A WEEK'S HEWS HI RECORD OF MOST INTERESTING EVENTS TOLD~ IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS Information Gathered from All Quar ters of the Civilised World and Pre pared for the PeruBal of the Busy Man. The lunacy commission in the Thaw ease decided to hear the opinion ol Dr. Allan Me Lane Hamilton, the alien iat who testified in court that he be lieved Thaw was insane and unable to direct his counsel rationally. San Francisco officials admitted they feared an attempt would be made to rescue Abraham Ruef by force KUsor Biggv’s guards were instructed in that event to shoot Ruef first and then attend to the rescuers. In an effort to enforce demands for increased wages made by members ot the 1'nlted Brewery Workers' union, about 850 brewery w orkers walked out of the 23 breweries in St. Louis. State Senator Thomas Connor, the millionaire mine owner of Joplin. Mo., died, aged 52 years, at a sanitarium at Saa Antonio. Tex., where he had been for several months. Fire destroyed the plant of the Maryland Steel Car Wheel company, located at South Baltimore, in Anne Aruadel county, Me. The damage is estimated at from $60,000 to $100,000. Fire destroyed the "wet mill” or grinding department of the Castalia Portland Cement company at Castalia, O The loss is $50,000 and 100 men are temporarily thrown out of work. An unknown woman jumped to d**ath over the brink of the American falls from Prospect park. Niagara Falls. Republican members ot the lennes see legislature in a joint caucus unani mously adopted resolutions appealing to Republicans throughout the nation to renominate Theodore Roosevelt for another term as president. The Nebraska senate passed the state-wide direct primary bill with amendments which the house concur red in. The bill does away with state, county and city nominating conven tions. The physicians who are in attend ance upon Queen Victoria of Spain have reason to believe that she may be confined sooner than has been an ticipated. and it has been recommend ed that King Alfonso curtail his visit to Cartagena. The secretary of the interior grant ed the application of L. L. Nunn to use the waters of Bear and Mud lakes In Utah for irrigation and power pur poses. Four white men and 50 natives were instantly killed and three whites and 16 natives were injured by the explosion of two cases of dynamite at the Dreifontein mine near Johannes burg. Fire destroyed about 22 residences and ten business houses in Newberry, S. C. Gov. Campbell signed the bill mak ing gambling a felony in the state of Texas. Two men were killed and four in jured by the explosion of a bomb in Constantinople. Robert E. Edwards, a farmer, was found dead and robbed on railway tracks near Springfield, 111. Fire destroyed the plant of the Mag nolia Stove works. Memphis, Tenn. The loss is estimated at $80,000. James F. Hedden. general superin tendent of the Tonopah & Goldfield Railway company, is in jail at Haw thorne, Nev., for refusing to produce the books of his company on the or der of a grand jury. A report published in Havana by the Commercio and the Cuba, conser vative newspapers, that Consul Stein hardt was to succeed Provisional Governor Magoon. is denied by both Mr. Steinhardt and Gov. Magoon. Passenger train No. 1 on the Choo taw. Oklahoma & Gulf railroad was partially derailed near Oklahoma City and the engineer killed. Seven pas sengers were hurt. A. O. Fox of Madison. YVis., has purchased for a trolley company the Galena (111.) municipal lighting plant ■vhich it is said has cost so much in gxcess of what a private plant would cost that the peopli of Galena have tired of their bargain. Maxim Gorky, the Russian writer is seriously ill in Rome with consume tion. Safe blowers robbed the Farmers t and Merchants' National bank of Han * over. Mich., getting $3,000. Nebraska legislature passed a bill permitting a large Increase in the tax ation of railroad property. The body of Prokop Plecity, town cierk of the town of Haugen. Wis., was found in his burning office and residence £y neighbors. He had been shot. Salvador asked Mexico to intervene and restore peace between the war ring Central American Republics. Jesse F. Welborn has been chosen by the directors of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company to