Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-05-07
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National. Political, His
torical and Commercial.


with broken neck.
Hoodlums are suspected of blow
ing up the passenger train at Butte.
Grover Cleveland is reported as
improving from his protracted i'll
ness.
Portland police are still unable to
locate the murderer Of Pawnbroker
Wolf.
The dowager empress of Russia is
visiting with Queen Alexandra of
England.
A petition is being circulated at
Gary, Ind, for the closing of the 110
saloons of the town.
Bishop Potter, of New York, is
much improved and expects to re-
sumo his duties in few days.
Bank robbers demolished the safe
of the Farmers bank, at Teyon,
Okla, secured $500 and escaped.
A San Francisco woman who died
recently had secret recess made in
a table leg where her valuables were
concealed.
A money order clerk in the Chi
cago Office of the Wells Fargo Ex-
press company is accused of en-
bezzling $4,000.
The battleship fleet when pass
ing the principal points between San
Francisco and Seattle will slow
short stops.
Robert Watchorn, the immigra-
tion official, says only one-third of
the Italian emigrants come to the
United States, the rest going to
South America.
Five bodies have been taken from
the ruins of the Chicago Reduction
stroyed by fire. Five more are be-
lieved to be in the ruins.
A jury has been secured to try
Ruef and the case has begun.
The Arkansas Republican state
convention has declared for prohibi-
ton.
An exploding boiler tube on a
British battleship injured five men
severely.
1t is practically certain that Ad-
at San Francisco.
Four expeditions are en- route to
Western states to look for fossils
of prehistoric animals.
Chinese authorities are making
great preparations to welcome the
Amarinan hatf1ochiD floot
Young King Manuel of Portugal,
will be closely guarded when he
goes to attend the opening of the
Cortes.
A collision between limited trolley
cars near Detroit caused the death of
eight men and serious injury of four
others.
A British torpedo boat destroyer
was run down and sunk by a scout
boat and sunk during night maneu-
vers. All hands escaped except the
engineer.
The editor of La Questione So
ciale, the anarchist paper suppressed
on recommendation of the president,
will be indicted by the grand jury of
Paterson, N. Y.
After several years of warfare
with the street car companies, the
city of Cleveland, O., has acquired
control of all it's lines, and carried
all passengers free for one day in
celebration Of the event.
Vancouver, B. c., had a $4,000 |
fire in sash and door factory.
The sentencing of ]. Thorburn
Ross has been postponed for 80 days.
Admiral Evans has changed his
mind and will not resume command ,
of the fleet until May 5.
Richard Croker says the campaign
against gambling is all wrong; that
life itself is but a gamble.
China has made an urgent protest
against the extension of japanese
influence from Corea toward China
Over three weeks have been spent
trying to secure a jury to try Abe
Ruef, and only nine jurors have been
secured.
A Hungarian anarchist has been
arrested in Colorado, after being fol-
lowed for 10000 miles by European
detectives.
A man in Grass Valley, Cal, play !
ed burglar to frighten his father.
The father believed 1t was a burglar
and shot him dead.
Art collectors of New York have
that for years they have Y
been Systematically swindled by an {
art dealer and an artist.
The visit of the battleship fleet at
Santa Barbara was a dismal failure, J
he people seeming to care for moth o
ng but to make money. 7
Several hundred striking miners -.
n Pennsylvania have returned to :,
work to save the mine from perma- =
lent destruction by water.
J. Dalzell Brown, ex-banker of
San Francisco, has pleaded guilty to
and been sentenced to
s months Imprisonment. He will .
irst be used as a witness against I
wo others.
San Francisco shipowners are cut 4
ing freight rates to the Orient in m
n attempt to drive out tramp steam ci
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