at Princeton, Ind, charged with making and passing counterfeit money, The boy is said to have made the molds and done the casting all alone.
 A Chicago packing house has just closed contract with the Rus sian government for 6,000,000 pounds of beef on hoof, to be deliv- cred in China. It will take 5000 head of fat cattle to fill the con- tract.
 Both Russia and Germany arc making extensive preparations to- ward maintaining large army for use in China, The other powers re- gard the war preparations of these two countries as entirely dispropor- tionate to the task before the allies in China.
 At store five miles from Che neville, La, Alex Jackson, white, was shot and killed by a negro named Thomas Ames. A posse was quick ly gathered, and when they cap tured Ames he was taken to the scene of his crime and swung to the limb of tree.
 The note communicated to the powers by the state department at Washington, signifying the acquies- cence of the United States in the Russian views of the expediency of a temporary withdrawal from Pekin of the allied troops, in order to fa- cilitate peace negotiations, has been agreed to by France and Japan.
 The Texas Pacific has announced its withdrawal from the Southwest ern Passenger Bureau. The effect of this action on the part of the Texas Pacific may be to break up the bu- reau, It is learned there has been a divergence of opinion among the different passenger agents on the amount of the penalty, some of whom objected to- even $500. The general passenger agents m May, 1899, refused to agree to $500 pen atty, but the matter being passed up to the presidents of the different roads, they fixed the penalty at that figure.
 1 So far as the war department has made any plans for the return of the volunteer troops from the Philip pines. it is intended to commence the homeward movement about the middle of November. No orders have yet been issued, but it will takt practically all of the transport ser vice at the command of the depart