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NEWS OF THE WEEK AN EPITOME OF THE MOST IM PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD. NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH A Carefully Digested and Condensed Compilation of Current News Items, Domestic and Foreign. MISCELLANEOUS Three cars of an electric train on the West Jersey & Seashore railroad jumped the track on the bridge over the Thoroughfare, at Atlantic City, N.J., going off into the water. Two of the cars were submerged with their living freight, but the third car was not submerged until the people were able to get out or were rescued The dead was variously estimated at from 55 to 75. Many of the injured were perhaps fatally hurt. The San Francisco school board states that it was simply obeying the laws of California when it established separate schools for Japanese and other orientals. Many of the so-called Japanese pupils are grown men. and are not fit associates for little girls and boys in white schools. The super intendent says: "We do not deny the Japanese any educational right. but there are separate schools for them, and those they must attend. "Among Says a Tokio dispatch the 266 coral fishing vessels which were caught in the hurricane off Goto island. only 38 of them lived through the storm. Of 1.210 men on board, 822 were drowned and 100 injured." a Three persons were killed and number injured by an explosion of natural gas at Coffeyville, Kas. which wrecked five two-story business build ings. Fire partially destroyed Trowbridge hall. the young ladies' dormitory of of Defiance (Ohio) college, and 56 girls had a narrow escape. n William O. Robeson. for the past M 29 years supreme secretary of the Royal Arcanum. died of pneumonia a di his home in Wellesley Hills Mass. 00 after an illness of two days. He was born at Loval Oaks, Md., in 1823. by CO President Felton of the Chicago & Alton positively forbids the employ po ment of relatives in any capacity. and m heads of departments have all been notified. M Paderewski has canceled his enpr ca gagement to appear in this country in January cia sta At Saratoga, N. Y., Italians started a run on the Adirondack Trust Co., of in which State Senator Brackett is president. The Italians are said to have ha become alarmed because Bracket was na not renominated for senator. of E.H. Harriman has 10,000 laborers an at work on a railroad he is building the on the Pacific coast of Mexico. The car road is 1,500 miles long. and will be an att completed, it is said. in eighteen months. Fr ese Robert M. Snyder. a Kansas City Mo., millionaire. was fatally injured the in an automobile accident during which a boy was struck and fatally foi hurt. Both died at the same hospital pre tre a short time afterward. Snyder was DOS under indictment at St. Louis on the L charge of bribery Not long ago Carey Cb Snyder, a son. was found murdered in Oregon na tar The months statement of the collect tions of int rnal revenue shows that car for the month of September 190G. the Mr a total receipts were $21,362 639. which ma is an increase as compared with September 1905. of $138,151. Increased shipments of wheat from me Argentina has had weakening effect on pre the wheat market Weather there was roa said to be favorable for the growing crop. T The first test of the federal eight tra to hour day law ended in a victory fo: It the government at Cincinnati After am being out only 15 minutes. the jury in R the United States court found the Sheridan Kirk Contracting Co. guilty sas win of violating the law in the constructio of of the big Ohio river dam at Fernbank nine miles below Cincinnati. wea with A drastic measure against the rebel at lious elergy according to well-inf rmed T persons, has be n decided upon by the in f French cabinet which intends to deal with them as foreign officials and tion Mrs. Robert E. Peary, wife of the ex Sev plorer, is quoted as saying: I feel just lend as sure as am living at this moment duc that my husband has found the north A pole, and that he will soon be home to tell us about it.' Sac Presiden Rcosevelt has directed ing Victor H. Metcalf, secretary of the demot per partment of commerce and labor. to P proceed to San Francisco, and make a But thorough and complete inquiry into the Mrs situation affecting the exclusion of non Japanese children from the school hun provided for white children and th ker determination to place Japanese pupils in separate schools 1 he T Reports of labor scircity are still Cabi well nigh universal says Bradstreet, poin and the movement of the cotton crop. ama the shipments of lumber, the outputs not of coal and the deliveries of various Roos mills are still restricted from this W cause, or by reason of inadequate car supply mon in P Fear is expressed in some quarters in Washington that persistence in the $10.0 ical anti-Japanese agitation on the Pa cific coast will result in nti-American A liriur boycotting in Japan that will dwarf mutt in magnitude the injury inflicted on arres American trade in the orient by the borcotting in China. Va..