Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-05-24

Senator Hepburn is slightly i'm
proved.
Women of England are working fo
suffrage.
Madrid is making great preparation
for the royal wedding.
Vesuvius is pouring torrent OF mue
on the nearby villages.
1t is now believed that Mrs. Jeffer
son Davis may recover.
A prompt agreement on the rate bill
is likely by the two houses of congress
1t is understood that an Anglo.
Russian agreement is about to be per.
fected.
It is regarded as practically certain
that the second Hague peace conference
will meet in May, 1907.
The district Judge has seized tax re.
cords and ballot boxes at Denver and
discovered wholesale fraud.
United States warships have been
ordered to watch for filibustering ves-
sells going to santo Domingo.
A severe earthquake in Luzon, P. l.,
caussd a lake to form where good
sized mountain had stood. The ma
tives in the vicinity are in state of
terror.
New York will e1pend $3.50, 900
in adding to the city's water system.
The San Francisco fire destroyed
proof of the citizenship of 100000 vot-
ers.
WI Ting Fang, ex.Chinese minister
to the United States, proposes radical
reforms in China.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit
ed Mineworkers, will SOON resign to
take up the practice Of law.
Barracks have been built in Golden
Gate park, San Francisco, which will
accommodate 5000 persons.
The Interstate Commerce commission
has secured more admissions of graft
ing by Pennsylvania railroad officials.
Insurance companies have already
paid about 100000 San Francisco
losses and it is expected all undisputed
claims will be paid by June l..
great forest fire in Michigan has
burned over an area of 200 square
miles and latest accounts report the
flames still burning. Fourteen towns
have been wiped out entirely and
thousands of people are homeless. As
far as known no lives have been lost,
although sveeral entire families have
not been accounted for and may have
perished. The money loss will be
enormous.
The president has declared himself
in favor of ship subsidy.
Evidence Of rebating has been found
against the Pennsylvania railroad.
Cumberland Presbyterians will go to
law to prevent if possible church union.
Natives at Guantanamo, Cuba, at.
tackled United States sailors, killing
one and wounding %.
Governor Blanchard, of Louisiana,
has sent special message to the legis-
lature asking for an insurance reform
law.
A court of inquiry has found General
Stoessel wrong in surrendering Port
Arthur and he may be disgraced and
sent to prison.
Commissioner Garfield has produced
much documentary evidence against the
Standard Oil at the Interstate Com
merce hearings.
A New York man just returned from
Panama Gays that country is practically
q monarchy with the president at the
head. He says the government is con-
stituted on the plan of the big insur.
ance companies-the presidents rela-
tives all hold jobs in the government
service and control all the good places.
The Russian parliament is preparing
demands to the car for liberty.
The Great Northern and Burlington
are to run through trains from Portland
% Chicago,
Taft has again declared that he will
continue to buy canal supplies in the
cheapest market until restricted by con- {
yreee.
Rains and foods are causing enor-
nous damage in Texas, Oklahoma and
indian Territory. A number of per-
ons have been drowned.
The house committee on insular g
fairs hes made favorable report on :
he bill extending United States citi- C
enship to the inhabitants of Porto :
Rico. I
Municipal ownership in Denver has a
,een beaten by blunders and treachery. Q
Well known scientists who have been
Vesuvius are preparing to pre-
let earthquakes and eruptions and say
insurance risks may be reduced to |
minimum.
Will j. Davis, who was manager of
be Iroquois theater, Chicago, at the &
Ime of the great fire in that building, 2
as been arraigned on a charge of man. d
laughter, growing out of the fire. In