Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-12-03
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.


voted out saloons.
European nations approve the Amer
ican-J Japanese treaty.
A high official of Germany says the
Balkan situation is gloomy.
Great Britain is alarmed at the
growth of the revolution in India.
The head of the St. Petersburg po.
lice is to be prosecuted for grating.
Russia and Italy are said to have
signed a secret treaty on the Balkan
situation.
Haytian rebels have routed the gov
ernment forces and are marching on
the capital.
Los Angeles school girls are to re-
ceive regular instruction in getting off
and on street cars.
An explosion in coal mine near
Pittsburg caused the death of 275 men
who were at work in the mine.
Holland refuses to negotiate with
Venezuela, saying that government
must first recall its hostile decree.
A Chinese official now in this coun-
try says that in 10 years there will be
none of his countrymen in Canada or
the United States.
Reports from various states show
that at least so persons have been
killed this season by being mistaken
for deer, bear and the like
Admiral Capps says the navy needs
more colliers.
Austria declares she will crush Ser
via if need be.
Andrew Carnegie has just celebrated
his 73d birthday.
Austria threatens war with Turkey
unless she comes to terms.
Cholera has again broken out in
Russia and is causing much alarm.
If Austria and Turkey should fight,
Bulgaria would probably invade Mace
donia.
A steamer struck a reef off the
island of Luzon and 100 Filipinos were
drowned.
Taft has offered Frank H. Hitchcock
the position of postmaster general. He
will accept.
Kaiser Wilhelm, who has been suf-
fering from nervous collapse, is re-
covering.
Italians in California fought des-
perate battle with dynamite, knives
and guns. Two men will die.
The national organization of loco
motive engineers will build 1,000,-
900 labor temple at Chicago.
It is reported that Montenegro has
mounted heavy batteries on the heights
commanding Cattaro, one of Austria's
commercial seaports.
Holland is much interested in Cas-
tro's visit to Europe.
Heney is so far recovered that he
took an auto ride Thanksgiving day.
A storm off the California coast
caused all vessels to run for shelter.
An effort will be made in Tennessee
to arrest the lynchers of three negroes.
A 13-year-old Healdsburg, Cal, boy
shot his step father in defense of his
mother.
Admiral Sperry has granted shore
leave to some of the battleship crews
at Manila.
Assassination and bomb throwing by
Hindu revolutionists have caused ter
ror in India.
Gladstone Dowie, son of the prophet,
denies that he intends to marry or that
he was ever kissed.
Four persons were drowned in a
steamer collision off Sandy Hook. One
of the vessels sunk.
Demonstrations at Rome against |
Austria continue and the populace is
in very ugly mood.
A monument to Indiana soldiers who |
died in Andersonville prison has just |
been unveiled by governor Hanley, of
Indiana.
The governors Of Pennsylvania and |
Virginia kidnapped the governor of
Rhode Island while he was on his hon
eymoon trip.
A heavy snow fall is reported
throughout Colorado.
The Morse steamship lines on the
Atlantic coast have been reorganized
A severe electrical disturbance par
alyzed telegraph lines in Illinois, Iowa
and Wisconsin.
Storms have blocked the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific lines in
Montana and North Dakota.
A Occur d'Alene millionaire has an
nounced the purchase of old mines near
Spain, which he will operate
under modern methods.
A Tennessee mob waited until three
negroes had been tried for murder and
sentenced to receive the death penalty
when it took the three from jail and I
lynched them. Ii