Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-03-05

A nun has eloped from an Iowa con-
vent and married.
The Missouri Pacific has closed its
shops at Sedalia, Mo.
Two submarine torpedo boats will be
sent to the Philippines.
The fight on Harriman's control of
the Illinois Central has been resumed.
A California girl is paying her way
through the state university by raising
bees.
The battleship feet has started on
the last stage of its journey to Magda-
lena bay.
Naval officers who have criticized our
warships will be given hearing before
the senate committee.
Unknown warships have been sighted
off the Hawaiian islands and the peo-
pie fear they are Japanese.
Kentucky Democrats may avenge
themselves for the election OF a Re-
publican senator by carrying prohibl-
tion.
The railroads are making a strong
plea of poverty to the Interstate Com
merce commission as q reason for post
poning the 9-hour law.
Thomas A. Edison is slightly i'm
proved.
Six accomplices of Alio murderer
of the Denver priest have been ar
rested.
Hartman has declared an extra
dividend of SIS per share on o. X. &
N. stock.
BY an explosion in a mine at San
Jose de Sabinas, Mexico, rs men
were killed.
Investigation into the Pennsylva-
mia capitol graft is bringing further
graft to light.
The president has asked the Ore
gon delegation in congress to choose
another district attorney.
The bombs thrown at the shah OF
Persia killed three attendants, but
the shah escaped unhurt.
An attempt was made to assassi-
nate the president of Argentina, but
the bomb failed to explode.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
dropped for the present the idea OF
reducing pay of its telegraphers.
The British house of commons has
passed the woman suffrage bill. Ihe
scene of action will now be trans
ferred to the house Of lords.
Thomas A. Edison's recovery
seems doubtful.
The senate committee may revive
the Brownson-RiXey controversy.
Northern Pacific telegraphers
have rejected reduction OF wages.
Roosevelt has called for a new
recommendation for Oregon district
attorney.
Heavy buying of merchants from
New York wholesalers shows a re-
turn of prosperity.
Los Angeles police have arrested
four men and a woman who had
planned to dynamite bank.
A tobacco warehouse near Frank
fort, Ky, containing 10000 pounds
of tobacco has been burned.
Railroads are pleading with the
interstate commerce commission for
delay in enforcing the nine hour law.
Charges against Jerome, district
attorney for New York, cause many
demands to be made for his re-
mOval.
The president has submitted a
number of treaties to the senate that
were approved by The Hague peace
conference.
Governor Toole, of Montana, |
whose resignation, on account or Ill
health takes effect April l, is in Los
Angeles.
1t is estimated that over $4,000 |
900 will have been paid by New York |
patrons of opera before the present |
season ends in April.
The senate committee has ap-
proved the dismissal of the negro
troops engaged in the Brownsville
riot in August, 1906.
Having been left an annuity Of
$4,000 a year as long as he remains
in college and lives in a college dor
mitory, w. c. B. Kemp has contrived
to remain at Columbia university,
New York, 27 years without grad
uating.
Four mail clerks were injured in a
train wreck near Flovilla, Ga.
Work is about to begin in New York
on building for the various Irish So
cieties.
Sixteen persons were injured, five
seriously, by the derailment of car on
the scenic railway at one of Denver's
amusement parks.
Mrs. Yerkes, widow OF Charles I.
Yerkes, intends to devote portion CT
her $40, 900, 900 estate to the erection
OF a hospital in New York.
A man disguised as a girl obtained
employment in the st. Louis telephone
Office and was only discovered when he
proposed to one of the girls.