The new age., 1906-05-26
news OF THE week
In a Condensed Form Tor Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF two CONTINENTS
Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
Of the Past Week.

Rival factions in Russia are brewing
revolution.
Many Chinese are being smuggled
onto the canal zone.
Russia is sending hundreds OF polit'
ical prisoners to Siberia.
An American woman will climb tbs
highest peak In the Andes.
The Denver city election contest MAJ
be carried to the federal courts.
Opponents of Smoot are seeking tt
drag Roosevelt into this quarrel.
The union of the Cumberland and
Presbyterian churches has been com.
pleted.
Many gala day festivities have been
arranged in Spain in connection with
the wedding of King Alfonso.
Great Britain denies that AN agree
ment exists with Russia affecting Per.
sia, Thibet and Afghanistan.
Two young natives Of India have
entered the Oregon Agricultural col
lege to study American scientific farm
ing.
Chairman Tawney of the house ap.
preparation committee, believes a large
majority of the house favofs lock
canal.
There is rumored alliance OF Rus
sia, Austria and Germany.
Forest reserve states are to set
share of the timber revenue.
The movement to expel Smoot from
the senate has been abandoned for this
session.
The pope Is greatly improved. He
laughs at the idea Of his lite Eeing erl'
dangexed
More bodies are being found by Ia.
borers clearing away the debris in sar
Francisco.
Three Turks have been arrested or
suspicion of having murdered Consul
Stuart in Russia.
San Francisco banks have opened fol
business and are receiving more money
than they pay out.
The injunction against the union o.
the Cumberland with the old Presbyte'
rian church has been denied.
Louisiana doctors claim to have
found cure for leprosy, having cured
three sufferers from the dread disease
George F. Baer, president of the
Reading road, says there is no grating
among the officials of his line, as they
are above such things.
Miss Nance O'Neill, the actress, has
become bankrupt through the Sar
Francisco disaster. She lost all hel
scenery, costumes and stage effects.
Torrents of mud from Vesuvius are
causing death and panic.
Marines are being rushed to Panama
to avert a reyolution at the time OF the
general election, June 20.
The senate bill incorporating the
Archaeological Institute OF Americs
has been passed by the house.
Estimates have been made for con.
tinuing work on the Panama canal tc
June 80, 1907. The total amount il
$26, ,348, ,231.
s. A. D. Puter, wanted in Portland
in connection with the Oregon lanG
fraud cases, has been captured in Ala
media, suburb of San Francisco.
Four more bodies have been found ii
the debris at San Francisco by work
men clearing away the ruins. The
coroner places the total number of deaC
at 800.
w. H. Stuart, United States vice
consul at Batoum, Trans Caucasia, ha'
been killed by unknown assassins
The case is being investigated by Am
bassador Meyer.
1t is said the military court which
has been investigating the surrender o
Port Arthur and the battle OF the Sci
of Japan has condemned to death Lieu
tenant General Stoessel and Rear Ad
miral Nebogatoff.
Senator Hepburn is slightly i'm
proved.
Women of England are working TO
suffrage.
Madrid ia making great preparation
for the royal wedding.
vesuvius is pouring torrent of mu
on the nearby villages.
A prompt agreement on the rate bill
is likely by the two houses of congress
It is now believed that Mrs. JeffeI
son Davis may recover.