NEWS OF THE WEEK.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT—curiously enough, within three days of the anniversary of President McKinley's assassination—has had a narrow escape from death. He was driving from Pittsfield to Lennox, in Massachusetts, on Wednesday, when his carriage approached an electric tramway. A car was careering along this way at thirty miles an hour, but the President's driver thought it would stop, and continued his route. The car struck the carriage and smashed it, killing a detective on it, and burying the President under the ruins. Mr. Roosevelt escaped with a severe wound in his face, and proceeded on his journey, carrying the dead with him ; but his cool courage has not diminished the impression made by his danger. He, it is said, rebuked the carman, who insolently retorted that "the right-of-way was with himself, and the right to look out with other people " ; but the incident will increase the existing irritation against the reckless manage- ment of these tramcars. The President's tour has not been suspended, nor his speeches, which have clearly two objects,—to reaffirm the Monroe doctrine and to substitute national control for State control of all great " Trusts." It is said that the managers of the Republican party intend to throw over Mr. Roosevelt ; but they have the people to reckon with, as they had in Lincoln's second election.
