The Conway log cabin., 1901-08-20

l Knoxville, Tenn, has been In the .hroes of bitter street car strike for six days.
 The drought has caused loss from damage to Indiana's corn crop | of at least $l0,000,000.
 | Albert B. Cummings was nomi- hated for governor by the Iowa re- publican state convention.
 A cousin of President Steyn of Cape Colony was killed in battle with the British last week
 Gold has been discovered in Pu Iaski county, Missouri, but the ore yield is only about $4 per ton.
 The Alabama constitutional con gention adopted a clause permitting women who own property to vote in all bond elections.
 Ii is reported boxers threaten trouble when all the foreign troops depart from China. The Chinese regulars. it is feared. will not be able to cope with the boxers.
 George and Helen Gould, as e. ceivers, have been granted an order by the court to pay the debts of their brother-in-law. Count Castellane, out of the estate of their sister, the counts wife
 Governor Longino, of Mississippi, has furnished the press with a statc- ment of the lynching of three ne. groes in Carroll county, in which he condemns the officers in the strongest terms.
 Settlers of I4awton, Okla, after ascertainig that there was no one in authority to suppress gambling and robbery in the town, formed all old 1 time yigilant committee and com pelled all fakerS to move on
 The announcement of the gov ernment's determination to establish Cuban army, has caused great de- preSsion among the Spanish resi- ] dents of the island, as they fear their interests will be jeopardized by such an organization. The enlisting of recruits for the army will begin im- medateN. The organization will be under the charge of Major Roberts of the Second Artillery.
 In all 213 men who served as vol unteer officers during the war with Spain and the operations in the Phil- ippincs have passed the examinations and been given comissions in the regular army. In addition to these 1 POO enlisted men, who took the com petitiye examinations under the act of 1899, have also passed and been assigned to duty. The reorganiza- ton of the army created between 700 and 500 vacancies of commissioned officers, and the indications are that all the assignments will be made by Christmas.
 The United States geological sur vey has issued a report on iron and steel at the close of the nineteenth century, prepared by James NJ. Swank, general manager of the American Iron and Steel Associa- tion It shows that this country to- day leads all other countries in the production of these articles. It puts the total worlds production of pig iron in 1900 at about forty million long tons, of which the United States made 13,TS9,242 tons, or fully 34 per cent. The total worlds produa- tion of steel for 1900was about twen- ty-siX million eight hundred and seyenty-fye thousand tons, of which the United States made 10,1S1,322 tons, or nearly 38 per cent.
 
 Bradstreet's report of commercial conditions for the week ending Au- gust I, says; "Copious rains throughout the western half of the country have had the expected effect of inducing more cheerful tone and the feeling is decidedly more hopeful than it was a week or two ago. Rains principally insured a large spring wheat crop. Brad 2, streets adyices point to the early corn crop as practically failure ir the leading surplus-producing state: west of the Mississippi, but late corr undoubtedly has been saved, and a, time elapscs estimates of production are being raised. From the rest ot the country trade advices are in the main quite cheerful, and, despite tho intense heat and drought of July, ar extraordinarily large business ap pears to have been done, which is re