The new age., 1907-03-30
news OF The WEEK
In d Condensed Form iOr Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
4 Resume Of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Event,
Of the Past Week.

The Roumanian revolt is quieting
down.
The president has called an election
in the Philippines.
Alllabor troubles around Butte have
been adjusted for the time being.
st. Louis brewery workers threaten
to strike and the city is facing a beer
famine.
The disarmament question is Likely to
be barred from The Hague peace con-
ference.
Republican members of the Tennes-
see legislature propose Roosevelt for q
third term.
The Nebraska legislature has passed a
direct primary copied after the Ore
gon statute.
Spreckels had guaanteed the cost Of
a thorough housecleaning Of grafters at
San Francisco.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has raised its rates, in some cases
as much as 20 per cent.
The census bureau estimates that the
population of the United States has in
creased 5000, 900 in the past six years.
The Cotton, Call, death list as the
result Of the train wreck is placed at %
and at least six more OF the injured
will die. A green switch crew is
blamed with the accident.
Mediation in the Central American
wal has been postponed.
The San Francisco investigation may
spread to every city on the coast.
Evidence il being secured which
sF5fnts te.telephone bribery in Oakland
Mrs. Thaw is said to be breaking
down under the strain of the trial oi
Thaw.
Congressman Scott, of Kansas, pre-
diets the completion of the Panama
canal in seven years.
Eight men have been arrested at
Butte for trying to influence voters at
the primaries just held.
The bill for the recount of the ballots
cast for mayor of New York in Novem-
Der, 1905, has passed the New York
legislature.
A cigarette started fire in the gen.
eral shops of the Ell Paso & Southwest
eIn railroad at CaTrizezo, N. M. The
loss is placed at 100000.
Big shipments of -four are being hur-
ried from Minneapolis to San Francis
co, where government transport will
take it to the famine sufferers Ct China
Ex-President Cleveland has just cele-
brated his 10th birthday!
The whole of Ropmania is in revolt
and the capital threatened.
San Salvador has asked Mexico to
intervene in the Central American war.
Foraker has called for primries in
Ohio to decide preference for president.
Immense land frauds are to be inves-
tigated by Federal grand jury at
Cheyenne.
A deadlock has been reached between
Western railroads and trainmen on the
question of wages.
Premier 6tolypin, of Russia, has
agreed to abolish court martial, as at
present exercised.
France announces her determination
to get redress from Morocco for the
murder of French subject.
A commission in lunacy has been ap-
pointed in the Thaw case and the trial
has adjourned until the commission re-
ports.
The Nebraska legislature. has passed
a law to tax railroads on the same
basis as the holdings of private indi-
viduals.
The California food has made pro-
duce scarce in San Francisco.
1aIt con6lnueS 10 De DOomed for pres
ident, hut third term talk for Roosevelt
grows.
The government is making active
preparations to start the land fraud
trials in Colorado.
Jerome has found that New York po-
lice have been compelled to contribute
to political funds.
Speaker Cannon and the ccngres-
sional party have been allowed to land
at Panama after being held in quaran-
tine several days.
Heney denies that his prosecution of
San Francisco grafters has any political
significance or that it is blow aimed
al organized labor.