Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-11-19
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOlNGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

The Chinese dowager empress is NOR
tally ill.,
Roosevelt denounces Haas crime and
applauds Heney
A race between balloons from the
Pacific to the Atlantic is about to be
attempted
1t is estimated that General Gomez
has been elected president of Cuba by
majority of $4,000.
The death OF the Chinese emperor has
been confirmed The regent appointed
is friend of reform.
Prince de Sagan and his American
wife have already tired of each other,
and may secure divorce.
Ruef's trial will be continued by vol
unteer lawyers Some of the best of
San Francisco have offered their serv-
ices.
Mrs Conger, widow of the late am
bassador to China, says there is not like
ly to be any uprising following the death
of the emperor.
A wealthy Montana man, who has
just died, provided in his will that if any
women present themselves claiming to
be his wife, each shall be given ST..
Texas has declared a quarantine
against smallpox, yellow fever, cholera
typhoid fever, bubonic plague or other
communicable diseases. Other COM
municable diseases" is understood to
mean tuberculosis.
Denver has almost zero weather
The anti-gambling war is again on
in Reno.
Won Buelow is to present an ulti
matus to the kaiser.
Roosevelt says there will be no
slaughter of game on his trip to Al |
rlca.
Samuel Gompers will be reelected
president of the American Federation
OF Labor.
A New York delivery company con-
templates tubes for the delivery OF
packages.
German miners blame managers for
the recent disaster in which 800 men
lost their lives.
The United States Steel corporation
will spend S5,50O,O0O in increasing the
capacity of its plants.
For the first time in the history Of
the San Francisco mint, pennies and
nickels are to be coined there.
The emperor of China is reported
dead; the empress dowager dying, and
+ba
tinies of the Flowery Kingdom.
District Attorney Langdon declares
Heney is a martyr to the public, and
says prosecutions will continue de-
spite the attempted assassination.
The election Of Gomez in Cuba is
almost certain. The election is the
first step toward again turning the
island republic over to the people.
San Francisco has voted for munich
pal waterworks.
Liberals are expected to win in the
Cuban elections.
Castro has finished his preparations
for war with Holland.
Six Chinese were drowned in Niagara
falls while trying to smuggle into the
United States
A German military balloon hit a tree
and fell into the Baltic sea. The occu-
pants were rescued. +
The fate of Chancellor Won Buelow !
depends on the kaiser's acceptance of :
pledge to keep quiet.
Charles NJ. Schwab, the steel man,
says real pleasure is not to be found in :
palaces, but among hammers and ,,
whistles.
A Philadelphia boarding house has |
been blown up by Black Hand members :
because one of the occupants refused {
to give up $1,000.
Members of the board of supervisors
of Schenectady, n. Y, have resigned
at the call Of citizens. Thev are '
charged with grating.
Federal officials who are investigat-
ing the Standard Oil company are look I
ing for man who "borrowed - s. ,50O,- c
900 from the company. +
The house committee has begun its I
tariff revision inquiries.
Roosevelt says he will not run for a
the senate from New York. S
A committee OF San Francisco citi- /
zens is to inquire into delay of graft
trials.
Five persons were killed by an ex-
plosiOn on steamer near North Bay,
Ontario. u
An automobile collided with a train a
near Red Bluff, Cal, and four per- a
sons were killed. $
A student at a Cleveland, Ohio, uni v
versity has been driven insane by
imagined hazing. y
Morse. the bank wrecker, has been !.
denied bail and will have to stay in =
jail until his appeal is heard. !,
A seat in the New York stock ex-
change has just sold for $S5,O0O A
week ago this same seat brought
$4,000 :
Mount Robson, Canada, is claimed a
10 be the highest peak in the Rockies. h
All attempts TO stop the fire burning s
It the Dos Bocas, Mexico, oil wells [
have been abandoned. The oil is a
lowing at the rate of 100000 gal It
ons day. K