The Conway log cabin., 1900-09-25

l The August statement or the lm-, ports and exports of the United States, issued by the bureau of sts- tistics, shows that during the month the total receipts of merchandise were $61, ,625, ,0O5, a decrease as com pared with August, 1899, of about S5,OOO,O00.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, widow 72 years old, living at Glencoe, a small town in St. Louis county, Missouri, was found dead, having been choked to death. The old lady lived alone, and it was the general belief that she had considerable money secreted about her house. The object of the murder was robbery.
 Among the largest contributors to the relief of Galveston were the fol- lowing: City of Louisville, Ky, $10,O00; Andrew Carnegie, $10,- 900; Carnegie Steel Company, $10,- 900; Liverpool, Eng, $lO,Oo0; St. Louis, $30,OOo; Dallas, $15,OO0; New Orleans, $6,000; Philadelphia, $6,oO0; Chicago, $6O,OOO; New York City, $134,0Oo; Boston, $1s,- 900; Americans in Paris, $10, ,000; Santa Fe railroad, $15,O00. Tho towns contributing $5,O0O and less are too numerous to mention.
 A dispatch to New Orleans daily of the 13tA inst. tells of tho drowning of S5 passengers on gulf and Interstate train which left Beaumont, Tex, on the morning of the 9th. One of the survivors States that the train reached Boliver Point about noon, but was unable to cross the bay on ferryboat on account of the high wind. The train then started to back toward Beaumont, but before it had proceeded far it was almost completely inundated by water from the sea. The train was completely wrecked and s5 of tho passengers were blown away or drowned in the cafs. Those who were saved spent about 50 hours in a light house on almost no rations.
 The monthly report of the statis. tician of the department of agricul- ture at Washington shows the aver- age condition of cotton on Septem- Der to have been 6S.2 as compared with 76 on August l, 1900, 6s5 on September l, 1899, 79.8 at the corresponding date in 1898, and 76.6, the mean of September aver- ages of the past ten years. Except in Mississippi, where there is no ap- preciable change in condition, thero was decline during August throughout the entire cotton belt The loss amounts to points in Ok lahoma, 3 in Alabama and Flor ida, in Virginia, 6 in Texas, Z in Louisiana, 8 in Georgia, 13 in Ten nessee, IA in South Carolina, 16 in North Carolina, IS in Arkansas, 19 in Indian Territory and 20 in Mis- souri.
 Some of the escapes from death during the hurricane at Galveston were miraculous. Pat Joyce tells a sad story of his mad ride before the wind upon a raft of driftwood, and how he was compelled to wit ness the drowning of his niece with out being able to assist her. Joyce was picked up after being on the drift seven hours. Occupants of some of the buildings completely de- molished escaped without injury, while others were killed in buildings damaged only slightly. Many mem- bers of the crews of the numerous vessels wrecked were driven miles through the mountains of waves and landed alive on the shores. Ono man buried in the ruins of three story building, when the timbers were removed, was found to have es- capped with only a broken finger, while half dozen other occupanta of the structure were crushed al- most beyond recognition.
 Chicago was visited by severe storm on the 11th inst, the wind reaching velocity of 72 miles an hour. Two people were killed and number injured.
 Claims aggregating over $2,000,- 900 have arisen in connection with the efforts to prevent the spread to this country of bubonic plague bY the American authorities burning down a considerable part of the Japanese and Chinese quarters in Hawaiia early in the summer. sl0O REWARD, $l0O.
 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease