The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-31
news OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF two CONTINENTS
a Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week. ~

Governor Pattison, of Ohio, is grow
ing worse.
Justice Harlan, of the United States
Supreme court, may resign.
The Chicago beef trust trial has been
set for the second Monday in Deem
Der.
The Ohio legislature has provided for
a commission to revise the insurance
laws of the state.
The president fears congress will
take no action on the Panama canal at
the present session.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, is in the hands
OF mob. A street car strike is the
cause of the trouble.
President Roosevelt has again sent
BristoPs name to the senate for con-
firmation as district attorney for Ores
gon.
The Mississippi river is rapidly ris-
ing and the danger line has been
reached at several points near St.
Louis.
Great Britain has asked China for
5 900 taels for the recent Nanchang
murder and the opening of the port
of WuCheng Chi.
The Iowa legislature has passed a
resolution providing for an insurance
investigation similar to that had in
New York last fall.
The fire in the big natural gas we'll
near Caney, Kansas, has again been
extinguished by means of huge iron
cap dropped over the opening.
The Iowa legislature has killed the
direct primary bill.
Revclutionists of China are planning
to depose the dowager empress.
Germany is planning navy equal to
that of both France and England.
Charles S. Francis has been appoint.
ed United States ambassador to Aus.
tria
A wealthy New York merchant has
eft 1865, 900 to the colored school al
ruskegee, Alabama.
American delegates have solved the
problem of the Moroccan conference
and an agreement is assured
Steamship companies expect weekly
average of 2 coo Russian emigrants to
the Uuited States during this summer
Fire at Jamestown, Pa, destroyed
nearly 81 000,0 worth of property.
One fireman was killed and several
seriously injured.
Attorney General Hadley, of Mis-
souri,, has completed the taking of evil
ience in New York ~egarding Standard
Oil operations in his state.
The first of Is bridge agents and cor
porations to be tried at Sundusky,
Ohio, on charge of conspiracy in re-
straint of trade has been found guilty.
Attorney General Moody believes a
new nan should be selected as district
attorney for Oregon, but United States
Attorney Heney says Bristol is all
right.
The Moroccan conference ia rapidly
approaching an agreement.
New York Republicans will ask
Charles E. Hughes to run for COVER
nor.
The senate committee on public lands
has had new timber law referred to
them.
Taft says the government paid the
cost of General Woods trip around the
world.
Standard Oil officials are giving At
torney General Hadley, of Missouri, all
the evidence he asks.
Four New York fremen lost their
lives while attempting to save lives
from a burning factory.
Commissioner of Corporations Gar
field has agents at work in Kansas Sc
curing information relative to the
working of the oil trust.
Governor Curry, who was believed to
have been captured by Pulajanes in
the Philippines, is alive and says be
will help exterminate the treacherous
natives.
| An explosion in the powder room Of
one of the largest mines at Cripple
Greek wrecked the mine buildi lgs.
Two hundred men had narrow escapes
from death.
/ A construction train on the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad went through
a bridge 20 miles west of Casper, wy
oming. Nine men are known to have
lost their lives and 81 others were in
iurd, some fatally.