The Conway log cabin., 1901-07-30
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

It is estimated the great strike of steel workers costs $36G,000 per day.
 It is reported Gen. Funston will shortly resign his commission in the army.
 For the fifth time c. D. Graham made a trip in barrel through the rapids of Niagara Falls on the 14th.
 The United States army depart ments of Alaska and the Columbia are to be consolidated about Sep tember l.
 Hon. w. J. Bryan, in his paper declares the Ohio democrats made grave mistake in not endorsing the Kansas City platform.
 General Daniel Butterfield, a dis Itinguished soldier of the war be- tween the states, died at his home in Cold Springs, \ r., on the 17th
 Earl Russell, arraigned before the British house of lords for trial on the charge of bigamy, entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to three months imprisonment Earl Russell secured a divorce from his first wife in the United States, where he mar ried Lady Somerville. A divorce se- cured in this country by an English subject is not held to be legal in England.
 A dispatch says one of the large trust companies of New York city has decided to make an effort to col lect or compromise the bonds issued by the Southern states during the reconstruction period following the civil war, and since repudiated in whole or in part by those states. It is further said that an official of the company admitted that a circular inviting cooperation in this venture had been sent out to persons known to hold some of these repudiated bonds
 \ head-end collision between two local freight trains on the M., K. < T. road near Wymark, l. T., killed five men and probably fatally in- iured three others The dead: Joe Morris, Parsons; James Levelle, head brakeman. Parsons; Frank Fitzgerald, head brakeman The collision occurred on a bridge over the Arkansas river. There is sharp curve near the bridge, and when the engineer saw the danger the engines were too close to each other to be stopped. The two en- zines came together in the middle of the bridge. the bridge collapsing, and both engines fell into the river.
 Despite the dropping of 3S,092 names from the pension rolls through the death of that number of pen sioners during the fiscal year ended June 30, there was a net increase of 4,305 names to the rolls by the granting of new pensions, and the number of names carried on the rolls on June 30 was 99f, ,S34. There was an increase of ? 2,273 in the num- Der of pensioners who died during the year, as compared with the record of the previous fiscal year. The total expenditures on account of pensions and administration was $13S, ,531 ,494, being an increase of $69,353 oyer the disbursements of the previous year. The number of claims filed with the pension bureau on account of disabilities incurred in the Spanish-American war az gregated up to June 30 45,11O, of which 1,0S6 were granted and 1,059 were rejected.
 The census office has issued bull letin concerning the urban popula ton of the country. It shows that 2S,411,69S people in the United States live in cities and towns of over 1000 population. This is 313 per cent of the entire population, a gain of almost per cent since the census of 1890, when the percentage was 329. Compared with the re- turns of 1880 the report shows a gain in the urban population of more than third in percentage and of considerably more than double in actual numbers. There were in 1880 5S0 places of more than 1000 per sons each, with an aggregate popu- lation of 2,936, no, or 25.S per cent of the then population. The per centage of people living in cities and towns, as compared with the population of the other places, ranges from 9t6 in Rhode Island to 2.5 in Indian Territory.
 Oriental advices give details of the terrible destruction of human