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

l4Oru hlIcUeUeT eStliilutCS tliC hui' per of Boers now in the field against he British at 5000
 Governor McMillan of Tennessee probable candidate for the United States senate.
 Many persons who drew land in Oklahoma for speculation, have be- come discouraged and forfeited their claims.
 Charles Bentley, colored, was hanged by mob near Leeds, Ala, for the murder of white man. He confessed.
 Ex-Speaker Tom Reed is being mentioned as the republican eandi- date for mayor of New York at the coming election.
 The British house of commons voted an appropriation of $lO,O0O,- 900 to complete a cable from Aus tralia to Canada by what is known as the Pacific route.
 The farmers of the south will be among the greatest sufferers from the strike of steel workers, as cotton ties will greatly increase in price if the trouble is not speedily settled.
 Governor Yan, of Shang Tung province, has issued a sensational proclamation declaring that foreign missionaries have no right to inter- fere in any way by their teachings against Chinest religions and GUS toms.
 The steel trust announces that It is prepared to spend as much money as necessary to destroy the Anna ga mated Association, whose members are now on strike. It looks as though this will be the most bitter fight that ever took place between capital and o<.anized labor.
 One of the biggest and most dar- ing robberies on record IS reported from San Francisco. The Selby Smelling Company is the victim, and the loss is placed at $2S0,o00. The thieves tunneled under the outer wall of the building to the vault and carried away 12,000 ounces of gold, 1 worth S20 an ounce.
 In the course of an interview with Mr. Kruger, published in the Paris Figaro, the ex-president of the Transvaal said: We have already once proposed peace directly to Great Britain, and we will not renew the proposition. All we are willing to give for peace is money, if Great Britain asks it. No price is too dell to obtain independence and the right to live as free nation" :"
 Exports of manufactures from the United States show an apparent de- crease of $23,342, ,5S3 in the fiscal year 1901, compared with 1900 the detailed figures having just been completed by the treasury bureau of statistics. These figures do not in- clude exports to the Hawaiian Islands and Porto Rico, which are now customs districts of the United States.
 Hon. W. c. Price, United States treasurer under President Buchanan, died at his home in Chicago last week. When Buchanan ordered Ma | jor Anderson to transfer his force to Fort Sumpter Judge Price be- leved the south was being betrayed and resigned his office in anger. He was with General Price at the battle of Pea Ridge and captured by the Federals and confined in prison at Alton, H., till September, 1869, when he was exchanged.
 John Wesley Pennington, negro, was burned at the stake near Enter prise, Ala, before crowd of 300 enraged and determined citizens of Coffee county. The assemblage was composed of both whites and blacks, and though the suffering wretch pleaded for mercy and frantically endeavored to break the chains that tightly bound him, not trace of sympathy was shown on the faces that peered at him through the flames. Pennington had committed a brutal assault upon Mrs. J. c. Da, wis, and confessed his guilt.
 The United States gunboat Ma, chian has been ordered to proceed to Colon, near the eastern terminus of the Panama Railroad, to protect American citizens and their prop. erty.
 A tramp who refuses to give his name is in jail at Newkirk, Okla. for stealing dozen eggs, worth in the market just cents. He grabbed