The new age. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905, 1906-08-18
news OF THE Week
In a Condensed Form Tor Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF Two CONTINENTS
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week,

The murder of policemen in Poland
continues.
Japanese goods have supplanted all
others in Corea.
Many officers are involved in navy
scandal at San Francisco.
Another Chicago bank has failed as a
result of Stensland's crimes.
Elk. United States Senator Turner, of
Washington, is mentioned as Bryan's
running mate.
France has resolved to make no con-
cessions to the Catholics and may con-
fiscate churches.
A member of the late Russian parlia-
ment has been arrested as leader OF
agrarian disorders.
R. B. Brown, of GAINESVILLE, OF il,
has been elected commander-in-ch chief OF
the National q. A. R.
Diego Mendoza, ex-Colombian minis
ter to the United States, declars that
President Reyes is traitor.
A second grand jury has been called
at Chiago to inquire into recent rebates
given the Standard Oil company.
The Milwaukee Avenue State bank,
of Chicago, has delcaraed 20 per cent.
dividend for depositors. More will be
paid later.
Secretary Root has arrived at Buenas.
Ayres.
Mad Mullah has received disastrous
defeat.
Negotiations looking to Russo Jap
anese fishing treaty have been COM
menced.
1t is likely that the War department
will concentrate all colored troops at
one post.
Many Republican state conventions.
are declaring in favor of Roosevelt for
third term.
Peasants in Southern Russia are raw
aging the country and the troops refuse
to fire on them.
A plot to assass nate the president OF
Cuba was discovered just in time to
Illustrate the plans.
The powers are expected to make
strong representations to Greece. The
trouble is over the barbarous acts of
Greek marauders in Macedonia.
Government inquiry into the rela-
tions between the railroads entering
Toledo, Ohio, and the ice trust show
the two to be working hand ill hand.
A warrant has been issued for the ar
rest of w. R. Vice, formerly coast pas
senger agent OF the Union Pacific. Vice
is charged with embezzling $4,000
three years ago. He had been in bid
ing until the San Francisco disaster of
April IS, when he reappeared, believ-
ing the papers discriminating him had
been destroyed.
The National G. A R. is in conven-
ton at Minneapolis.
Crops have been damaged by unpre-
cedented rains in Virginia.
The sultan of Turkey has rewarded
his physician by elevating him to the
rank of general.
With the exception of st. Petersburg,
Russia, and Rome, Italy, Chicago leads
the world in crime.
Birmingham, Alabama, bank teller
and confederates have been arrested for
wholesale stealing.
The banks of the Chicago Clearing
House association have offered a re-
ward of SIS, 600 for the capture of Stems
land.
The Rhine & Mogelle Insurance COM
pany, of Germany, has announced that
it will not pay its $4,000, 900 liabilities
in San Francisco.
The sultan o. Morocco is considering
the question of moving the capital from
Fee to Morocco City in order to be more
secure from bandits.
New York is waging war against
the Coney Island street car lines. A
fare of 10 cents is charged, which the
courts hold is not legal and the people
are fighting to keep from paying more
than 5 cents. Thousands are being
assaulted by the company's employees
and are thrown from the cars on refusal
to pay the additional fare.
The Longworths have returned from
Europe.
There has been a wholesale slaughter
of police spies in Poland.
The Russian War department is
planning to rebuild the navy.