The Conway log cabin., 1901-07-02


 Jim Deems, colored highwayman, who held up several trains Tn the vicinity of Atchison, Kan, was sen .enced to twenty years in the Kan ;as penitentiary.
 With the exception of few help ITS, all the employees of the Newport News Shipbuilding Company were aid off on the 18th, due to failure If striking machinists to accept the ,ompany's terms.
 The secretary of war directs the publication of the following order for the information of the army: No malt, vinous or spirituous llq- uors will be purchased by the sub ,istence department for any purpose. Supplies thereof needed in medical and hospital practice for use in the 1iet of soldiers too sick to use the lrmy ration will be provided by the medical department"
 Two negroes charged with com plicitv in the murder of J. c. Eos CT. a planter, were lynched near Shreveport. Edwards, the man who fred the bullet that killed Foster, is till at large. It Is claimed the mur- lerer and his accomplices belonged secret order which had for its 'bject the punishment by death or other means any person who incurred he enmity of its members.
 A terrific wind storm passed through portions of Indiana on the 20th. At Marion the First Prcsby terian church and d saloon were par ually destroyed by lightning At Roachdale the building occupied by the Roachdale News was destroyed At Monticello the barn of Bert Hathaway was struck by lightning and Hathaway, who had taken ref uge from the storm in the building, was instantly killed.
 The second trial of Jessie Morri- son for the killing of MT. Olive Cast tie at Fl Dorado. Kas, was begun on the 18th. The first trial resulted in hung jury. Jesse Morrison killed Mrs. Castle at the latter's home, cutting her throat with razor. At her first trial she claimed self-de- fense, alleging that her victim called her as she was passing, and after accusing her of intimacy with Mir. Castle, tried to cut her throat that in the scuf1le she secured the weapon and used it with fatal result.
 The trial of Mrs Lula Kennedy for the murder of her husband at Kansas City came to an end on the 18th when the jury returned yer dict of guilty and fixed her punishment at ten years m prison Mrs. Kennedy is not yet 20 years of age. Kennedy was compelled by the girls relatives to marry her, but refused to recog- nize her as his wife. January 10 last Mrs. Kennedy went to her hus- bands office, and after pleading with him to recognize her as his lawful wife, which he refused to do, she emptied the contents of a revolver into his body, death resulting in- stanly. The defense contended that Kennedy had ruined the girl and driven to desperation by her shame and his action in filing a suit for di- vorce, she shot him while in a state of mind bordering on insanity. She will seek a new trial.
 Secretary of War Root is credited with the statement that troops in Cuba will not be withdrawn for at least year. The secretary says The adoption of the Platt amend ment by the Cubans as a part of their constitution does not close the responsibility placed upon the presi- dent by congress. It will be the duty of the president to see that the conditions imposed by the amend ment are satisfactorily carried out. The language of the Platt amend ment directed that the withdrawal of the troops should occur "so soon as a government shall have been es- tablished under a constitution which embodies the eight provisions of the Platt amendment" The Cubans must not only organize their gov ernment, but under one of the pro- visions of the directions by congress must devise a scheme or sanitation for the citizens of the island to in- sure the health of the people of Cuba as well as the southern ports of the United States. This is one of the conditions which the Cubans must comply with before withdrawal.
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