succeed the late Frank J. Hearne as president of that company. Cten. Charles Dick, of Ohio, was elected president of the National Guard association, which adjourned to meet next year. Hugh G. Shaugh, the organizer of the Brotherhood of Railway Postal Clerks, was dismissed from the railway mail service. The town of Lincoln, N. J„ offered Upton Sinclair a big house and fertile land for the burned-out colony of Heli conites. The plant of the Mennonlte Pub lishing company at Elkhart, Ind., was damaged bf Are to the extent of $65, 000. ^ An immense landslip at Steuben ville, O., buried railway tracks and broke gas mains. Rev. Stephen Saler Ortynskyi, of the Order of St. Basil the Great, has been appointed bishop for the Catholics of the Greek Ruthenian rite in the Unit ed States. The situation in Roumania appears to be quieting down, but. large num bers of refugees still continue to make their way out of the troubled districts. C. H. Klnnaird, manager of the Crystal Ice company, and William F. Holley of the Franklin Ice company of Columbus, O., who were found guil ty of entering into a conspiracy in restraint of trade, were each lined $1,000. Ex-Representative Janies T. Mc Cleary of Minnesota was sworn in as second assistant postmaster-general in succession to William S. Shallenlierg er resigned. Lieut. Gen. Arthur MacArthur has been relieved of the command of the Pacific division at his own request, and will complete the report on the results of his tour of inspection in the orient. French troops occupied the city of Oudja. Morocco, the Moorish governor welcoming them in a friendly spirit. Harry Dolan, outfielder In the Bos ton National League team, died at Louisville, Ky., of typhoid fever. There are now nearly 8.000,000 more people in continental United States than there were six years ago. The above estimate is based upon fig ures compiled by the census bureau in a special report. The estimated .population for 1906 was 83,941,510. There was a panic on the Brussels bourse and four banks failed. Four others had to obtain an extension of time to meet their liabilities. Executive officials of railroads op erating in Missouri and Arkansas de cided to contest the two-cent fare laws passed in those states. Twenty-six persons were killed and about 100 injured when the Southern Pacific's Sunset express ran into an open switch near Colton. Ca). The victims were nearly all Italians. The Minnesota supreme court up held the Great Northern railroad in its contention that it had the right to issue $60,000,000 of additional stock which was authorized by the board of directors. At South McAlester, I. T., seven prisoners overpowered their guards and escaped from the United States jail. One man was recaptured. Jennie Burch, who killed baby Wil bur Winship. at Carmel. N. Y., was found not guilty by reason of insanity and the court committed her to '.vfat teawan asylum for criminals. Fire in South Boston. Va., destroyed tobacco factories and other buildings, threatened the destruction of the en tire town and entailed a loss estimat ed as high as $1,000,000. Miss Bertha McNally. 2S years old, committed suicide at Canton. O., by taking carbolic acid, on the day set for her wedding to Emil Knolle a Pittsburg policeman, who died six weeks ago. All danger of infection having passed, the quarantine placed upon the room in the White House occu pied by Archie Roosevelt during his illness from diphtheria was raised. Gen. Kurokl will represent the Jap anese army at the Jamestown cele bration. Fire at Savannah. Mo., destroyed two stores and damaged a lumber yard. Loss. 160.000; insurance, $30, 000. Savannah has no fire depart ment and 300 citizen* fought the flames with buckets. A small tornado slightly damaged the suburbs of Chanute, Kan. No one was hurt. A locomotive attached to an ore train on the Pittsburg, Youngstown & Ashtabula railroad, a branch of the Lake Shore line, exploded at Lock wood, O. Engineer H. E. Watson of Mahoningtown. Pa., is supposed to have been blown to pieces. President Roosevelt has decided to increase the American delegation to the coming peac.e conference at The Hague. New York fires in 1906 entailed a loss of $3,679,691. "Chick-’ Stahl, a well known ball player, committed suicide at West Baden. Ind., by drinking carbolic