The Conway log cabin., 1901-08-06
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

iiNa'f idlli3 ASll oNCi h"h9"S July 26.
 Five cases of yellow fever are re- ported at Santiago de Nagas, Cuba.
 Fifteen persons died at Kansas City in thirty-six hours from heat prostrations.
 The intense heat and protracted drought threatens an almost total destruction of corn in Illinois.
 Sixty-seven thousand garment workers are out on strike in New York for shorter hours of labor.
 Vim. Brooks, colored, was hanged in he city park at Elkins, W. Va, for the murder of Chief of Police Lilly.
 A law and order league at Fl Reno, Ok, has given notice that all thieves caught and convicted will be hanged.
 The prolonged drought in Eng land while not threatening absolute ruin to the farmers, has already en- tailed serious losses.
 It is said the steel trust has sent agents to the south for the purpose of employ ing colored laborers to take the places of strikers.
 Fire at Davenport, Ia, destroyed an area of residence and saw mill property equal to twenty blocks, The loss is placed at $100,000.
 Catholic authorities in the Phil ippines declare that the friars will not be withdrawn, but that they will no longer exercise temporal power.
 Japan has withdrawn her claim to increaesd indemnity from China, and will accept the sum originally determined upon by the ministers.
 A poss- of revenue officers were ambushcd by moonshiners in the mountains of Putnam county, Ten nesee, and Officer Thos. Pine was killed
 All train and trolley traffic over the famous Brooklyn bridge was stopped July D on account of the breaking of d steel cable, due to the intense heat
 Chas l itzman, Chicago boy + years of age, has just completed a trip around the world, breaking all previous records for travel. He made the trip in sixty days.
 A special report which has just been received at Washington gives a gloomy view of the industrial condi- tions in Germany. Thousands of manufactores of that country are idle, due mainly to oyerproduction.
 The poetotiice department has is sued an order that hereafter rural letter carriers shall not act as agents. salesmen or solicitors for express companies. letter-box manufacturers, wholesale houses, corporations or firms, nor engage i'll any business or avocation which would interfere with the proper performance of their ot1i cial duties.
 Owing to the unprecedented drought and excessive heat, the sup ply of stock feed of all classes in all portions of the country will be much below the average, and in most sec tions will be very scarce and expen sive. Already large amount of the surplus stock has been thrown on the market, so that less feed will be required than in the average year. At the same time every indication points to great shortage in cattle, hogs, sheep, horses and mules next spring, and to the fact that abnor- mally high prices will then prevail
 The Siberian crops are nearly to- tai failure, according to reports made by special agents sent into the great grain-producing regions. AL most the entire growth of cereals has perished as result of the two months drouth in the grain districts of Minussinsk and krasnoyarsk. The south Russian crop may be described upon the whole as fairly average, yet there are disastrous shortages in the populous districts in the Eka- trinoslaff government, and an in- stance is cited of the utter destruc- tion of about forty thousand acres of grain by hailstorms and the Hes sian fly.
 Admiral Schley has demanded that court of inquiry be appointed to investigate certain charges made against himself in regard to the Spanish war by the official historian of the navy.