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NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS A R e s u m e o f the L e s s Im p o rta n t but Not % L e ss In t e re s tin g Eve n ts o f the P a s t W e e k . SERGIUS IS KILLED France w ill build a warship of the largest type to take the place of the one recently wrecked. Women of Moscow have petitioned the czarina to ask the czar to make I peace with Japan. - The parcels post treaty with Great Britain has been signed by the officials of both countries and will take effect April 1. Governor Hoch, of Kansas, has ap proved the oil refinery bill and recom- j mends other laws against the Standard Oil company. The president has asked congress to increase the naval appropriation bill. One woman was burned to death and 15 men and women narrowly escaped in a fire which damaged the Wintou and two hotel, New York. j D O ING S IN C O NG R E SS . T u e s d a y , F e b r u a r y 14. The usual three hours were given by the senate today to the Swayne im peachment trial. Only two witnesses were examined. The senate today passed the agricul tural appropriation bill and took up the District of Columbia aprupriation bill. The sundry civil appropriation bill was reported to the house and immedi ately thereafter the naval appropriation bill was taken up, with the under standing that eight hours shall be de M is s ile w a s* P a c k e d w ith N a ils, and voted to general debate and that the house shall convene at 11 a. m. each G ra n d D u k e 's B o d y w a s T o r n day while the bill is under considera In to F r a g m e n t s. tion. Russian Grand Duke the Victim of a Terrorist Bomb. HAD BEEN MARKED FOR MONTHS W e d n e sd a y , F e b r u a r y 15. Moscow, Feb. 18.— W ithin the walls The senate today continued but could of the far-famed Kremlin palace, and not conclude, consideration of the b ill Jay Cooke, the great financier, is almost underneath the historical tower making appropriations for the supjs.rt Utah w ill spend $30,000 at the dead. from which Ivan the Terrible watched of the government of the District of Lewis and Clark fair. General Lew Wallace, author of “ Ben the heads of his enemies falling beneath Columbia. The Cody, Wyoming, bank robbers In the Swayne trial a number of wit H ur,” is dead. He was 78 years old. the axe on the famed Red Square, and have been caught in Utah. w ithin a stone’ s throw of the great bell nesses were examined for the purpose The annual weighing of mails on of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergius, uncle of ascertaining if the judge was in the Pennsylvania oil men w ill build a trains is now in progress on all rail- I and brother-in-law of Flnqieror Nich habit of traveling on passes. large refining plant in Kansas. roads. The question of what the policy of olas, met a terrible death shortly before A ll Panama canal commissioners took the government should l>e with respect The New York board of aldermen has i 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. fees as Panama railroad directors. The deed was committed by a single to the upbuilding of the navy was again raised the fine for carrying concealed Russian university students have de weapons from $20 to $720. terrorist, who threw beneath the car threshed out in the house today. At manded reforms and suspended study. riage of the grand duke a bomb charged the time of adjournment the navy ap I t is now conceded that J. Edward with the same high power explosive propriation b ill was still under consid The president promises a thorough Addicks., of Delaware, cannot be which wrought Minister von Plehve’s eration. investigation of the Standard O il com elected United States senator. death. The missile was packed with pany. T h u r s d a y , F e b r u a r y 16. It is probable that a decisive battle nails and fragments of iron, and its Threatening letters sent to the czar will be fought by the two great armies explosion tore the imperial victim ’ s Aside from two hours spent in rou have caused martial law to be pro body into ghastly fragments, which in Manchuria before a thaw comes. tine business the senate today gave its claimed at Tsarskoe-Selo. strewed the snow for yards around. The president has appointed Governor Every w indow in the great lofty facade entire attention to the Swayne impeach The Indian appropriation bill, as re Two and a half hours of Brodie, of Arizona, to be assistant chief ot the palace of justice was shattered ment trial. ported to the senate, w ill contain no the time given to that case was spent of the Record and Pension office. and bits of iron were embedded deeply provision for church shcools. behind closed doors. Before taking up the naval b ill, Susan B. Anthony celebrated her in the walls of the arsenal, a hundred Russian cavalry made a raid around yards away. * which occupied the greater part of its the flank and rear of the Japanese 85th birthday and received greetings The assassin belongs to the noted time, the house today entereil an em from women's clubs all over the world. army and drove in all small parties. “ fightinjTgroup” 0f the Socialist R evo -1 phatic protest against the action of the lutionary party,, which has removed The Japanese are transporting the Four men were killed and 14 otherB senate in amending the agricultural injured by an exploding boiler at the heavy guns used by them at Port A r other prominent officials and long Bince bill. After considering the naval hill Provident Coal company, St. Clairs- thur to the north to turn on Kuropat- passed sentence of death upon Grand for the most of the day it was laid aside Duke Sergius. The grand duke knew and several bills of minor importance kin’ s army. ville, Ohio. that he stood in the shadow of death. were passed. Puter w ill not 1» prosecuted for his The Oregon land fraud trials are to He was the recipient of repeated warn be postponed until June. Attorney recent attempt to secure state lands ings and elaborate precautions were ileney expects more indictments when near Klamath Falls fraudulently. The taken to insure his safety, but all the : F rid a y, F e b r u a r y 17. money paid by his dummies is to be the grand jury recovenes in April. The house today rejected all changes resources of the secret police and sol returned to them. diers proved unavailing asgainst an at in the original statehood b ill by send Nan Patterson is seriously 111 with Ex-Governor Boies, of Iowa, is seri tempt almost exactly duplicating the ing it to conference without taking any tonsilitis. ously ill. procedure that caused the death of action on it. The powers have refused to allow The senate today passed a bill appro Minister von Plehve last July. Greece to annex Crete. priating $9,940,000 for the District of Columbia, and the diplomatic and con A report from Colon says that city is R E S E R V E S B R E A K U P A C R O W D . A N O T H E R C A B L E IN A T L A N T I C . sular appropriation b ill carrying $2,- now free from yellow fever. 