Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-09-24
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.

A forest fire threatens to burn the
house at Ballston, n. Y, where Grant
died.
Forest fires in Pennsylvania have
already burned over 10000 acres, and
are still burning.
A New York lawyer has just been
arrested for defrauding a woman
many years ago.
w. B. McAllister, of Omaha, has
been appointed land agent for the
Southern Pacific.
Four out of a party of seven lost
their lives when launch was wrecked
on the Long Island sound.
The students of the Missouri school
for the blind have taken to roller
skating, and make quite a success
of it.
Long dry spells have dried up many
rivers in the East, and forest fires
cover the whole Atlantic coast with
smoke.
The transatlantic liner Mauretania
lost a propeller blade in storm, and
for hours lay helpless There was a
panic among the passengers.
Zia Bey, head of the Turkish secret
police under the old regime, has had
to flee the capital for his life, and says
he is coming to Oregon to live.
The battleship fleet has sailed from
Albany, Australia, for Manila.
Won Buelow declares Germany is in
favor of peace and arbitration.
A retired steel magnate of New
Jersey was shot and killed by his con-
fidential clerk.
Orville Wright was badly hurt and
his companion killed while making a
trip in his aeroplane.
A Swedish explorer has just reached
Simla, India, after nearly year spent
in the interior of Thibet
Colonel Stewart has been ordered
back to his lonely post at Fort Grant,
without taking the riding test.
Mexican and Japanese sailors
fought desperately on wrecked ship
finally saved.
Letters have been made public
which seem to prove that Senator
J. B. Foraker is in the pay of the
Standard Oil company.
1t is said alarming cholera reports
have been sent out from certain cities
in China in order to get contributions
from superstitious Chinese.
J. J. Hill says the day of cheap
wheat is over, that the food problem
is a serious one, and that the govern
ment should be building schools OF
agriculture as we'll as warships.
Taft will make three big campaign
tours.
Chicago's population is placed at
1,024,060 by the recent school census.
Seattle banks will sell the bonds of
the Alaska Yukon-P Pacific exposition.
A Minnesota woman walked $50
miles to visit the grave of her hus-
band near Chicago.
French troops routed strong tribe
of Congo natives who trade in con-
traband arms and slaves.
A negro was lynched for shooting
white man in Louisiana, though the
latter was not seriously hurt.
A Baptist moderator in Kentucky
died Of heart failure when his son
was arrested for selling liquor.
The French press is irritated by
the German criticism of the Franco
Spanish note regarding Morocco.
Chicago health officials found fish
that had been stored 16 months in the
warehouse of the Booth company that
failed recently.
Four crooked bankers arraigned in
Judge Dunne's court in San Fran
cisco broke down and wept, and plead
for reduction of bail
A commission appointed to inves
tigate New York's high buildings has
decided that they cannot be limited
as to height, but restrictions provid-
ing for light and air can be enforced.
Evelyn Thaw, reduced to poverty
will return to the stage.
A Southern woman led mob of
lynchers against the assailant of her
daughter.
A Canadian Pacific strikebreaker at
Winnipeg nearly caused a riot by
shooting one OF the strikers.
A practical joker at Windsor, Mo,
touched off a car OF powder, killing
seven persons and injuring 30.
The president Of the Chicago school
board favors spanking as the best
method of overcoming the "frat evil"
Stockholders and directors of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail-
road are coming to the Pacific coast.
The Parsival airship, in a trial at
Berlin, for time made better time
than an express train. The aeronaut
remained in the air III hours.
Farmers in Ontario fighting forest
fires were short of water and used
milk and buttermilk. Fort William
and Loeb Lomond are threatened.
An attempt has been made to blow
up President Cabrera, of Guatemala,
by attaching an internal machine to
a telephone in his office. The presi-
dent escaped with a few bruises.