The new age., 1907-02-23
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,
cf the Past Week.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS

mayor Dunne mas carried One Cnl
cago Democratic primaries.
Slight earthquakes are still felt il
San Francisco occasionally.
Taft is going to Cuba in April t
Investigate conditions there.
The Japatnese minister and Secretar,
Root are working on new treaty.
A Kentucky woman has just givel
birth to five children. All are doinI
we'll.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, says al
charges are false and he would like t.
shoot accusers.
Tawney says the present session O
congress will appropriate more thar
one billion dollars.
Frederick t. Gates, Rockefeller
business representative, says the oil
kings income is about $2O,000,00C
per year.
Trainmen of the West are demanding
increase of wages and as the railroad
companies are inclined to refuse,
trouble may follow.
An association has been formed in
Chicago for the purpose of holding the
largest corn exposition next fall ever
attempted in the United States.
The Connecticut tax commissioner
offered to sell an appointment and now
he is out.
The Alabama railway commission
has ordered 2-cent passenger rate on
all railways.
A Northern Pacific train was ditched
near Paha, Wash. Floods had weak
sened a trestle.
Wisconsin, railroads are complying
with the order of the railroad commits
sion for 21a cent passenger rate.
The Great Northern announces that
all blockades in the Northwest from
the recent storms have been cleared.
Sickness of a juror in the Hermann
trial has caused the selection of a new
man and started the case at the begin
ming again.
The Nebraska legislature has passed
a 2-cent passenger rate bill. The gov
ernor openly favors the measure, so it
is likely to become law.
The National Red Cross society has
sent $500 bushels of seed wheat to
famine districts of China. The Pa
cific Steamship company carries it free.
Melting snow has again caused serl-
GUS washouts on the O. R. & N. The
main line is not seriously affected.
The Pendleton- Walla Walla and Shan
ike branches are not yet open from
former troubles and what work has been
done will have to be built over.
The British cabinet stands firm for
greater Irish liberty.
The church crisis in the French cab
met has been STAYED off.
The trouble which caused a suspen-
sion of all Butte papers is far from an
end.
Hermann has lost another point in
his trial for destroying letter press
books.
Four separate Investigations are be-
ing made of the Brewster, New York,
railroad wreck. The death list has now
reached 21.
An explosion in a coal mine near
Monterey. Mexico, caused 80 deaths.
Register Nolan, of The Dalles land
office, has been removed.
A forest fire is raging in the 800, ,00O-
acre forest reserve in the Wichita
mountains, Oklahoma. The entire
tract is threatened with devastation.
Street railway employees of Helena
went on strike for an increase of so
cents day. Four hours later they
were at work with the advance granted.
An ice gorge in the Missouri river,
near Vermillion, S. D., has caused the
river to leave its banks. One hundred
families are homeless and farmers are
greatly alarmed.
There has been an anti-British out
break in India.
A French cabinet crisis is threatened
on the church question.
A Chicago grand jury may indict
Mayor Dunno for not enforcing the law.
Brownsville citizens testified at the
senate investigation that many families
left the city because they feared negro
soldiers.
The investigation of Senator Bailey,
of Texas, has proven that the senator
received money from the Waters-Pierce
Oil Company.