156,000. Three minor Russian officials have R u s s ia n R e v o lu tio n ists w e re B lo c k in g C la r e n c e M a c k a y A nnounces That Only one hour was spent today on. S t r e e t s in N e w Y o r k . been murdered or assaulted by terror B id s H a v e B e e n M a d e f o r L a yin g . the Swayne impeachment trial. ists. New York, Feb. 21.— Police reserves New York, Feb. 21.— Another Atlan- Russian terrorists have threatened were called out tonight to disperse a | tic cable is to lie laid and bids for its S a tu rd a y , F e b r u a r y 18. the lives of nearly all of the imperial crowd said to be sympathizers with the laying have already l*en made. It is After an hour spent as a court of im family. Russian revolutionary party. Eight expected the new cable w ill lie in oper peachment the senate today took up the The government has just contracted men were arrested, charged with parad ation during the coming summer. appointment of a conference committee for 60,000 tons of coal to 1» delivered ing without a permit, collecting a ! Clarence Mackay said today that no on the statehood b ill. The matter was crowd and holding an unlawful meet new stock would be issued on this ca- finally postponed until Monday, when at Cavite, Philippine islands. ing. | hie, but that the cost has been met by the special order erf the day, the eu New York society women intend to The trouble started when two police the Mackay company, liecause of a de logies upon the character of the late build the Colony club on Madison ave men came upon a crowd cheering and sire to keep the reserve fund of the Sentaor Quay, was entered upon. nue, New York, for women exclusively. applauding a speech made by one of Commercial Cable company intact. The house passed the pension appro Mr. Mackay added that the first re priation b ill, carrying $138,285,200. The United States Cotton Duck cor their m im ler. The police were unsuc cessful in dispersing the people, and port of the Mackay company to the poration in 1904 made a surplus of The District of Columbia appropriation It was said shareholders would bis adopted within b ill was sent to conference, a b ill was $166,085, after paying interest on called for the reserves. that a red Hag was lieing waved and the next fortnight. The new cable will bonds. passed to prohibit interstate transpor later a sergeant of police, who assisted embody the latest discoveries in this tation of insect pests, carrying with it a Two members of the Panama canal in the raid, made the statement that branch of electricity. fine and imprisonment. commission are on their way home to on one of the men arrested was “ in make recommendations to the canal flammatory and revolutionary litera P a rt o f B r id g e B lo w n up. committee of congress for changes in ture.” This man’s name was Al)>ert M o n d a y , F e b ru a ry 2 0. Harbin, Feb. 21.— A party of Japan the plans .> The house passed the nayal appro Argentier, and the police found on him ese and Chinese bandits destroyed the priation b ill carrying a total of $99,- Special Attorney Heney has arrived a subscription list for the Russian rev abutment of the railway bridge near 914,359. The provision for two battle in Washington and w ill make a report olutionists, said to have l>een issued by Yaomin, 100 miles distant from here, on the Oregon land fraud cases and as the pro-revolution committee for Rus early this morning, but the damage was ships as reported by the committee on naval affairs was retained. A ll the men arrested said they sist in the Hyde-Dimond land fraud sia. repaired in a few hours. Frontier Whether the senate conferees on the cases in California before the supreme were tailors anil protested against being guards heard an explosion at 3:40 statehood bill shall represent the party tnken into custody. court of the United States. o’clock and found that a charge of gun that defeated joint statehood for A r i cotton had been exploded against the zona and New Mexico or the party that The czar is said to have decided to abutment. Two telegraph poles were fought for the retention of that provis offer peace. S t r ik e R e s u lt s in B e tte r W a g e s. Warsaw, Feb. 21.— The chemists' as also destroyed. An unexploded charge ion was debated at length today, but no Japan w ill not agree to peace unless sistants here have struck, demanding of guncotton was found 400 feet from decision was reached. it is enduring. shorter hours and one free day each the place where the explosion occurred. The Swayqe trial was taken up at 2 The second trial of Nan Patterson has week. A majority of the other strikers Traffic has been resumed. o’clock. Two witnesses were exam been set for March 6. have resumed work, the only important ined. After the provisions of the Flor B lo c k a d e - R u n n e r C a p t u re d . branch still out being the ironworkers. West Virfginia senators accuse Gov ida statutes relating to suits of eject The strike has resulted iu a considera Tokio, Feb. 21. — The navy depart ment or disqualification of judges had ernor White of boodling. ble general improvement in the condi ment announces the seizure of the been read it was announced that the North Dakota has appropriated tion of the men. They have secured British steamer Silvania, bound for case of the house managers was con money for the Lewis and Clark afir. higher wages and shorter hours. In Vladivostok with Cardiff coal. The cluded. The preliminary statement A b ill w ill be passed this session al the tanning districts the men secured place where the seizure w as made is for Swayne was not finished when the the first increase in wages in 40 years. | not stated. lowing Alaska a delegate in congress. court adjourned for the day. Fire destroyed two steamers at Boston. piers