The Conway log cabin., 1901-06-11
Cotton iumped up 20 points or Si

Cotton jumped up 20 points or Sl per bale, on the 18th
 The allied troops are being grad ually withdrawn from PelIin. Prince Ching is to be placed in control of the city.
 The monument erected by the state of South Carolina on the bat tlefeld of Chickamauga was dedl- cated May 2Sth.
 By a unanimous vote the Presby- terian general assembly at Philadel- phia declared in favor of a revision of the confession of faith.
 Mathew Flynn, a Chicago theat- rical manager, died from the effects of drinking in one evening twenty three bottles of champagne.
 An explosion of gas dust in a coal mine two miles from Dayton, Tenn, resulted in the death of over thirty miners, mostly men of families.
 The Platt amendment was ac- cepted by the Cuban constitutional convention May 2S by vote ot fifteen to fourteen.
 Col. J. c. Miner, who was an as sistant secretary of the Confederate navy during the war, died in pow erty at Milford, O., May 25, aged S2 years.
 The funeral of ex-Gov Tanner, of Illinois, which took place at Spring field May 26, was the largest in that city since the burial of President Lincoln.
 The supreme court of Ohio has sustained the law allowing heirs of persons lynched to recover damages from the counsy in which a lynchlng occurs.
 It is understood in railroad circles that the Frisco will absorb the Kan sas City, Fort Scott X Memphis rail road, and that the consolidation will take effect July 1.
 Lieut.. Gov. Allen, of Vermont has been arrested by federal officers charged with complicity with the cashier in wrecking bank of whicf he was a director.
 Solicitor General Richards, who had charge of the insular cases be fore the supreme court, makes the following statement, containing hl' interpretation of the decisions o1 the court:
 "The important question involved was whether the cession of territory contained in the treaty of Paris made Porto Rico and the Philippines an integral part of the United States within the meaning of that provision of the constitution requiring all du- ties, imposts and eXcises to be uni form throughout the United States The court held that the cession sim ply made Porto Rico and the Phil lppines domestic territory of the United States, subject to the con- trol of congress, which control could be exercised without reference tC hose limitations. This limitation the court held, was intended to ap- ply to the states Of the Union, and does not apply to the acquired ter ritory under the treaty, and by sub sequent act of congress, it is incor- porated within and becomes an inte- eral part of tie United States. The decisions sustain the so-called insu- lar policy of the administration. The government now has the sanction of the supreme court for governing those islands as their needs require The court holds that the conStitu- ton did not of its own force apply to these ceded territories. placing their people, their products and their ports on an immediate equality with ours and conferring upon them all the rights, privileges and immuni- ties enjoyed by the people, products and ports of the several states, While their fundamental rights are preserved by those underlying prin- ciples of the constitution which ap- ply everywhere, the nature of the customs and commercial regulations are to be determined by congress. Obviously what l have said regard ing Porto Rico applies equally well to the Philippines, so that the presi- dent is perfectly free under the Spooner act to govern the Philip pines as their needs and their inter- ests may require. At the same time the court has decided as a matter of statutory construction that the Dingley act could not be held to i'm pose duties on goods brought from Porto Rico because by cession Porto