Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-05-28
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review Of important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-NationaI, Political. Ns-
toricai and Commercial.
Peter Daily, the actor, is dead.


Seattle fair buildings.
The Northern Baptist convention
for 1909 will meet in Portland.
A statue of the late Senator Hanna
Ohio.
Eastern railroads will resist the In
terstate Commerce Commissions rates
for accounting.
Thousands of people are swarming
to the Puget Sound cities to see the
Atlantic battleship fleet.
A Hoboken, N. J., justice of the
peace says he married Anna Gould
and Prince de Sagan before they lett
for Europe.
The airship White Wing, built by
Baldwin, is making successful flights
in New York. Baldwin was the in
ventor of the airship at the Lewis and
Clark fair.
A Chicago woman brought back to
life after being pronounced dead is
sorry she was revived. She says her
soul traversed a beautiful country in
spirit land.
Crop failures in British East Africa
is causing much loss of life among
the natives. More than 10000 deaths
have been caused by starvation and
the government is feeding $4,000
people.
Bishops in the Methodist general con-
ference passed the lie.
France may have to recognize Mulal
Hahd as sultan of Morocco.
The late Governor Sparks, of Neva-
da. was a great cattle breeder.
Before the battieship fleet leaves for
the Orient it will be reorganlzed.
Inability to get a board of arbitration
is continuing the street car strike at
Cleveland, Ohio.
The Presbyterian general assembly
wants congress to pass law making
Sunday an absolute day of rest.
Baron Takahira, Japanese ambassa-
dor to the United States, says critics
of his people are hasty and that war
runors are unfounded.
Admiral Evans has called upon the
president and received congratulations
on the successful trip of the battleshlp
feet from the Atlantic to the Paclt1c.
The government has started suit
for a dissolution of the New Haven
roads merger with the Boston and
Maine and New England trolley roads.
In an address before the Bankers
club. of Chicago, Bryan said unless the
people were assured their deposits were
fuIlt secured the government Will have
to start banks.
The Mexican government has start
ed proceedings against Martin Jacoby,
millionaire and head of large mercan-
tile house. He is charged with misap-
propriating between $3O00,000 and So
600 900.
In speech at Harrisburg, Pa, Bryan
said he favored the direct primary.
Governor Sparks, Of Nevada, is very |
low, and his physicians say he cannot
live.
Major James F. McIndee is to sue
eeed Colonel Roessler as government en-
gineer at Portland.
Arbitration of the street car strike
at Cleveland, Ohio, has been arranged,
but some rieting continues.
One man was killed and 10 injured |
in big Chicago fire, which destroyed
100000 worth of property.
A tornado passed through farming
section near Clay Center, Kan, destroy
ing much property and killing three
people.
The steamer Lusitania, from Liver
pool for New York, has beaten her for
mer record for crossing the ocean by
several hours.
Oklahoma state guaranty law has
stood the test. A bank failed and in
side of an hour the depositors were be-
ing paid in full.
Roosevelt is preparing to veto the
public building bill if congress don't
pass an anti-injunction bill, and the
senate's mail subsidy provision.
Nav Woods suit against Senator
Plat for divorce has been dismissed, and
she has been arrested on the ground
that she was never married to the SEN
stor.
Bryan says Alabama primaries were
a victory over the trusts.
Senator DENLY, of Louisiana, has been
e-elected by the legislature.
The republican national convention
will open each day with prayer.
A federal grand jury has begun an
Investigation of the New York cotton
exchange.
Night riders continue to do much
lamage by burning tobacco barns in
kentucky.
A man has been arrested in Chicago
'or obtaining money while posing as a
United States army officer.
Returns from the city election at
Denver indicate that the democratic
for mayor will be elected.
1t is said Bryan will support Culber-
on for the democratic presidential can
lidate if he cannot get the nomination
himself.
The pupils Of one of New York's
chools have been appointed sergeants ,
o report misconduct by the regular ,
,atrolmen.