The Conway log cabin., 1901-08-27
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

New York tin plate dealers have loubled prices.
 Coal miners of East Tennessee nave demanded a nine-hour work lay.
 The receipts from the sale of town ots at Lawton, Okla, will exceed half a million dollars.
 The American and Continental :obacco companies have been ab- ,orbed by $150,000, ,000 trust.
 General Gomez declares that un- der no circumstances would he ac- ,ept the nomination for president of Cuba.
 Steps are to be taken to upset the recent land lottery in Oklahoma, on the ground that the scheme was Illegal.
 A strike is theatened among em- ployes of eastern cotton mills on ac- count of a reduction of 14 per cent in wages.
 The attorney general of Ohio threatens to prosecute the American Steel Company for violating the an thrust law.
 Mayor Taggart, of Indianapolis, Ind, is an avowed candidate for the chairmanship of the national demo- cratic committee to succeed Senator Jones.
 Since free trade went into effect in Porto Rico, coffee has been i'm ported into that country from Brazll and sold at less than the homegrown product
 Mrs. William Glou. of Great Falls, Mont, horsewhipped the president and secretary of the trades council because a boycott had been put on her store.
 Many volunteers who have re- turned to England after expiration of their terms of enlistment i'll South Africa complain that the govern ment has failed 10 pay their salaries.
 Gen. Richard Page. who in 1861 resigned his commission in the United States navy and joined the Confederacy, died at his home in Norfolk. Na.. last week. aged 94 years. He commanded the outer de- lenses of Mobile bay at Fort Morgan and with 100 men held Farragut : fleet at bay for two weeks.
 \ passenger on the M., K. < T. was robbed by eight masked men at paint in the Indian Territory, twenty-eight miles from Denlson, Tex. The express car was blown open, the safe wrecked and the mail sacks rihed. The robbers also went through the train and took all the money and valuables found on the passengers.
 War is being waged between work men of very nearly every class and employers at San Francisco, the question being the recognition of the various unions. The trouble started by the strike of dock laborers, and soon extended to other calhngs. For over a week business was practically suspended, and even city employees l quit work out of sympathy for the dock laborerS.
 Five men were burned to death, four were drowned. three and possi- ! blv four were sutfocated and several injured as the result of a fire which l destroyed the temporary waterwork> crib two miles off the Cleveland, O.. harbor on the 14th When the fire ] broke out the tunnel contained twen- l tv-sIX men, seventeen of whom eS- capped on floating pieces of wreckage and were picked up by rescuing party.
 A dispatch from Houlton, Kan. tells of a most remarkable occur renee at that place. The 5-year-old child of a Mr, McPrease died or ap, peared to be dead The funeral was arranged, and on the way to the cemetery the casket containing the child was struck by bolt of light ming and split open. To the aston ishment of the frightened party the child sat up and called for its mother. The horses were knocked down, but no other damage was done. The little girl is in a fair way to recovery. It Is believed she was in cataleptic state, from which the shock of lightning aroused her
 The state democratic platform ot Pennsylvania adopted in convention last week does ~ot mention the Kan sas City platform, but arraigns the republicans on their administration of the state government. Tncv WaShin0ton a colorad uo