acid. The Corbin Banking company of New York assigned for the benefit of creditors. Assets, $3,000,000; liabili ties. $1,700,000. Fire in Iroquois, Ontario, destroyed two hotels, four stores and two dwell ings, the loss being $100,000. Five of the seven trustees of the Foundation for the Promotion of In dustrial Peace authorized by recent act of congress to take over and ad minister the $40,000 Nobel petce prize awarded to President Roosevelt, met and effected an organization, with Chief Justice Fuller as president. Judge McMahon decided the plant of the Laporte (Ind.) Water Supply company belonged to the city of La porte. William A. Proctor, president of the Proctor & Gamble company and son of one of the firm’s founders, died from a bullet wound, self-inflicted, at his home in Glendale, a suburb of Cincinnati. 1 hirtv sacks of gold, valued at $10. 000, said to have been stolen from the mines at Rhyolite, Nev., and shipi>ed into Pueblo, was seized by a United States marshal. Richard Mansfield, the actor, is so ill that he has abandoned his spring tour. Judge Samuel Ryan, aged 83 years, the oldest editor in Wisconsin and one of the oldest members of the Odd Fellows, died of pneumonia at the home of his brother, James Ryan, in Appleton. Wis. The glaze mill of the Austin Pow der company at Fall Junction, O., blew up and two men'.were killed. Oscar Nyler of Cambridge. 111., com mitted suicide at Mount Pleasant, ia„ by throwing himself under the wheels of a train. Alexander Beaubien, the first white child born in Chicago, died, aged 85 years. Frank Brink, who murdered his sweetheart, Bessie Newton, at Ponca, Neb., was declared insane and acquit ted by the jury. Twenty-four persons were injured, some seriously, and a two-story build ing occupied by a flve-cent theater, was wrecked at Greenfield, Ind., by an explosion of natural gas used to heat the building. The Morton Salt block, in Hutchin son, Kan., the largest in the world, owned chiefly by Joy Morton and Paul Morton, former secretary of the 'nary, was destroyed by flic, the loss being $500,000. Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco de nied the story that he had profited to the extent of $662,000 from partici pating In boodling operations, and in timated that as soon as he was well, he would sue the papers for libel. James Henry Smith, of New York, who inherited over $50,000,000 from hit uncle, George Smith, died in Kioto, Japan. He was on his bridal tour. An explosion in a fireworks factory on Staten island killed one man and fatally injured a boy and two girls. At a meeting of the international committee of the Young Men's Chris tian association, it was announced that'Mrs. Russell Sage ‘ had added $100,000 to her recent donation ot $250,000 for the building of a home foi the committee. A. L. Sutton, chief of the bureau of exploitation of the Jamestown Exposi tion company, tendered his resignation at the request of the board of govern ors upon charges filed by a tourists' bureau. William West, of Montgomery. Ala., shot and killed Engineer Fraser and, finding escape impossible, turned his pistol on himself, dying a few mo ments later. West was accused of stealing a diariond ring from Fraser. The federal grand jury' at Chicago began an investigation of the abuse of the express franking privilege. John W. Leonard, a Chicago police man, killed his wife and himself by shooting. San Antonio, Tex., detectives be lieved young Horace Marvin, the kid naped boy. was in that city, but he disappeared. A proposed advance of coal rates by the Illinois and Indiana railroads was averted by the intervention of the in terstate commerce commission. President Roosevelt was invited to ; address business men of the middle | west at Springfield. 