The Conway log cabin., 1901-06-04
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

 swept Jacksonville.
 The British war office reports the Boers stll active in the northwestern part of Cape Colony.
 A pronounced earthquake shock was felt in eastern Ohio and western Virginia on the 11th.
 An American torpedo boat just completed at Bath, Me, has a speed of thirty-four miles an hour.
 Mrs. Lyman Gage, wife of the sec retary of the treasury, died at her home in Washington on the 17th.
 The United States torpedo boat destroyer Goldsborough was dis abled on her trial trip from the dock at Seattle. Wash.
 A noted German scientist claims he has discovered an antidote for the fever germs transmitted through the sting of mosquitoes.
 Gen. MacArthur celebrated the surrender of the two Filipino insurgent generals, Mascardo and Lacunda, by releasing one thousand Filipino prisoners.
 Cincinnati leads in the National baseball league for the pennant, New York second. while St. Louis is fighting it out with Chicago foI the tail-end
 Chief Wilkie of the secret ser vice bureau states that in the last twelve months the activity of what are known as sgreen goods crooks has greatly increased.
 The total number of machinists out on strike for the nine-hour day May 21 was 50,000, but a large number of firms have since reached an agreement with their men.
 In the month of April 455 cases of tuphid fever, with ffty-four deaths, occurred in New Haven, Conn.,, and the trouble was traced to a contaminated water supply The epidemic was checked by using boiled water and cleaning the reser- voir from which the water was supplied,
 James s. Ayers, a clerk in the census bureau, Washington, was found dead in his room, and mar ried woman occupying quarters ad- joining has confessed that she killed him. She alleges Ayers enticed her to his bedroom under the pretense that he was i'll, and then made inde cent proposals to her. After kill ing the man she escaped from his room by climbing down a fire es- cape.
 The general strike of employees in the machinery and allied metal trades throughout the country to en- force the nine-hour day with an in crease in wages to meet the reduc- ton in the hours of labor took effect on the goth. A majority of the railroads reached an agreement with their men, but thousands of private planters are affected. It is estimat- ed 10000 machinists throughout the country went out.
 Gen. FitzJ ohn Porter passed away at his home in Portsmouth, Pa, on the 21st, aged 80 years. Gen. Porter was the son of the fa- nous John Porter, Commander U. $. N., and himself d soldier of note. His failure to move forward with his command at the second battle of Bull Run resulted in his dismissal from the army. Those who knew him well never doubted his bravery or loyalty, although the finding of d court martial forever thereafter disqualified him from holding any office of trust or profit under the government he had served both in the Mexican and civil wars.
 The will of the late Geo. Q. Con- nor, the Mormon leader of Salt Lake City has been filed for probate. He left an estate of S1,000, ,00O, di- vided among four widows and thir- ty-three children.
 An understanding has been reach ed between the fruit shippers of Southern California and the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific roads, which will preclude another car famine during the fruit spring sea- son and insure quicker service.
 A plot to abduct the sultan of Turkey has been discovered at Con- stantinople. The sultan's brother is said to have been at the head of the plot uit h tba viam of ,,cnaI n ,