The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1906-03-10
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Condensed and Classified from Press
+ Dispatches for the Beheft Of
Busy Readers. :
FOREIGN. NATIONAL. TERRITORIAL
Such Things 90 Every Intelligent
Citizen New Mexic Ought
,ehur 10 Know q 7l1c

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The Chieftain presents the news
of the week Condensed and classi-
fed as follows: .gf3elf I'd atlf ti
1i.r .r FOREIGN. e-d LII
A wholesale bomb factory was
captured in St, Petersburg Tues
day.
The Philippine Railroad COM
pany has been organized with a
capital of $4,000. 900. ~ mIyfb
A cyclone and tidal wave swept
over the Society Islands in the
southern Pacific February : and
8 drowning 10000 people.
King Alfonso Of Spain has for
mally asked King Edward for
the hand of his niece, PRINCESS
Edna of Rattenberg, and received
assent.
Russia is to have a national as
sembly; but il will not cofitrol
the cabinet, and the goyernment
will fight further CONCESSIONS to
the radical parties.
II is denied at the British for
eigm Office that a formal political
alliance between Great Britain
and Spain will follow the mar
riage of King Alfonso and .Prin-
cess Edna.
The Chinese government is
greatly perturbed BY the reports
of the anti-foreign movement
printed in American aud Euro
pean papers, on the ground that
these reports are likely to create
strained relations between foreigII
ministers and Chinese officials. \
The deadlock between France
and Germany at the Algeeiras
conference still continues. The.
question al issue is the policing
Of Morocco, and on this question
the claims OF the Two countries
are diametrically opposite. The
situation. is considered grave.
NATIONAL
Alaska is Ia have delegate in
Congress. "o '.i .'i"I
Former Governor James H.!
,HoRg of Texas died at his home
in Houston last Saturday.
Charles NJ. Schwsb, former
president of the United States
Steel corporation, is seriously all
ing. ae-n 7s9 atl
Walter Wellman will undertake
To reach the north pole next sum
mer by means of dirigible bal
loon.
Susan B. Anthony was serious
ly i'll with pneumonia the first OF
the week at her home in RocheS-
ter, N. Y. 3aa Eloy'iso2 1.A@
Seattle elected municipal
ownership candidate for mayor
Tuesday by the small majority
OF fifteen votes. " ~ N
Nearly a thousand Hungarian
and Slav coal miners left New
York Tuesday for home, in anti
cipation of the threatened strike
Parts of Missouri and Kansas
were covered with an inch Of ice
aud snow the first of the week T..
Telegraph and telephone service
was much interrupted. "a ,4rf
Both Chicago and ST, Louis
were visited by strange pheno-
menon Tuesday. Owing to cloud :
mess and heavy pallof smoke,
both cities were dark as night.
Congressman Nicholas Long
worth returned to his duties in
the house of representatives Mon
day. lie presented Speaker Can
non with a cigar eighteen inches
long from Havana. ~ tci Bfl.
A week ago tract Of the Pan
! handle of Texas two hundred and
fifty miles long by City miles
wide was burned over. Two mil
lion acres of grass was destroyed
and every acre was worth q
dollar. s0a Wst eo,a 70
A severe tornado visited Meri-
dian, Mississippi. on Friday even
ing of last week. About seventy
| five people were either killed OF
seriously injured and the property
plOss Is estimated At OVER million
hdollarsv l5SxEl c4inas a. l3s
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