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BRIEF REVIEW OF WEEK'S EVENTS RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR. TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED FORM. HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS Information Gathered from All Quar ters of the Civilized World and Prepared for the Perusal of the Busy Man. The case against Harry K. Thaw was given to the jury, and six hours later, not having reached an agreement, the jurors were locked up for the night. Jerome's closing address was a merciless flaying of Thaw and his wife. The judge's charge was considered unfavorable to the defendant. Senator Foraker in a speech at Canton, O., declared his independence of dictation, defended his public course and denied any part in or knowledge of the alleged rich men's conspiracy to thwart President Roosevelt. John Temple Graves, speaking at a banquet at Chattanooga in honor of W.J. Bryan, urged that Bryan nominate Roosevelt for president on the Democratic ticket. Secretary Taft declared that Cuba was to be turned over to the Cubans as soon as possible, made recommendations as to the holding of elections and sailed for Porto Rico. President L. W. Hill announced that the Great Northern would build a plant for the manufacture of cars in Superior, Wis. Fifteen persons were burned to death in a fire that destroyed an apartment house in Lisbon, Portugal. Congressman Longworth came out in favor of Taft for the presidential nomination. The New York Herald, James Gordon Bennett, its proprietor, and its advertising manager were fined $31,000 for sending improper matter through the mails. Seven hundred members of the union organized at Bisbee, Ariz., by the Western Federation of Miners, employed by companies which refused recognition of the union, went on strike. j A train bearing 340 political exiles left St. Petersburg for Siberia. This is the largest consignment of political prisoners sent to the far east for several months past. Commander Eva Booth of the Salvation army became seriously ill at Canton, O. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad and H. M. Pearce, acting freight agent, were found guilty of granting rebates by a jury at Minneapolis. Four trainmen were killed on the Southern Pacific in California by the explosion of two locomotives. Mrs. Mary Bechtel, aged 84 years, and her son Charles, aged 42 years, were burned to death in their home in Philadelphia. The Akron Printing and Paper company went into bankruptcy, with lia bilities amounting to $30,000 and asY sets the same. The crew of naval barge No. 1 which went adrift in a storm, were rescued by the steamer Professor o Woermann. k Directors of the Provident Securities and Banking company of Boston are accused by the receivers of having squandered $200,000 of its money. Annie Adair of Triumph, Ill., is dead from swallowing muriatic acid, which she mistook for a sleeping medicine. $ Richard Croker is in exceedingly poor health, according to John Fox, a Tammany leader, who has just returned to New York from England. With a bullet in her brain Mabel o Guy, the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Guy of Middleton, L N. Y., walked a mile to Thrall hospital for treatment. She may recover. The United Engineers' society opened its new home in New York for the erection of which Andrew Carnegie gave $1,500,000. The Lincoln Savings and Trust company of Philadelphia was closed by the state commissioner of banking because its capital was impaired. It is said that the death of the late Congressman Galusha A. Grow was hastened by a gang of New York swindlers, who levied blackmail upon him, using a woman as their willing tool. One person was killed and about 15 injured in a wreck on the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain railroad near Hardwick, Vt. Richard M. Waite, assistant to the president of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company, died at Denver. Dr. Paul Bettix, professor of Greek and Latin in the Central Holiness University of Oskaloosa, Ia., is preaching a new crusade and branded his forehead with a cross. State Senator David Campbell of Illinois was appointed postmaster of Chicago to succeed Mayor Fred Busse. P. A. B. Widener asked permission of Philadelphia authorities to erect a $10,000,000 municipal art gallery on a eite to be furnished by the city.
