The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-04-28
news OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF two CONTINENTS
Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.

Dowie s wife has become reconcile
with the prophet.
Oakland is making a great effort t
capture San Francisco shipping.
Senator Hepburn is improving fron
his second attack of appendicitis.
Many of the steel frames of larg
buildings in San Francisco are unin
jured.
The regular troops now have entir,
charge of feeding the San FRANCHISES
refugees.
King Edward, Emperor William ant
Emperor Nicholas will hold confer
ence shortly.
Bellevue, Texas, has been devastated
by tornado. Forty people are re
ported killed.
The Japanese mikado has giveI
100000 to the relief of San Francisco
and the people like sum.
The doubtful vote in the senate on
the railroad rate bill is large enough
to swing the result either way.
An area of 453 blocks was burned by
the San Francisco fire. It is estimated
that the buildings destroyed will be in
the neighborhood of 10000.
Norway is taking steps to organize q
new army.
A ninth victim of the explosion on
the battleship Kearsarge has died.
The last of the Russian prisoners
have been returned home from Japan.
The total relief fund from all sources
totals more than $1S, 600, 600 and still
grows.
There is no danger of an epidemic
among San Franeisco's homeless, ac-
cording to the health authorities.
The San Francisco bank vsai
believed to be uninjured, but it will be
a week before they can be opened.
Insurance men will have say on re-
building plans of San Francisco and
will not allow himsy structures to, be
erected.
Most of San Francisco's people would
prefer to see the city rebuilt on the
plan # the old and oppose changes in
the streets.
Jonathan Bourne is gaining on H.
NJ. Cake, who leads for the Republican
nominee for Senator in the Oregon pri-
mary elections.
All the credit for stopping the San
Francisco fire belongs to three expert
gunners from Mare Island navy yard.
They blew up strip of buildings one
block wide in front of the flames, using
a ton and half of gun cotton.
0akland's present population is about
1000 to the block.
General Funston has barred sight
seers from San Francisco.
San Francisco's Chinatown will
never be rebuilt on the old site.
A heavy rain has added to the dis
comfort OF the residents of the San
Francisco refuge camps.
Men are clearing away the San Fran
cisco ruins. The newspaper offices will
be among the first buildings repaired.
General A. W. Greeley has assumed
command of the Federal troops at San
francisco. General Funston will act
under Greeley's orders.
The latest figures on cash subscrip-
lions from all parts of the United
States for the relief of San Francisco
sufferers totals 1884, 900.
Citizens of San Francisco have united
IN demanding that the state militia be
and Federal troops take
heir place. Wanton shooting is given
as the cause.
One hundred distinct and separate |
books, telling the complete story of the |
San Francisco earthquake and fire,
each of them "the only authentic ac-
count" are in process of preparation
in various cities of the country, and
hey will be offered to the country be- !
lore the embers are cool.
The death list at Santa Rosa will
reach nearly 100.
Twenty miners were killed by an ex-
Dlosion in Colorado.
There p an armed instruction in the
French mining districts.
Thousands of refugees are leaving
san Francisco for the north, south and
sast.
General Funston and Mayor Schmitz
mite in saying there is no danger of an
Epidemic of disease in San Francisco.
Every building in Fort Bragg, Men,
iocino county town OF 5000, was
wrecked or burned. But one life was
ost.