Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-11-26
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS D0INGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-NationaI, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

ington, is much worse.
Kaiser Wilhelm's last speech was
prepared by his ministers.
A steamer blew up on the lower Mis-
sissippi river, killing 10 men.
Six missing Montana miners were
crushed to death in mine near Helena.
Hartman is reported to have secured
control of the Wisconsin Central rail
way.
Wreckage from an unknown vessel
is drifting ashore at Vancouver island,
B. C.
Moritz Rosenthal, chief counsel for
the Standard Oil, gets salary of ST.
900 day.
Admiral Sperry has refused to let the
cews of the fleet land at Manila be-
cause of the recent outbreak of cholera.
At the inquest Mrs. Haas testified
that she did not give her husband the
revolver with which he committed sui
eide and knew nothing about it.
Officials of the Mare Island navy
yard have received orders to repair the
gunboat Bennington. This is the YES
sci on which the explosion occurred
four years ago when 81 men were
killed.
A gas explosion at Redding. Cal.
injured four persons and caused an
earthquake panic.
Russia will make an attempt to Sc
Wright aeroplane.
Railroads are preparing to substi-
tute telephones for telegraph in the
dispatching OF trains.
Los Angeles business men have pc
ttioned the president to keep the
batteship fleet in the Pacific.
The inquest on Haas failed to solve
the mystery of how he got the revol-
yer with which he shot himself.
German statesmen are trying to
calm the agitation against the kaiser.
Won Buelow is anxious to retire.
The official returns have just been
compiled in Missouri on the presi
dental vote Taft received ,915
and Bryan $3.50.
Judgment has just been given rail
roads against Cook county, Illinois,
for 100000 damages caused by the
strike riots of 1894.
The Iowa supreme court has just
decided that the football year ends
with Thanksgiving. A trainer was
suing for salary on broken contract.
Pacific coast hopmen want higher
tariff on hops.
English financiers are anxious to
get Philippine railway bonds
Germany doubts the kaiser's SINGER
ity and the agitation to restrict his
power continues.
The last edict OF the dowager en- ,
press of China was an order for re-
forms to continue ,
Admiral Evans has become presi ;
dent OF a new steamship company {
with its home office in Los Angeles. t
Governor elect Shallenberger OF
Nebraska sustained a broken ankle !
while being initiated into the Shriners,
Co-education has been condemned
at the university of Glasgow There is
too much flirting, say the college Of c
ficers. j
There is a bitter feud on in San g
Francisco between the police depart r
ment and sheriff's office over the sui i
eide OF Haas. t
Warlike Moros are gathering for an q
attack on peaceful natives. Five com o
panes OF infantry have been sent to L
disperse them. t
A Ruef bribery witness committed I
suicide while on his way from France v
to Queenstown. He had been in Eu- t
rope to escape arrest.
Peter Won VHssingen, the Chicago
real estate man who confessed to
forgeries, got away with more than K
81, 100000 according to investigators. "
Taft will form an entirely new cab Z
met u
Prince and Princess de Sagan deny =
hey intend to separate. Y
Two men lost their lives in Kansas O.
City by a gas explosion. h
Roosevelt gave a dinner to labor r'
eaders, judges and government Of II
icials.
Heney is improving so rapidly that
le expects to be back at work in
ew weeks. re
The new dowager empress Of China b.
las been forced by threats to submit fl
0 the regent. in
Claus A. Spreckles advocated free ~ ~
ugar before the house committee on III
evision of the tariff. II
re
Street car robbers got s25 and two al
-atches from Portland car men as
ay for their latest act.
The famous old Lookout inn. on
he crest of Lookout mountain. Ten VI
essee, has been destroyed by fire vel
A government warehouse at New ne
ork caught fire and fully $4,000 tr
orth OF tents, blankets and other MI
Ipplies were destroyed. XII