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THE WEEK'S NEWS Wednesday, April 4. or Eugene Bryant. aged 45. was shot and instantly killed in a woodchoppers' camp at East Sumner, Me., which he occupied jointly with Henry W. Farrington, aged 60. Farrington says that be fired the fatal charge from a shot. gun in self-defense. The police authorities are expelling from 50 to 60 Russian refugees from Berlin weekly for breaches of the laws. As a result of the Chicago city election. in which the question of municipal ownership of the street railways was the vital issue, the city of Chicago can proceed to acquire and control the railways, but cannot operate them. The Harvard athletic committee is in favor of playing intercollegiate football at Harvard during the season of 1906. St. Andrews university, Glasgow. has conferred the degree of doctor of laws on Miss Agnes Irwin, dean of Radeliffe college. Cambridge, Mass. John McDonald. nged 27. a guest, was suffocated by smoke from a fire which damaged the Globe hotel at Bangor. Me. Business has been suspended by Foote & French, a Boston banking concern. and an assignment has been made. It is one of the older firms in "street," having been a factor in the market for 40 years. Dr. Edward Everett Hale. chaplain of the United States senate, was the recipient of many congratulations at the capital upon the occasion of his 84th birthday. Unexpectedly the Russian govern. ment has made another movement toward the reconvention of The Hague conference early in the coming summer. The board of governors of the James. town Exposition have invited 10 leading Massachusetts citizens to act as members of a "board of a hundred advisers." which will have a general su pervision over the exposition.