Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
YEAR 1907 LEAVESk
RECORD OF DISASTER
Natural Phehomena and Direful
Accident Furnish Long Lists
of Dead.
EP1ToME OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
Recent Financial Disturbanco-Okla.
homa q State-Fine and Gift
of Millions.

| of Millions.
The chronicler who scans the record
Of 1907 that he may write Of 1t finds
himself confronted by an exhibit OF
destruction and disaster that he had
not fully appreciated before. Since the
opening day of the year the great ca
| tastrophes that have been accompan-
led by large loss Of life have numbered
20, an average Of slightly more than
two for each month. Several OF these
have been great commissions Of nature.
There was the earthquake that destroy
ed Kingston, Jamaica, out OF which
came the disagreeable Swettenham in
cldent; subsequently occurred other
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions In
Mexico, Chile and China. An earth
quake and mountain slide that de-
stroyed the town of Karatagh, Russian
Turk snuffed out $4,000 lives, and
a frightful typhoon at Hongkong,
China, killed unknown hundreds Of the
inhabitants. A hurricane In the Caro-
line Islands wiped out 200 lives; a
great food in Japan caused GOO deaths.
Among the catastrophes originating in
the operations and enterprises Of hui
manity there have been explosions
several Of them in mines, others In
blast furnaces and on shipboard-col-
lisions of ships and Of railway trains,
the collapse Of the great uncompleted
bridge over the ST. Lawrence river
near Quebec. and the blowing up Of
the Du Pont powder works in Fonta-
net, Ind. All these produced long cas-
ualty lists.
The roll Of eminent dead is also an
extensive one. Sweden has lately been
called upon to mourn the decease Of its
beloved king, Oscar H., and his son
and successor has assumed the reins
Of government. In Persia, also, the
old Shah has died and new one rules.
Not death, but abdicadon has also
changed the governmental head In
Korea. Politics, art, science, letters,
and the platform have each paid It's
toll to death in the loss Of some fore
most representatives. Among the names
| may be recorded those Of former Pres
ldent M. Casimir Perler Of France,
Senators Morgan, Pettus and Alger,
| Galusha A. Grow, James H. Eckels,
Maurice Grau, Richard Mansfield, Jo-
seph Joachim, Edward Grieg, James
McGranahan, Col. VIII s. Hayes, Prof.
Alexander S. Herschel. Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, DR.. John Watson Clan Mac
laren), Theodore Tilton, Mrs. Mary j.
Holmes, Francis Murphy and Mrs.
Helen NJ. Cougar. Mrs. VIM. McKin-
ley and John Alexander Dowie are also
in the list Of the well-known dead.
A financial disturbance of widespread
F, influence has made Itself felt during
the last three months of 1907
The number Of States in the Union
has been increased to 46 by the ad-
| mission Of Oklahoma.
That modern minds are not appalled,
| by large amounts Is shown by two Of
the years transactions. The Standard
! Oil Company has been fined 9,00O,-
600 by Chicago judge, and John d.
Rockefeller has made donations Of $50,
100000 to educational projects.
Two great expositions have been
held That at jamestown, Va, did not
receive the patronage expected and Is
| In the hands of a receiver. The other
| was in Greater Louisville, Ky.
A public work Of vast magniture was
| begun when Mayor Mcclellan of New
| York broke ground for the cOnstruc-
ton Of the great Catskill aqueduct
| which in a few years is to convey to
the metropolis an lnexhaustlble supply
| of pure water.
The Harry Thaw trial in New York
and the general strike Of telegraphers
| the country over were subjects Of much
interest to the public while they con-
| tinued.
The principal happenings Of 1907 are
briefly given below:
JANUARY.
2-Wreck on Rock Island near Vol
land Kansas, kills 35 persons. .Chas
VI. Floyd, Republican, elected Governor
| of New Hampshire by Legislature.
5-Bomb thrown in Fourth Street Ma
tional bank, Philadelphia.
S-Death of Shah of Persia.
9-James Cullen lynched In Charles
| City. Iowa Gen. Vladimir Pavloff as
sassinated in st. Petersburg. :. 80 miners
killed by explosion in Pittsburg blast fur
| mace.
1O-Typhoon in Philippines kills 1OC
persons.
11-Fire near Strassburg, Germany
causes 20 deaths. 81 100000 fire in
Lancaster, Pa.
14-Earthquake destroys Kingston, ia
| uaica.
1o-Sixty lives lost in two Big -Four
railroad wrecks in Indiana. Moham
med Ali Mira crowned Shah Of Persia
! Admiral Davis and American squad
ron sent away from Kingston, Jamaica
By Gov. Swettenham.
| 2O-Death of Josiah Flynt Willard
trnmp and author. England apologies
for Swettenham incident.
| 23-Twenty miners killed by explosion
near Primero, Colo. Thaw trial begins
In New York.
24-Death of Senator R. A. Alger Of
Michigan.
as-Explosions In mine near saar-