The Conway log cabin., 1900-10-30
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

\ The Spanish government IS alarm ed oyer revival of the Carlist agi- tation. - II Ex-Secretary of State John Sher- man is seriously i'll at his home in Washington.
 I Lord Kitchener will succeed Lord Roberts in command of the British army in South Africa.
 \ The New York Yacht Club has accepted Sir Lord Lipton's chal- lenge for the American cup.
 A theatrical benefit at London theatre for the Galveston flood suf- ferers netted the sum of $6,500.
 A Boxer made desperate at tempt to assassinate the emperor of China. The man was immediately put to death.
 II The United States military force in Porto Rico is to be reduced. The troops relieved will he sent to the Philippines.
 The population of the territory of Arizona increased from 59,620 in 1890 to 122,212 in 1900, as shown by the census.
 Marconi has invented new wires less system of telegraphy, which is said to be a great improvement over the system he first invented.
 The total output of coal i'll the Indian territory for the fiscal year ended June 30 shows an increase of nearly B per cent over the previous twelve months.
 Lieut.. Hobson, at Montgomery, Ala, was presented with a beautiful loving cup in commemoration of his daring act of sinking the Mer- imac in Santiago harbor
 | A typhoon caused great damage last month on the coast of Formosa and Southern China Nineteen hundred houses were washed away and thousands of people drowned.
 The passenger and ticket agents, l in annual convention at Buffalo, N I Y, pissed resolution urging con | gress to pass an anti-scalpIng act, as state legislation on the subject has proven ineifcctmli.
 l 'ihe-aase of Neely. Cuban postal embezzler, has been set for hearing 1 in United States supreme court No vember l2. when it will be decided whether the accused is to be tried in l Cuba or the United States.
 The Boers continue to harass the British, making sudden and unex- pected attacks on the enemy and then withdrawing. The country is favorable for system of guerilla warfare, and it is likely this policy will be followed by the Burghers for an indefinite period.
 Roberts reports that the Boers are caily tearing up railway and cut ting telegraph wires leading from Pretoria, and that line repairers cannot leave garrisoned points with out heavy escort.
 A special correspondent to New York daily asserts that the allied armies in China have violated every l principle of civil warfare, and that the honor of women has been treated as trifle. The Americans are ex- cepted in this charge
 Prince Hohenlohe has resigned as imperial chancellor of Germany. The reasons given for the resigna- ton is the princes disapproval of the emperor's policy in China. 1 Count Von Buelow is his successor. Insurgents attacked a gang of Americans engaged in repairing telegraph wires on Luzon Island, P. l., October 10. Three of the Ameri- cans were killed and seven made prisoners. The bodies of the dead Americans were terribly mutilated. A large number of Italians, head ed for the United States, were turn ed back by the Mexican authorities at Paso del Norte, just across the Rio Grande. They were from Vera Cruz, where yellow fever is raging.
 Melville Datson,. colored, was lynched at Brusle Landing, between Shreveport and New Orleans. Dat son entered coach on Texas Pa cific passenger train and, without provocation, shot and killed Viii | Jordan, the conductor.
 The state department has already received number of claims from American missionaries and business men for indemnity on account ot loss of property in China as re- suit of the Boxer uprising.