Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09

brueck, Prussia, kill 300 persons. .1OC
lives lost by typhoon in Hongkong har'
Dor.
29-Ninety miners killed by mine explo-
sion near Thurmond, w. Va.
FEBRUARY.
John ID. Rockefeller makes $50, co.,
900 gift to educational work.
12-2O0 lives lost by sinking of Joy
line steamer Larchmont off Block Island
II l.. Death of ex-Gov. Frank w. Hig-
gins of New York.
1876 persons killed and 100 injured
in train wreck on New York Central in
New York City.
2O-$173,OOO stolen from U. 8. sub
treasury in Chicago.
21-Englsh steamer Berlin goes down
off coast of Holland; 1S0 lives lost. -.
Cornelius J. Shea and associates acquit-
ted of conspiracy in Chicago. Mrs.
Dora Mcdonald shoots and kills Webster
8. Guerin in Chicago.
22@Pennsylvania railroads 1S-hour
flyer wrecked near Johnstown. Pa.
Missouri Legislature adjourned by small
pox scare.
4Fifty-ninth Congress adjourns sine
die. Three changes in Presidents cab
met take effect.
7-Strother brothers In Culpepper, Va,
acquitted of murder under 'unwritten
law"
9-Death Of John Alexander Dowie. -.
Will j. Davis freed of responsibility for
Iroquois theater disaster by Judge Kim
brough of Danvile, Ill.
12-Death of NJ. Casimir Perier. for
mer president Of France. Magazines on
French battleship Jena explode at Toulon,
killing so and injuring 500 persons.
14-Death Of Maurice Grau, impress
saro.
16-Burning of Helicon Hall, Upton
Sinclafr's colony, near Englewood, N. j.
1S-Greater Louisville exposition open
ed.
19-Death of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
22-Many persons killed in riots in
Moldavia.
25-Death Of Alexander Beaubien, first
white male born in Chicago.
31-Death of Galusha A. Grow, former
Congressman from Pennsylvania.
AFh1Ls
2-Chicago elects Fred A. Busse,
Republican, Mayor and approves new
traction ordinance by majority Of 33, 126.
4HHotel fire in San Francisco kills II
persons. Lunacy commission declares
Harry X. Thaw sane.
9-Howard Nicholas and Leonard Leo
pold convicted of murder of Mrs. Mar
garet Leslie in Chicago
11-Lord Cromer, British ruler In
Egypt, resigns.
13-Standard Oil Company convicted
in Illinois court of rebating.
14-Death of James III. Eckels of Chi
cago. . d. . Earthquakes at Chilapa and
Chilpancingo, Mexico.
15-Great Northern's Oriental Limited
derailed by wreckers at Bartlett, n. ID.
16-19-Volcanic eruptions in Chile.
2O-Great fire in native quarter of
Manila.
26-Opening of jamestown (Va.) Ex-
position.
3O-Hurricane in Caroline Islands kills
COO people.
Great loss of life from explosion In
Canton, China.
3-Sir Alexander Swettenham retires
az Governor of Jamaica.
6-Dr. John Watson Clan Maclaren)
dies in Mt Pleasant, Iowa. -. Tornado
wipes out towns of Birthright and Ridge
way, Texas.
1O-Son born to King Alfonso of
Spain.
11-Mystic Shriner special wrecked at
Honda, Cal, and 81 lives lost.
12-Mine fire at Velardena, Mexico,
kills 90 men. :. Earthquake in China
kills 1000 persons.
17-Isaac Stephenson elected United
States Senator from Wisconsin.
25-Death of Theodore Tilton in Paris.
26-Death of Mrs. William Mckinley.
JUNE.
Oscar II. resumes reign as King Of
Sweden.
6-Sudden death of Mrs. Helen NJ.
Cougar.
Fatal and destructive tornado in
Kentucky and southern Illinois and In
diana.
9-Death of Julia Magruder, novelist.
1O-Great strike against government in
wine growing regions of France. 500
lives lost in burning of Chinese theater
in Hongkong.
11-Death of Senator John 7. Morgan
of Alabama.
12-2OO lives lost in hurricane on Caro-
line Islands.
13-Mayor Schmitz Of San Francisco
convicted of extortion.
14-Olympic Theater burns in Chicago.
16-Czar dissolves the Duma.
1S-Death of Prof. Alexander s. Her
schel, English astronomer.
2O-Mayor Mcclellan of New York
breaks first sod for construction of great
Catskill aqueduct.
26-Fire destroys block of buildings ad-
Joining Jamestown exposition.
3O-Death of Francis Murphy, temper
ance evangelist.
3-Fatal windstorm sweeps western
Wisconsin.
6-John D. Rockefeller appears as wit
ness in court in Chicago.
Tornado damages Long Pine, Neb.
S+Death of James McGranahan, gos-
pei song writer.
14-Assassination of President Fal-
leres attempted in Paris.
15-Powder explosion on battleship
Georgia kills 8 seamen and Injuries 13.