111., and to declare | his policy as to railroads. The president will speak at the un veiling of a monument to the Rough Riders in Arlington National cemetery April 12. Roy Bom-quin, 17 years old, was ar rested lor trying to blow up a hospital in Cripple Creek. Col., with dynamite William McElroy. aged 18 years, was shot and fatally wounded by a police man in Philadelphia while resisting ar rest for stealing bread. A fire of unknown origin at Eliza beth City, N. J., resulted in estimated loss of between $400,000 and $450,000 in property. John A. Meyer, of Milwaukee, a freshman in the University of Wiscon sin. who was injured while diving off the pier at Madison, Wis., into Lake Mendota, died. The Chattman mill at Howard and Berks streets. Philadelphia, occupied by a number of textile concerns, was damaged $100,000 by three fires that were discovered within a period of 12 hours. Simeon W. West, an aged stock rais er of Leroy, 111., was robbed In a San Francisco street car, losing $6,000 in drafts and $100 in currency. Sixty thousand tailors in Germany demanded a wage increase of from 40 to 100 per cent., and are threatened with a lock-out. Dynamite exploded at the Southern railway station in Atlanta. Ga.. killing two negroes and a white man and hurt ing others. The Wisconsin senate adopted a res olution to begin balloting for United States senator April 16. The British war office has removed the ban from Chicago meats. William C. Gilbert, a shoe clerk, was elected mayor of Danbury. Conn., by a j majority of 425. He is president of ; the Danbury Republican club. A violent storm of wind, rain, hail and lightning passed over Chicago and northwestern Indiana, causing sev eral deaths and great damage to prop erty. Senator Foraker in a public state ment suggested that Ohioans vote at the primaries to decide who shall be their favorite son and presidential candidate. Justice Fitzgerald appointed a com mission in lunacy to inquire into the present mental condition of Harry K Thaw. The men selected are: Mor gan J. O'Brien, a former justice of the appellate division of the supreme court; Peter B. Olney, former district attorney of New York county and a law-ver of high legal attainments; Dr. Leopold Putzel. a practicing physician and authority on mental disorders. An estate worth over $20,000,000 was left by the late Herr von Korn of Ger many. owner of the Schlessissche Zei tung. Prof. Belar, of Laibach university, reports an earthquake shock which traveled 6,000 miles. The first distribution by the gen eral education board of John D. Rock efeller's $32,000,000 was made as fol lows: Yale university, $300,000; Princeton university, $200,000; Bow doin college, Brunswick, Me., $50,000; Millsaps college, Jackson, Miss., $25, 000. Mrs. James R. Hemphill, of Akron. O., going insane, strangled her daugh ter and tried to commit suicide. The Minnesota Title Insurance com pany of Minneapolis closed its doors and James D. Shearer was appointed receiver by State Bank examiner Schaeffer. Several persons were killed and In jured in a fight at Muskogee between members of United Socialists and city and federal officers. Salt to recover $20,000,000 from the trustees of the estate of the late Isa belle E. Schege. widow of Isaac M. Singer, was begun in New York, by Paul C. W. Schege. the third husband of the former Mrs. Singer. A serious fire broke out in the 600 foot level of the Home Stake Mine, Lead. S. D. Capt. A. S. Barnes, in point of serv ice the oldest railway mail clerk, died at Elkins, W. Va. Abraham Ruef of San Francisco withdrew his writ of error in the fed eral supreme court apd said he waa ready for trial on the charge of ex tortion. AttlUa F. Mallory, one of the most prominent citizens of Pensacola and a brother of United States Senator Stephen B. Mallory, was found dead in his office. Peter Clark shot and fatally wound ed Mrs. Ollle Hill on an interurban car near Girard, 111., because she re pulsed him. Both principals in the tragedy had been divorced because of their relations Srith each other. A FORECASTER THE WEEK CHICAGO ELECTION TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY. Michigan to Elect Five State Officials —Harriman Case Before the Com merce Commission. New York—Chicago will hold its municipal election on Tuesday. The issue between Fred A. Busse, the post master and republican candidate for mayor, and Mayor Edward F. Dunne, democratic candidate for re-election is complicated by a referendum on the traction question. The traction ordi nance, which was recently passed by the city council over the veto of Mayor Dunne, provides for the issue of twenty-year franchises, but stipulates that the city shall have the right of purchase on giving notice of such in tention. The ordinance is to become effective only after it has been in dorsed