The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-01-06
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.

The house has received another rate
bill.
A reign of terror now exists at Riga,
Russia.
An immense graft by st. Louis po-
lice has been exposed.
President Morales army has been
beaten and his general killed.
From Kansas north all trains are
greatly delayed by snow storms.
Both sides in the strike of printers
for an eight-hour day claim gains.
Witte has ordered wholesale arrests
of all opponents to the governTnt.
Twenty-one miners were killed in an
explosion at the Coaldale, w. Va,
coal mines.
One of Boston's savings banks has
been looted by the officers and the in
stitution closed.
Harvard university authorities have
ordered that there must be change
in football rules.
The government will investigate the
recent sale of the Fort Stevens military
reservation in South Dakota.
Small railroad companies of the mid
die west have reserved the right to
issue passes, but all the larger lines
will enforce the new order strictly.
The Navy department has petit
toned congress for large number of
changes in the navy. One Of the
changes desired is the establishment
of the rank of commodore.
Whites cabinet is denounced as
grafters.
The national debt has decreased dur
ing the past year.
The Russian. government has cap
tured bomb factory at Warsaw.
Congressman are angry at losing
passes and may retaliate on the rail-
roads.
Three Cheyenne, Wyoming, soldiers
will die as result of drinking a mix
ture of bay rum, lemon juice and hair
tonic.
A New York grand jury has been
drawn to try about l 900 alleged frauds
arising out of the recent election.
Wireless messages from the drydock
Dewey report it to be making good
progress in its trip across the Atlantic.
The production of gold and silver in
the United States for 1905 shows an
Increase of Sc 900, 900 gold and ,0O0,-
900 ounces of silver.
James W. Wadsworth has been nom
mated by Republicans in caucus as
speaker of the New York assembly,
thus defeating the plans of Odell.
Five men have been arrested in con-
nection with the murder of ex-Gover-
nor Steunenberg of Idaho. One OF
them, Thomas Hogan, is believed to
have at least made the fatal bomb.
Kentucky Democratic members OF
the legislature in caucus have nomi-
mated Thomas H. Paynter for United
States senator to succeed ]. @. g. Black
burn. The nomination carries with 1t
the certainty of election.
Panama Is preparing for general
election.
The big drydock being towed from
New York to Manila has encountered a
storm.
A sink in the tunnel connecting New
York and Brooklyn has stopped trains
temporarily.
Printers are on strike in many cities
throughout the United States for an
eight-hour workday.
It is feared that Governor Peabody |
and General Bell, of Colorado, will
meet the same fate as the ex-governor |
OF Idaho.
The New York legislative committee
on insurance has decided on measure
to regulate companies doing business in
that state
Over 5000 attended the presidents
New Years reception.
The Russian government announces
that the revolt at Moscow has been put
down. Thousands have been killed IN
the fighting.
A Great Northern passenger train
ran into stalled freight near Helena
Several persons we're injured and the
caboose and four freight cars burned.
The Russian government claims to
have crushed the Moscow revolt.
Roosevelt is now accused of taking |
sides in the British election.