The Conway log cabin., 1901-06-11

The Boer general, Schoeman, and lis daughter, were killed by the ex- Dlosion of a lyddite she'll He was ,xaimning the shell, which was kept n his house, when it exploded.
 Bill Campbell, colored, was taken from jail at Pond Greek, Okla, by l mob of 100 persons and hanged to | telegraph pole. Campbell murder d deputy sheriff in cold blood. Representatives of the Boer re- public have apepaled to The Hague arbitration court to settle affairs in the South African war, promising to abide by the decision of the court.
 of kokomo, Ind, shielded in a sen- sational manner While kneeling in prayer at church she drew a revolver and sent bullet through her heart.
 The following tragedies occurred in Memphis within twentyfour hours: Ely Keys, shot to death by | an unknown negro; Frank Coleman shot through the head by Jim Mar tin in a drunken row; Ida Turner, stabbed to death by man named Jackson; Arthur Ellison, killed by Immet Moore in TOW over crap game. All the parties are negroes. The annual report of adjutant. General Riddell, of Louisville, sub- mitted at the first days session of l the sixth annual reunion of the United Sons of Confederate Veter- ans, held in Memphis, shows that l06 camps have been organized since the Louisville reunion. The num- Der of members added to the confed- eration by reason of the new camps thus formed reaches the aggregate of ,500 The total receipts during the past year was $1, 1,4oS, as against $f76 the year previous. The expendi
 lures during the year amounted to $626, leaving a balance of $s62 in the treasury.
 The annual report of Chief Ex- aminer Seryen, 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 ,569 in classified post offices. There were also 24S people examined non-competitively for excepted places, There were 469 different kinds of examinations, involving l,1S9 opportunities for the assembling of competitors at places widely distributed through out the states and territories.
 An interesting statement has been compiled at the treasury department showing the total receipts to the government from the special war revenue act from the time it became effective, June l3. 1898. up to and including April 30, 1901. Schedule A includes the taxes requiring pro- prietary stamps. Schedule B in- cludes the taxes requiring docu- mentary stamps. The showing Is as follows: Schedule A, 05,102,- l42.21. Schedule B, $13,619,6,0. Beer, $94,361, ,12S.33; special taxes, $14,0s5,6S1.61; tobacco, $45, ,264,- sl4.50; snuff, $2,59O,3l7.90; cig- ars, $S.S4S,115.31; cigarettes, s. 727.103.S1; legacies, $S, ,063.36 ; excise tax, $2,561 ,S27.65; mixed flour, $2l,2s3.34; additional taxes on tobacco and beer, $9S0,236.62.
 Distressing and pitiful tales of suf- fering and death from starvation of natives of Alaska in the valley of the Kushokim river have reached the interior department Reports from this region have hitherto been scant and uncertain, but there is no longer any doubt in regard to the destitu- tion among the natives, the inform ation being furnished by priests from Bethel and at the St. Sergius Mission and from other reliable sources. In the vicinity of Bethel 130 persons are reported dead. Many of their dogs died from starvation and others have been killed by the natives because of superstition on account of their being caught feed ing on dead bodies.
 The eleventh oil well was brought in at Beaumont May 27, and on the same date a well was spouted al Sour Lake, twenty miles away, that flows 15,000 barrels per day.
 In collision of two electric cars on a suburban line running out oi Brooklyn, N. Y., five passengers | I I