The Conway log cabin., 1901-03-05

The Illinois legislature is wrest ing with the reapportionment ques- tion.
 There is some doubt of the river and harbor bill being passed at this session of congress.
 The Missouri legislature defeat ed bill reducing railroad fare from cents to ? 1-2 cents. President Mckinley has nominat- ed Gen. Shafter to be major gen. eral in the regular army.
 It is likely joint Cuban commis- sion will be created for the purpose of revising the Cuban tariff
 Gen. John B. Gordon. while in Chicago recently, was robbed of his overcoat and many ,aluables.
 The 31th volunteer regiment ar rived at San Francisco last week and was mustered out of the service.
 A rumor is again in circulation that the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies are to be con solidated
 Mrs. Nation was acquitted in q test case of smashing saloon at Topeka, on the ground that the joint was nuisance.
 G. B. Deans. once a candidate for governor of Alabama on the populist ticket, has gone over to the republican party.
 A party of American prospectors have found petroleum in large quan- titles on an island in the Caribbean Sea belonging to Venezuela.
 The complete census returns of the Indian Territory show a popu- lation of 391,960, an increase of 211,77S in ten years.
 The railroad depot at River Forest, a Chicago suburb, was com pletely wrecked by a heavy charge of dynamite used by safe blowers. Ambassador Choate has address ed note to the British foreign of flee, requesting an expression at an early date on the Nicaraguan canal treaty.
 Many merchants on the island of Luzon have been arrested by order of Gen. Macarthur charged with furnishing supplies and ammunition to insurgents.
 At Prattville, Ala, Bessie and AL ice Wilkes, aged 12 and 16 years, were burned to death while endeav- bring to rescue a blind brother from d burning building
 Lord Kitchener, commander of British troops in South Africa, mar rowly escaped falling into the hands of the Boers, who captured part of a train on which he was passenger
 The jury at Minneapolis, Minn., returned verdict of guilty of man. slaughter against Frank Hamilton, charged with murdering L. R. Day, d young millionaire in saloon fight. The verdict was a surprise, as the evidence against Hamilton was not strong.
 Manufacturers of blows and blow shares have formed combine This trust will include all the big blow firms of the United States, the prominent ones being the Moline Flow Company, the Deere Company the Parlin- Orendorff Company, at Canton, H., and the Morrison Com pany at Fort Madison, Ia.
 The result of the first Italian census in twenty years has proved surprise It shows that the pop ulation is 35,000,000, while it was not expected that it would exceed 31 ,000,000 The ratio of increase is greater than any other European country.
 H. E. Farrell, general freight agent of the Cotton Belt, or St Louis Southwestern Railway Com pany, of Texas, with headquarters at Tyler, has been appointed freight traffic manager of the entire Cot ton Belt system, with headquarters ill St. Louis.
 The police of Omaha have ar rested one James Callahan, charg- cd with being one of the Cudahy kidnappers. Young Cudahy has identified Callahan as the man who accosted him near the Cudahy resi- dence and represented himself to be sheriff of an adjoining county and forced him into a buggy, and also as the man who kept guard