The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-10-31
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF two CONTINENTS
a Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.


roads.
A man has just been arrested in Eng
land who threatened to kill King Ed
ward.
Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi,
says Bryan will be elected our next
president.
There has been a marked slump in
the consumption of liquors in Kansas
the past year.
Seattle has appealed to Governor
Mead for funds with which to fight the
bubonic plague.
Militia has been called out to quell
disturbances growinsg out of the car
strike at Yonkers, N. Y.
Letters OF the late Queen Victoria
covering "a years of her life have just
been published in book form.
The Pettibone trial for completely in
the murder Of Ex-Governor Steunenberg
has been postponed until November 1S.
The North Bank railroad from Pasco
TO Vancouver, Wash, will be in opera
tion by January /, and the bridges
scross the Columbia and Willamette by
the middle of the summer.
A few more small banks In New York
have closed, but the big ones stand
firm.
There have been 48 cases of bubonic
plague at San Francisco which proved
fatal.
An armed man held up o freight
train near Los Angeles and robbed the
train crew.
The Commercial Telegraphers' union
has decided to ask terms of the tele-
graph companies.
The Vancouver, B. c., city council
has appealed to the government to ex-
clude all Asiatics.
The Japanese at Vancouver, B. c.,
are making exorbitant claims for dam
ages sustained during the riots.
There are rumors that the Ute In
dians on the Cheyenne river reserva-
tion are about ready for an outbreak.
Representative Burton is likely to re-
main chairman Of the rivers and har-
bors committee during the next session
of congress.
Thirty-three suits against the South
ern Pacific have been filed at the re-
quest of the attorney general for viola
tion of the 28-hour law.
Kansas City is working foI the Re-
publican national convention.
More than 20 persons were injured
in street car collision at Chicago.
The panic in the East occasioned by
Wall street operations is about over.
A big prairie fire has swept the Sioux
Indian reservation near Valentine,
Neb.
1t is said Roosevelt will try for
Platt's seat in the senate II president
to his liking lie elected.
There have been four deaths in Se-
attle in which the symptoms were very
similar to boubonic plague.
Hartman may distribute the stocks
OF other roads held by the Union Paci-
fic among the stockholders of the latter
road.
The transatlantic liner Lusitania
has crossed from New York to Queens
town In 4 days, 22 hours and 46 min
utes.
The Alton and Burlington roads in.
tend to cut the passenger schedule from
Chicago to Kansas City and Denver.
Other roads are expected to follow suit.
United Railroads employees and the
police clashed again in San Francisco
with the result that conductor was
shot and an officer beaten and three
arIets made.
Chicago clubs have started war
against tipping.
Ex-President Small is continuing his
fight and may split the telegrapheIs'
union.
In speech at Nashville, Roosevelt
declard he would not change his policy
on account of Wall street.
The fight between Hartman and
Fish for control Of the Illinois Centra,
may be settled out Of court.
The threatened strike OF Denver 4
Rio Gmnde telegnphers will not take
place as the men have voted to remain
at work.
The Moors set trap for French
troops but were surprised and routed.
Secretary Cortelyou says he will
assist the New York banks hurt by the
Wall street panic as all the institutions
are sound.
President Butler, OF Columbia Uni
versity, in an address at Chicago, ad-
vocated changes in the Sherman law
which would permit trusts but put the
men at the head Of them within reach
oi the law. /