Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-01-16
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
forical and Commercial.

on gambling.
Great Britain is alarmed for her nav
al supremacy.
The kaiser advocates the study of
English in Germany.
The fire in the big New York sky
scraper showed an insufficient water
supply.
Mulai Hafd has been proclaimed
sultan of Morocco and he has started a
holy war.
The new Japanese ambassador to the
United States declares that all trouble
will soon be over.
In a mad rush to get seats at the
ater in Barnsley, Eng, 16 children
were trampled to death.
The colors of the American man-of-
war Chesapeake, captured by England
in 1913, have been offered for sale in
London.
General Manager Mohler, of the Un-
ion Pacific, declares the prohibition
wave now sweeping the country will
stop expansive railroad work.
A strike of zoo newsboys in Boston
created quite disturbance. Three po-
lice officers were assaulted, stripped of
their badges and one officer and by
stander seriously injured.
The jury in the Thaw case has been
completed.
The battleship feet has arrived at
Rio Janeiro.
Warsaw, Russia, terrorists are busy
again and the city is in turmoil.
T. G. Becker, of New York, is to
assist Heney in the Oregon land frauds.
France may insist on arbitration be-
tween the United States and Japan to
prevent war.
Alton B. Parker attributes the re-
cent financial panic to Roosevelt's ''at-
tacks on property"
The steamship Aki Maru, from the
Orient, has just arrived in Seattle with
1900 tons of fireworks to be used by
Coast Chinese in celebrating their New
Years.
Heney has been stirred up by the
decision of the Appellate court in the
Schmitz case and says he will push the
other indictments against Ruef and
send him to prison for life.
Four policemen were killed and fire
nearly 80 injured in the burning of
New York skyscraper. The fire started
on the fifth floor of a history building
and the structure is total loss. The
monetary loss is placed at $4,000, 900.
Only seven jurors have been secured
in the Thaw case.
Fire at Green Bay, Wis, caused an
estimated loss of $50, 900.
Fire at Minneapolis destroyed a fur
niture warehouse. Loss $125,0OO.
Abyssinians have captured an Italian
town and exterminated the GARRISON.
Bcnaparte says he will soon start a
suit to dissolve tie Hartman merger.
Rev. Johnston Myers, of Chicago,
has fed more than 1000 hungry men
in four days.
Trains in the new Brooklyn subway
are not we'll patronized and have not
relieved the crush on the bridge.
A large increase of the national guard
Hawaii is urged by the War depart
ment in communication to territorial
authorities.
The round house and other buildings
of the Lake Shore railroad, at Elkhart,
Ind, have been destroyed by fire.
Loss, 1925, 900.
There has been such large reduc- |
tion in the arrivals of immigrants that |
many of the 500 employees at Ellis
island, New York, have nothing to do |
and, a reduction in the force is prob |
able.
Three jurors have been finally ac-
cepted in the Thaw trial.
F. August Heinze has been arrested |
for falsely certifying his brothers.
checks.
New York rent strikers threaten to
burn the tenements II they are forcibly
elected.
Officers Of the Chicago Great West
ern railway deny that receiver will
be asked for their road
A monument has been erected at
Point Iona, CAL, in memory of the
dead OF the Bennington.
New Mexico is working to get a
statehood bill through the senate.
Union with Arizona is not wanted.
Members of the Mineowners' associa-
titon at Goldfeld have agreed to paw
an increased wage to specially skilled
worKmen.
A grand jury has uncovered gross
fraud and graft in the affairs of st.
Joseph, Mo. number of indictments
have been returned against city off,
,ials. l.