The Conway log cabin., 1901-06-11
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

The presidential party left San Francisco for Washington on the 26th.
 Mrs. Lease, the Kansas political lecturer, has been declared bank rnpt.
 The Hessian fly is doing great damage to wheat in portions of Kansas.
 The steam barge Baltimore sunk on Lake Huron and the crew Of fourteen men were drowned.
 The state department of labor of Kansas advertises that 5000 harvest hands can get work in that section.
 John Dowie, a Chicago ''falth healer," has been arrested charged with causing the death of young lady patient.
 It is reported Geo. F. Cortelyou, private secretary to President Me Kinlev, will succeed Postmaster Gen. eral Smith shortly.
 Filipinos have forwarded pro- test to President Mckinley against appointment of Americans to pre- side over the courts of the islands.
 Some unknown person has written d letter to Thos. Edison, the invent or. threatening to kidnap his 12- eear-old daughter unless large sum of money is paid.
 President Mckinley has sent 6 special envoy to Hawaii with a mes sage to the legislators, urging them to stop petty quarreling and work for the islands interest.
 H. D. Phillips, a Washington pen sion attorney, has sued Pension Com missioner Evans for $100,000 dam ages for causing him to be disbarreo
 
 from practicing his profession.
 An expedition will sail about July 18th to search for Lieut.. Peary the arctic explorer He has moi been heard from since March 30 1900, when he was at Fort Conger
 Capt. Michael Spellman, Lieut. Delbert K. Jones and Surgeon Dud ley W. Welch, of Company c, For ty-third infantry, stationed at Maa- sin, P. l., have been arrested on the charge of trading in permits to shiE hemp from closed ports. They will be tried by court-martial. It has not been determined whether the Manila hemp buyers are directly i'm plicated
 The census of Scotland, just com pleted, shows total population o1 4,411, ,951. or an increase since the last census, taken ten years ago, o1 446,310. For the first time Scot lands population exceeds Ireland S The population of Glasgow is 76O,- 423, or an increase of 142,311, and that of Edinburgh 316, ,479, or an in crease of 51 ,6S3.
 Senators Tillman and McLaurin of South Carolina, have rendered their resignations to the governor with the understanding that they are to go before the people of the state in a joint canvass, and the sentiment of the people is to be expressed in the November primary The ar rangement is sensational. for Till man was last summer elected for six years and McLaurin has vet two years. The result of the issue means that if Tillman is sustained Me Laurin's seat will be vacant; if Me Laurin Is successful he will succeed to Tillman's long term. Mcl.aurin accuses Tillman of attacking him when Tillman is in a bomb proof The latter declared that he would resign and meet McLaurin on the stump. Mclaurin agreed to the proposition.
 Ella Gates and Carrie Altman, who recently deserted their hus- bands, were found in their room at Birmingham, Ala, shot to death. It Is suspected that one of the deserted husbands killed them.
 The remains of Capt. Henry J Reilly, Fifth artillery, and Capt. Austin Davis, who lost their lives in the Chinese campaign, arrived in this country last week and were in tered in Arlington cemetery, Wash ington, D. c.
 A. T. Dow, a Chicagoan, was fined $10,000 in federal court and given jail sentence for operating an illicit oleomargarine plant Dow IS said to have defrauded the gov- ernment out of $40,000 in revenue.
 The murder of a woman in White chapel, in the same manner of those committed in 1898 by Jack the