The Conway log cabin., 1901-07-16

1 lconsideraDlN danaSeu DN uFouth- United States Consul James Stowe has resigned his post at Cape town.
 Bellarmino, a Filipino leader. with .O00 men and 214 guns, surrender ed last week.
 The emperor of Germany has ordered yacht from an American firm of shipbuilders.
 Comptroller of the Currency Dawes has resigned to enter the sem atorial race in Illinois.
 ! Prince Von Hohenlohe, former German imperial chancellor, died at Ragatz, Switzerland, on the 9th. President Mckinley has issued his proclamation declaring the Indian lands in Oklahoma open for settle ment
 The number of killed and injured over the country as result from eel ebrating the Fourth is reported as less than for years.
 The superintendent of the ma rine hospital corps has ordered Surgeon kinyoun to proceed to Ja- pan and China to make an investi- gation of the bubonic plague.
 Frank D. White, son of Hon. An drew White. ambassador to Germany, shielded at his home in Syracuse, N l., by shooting himself with a rifle. III health was the cause.
 At Griffithville, w. Va, Minnie Waddell, aged 12 years, shot bur glar as he was entering her home during the absence of her parents and then stood watch through the night over her victim till her pa rents returned in the morning. i The Chinese imperial court has re- gently issued edicts rewarding those 1 who resented the foreigners during the recent troubles in that country In this and other ways the court still shows its belief that the war against foreigners was legitimate.
 The comptroller of the treasury has decided that the secretary of the treasury must refund to importers 1 the duties paid on sugar imported ] from Porto Rico between the date the Paris treaty took effect and the date of approval of the Foraker act. The claims amount 10 about S1 .000,- 900.
 The report of the internal revenue department shows that the manufac- turers of tobacco paid into the gov ernment cotfer> during the eleven months ending June. $31, ,SS3, ,04S. This was an increase over corre- spending period of last year of S1,- 540, 0,452 The barrel tax on beer for the period was $6, ,S40.292. an l increase of S3,040.042 over the same period of last year.
 The Chinese government. through Minister Wu. has filed a claim at 1 Washington for indemnity to the amount of half d million dollars on account of alleged outrageous treatment of Chinamen at Butte, Mont, in 1896, when they were driven from the community, and their property in some instances de- stroyed.
 The forthcoming report of the commissioner of immigration, Mr. Powderly, will show that the num- Der of immigrants who landed and were admitted to the United States during the last fiscal year was about 460,000. This total is great CT than the total population of some of the states of the Union. The showing by months was as follows, the month of June being based in part on actual returns from princi- pal ports, and the balance estimat- ed: July, 3S,s35; August, 33,424 September, 3S,40l; October, 3S,- 46S; November. 2s.220; December, 26,0S2 January, lS,201; February, 26,4s3; March, 43.oo0; April. 65,- 362; May, S2,S31; June, 55,o0O. During the year most of the mmi- grafton has been from southern It. ally, and next to that the residents of Austria Hungary have come in in the largest number.
 The Cuban constitutional eonven- ton desires the promulgation of the Cuban constitution as the next log ical step toward the formation of new government. The delegates un- derstand that il is useless to frame an electoral law until the constitu- ton has been published. Merchants, planters and newspapers of all shades of political opinion urge the speedy