Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1907-10-17
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review of important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

Emperor Francis Joseph Is growing
worse, his lungs being intiamed.
An Italian chemist will turn several
animals to stone to show scientific men
what he can do.
John Philip Sousa recently cele brated
the fifteenth anniversary of the organi-
zatiop of his band.
Free import duty on hops has almost
killed out that industry in England ac-
cording to growers there.
A young Los Angeles woman has re-
ceived five internal machines through
the mail. A negro is under arrest but
denies his guilt.
Sir William Laurier, premier of Can.
ada, says he has not yet formed an
opinion as to the best course to pursue
in the exclusion question.
During the first six months of 1907
dishonest employees embezzled $5,4S2.-
687, according to figures given out by
the bond companies of New York.
Hartman has ordered expenses cut
Oh all OF MS lines.
Rockefeller has given 100000 more
to Chicago university.
The condition of Emperor Francis
Joseph is becoming more serious.
Reporsts received at Washington in
dicate that the Moorish rebellion is
nearing a collapse.
The Russian council of ministers has
appropriated $9,500,O00 for colonial
tion purposes in Siberia.
Coal mines in Montana have beec
closed in order TO give the railroads a
chance to clear the blockaded tracks.
The railroads of the country have de-
cided to stand a strike rather than
make more concessions to labor unions.
Commander John D. Briggs, of the
United States navy, is going insane.
He was in command of the cruiser Bal
timore when that vessel went ashore in
the Philippines in 1904.
The O. R. & N. company has started
proceedings to prevent the Washington
railroad commission from enforcing
the joint wheat rate between its lines
and the Northern Pacific.
Emperor Francis Joseph is seriously
i'll, but much improved.
The Arctic steamer Frithiof has sunk
with the crew of 16 off the coast of
Iceland.
Cassie Chadwick, one of the most |
notorious swindlers in American his |
tory, is dead at the Ohio penitentiary.
The trial OF John R. Walsh, former
president of the Chicago National bank,
has been postponed until November u.
Less than 500 men were at work in
the places of the 10000 cotton handlers
aud leaders who are on strike at New
Orleans.
Awful famine on the coast of Labra-
dor has caused the natives to take to
cannibalism and eight people are
known to have been eaten.
The Austrian steamer Guilia from
Trieste to New York, took fire during
the passage and was only saved after
heroic work. The vessel carried 1853
passengers.
Over $4,000 worth of merchandise
has been stolen from the Burlington
railroad between Chicago and Denver
during the past year and 800 Italian !.
laborers discharged for pillaging the I
freight cars.
Robert Bacon may become ambassa-
dor at Berlin.
The cholera outbreak is growing to d
alarming proportions at Toxic, Japan. t
Butte has been reminded of the old :
lays by saloon being held up by
masked men.
The anti-Roosevelt faction in the @
East is now booming ticket of Can a
ION and Hughes. b
General Nord Alexis, president of the a
epublic of Hayti, is so dangerously i'll u
hat his recovery is doubtful. g
Judge Lawlor at San Francisco has
300 men from which the
lew Ford jury will be rejected.
Railroads throughout the East claim D
hey won't be able to improve thier h
ines if passenger rates are reduced %
The battleship Kentucky went "
ground near Norfolk, Va, but was II
dated again without damage to the ir
essel. al
A London sydicate owns the Man -
attain Oil company, of Ohio, and is :,
osely affiliated with the Standard Oil. -
Oregon lumbermen have sued for in
motion to prevent the putting into
feet of higher freight rates on lumber
, the East. sI
Massacre of Jews at Odessa, Russia, nj
rs been renewed. SO
G. w. Post, head of the National lal
itizens' alliance, Gays unions are ex
orse than trusts. ha