by public referendum. The re publicans favor the adoption of the or dinance, while the democrats oppose such indorsement and advocate asser tion of the city's rights of eminent do main, the condemnation of the street car properties and municipal owner ship. The campaign has been a heated one. Michigan will elect five state officials on Monday, including two justices of the supreme court, two regents of the State university and one member of the State Board of Education. The Interstate Commerce commis sion will listen to arguments by coun sel for E. H. Harriman in Washington on Monday on the question whether or not the commission shall appeal to the j courts to compel Mr. Harriman to answer certain questions affecting his management and control of the Pacific railroads and the Chicago & Alton. Argument in the case of 'Benjamin Greene and John N. Gaynor. charged with conspiracy against the United j States government, will be heard be [ fore the ITnited States circuit court of | aupeals at Ne\v Orleans on Monday. ! Greene and Gaynor are now ;n jail at Macon. Ga. King Edward will leave Biarritz April 5 for Toulon, whence he will proceed the following day on board the royal yacht for Cartagena to meet King Alfonso of Spain. The approaching meeting between the two monarchs has created considerable comment throughout Europe. Every available Spanish warship will assemble at Car tagena to meet the British squadron of seventeen vessels. GALUSHA A. GROW IS DEAD. Man Prominent for Over Fifty Years Dies of Oid Age. Bingamton. N. Y.—Galusha A. Grow, i former congressman from Pennsyl vania, died at his home in Glenwood, Pa.. Sunday as a result of a general breakdown attributed to oid age. Mr. Grow was elected to congress from the Wilmot district of Pennsyl vania as the youngest member of that body in 1851. and after retirement from public life for nearly forty years he re entered the house of representatives as congressman-at-large from Pennsyl vania fourteen years ago. When he re tire! four years ago his public service in the house extended over the longest period, although not continuous in ser vice. of any man who eve^ sat in that body. HARR1MAN BUYING LANDS. ' Extensive Deep Water Terminals Are to Be Built at Astoria. Portland. Ore.—The Oregonian says that the sale of between 400 and 500 acres of land lying along Young's nay. near Astoria. Ore., is being closed and the purchasers are believed to be the Harriman interests. The price to be paid is approximately $700,000. It is understood that the property is for deep water treminals for the Pacific Railway and Navigation company. Death From Pumpkin Pie. Smoot, Wvo.-—A post mortem ex amination of the remains of James H. Bruce has been made, and the result will be known in a few days. Bruce died suddenly at his ranch near here a few days ago after eating a quan tity of pumpkin pie. It is alleged that death was due to strychnine poison ing. Bruce did not have an enenFr in the world, and the suicide theory is scouted. Woman Killed by Auto. Noneonta. N. Y.—Mrs. E. S. Love land. niece of the late Collis P. Hunt ington and a beneficiary under his will, was instantly killed Sunday while operating an automobile. Mrs. Loveland was thrown from the car when it plunged over an embankment and her neck was broken. J. P. Spends a Million. Brussels—Ii is currently reported that. J. Pier pout Morgan of New York, has acquired for $3,200,000. the unique collection of Jules Van Den Poreboom, which comprises furniture, pictures, arms, brasses, ancient engravings and chimney pieces. After Coal Land Frauders. Sheridan. W.vo. — Deputy, United States Marshal Joe I-aFors has sub peonaed about thirty persons in this section who have been instructed to attend the session of the United States court in Cheyenne on April 2. Recently a number of secret service men have been at work in this sec tion, and it is believed some startling disclosures are to be made by the United States authorities. It is not known whether the cases are in con nection with coal land frauds or il legal fencing of the public domain. Sweeping Change in Law. Des Moines. Ia.—The pensions of 15,000 of tlte veterans whose accounts are carried in the Des Moines office of the service will be affected by the sweeping new law which goes into for