The Conway log cabin., 1900-07-24
GENERAL NEWS.

10th. The men clam that the company failed to live up to it's agreement, winch the company de- nies. When the first strike was de- clared off one of the agreements en- tered into was that the company fill all vacancies from the ranks of it's former employees and hire no new men until all had been reinstaxd. This is the agreement the men claim has been violated.
 The death rate in Manila, F. l., from October, 1899, to June, 1900, was 2s per 1000.
 There were 1O,32O deaths from Cholera and 6.5O2 fatalities in the famine districts of India during the last week in June.
 Gen. Macarthur cabled the war department that the fourteenth in- fantry and the fifth artillery sailed from Manila for Taku on the 18th. A mysterious plague has broken out among the negroes of Caldwell parish, Louisiana, that proves fatal in almost every instance. Some think the epidemic is very malignant form of smallpox.
 The manthly report of the de- partment of agriculture shows the average condition of cotton July 1 to have been 75.8, compared with 82.5 last month, SIS July I, 1899, 91.2 at corresponding date in 1893 end ten-year average of S7.9. The condition of the principal states is reported as follows North Carolina. S9; South Carolina, 79; Georgia, "A; Florida, 7S; Alabama, 70; Mississippi, 64; Louisiana, S1; Texas. 78; Arkansas. 7S; Tennessee, 76; Oklahoma, S2; Indian Territory, 99.
 Under date of July 18th. Lord Roberts reports a crushing defeat to his troops at Nitral's Nek, eigh- teen miles from Pretoria. The en- tire force garrisoning the place was captured, together with large num- Der of guns. The number of Brit ish killed is not given. Nitrafs Nek was being held by the British in order to maintain communica tions with Rustenburg, which had been cut off. On the same date Boers attacked tho garrison at Dun- depoort, and after several hours fighting, dnring which the British loss was heavy, retired. The Boers have destroyed many miles of rail- road and continue to surprise the British by appearing suddenly at some unexpected point in large numbers.
 The statistical report of the inter state commerce commission for the fiscal year ending June 3Oth, shows that the number of persons employ ed on railroads in this country on the above date was 92S, ,923. Tho number of passengers carried dur ing the year was 523, ,l76, sos, an in crease for the year of 22,1o9. S27. The number of tons of freight car ried was 959, 763, 5S3, an increase of so, 757, 276. The gross earnings of the roads were s143, 131, ,61s, an in crease of the previous year of $63,- 2S4, ,497. The operating expenses are shown to have been 1856, 96S,- 999, an increase of $3S, ,995,723 The amount of dividends declared during the year was S111,0s9, 966. The total number of casualties to persons on account of railway acci- dents was 51,743, the number of persons killed being 7,123, and the number injured 44,620. The num- Der of passengers killed during the year was 239, an increase of IS, and the number injured 3,442, an in- crease of 497, or one passenger was killed for every 2,1S9,023 carried, and one injured for every 151,79S carried. Of railway employees, 2,210 were killed and 34, 923 were injured during the year.
 A conference was lTld between Bryan, Stevenson, Chairman Jones and other democratic leaders at Lin- coin July 10th.
 The revolution in Columbia is gaming in strength, and the present government may be shortly over thrown. The main cause of so many uprisings among the people of Colombia is excessive taxation. Every article, whether produced from the soil or factory, is enor- mously taxed.
 When confronted with evidence of his shortage in accounts, James Bell. postmaster at Gainesville, Fla, saronuad dead from tho shock.