The Conway log cabin., 1901-05-28

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 Burglars blew open the safe in the Hart County Bank at Munsford. Ky, on the 18th and got away with over $3,00O in cash.
 Capts. Barrows, Read and Boyes have been convicted eff complicity in the commissarv scandals at Manila and will be dismissed from the army in disgrace.
 A mob of naked mon went to the house of Lee Key, colored, in John on county, and shot him to death. It is charged he had been terroriz- ng other negroes.
 Dr. Herman. colored. was shot and killed by vigilance committee al Topeka. kas. Herman was accused of intimacy with woman whose hus- band recently died under bis care
 Mrs Louisa Bo;ha, wife of the Boer general, has sailed for Europe on mi sion to urge President Krue- ger to accept the terms of peace pro posed by Lord Kitchener
 Six thousand cigarmakers at IIa- yana went on strike because their employers failed to bring pressure to bear to have a bridge repaired over which they had to pass to work
 The Chinese envoys have replied to the ministers demands for in demnity. The Chinese represent that an annual payment of $10,000,- GOO is the full extent of their power to pay on indemnity account. It will take thirty years to discharge the debt at this rate, without interest
 Samuel Flower, paying teller of the Hibernia National Bank, has been arrested in New Orleans by | United States Marshal Fontelien charged with a shortage of $36,000 The bank holds the bond of the Fiji delity and Deposit Company of Bal timore for $35, 1000.
 Commissioner of Pensions Evans has been informed of the activity of agents in San Francisco of alleged pension attorneys in soliciting clients from the volunteers returning from the Philippines. Special agents are on the grounds and some of them over-zealous sharks who would in- duce every discharged soldier to ap- ply through them for pensions are liable to be punished.
 A. H. Williams is under arrest at Memphis, suspected of being the leader of the gang that robbed the Choctaw night express few miles west of Memphis April 22 It is the theory of the officer that the robbery was committed by professional safe blowers and not professional train robbers, The express safes were blown open and the job cleverly done Williams is known as an expert with nitro glycerine.
 Six miners lost their lives, five were fatally injured and three se- riously burned in an explosion in the mine of the Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company at Pennington, W. Va. The dead: Maynard Beat ty, of Mannington; Joe Nichols, of Lonacening, Md; J. H. Everson, of Everson, ". Va; Dan Alferrell, of Pennington; Joe Dominic ltal- ian; Tony Philli9p,. Italian.
 The monthly statement of inn ports and exports of the United States, shows that during April, 1901, the imports of merchandise amounted to $16.s50,9S2. of which $36, ,461,12S was free of duty, The whole amount is $l, 100000 in excess of the imports of April, 1900. The exports of domestic merchandise during April aggregated $l20,1S0,- 590, an increase of $2,000,000. The physicians report strange case in Avana township, Vandaha couutv. Illinois, Mrs. John Linsey has been lying very ill for the past eight weeks with fever. During six weeks of this time she has been pos sessed of a strange hallucinrNon. Notwithstanding she has been grad ually improving, she declares she is dead, and insists on having her body prepared for burial. Every effort on the part of the attending physician and her friends has been made to disabuse her mind of this. but of no avail. She says her body must be buried; that it is not right to hold it so long after death.
 J. NJ. Weaver, a lumberman, and I J. B. Edwards, q merchant, fought duel at Leesville, La, both men be- ing mortaly wounded.