The Conway log cabin., 1901-08-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

 900 is estimated.
 Venezuela is again in the throes of revolution.
 Potatoes are selling at Sl.0o , bushel at St Louis.
 Kansas City republicans have , started Il Roosevelt boom.
 Revenue officers have destroyed :, i16.O5, illicit stills in ten years. A firm in Cincinnati is said to have secured a corner on the supply
 of Irish potatoes.
 It is reported that President kru-
 ger has arranged to visit their coun-
 try in September
 A temporary stop to ocean ship
 ping was caused in San Francisco
 bv strike of dock laborers.
 Another steel combination emhrac- ing the principal plants engaged in making steel castings is to be
 formed.
 Cyrus Lake, years old, was
 thrown into lake by companion
 near Alpena, Mich. and held under the water until drowned. More than zoo children under the age permitted by law for their employment, were taken from St
 Louis factories last week by the
 officers.
 A northbound Rock Island pas .enger train. crowded with depart
 ing homeseekers, was wrecked near kuemiin, Ok. c. L. Mcl.ain, of
 Enid, Ok, was killed outright and
 about twenty others more or less in-
 jured.
 X Baltimore and Ohio passenger
 train was held up near Chicago by five masked men. The robber mis- took the baggage car for the express car and blew it to pieces with dNna- : mite. Seeing their mistake they dis
 appeared, the only thing of value Se- cured being the engineer watch. ) Reports to R. G. Dun X Co. show , commercial failures in the United States during July to have been 691,
 with an aggregate indebtedness of
 St. .035 .933. Compared with the
 same month last year there appears
 most gratifying improvement, as g failures were then 193 in number l and S9.r11,115 in amount. The r decrease occurred principally in the [, manufacturing class, where last months insolyencies numbered 155 for $3, 240, ,129, against lS3 last year, owing $5.lsH6S2.
 The government has commenced
 suit 10 recover d part of the 2,950,
 900 alleged to have been embedded 2 by Oberlin NJ. Carter, late captain l of the corps of engineers, now e serving sentence at Leavenworth. - The embezZlements are alleged to
 have been made by Carter while su- . peryising government work ill the
 harbor at Savannah. Ga. The 9uitS r filed seek to recover by the sale of
 certain property in New York, al ], legged to have been purchased with y government funds.
 e From reports received from every t section of the country the St Louis 6 Post-Dispatch in it's summary of < the drouth situation says: = Hast years corn crop was 2,lO5,-
 102.5l6 bushels. This year il will be
 but little more than l,200,000, ,000. At last years prices the loss to the l farmers will be S36S,000, ,000 Mis- . souri and Kansas seem to be the principal sufferers, the average crop , in both states being 30 per cent. Illinois is credited with 50 per , cent, Iowa 62 per cent and Nebras- ka 4s per cent. Compensation,
 however, is found in the enormous wheat crop harvested before the drouth set in. This far exceeds last years crop of 5S2,229,5 ,505 bush els and the shortage in Europe in sures good prices. Besides, the far
 mers have carried over large quan-
 tity of corn from last year, which they will now dispose of at good
 prices. The prospect is not g loomy.
 Although the corn crop is partial
 failure, the wheat and last year s
 corn balances will help the farm
 ing community and prevent d
 pinch.
 The brokerage firm of George : Phillips of Chicago has suspended. Phillips is the man who engineered the recent corner on corn in which ' he made over a million dollars. l Control of China's foreign af- $ fairs has been formally trans