The Conway log cabin., 1901-06-18

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 The American and Continental Tobacco companies have been con solidated.
 Arkansas has 24.7 persons to the square mile by the census of l9oO, ranking between Maine and Hawai-.
 Senator Hanna has been appointed colonel on the official staff of Gen. Rassieur, commander-in-chief of the c. A. R.
 On June 9th the weather bureau at Baker City, Ore, reported the mer- cury at 6. degrees below the freezing point.
 The license of Pugilist Corbett to conduct a saloon in New York City has been revoked because he kept open Sundays
 Justice Brewer, of the United States supreme court, was married on the 9th to Miss Emma Motte, of Washington
 Senator Tillman and McLaurin, of South Carolina, acting on the sound advice of Gov. McSweney, withdrew their resignations.
 Two passenger trains collided on the Mississippi Valley road near Vicksburg and several passengers were badly injured.
 James Stacey, railroad engineer of St. Joseph, Mo-, in fit of mental alteration, murdered his wife and child and then shielded.
 A masked mob of forty men lynch ed Calvin Hall, aged 72 years, his three sons and a man named Dan Yantis near Alturas, Modoc county, California. The youngest of the Halls was but 16 years of age. The victims were suspected of wholesale theft from farmers in the communi- ty where they lived.
 The war department has ordered the commandant of every military post or barracks in the United States to report before July on the effect of the abolition of the army canteen. The request for informa- tion includes detailed statements as to the number of arrests which have followed the pay days since the army canteen has been abolished. the effect on the health of the soldiers, and unprejudiced opinions as to effect on the discipline
 The annual report of Chief Ex- aminer Serven, of the civil service commission, shows that during the year ended June 30, 1900, 45,641 persons took the competitive exami- nations for original appointments to the classified service Of these, 21,- s72 were for the departments, 2,349 for the government printing office, positions under collectors of inter nal revenue, and 16,569 in classified post offices. There were also 24S people examined non-competitively for excepted places. There were 469 different kinds of examinations, involving 1,1Ss opportunities for the assembling of competitors at places widely distributed through out the states and territories. A resolution in regard to labor or ganizalion was discussed by Dr. Robb. of Sheridan, la., at the Pitts burg session of the Reformed Pres byterian synod of America, as fol- lows: 'We look upon membership in many of the unions as at present organized and controlled, as danger ous, and warn our members against | joining any union which has an i'm moral obligation to keep inviolate, as long as life remains, the rites and regulations, the issue of which he is necessarily ignorant" Dr. Roble said the sign of a labor organization was ''the mark of the beast" -
 The comparative statement of the government receipts and expendi- lures shows that during the month of May the total receipts were $52,- 629,440 and the expenditures $42,- l36, ,560, leaving a surplus for the month of $10,492 ,S80 and a surplus for the eleven months of the present fiscal year of $5S.5S7,135. The re- ceipts for May are given as follows |: Customs. $2l, ,02l ,42S; increase, as compared with May, 1900, about $3,- G25 900; internal revenue. 21,66S,- ,02 increase, $3,S01 ,000; miscella- ucOuS. S3.939 .30S. increase X30-