NEWS OF THE WEEK.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was more hurt in his collision with the electric car at Pittsfield than he at first imagined. He sustained a severe bruise in the calf of his leg, which produced suppuration, and on his arrival at Indianapolis his doctors insisted on an opera- tion. The news caused quite a panic throughout the Union ; but two ounces of pus were quietly removed, the President taking no chloroform, and it was an- nounced that if he would but keep quiet no danger need be apprehended. He did keep quiet for three days, and was then removed to Washington, where he is reported to be doing well. There is no danger in such an accident to a man of his regular habits and iron constitution ; but the disappointment of the Western States, which lose a whole series of speeches sure to have been important, is very great. He had just observed, to the consternation of hidebound Pro- tectionists, that although Free-trade would not remedy the evils caused by Trusts, it was necessary when conditions shifted to shift the incidence of the Tariff, a bit of common- sense eagerly accepted by the West, where men begin to see that the wealth of the monopolists comes out of their pockets.
