The new age., 1907-03-09
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.
OF TWO CONTINENTS

Lie NdISdS lCSAolUhUhNt 1.-Two fOeSN
SIC, 900 for the Seattle fair.
There is a promise of harmony be-
tween the czar and the douma.
President Bonilla, OF Honduras,
claims a victory over Nicaraguan
troops.
A rich copper strike has been made
in Nevada not great distance from
Tonopah.
Hartman offers to cooperate with
the government in settling the railroad
controversy.
Thaws lawyers announce that the
defense is through. Jerome will send
the case to the jury.
I The news of the acceptance of SWEET
tenham's resignation was received with
rejoicing at Kingston.
The attorney general has decided that
the new immigration law excludes
state aided immigrants.
Four of Portland's largest saWmills
are closed on account of labor difficult
ties. Nearly fifteen hundred men are
out.
Railroads in Nebraska will comply
with the 2-ceLt passenger fare law, but
will not grant special rate Of any.
kind.
The Russian douma has opened with
radicals in control.
Milliners predict more expensive
hats for this season.
Jerome defed the Judge ia the ThaW
trial and was sternly rebuked.
Grover Cleveland cbjeets 70 SITE re-
strictions on insurance investfaaits
The Northern Pacific will lose rich
timber land through the new forest re-
serves.
England says her navy is equal to
that of any two other nations Of the
world.
Secretary Taft and number of con-
gressmen are going to Panama, Cuba
and Porto Rico.
The upper house of the California
legislature has voted down the pro-
posed woman suffrage.
The transport Thomas has just sailed
from San Francisco with full cargo of
supplies for the troops in the Philip
pines.
By the explsioon of l, 900 pounds of
dynamite in storehouse near Mount
Carmel, Pa 40 persons were injured.
The property loss will be $780, 900.
Governor Swettenham's resignation
has been accepted.
John F. Stevens has been appointed
temporary chairman Of the Isthmian
Canal commission.
The congress which has just adjourn
ed passed appropriation bills aggregat-
ing a total of 1919, ,948, $50.
The Standard Oil company is on trial
in Chicago for accepting rebates from
the Chicago & Alton railway.
A Missouri Pacific train was held up
at Pittsburg Kan, and the passengers
robbed. One man who resisted was
shot.
The steamer Dakota is still on the
rocks in Toxic bay. Much of the mail
has been removed, but the baggage has
been lost.
Hill and Hartman have come to an
agreement regarding Puget sound ter
minals, but nothing has been yielded
at Portland.
The Supreme court of the United
States upholds the law forbidding desc
Grafton of the flag by using it for adver-
tising purposes. -
Henry Meldrum, former surveyor
general, and Senator Fulton have been
called as witnesses in the Hermann
trial. Their testimony did not help
the defense out of the tight box into
whihc it is getting.
Muniipal ownership has suffered a
blow in the London elections.
The Interstate Commerce commission
is considering plans to curb Hartman.
San Francisco authorities are prepar-
ing to seize the water plant 1s city
property.
The house has passed bill providing
for three-cent fares in the District OF
Columbia.
Charges are made in Salt Lake that
the police fore, including the chief,
stood in with gamblers and thieves.
Jerome is striving to send Thaw to
the insane asylum without the case over
going to the jury.