Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-08-29
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOlNGS
General Review of Important Hap
penngs Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
foricai and Commercial.

iaiifosiu toTpolaliohS foiA prosecution
The New York teamsters' strike is
marked with numerous acts of violence
The Chinese legation at Paris denies
that the dowager empress is seriously
i'll.
GFreat Britain has just launched a
third battleship of the Dreadnaught
Clas.
E. F. Noel has received the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor of Ten
nessee.
Labor Commissioner Neill still has
hopes Of compromising the telegraph
ers' strike.
Two persons were killed in cyclone
which swept over Eau Claire county,
Wisconsin.
Nearly all Euroepans are leaving
Morocco on account of the gravity Of
the situation.
The Hamilton club, the great Chi
cago Republican organization, is to
build 100000 skyscraper.
Taft advises the people of Oklahoma
to reject the constitution framed for
use when the territory becomes state.
The Chicago & Alton railroad has
been sold to the Toledo, st. Louis &
Western.
Raisuli, the Moorish bandit, has de-
feated the army sent by the sultan to
capture him.
Western railroads are again issuing
warnings to coal dealers to lay in
winter supply before too late.
Deaths from the bubonic plague in
India promise to exceed all former rec
ords during theg present year.
Heney and Delmas continue to fight
every step in the Glass bribery case
now being tried in San Francisco.
japanese lave sued the city of San
Francisco tor $2,575 damages on ac-
count of the restaurant wrecked by a |
mob.
A heavy electric storm has done much
damage to telegraph and telephone
wires in Northern California and South
ern Oregon.
Texas has begun suit against the In
ternational Harvester company for ST.
100000 for alleged violation of the
antitrust laws.
Vice President thinner, of the Paci-
fic States Telephone company, has been
sentenced to imprisonment for three
months for contempt in refusing to
answer questions in the Glass trial.
He has appealed.
Count Boni has been snubbed by
Gould in London.
The Philippine government has sup
pressed the flag of secret rebel soci-
ETY..
Drivers and stabemen employed at
the wholesale beef packing houses in
New York are on strike.
Congressman Mccall, of Mass, pre-
diets hard times as a result of the heavy
fine imposed oon the Standard Oil com
pany.
The new San Francisco police board
has accepted Chief Dinan's resignation \
and elected o. NJ. Anderson as acting ,
chief.
Canadian telegraph operators have t
not struck but threaten to walk out un- t
less the companies refuse to take mes 1
sages from across the boundary.
Patients at the New York state hos
pital for the criminal insane revolted
and were not subdued until one of their
number bad been shot and killed. !,
Governor Vardman, of Mississippi, i
1as been APPEALED to for protection to h
he Western Union strikebreakers. t
The company officials say their men a
lave been driven from Holly Springs, S
Grenada and Greenwood. r.
In speech at Provincetown, Mass, a
President Roosevelt scored the rich o
aw breakers.
The New Zealand senate has turned
own a measure allowing women a seat
n that body.
In an explosion of dynamite at Tsing- "
au, Sulud, tNO OtIuldIb anu lUU Cnl- v
ese were killed. el
The War department has advertised -
,r material with which to improve the =
.onolulu harbor. =
Secretary Taft may change all his ii
hilippine trip plans owing to the ILL &c
ess of hIs mother. al
st
Reports from Genital West and Cali
rnia indicate an almost complete re-
mption Of wire service.
By means of wireless telegraphy the ~
alton at San Francisco sent the cor
ct time to Midway island, 2,7OO g.
lies away. -
Sympathy in Portland for the strik- ca
2 telegraph operators is making itself w
own by popular subscriptions for til
ief fund. One contribution of $50 aW
s by a former county official. Yin