The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-08-04
NEWS OF THE Week
In a Condensed Form Tor UR
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
A Resume of the Less Important Dun
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENT!

Brigadier General William Bolton is
dead.
Mayor W. H. Moore, of Seattle, is
seriously ill at Los Angeles.
The business of the Lewis and Clark
exposition has been wound up.
I. W. Davenport, of SilVerton, Ore
gon, father of Cartoonist Davenport, is
dead.
Fifteen hundred copper miners at
Calumet, Michigan, have had Their
wages voluntarily raised 81 per month.
Four men were killed and two
wounded in battle between sheriff.
posse and bandits in Knott county,
Kentucky.
1t has been charged that General
Wood is drawing two salaries, one as
governor and one as his regular pay in
the army. The president says this is
not so.
A San Francisco woman has just se-
cured divorce on the ground that her
husband had not spoken a word to her
for eight years, although living in the
same houst.
A Porto Rican merchant has sued
Federal Judge Hunt, of Montana, for
500 900 damages. It is claimed that
at the time the judge was governor Of
the island he was instrumental in ruin
ing the merchants business.
Fire in a Buffalo, N. Y, planning
mill destroyed $4,000 worth of prop
erty.
The National Sculpture society is to
establish an old age home for its mem
bers.
The St. Paul is laying steel for itt
new Pacific coast extension. The work
i Ia being 9OnU m 6ut$h Dakota.
Judge James F. Tracey, OF the Phil
lippine Supreme court, will likely be
the next vice governor of the islands.
John D. Rockefeller says there il
more good than bad in the world, anc
that everything is for good in the end.
The Pennsylvania railroad has Gu
passenger rates to 216 cents per mile
Mileage books will be ifsued at the rat
of 2 cents per mile.
The failure of the sultan to receive
an Ambassador instead of minister i
likely to be the cause of DIPLOMAT
differences between the United State
and Turkey.
Two transcontinental railway com
panies cay they will shortly install
, thester cars on their trains in whicl
plays will be given while the train
are in progress.
Vast frauds have been unearthed i
San Francisco's municipal affairs
Examination of public records sho'
that there has been an extensive graz
in letting contracts and that city pay
rolls have been padded.
Truck workers in San Francisco hav
struck for more pay and shorter hours
: Nihilists wrecked train in Belgium
thinking Grand Duke Vladimir, {
Russia, on it.
Dowie says he will appeal from til
. recent decision of the court ousting hi
from control of Zion City.
The Pacific Coast Steamship compan
: is said to be considering the mannir
of it's vessels with Indians.
A grand jury will convene in Chicas
August for the purpose OF taking te
timony against the Standard Oil.
4 BRYAN says that he will announce IL
platform on which he will consent
be presidential candidate August 80
= The outbreak of cholera in varior
parts of the Philippines is due to Il
n unusual number of flies in the island
according to doctors there.
Poverty has forced William
. Belcher, fugitive from justice al
or former mayor of Patterson, N. j.,
x surrender to the authorities.
A national conference on wirele
eleXTdpuN Will OOhfOhO OSAA
L October 8. Practically every power
any importance will be represented.
France Is preparing 70 retlre
- guillotine.
Revolutionists have cut the telegra
wires between st. Petersburg and
provinces.
A clever French woman swindler
I'd stolen a fortune in diamonds from
Madrid ieweler.
Severe crop damage is reported FRI
several points in Minnesota, North |
- kota and Iowa, resulting from hs
rain and wind storms.