The log cabin Democrat., 1908-02-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.

amount of cotton that is being held by members of the Farmers Union, and of the cotton that is being held by non-union farmers, will be made by the Farmers Unions of the vari- ous states of the South. This was determined upon at the recent meet ing of the presidents of the Farmers Unions of the Southern states held at Hot Springs The movement will be started within the next week or two
 As result of the awful condi- tions in the insane asylums of the state, Illinois, Frank W. Gould, state, Illinois, Frank W. Gould, president of the Union Malleable Iron Company, and president of the Board of Trustees of the Western Illinois Hospital for the Insane at Watertown, committed suicide in his bedroom Saturday by shooting him. self in the mouth.
 The recent completion of an order for 5000 tons of rife barrels in the rough-or approximately 750,0o0 ri- fes-by the Crucible Steel Company of Newark, N. J., for the Japanese government, which has been brought to public attention by Hudson Max i'm, the inventor, is forcible remind CT of the activity of the Japanese in their warike preparations.
 While the family of Joseph Cud- go was gathered around the break fast table on West Railroad street, Mahonoy, Pa., they were terrified by two box cars, which burst into the room and tore away the side of their home. The family escaped injury. The two cars had jumped the track and plunged down 30-foot en- bankment.
 While bending over to kiss her son, a 13-year-old boy, as he was leaving the house Saturday morning at Memphis, Tennessee, a pistol dropped from the blouse waist which Mrs. J. M. Mullins was wearing and exploded, the bullet taking effect in the hoy's body and causing death within few hours. The mother is prostrated.
 The instinct of dogs, which often leads them long distances to their or iginal homes, has again been in- stanced in Oakland, Cal. Sent to the western part of Montana last Decem- Der, a greyhound Saturday appear ed at its old home in Oakland, much to the surprise of Michael Ryan, its former owner.
 Albert West and Edward Will Hams, negroes, were hanged in the parish jail at Lake Charles, La., Friday afternoon West was hanged first. The rope broke when the trap was sprung, but he was quickly strung up again and soon strangled 10 death.
 Oscar l.. Hatcher dead, Covert Talyor wounded and in jail, Jas. Hamm, bystander, wounded, and the wife of Hatcher in a state of frenzy, are the results of pistol duel which took place Saturday on the streets of Meridian, Miss.
 Hon. Geo. D. Wise, for many years member of congress from the Third Virginia district, died at Richmond, Va, Tuesday morning He was unmarried and 12 years old.
 Thousands of idle men will return to work at the mills of the Illinois Steel Company in South Chicago this week. It is expected that fully 5000 men will return to work.
 Ten Coal miners employed in the pit of the Port Hood mine in Port Hood, \. S., were killed by an eN- plosion. All of the bodies have been recovered.
 The announcement that the presi- dent would attend the Republican national convention in Chicago next June was denied at the White House Saturday.
 Pat Cleburn Camp, United Con- federate Veterans of Waco, Texas, has passed resolutions objecting to