The new age., 1906-12-15
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 Event"
of the Past Week.

King Oscar, of Sweden, is seriously
i'll.
Andrew Carnegie favors an inherit,
ance tax.
Church affairs in France are assum-
ing a serious aspect.
A blizzard has tied up railroad traffic
in North Dakota.
Roosevelt has yielded to congress and
will drop the spelling reform.
The Pittsburg chamber of commerce
proposes suppression of divorce news.
Poachers are slaughtering elk in the
Yellowstone park preserves to secure
their teeth.
Roosevelt will send a sensational
message to congress in a few days on
the japanese question.
In the trial of the new battleship
Kansas every test was successful. Her
speed exceeds Is knots.
Hartman claims the car shortage is
J due to the car builders. He says over
year ago he ordered Is, 900 freight
cars, and they are just being delivered
The Interstate Commerce commits
sion says there is not single large
railway system but what can go into
its big terminal yards any day and
gather 500 empty freight cars.
Senator Brown is at the point of
death.
Democrats in the house oppose
Moody's confirmation as supreme Judge.
Mexico had net surplus of $2o, ,OO0,-
600 for the year ending June 80, 1906.
Three women are implicated in the
Nebraska land frauds now on trial at
Omaha
Representative Kahn, of California.
is very bitter against japanese immi-
grafton.
France has expelled the pope's agents
and is otherwise pushing the war on
the church.
Rockefeller has offered 800, 900 to-
ward missionary work in Egypt and
the Soudan.
The Spanish government is consider
ing the question of placing an import
duty on wheat.
Ice blocks the $500" canal and there
is great fleet of vessels at each end
waiting to get through.
Roosevelt will drop Bristol if the
senate refuses to confirm him as United
States attorney for Oregon.
The Russian minister of foreign
affairs declares it will not be necessary /
to borrow money again in the near
future.
Commissioner Garfield says Federal
license is the method which will con-
troll the trusts and corporations in the
future and is the only solution.
Religious strife is assured in France. !
Mayor Schmitz wants the time of his |
trial extended $
Canada is also having trouble with j.,
coolies.
The pope declares nothing will stop c
the struggle in France except victory for :
the church.
John Barrett is almost certain to be a
chosen director of the bureau of Ameri- a
can republics. t
Andrew Carnegie has given $32, 900 i
towards rebuilding the college recently d
burned at Kankakee, Ill. q
Mrs. Storer says she is the one who n
brought Roosevelt to the front and he [
'wes everything he is to her. P
Lands around the Salton sink, Call,
will be flooded for year as the result
II the recent break in the dam.
Young Teddy Roosevelt is having :
lard work these days being initiated y
nto one of Haryard's secret societies. =
Nearly 5000 employees OF the Wash IL
ngton navy yard will receive an in b
rease in wages of 10 per cent Janu- W
ry l. ict
President Roosevelt has expressed the -
lope that treaty can be negotiated a
which will exclude Japanese coolies - ~
rom the United States. y
There is little hope of ex-senator
'rown, of Utah, surviving the wound
nnlcted with revolver in the hands
I woman he had wronged.
School teachers of San Francisco have n
ormed a union. fo
New York bank reserves are far be- te
Nv the legal limit. be
of
Hartman plans to- secure control of til
hlcago's electrical appliances. to