The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-03-10
news OF THE Week
m a Condensed Form for Ouf
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF two CONTINENTS
Resume of the Less important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.

Miss, Susan B. Anthony is still very
weak.
The Algeciras conference is talking
of compromise.
The government has evidence of re-
bates given the sugar trust.
No successor to Premier Rouvier has
yet been named in France.
Frantic efforts are being made to
save Zion City from bankruptcy.
Frequent robberies have caused the
closing of money order offices in Po-
land.
Three officers of the Mutual Reserve
Life Insurance company have been
indicted for stealing.
Two officials of the Standard Oil have
called on President Roosevelt and seem
anxious about investigation of trusts.
]. Ogden Armour. head of the Ar
mour Packing company, complains be-
cause of secret service men logging
him.
The house committee on merchant
marine and fisheries has fixed March
% as the date for considering what ac-
tion shall be taken on the ship subsidy
bill.
Chinese crews on the Pacific Mail
steamer Manchuria have been caught
smuggling arms and ammunition out
of San Franciso for Boxers in China.
1t is not known how long this has been
going on.
France looks to America for de-
claration in her favor on the Moroccan
question.
The War department says it will not
discontinue the purchasing agency at
Portland as has been reported.
The next steamer sailing for the is
land of Tahiti will carry relief for the
sufferers from the recent tidal wave.
The New York legislature will now
investigate state banks, as they are
through with the insurance business.
A son of John Bozufi, an Italian
banker of New York, has been kidnap-
ed and is being held for ransom Of
500, 000-
The Chinese boycott is Just being
felt in the United States. Exports for
January, 1905, show falling off Of
about $3.50, 900.
The property of the rope trust, To-
Gated at Boston, is to be sold by the
sheriff. Failure to pay interest on
bonds issued is the cause.
That a man who has made homestead
entry, paid the fees and actually lived
thereon about one yeav, and who enlists
in the United States army or navy,
serving four years, during which time
he is unable to visit his land, does not
necessarily forfeit his claim, is a de-
cision ty the Washington land officials.
Japan has sent warship to Chinese
waters to protect her subjects.
Rogers will answer questions at the
Missouri oil hearing without further
objection.
The French army is in readiness for
war should such an event come from
the Moroccan dispute.
The Steel trust is about to absorb all
the independent companies. The deal
will involve about S17, 000,.
A woman has been captured who was
carrying bomb in her hair. When
taken she was about to murder the gov
ernor of Moscow, Russia.
Detective Mcfarland is endeavorinQ
to make President Meyer, of the FEEDER.
alton, confess. The detective looks on
the president as tool of the other Off
Gals.
The president of the National Dress.
makers association advises women tt
wear pockets, saying bags and purses
carried in the hand are a temptation tC
thieves.
The War department says it will send
no more troops to the Philippines fol
the present. Those now on the way
and already there will give Genera
Wood command of nearly Is, 900 men
F. Samuels, secretary of the Oceanic
Steamship company, says natives or
Tahiti and neighboring islands are not
suffering for food as result of the re
cent tidal wave. He says the cocoanu
groves are on the highest points.
Ex-Governor Hogg, of Texas, is dead
The transport Ingalls, is wrecked OF
the coast of Luzon.
Senators are trying to reach an agree
ment on the rate bill.
Governor Pattison, of Ohio, is suffer
ing from a nervous breakdown.