St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-05-06
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doines Of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume Of important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

President Taft eulogizes Secretar,
Knox and his work.
Ninety bakers in Victoria, B. c., ar,
on strike and the city Is about out Of
bread.
A raid on gambling houses In Sc
attle revealed all kinds Of games II
full swing.
Roosevelt dined at Copenhagen with
the royal crown prince and Is a gues
at the royal palace.
Countess Szchenyi, formerly Misi
Gladys Vanderbilt, has lost casket Of
jewels valued at $4,000.
The Pittsburg Plate Glass works
were burned, causing loss Of 81 600,.
900 and throwing 5000 men out OF
work.
The administration railroad bill Is In
great danger, insurgents having
enough votes to kill its important fea.
lures.
An investigating commission reports
that Chicago has been badly buncoed by
bad castings for improvements In ia
water system. ,
Frank B. Kellogg, a noted "trust
buster" will meet Roosevelt In Eu-
rope and tell him all about conditions
In this country.
Canadian settlers threaten 10 blow
up big dam which Ia running their
property by backwater and causing
many accidents by flooding roads.
Speaking before a joint convention
Of Farmers unions In st. Louis, Sam
ucl Gompcrs strongly urged union Of
farmers and regular labor unions.
An Illinois legislator admits recciv.
Ing 81, 900 TO vote for Lorimcr for U.
8. senator.
Patten and his friends on the Chi.
cago cotton exchange cleaned up $780,
900 In one day.
Witnesses state conclusively that
Swope, the st. Louis millionaire, was
killed by violent poison.
Ono person was killed, two fatally
injured and about l5 others hurt In a
street car collision In Seattle.
British Democracy has forced tho
Lords 10 pass the budget which was do
fcated last fall. and expects further
triumphs.
Portland Ia much worked up over the
alleged carclcssness Of census takcrs.
II II claimed that at least 1000 per-
sons In the city were not counted.
Speaker Cannon declares the minor
ity rules the house and that such rule
must bc stopped, even II II becomes
necessary 10 change the constitution.
A rich rancher of Elk City. Idaho.
has not been heard from since he went
hunting March 7, and two men who
went In search Of him two weeks ago
have not returned.
President Taft, speaking at Buffalo,
apologixed TO the state Of New York
and congratulated the entire nation up
on the appointment Of Governor
Hughes TO the Supreme court.
Negotiations for about ESQ locomo-
tives and 5000 TO 5000 freight cars.
which the Hartman lines expected TO
purchase, are retarded because Of ina
bility to secure satisfactory terms.
The Indiana Democratic convention
has endorsed John w. Kern for u. s.
senator.
The New York stock market Is de-
moralized. everyone trying 10 sell to
avoid loss.
Charles Weller, confessed murderer
Of Mrs. Schultz at Gig Harbor. seeks
second degree verdict.
Amid wild enthusiasm, San Fran
cisco business men subscribed $4,000
900 for their 1915 fair.
Ruth Bryan's first husband, Leavett,
says her second marriage will be H.
legal and that he will fight II.
Rockefeller is discouraged at the de-
lay in securing a national charter for
his great philanthropic project.
An insane young man aged 10 shot
and seriously wounded three persons
in New York and then committed sui
eide.
Newspaper publishers in the East
sce, y famine in paper unless congress
passes the Mann bill removing the duty
on pulp and paper.
A cod fishing schooner from San
JFraneisso islreported lost with several
members OF her crew. She has been
missing sinceilast October.
li The bsidsslofi the Milwaukee road
over the Y akiifsa Hver was destroyed
; by waAhoas andian engine and five
cans Of lumber rywentiRto the river.
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Point, Idaho, Were swept bSihre. des-
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