The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-07-21
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.
HAPPENINGS OF two CONTINENTS

The capital of Alaska has been moved
from Sitka to Juneau.
Scotland will try to induce parlia-
ment to grant home rule.
Santo Domingo will borrow 500, 000,-
900 and pay all outstanding claims.
Germany and Austria will help the
car if another revolution breaks out.
A forest fire in Calaveras county
threatns destruction to California's big
trees.
The bishop of Zululand accuses the
British troops of wantonly killing many
natives.
Santos Dumont has new airshjp
which he believes an improvement over
anything yet built.
The mayor of Socorro, Tex, says re.
ports of the recent earthquake were
greatly overdrawn.
The English parliament will appro-
pirate 81 900, 900 for the relief of the
unemployed this winter.
The National Pure Food convention
endorsed the stand taken by President
Roosevelt on the pure food law,
General Stoessel, commander of Port
Arthur, during the Russo Japanese
war, has been sentenced to death by a
military commission for surrendering
to the Japanese.
Missouri is after the ice trust.
Evidence is being secured against
the tobacco trust.
A French dirigible balloon recently
remained in the air eight hours.
The government is preparing to gauge
many Oregon and Washington streams.
Kansas packing houses have been
given five days to clean up or close up.
The Virginia 2-cent-a-mile railroad
rate law has been declared unConstitu-
tional.
A tramp steamer bumped into the
new battleship Rhode Island, springing
her armour plates badly.
The executors OF the estate of the
late Marshall Field estimate the value
of the property left at $25, 900, 900.
Canada has received an address from
King Edward in which he says it will
be impossible for him to make the
much desired visit.
The Cleveland, Ohio, grand jury adj
journed without indicting any Standard
Oil men. Prosecutions of the company
is to be resumed in other cities.
All express companies operating on
the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern roads have consolidated and here
after will be known as the Northern
Express compan-. The deal also in
cludes the Adams Express company on
the Burlington.
A strike of Portland street car men
seems imminent.
Siam has started a movement for the
abolishment of gambling.
Plans are being prepared for a new
lightship off the Columbia bar.
Major Dreyfus has been assigned to
command of the crack French regiment.
Alfred Belt, who controlled the gold
and diamond output of Africa, is dead.
A peace conference between Central
American republics may be held on a
United States warship.
Secretary Metcalf says congress did
not intend to authorize lightship for
Swiftsure bank, off Cape Flattery, and
he does not feel authorized to spend
the $3.50, 900 appropriated by mistake.
1t is said the War department is
planning an immense supply depot and
barracks for marines at the mouth of
the Columbis. Young's bay is to be
dredged until anchorage for the entire
Pacific and isiatic squadrons is Sc
cured. The mouth of the Columbia is
700 miles nearer Japan than San Fran
cisco and is also better for rail facilities
than Bremerton.
Cassie Chadwick is ill in her prison
home at Columbus, Ohio.
Dreyfus is the hero of France since
he has been proven innocent.
Peasants are causing a reign of terror
throughout the Russian empire.
Hitchcock resents the statement OF
Senator Fulton that he is in his dotage.
Suits have begun in San Francisco
against the ''six-bit' insurance COM
panies.
| Two men attempted to rob Denver
bank in daylight, but were foiled and
both were caught.