Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-08-19
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS D0INGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

SIdNI dtldChS OIl tLe opohiSh ioi 70.
The uncertainty of the wheat market
will cause storage of much of the Cali
fornia crop.
There is serious difference between
Great Britain and her colonies on the
naval policy.
The Rock Island railroad has placed
an order for 5000 freight cars and so
locomotives.
The powers will send fleet to Crete
to force the removal of the Greek flag
and prevent Turkish attack.
A storm in Chicago caused three
deaths by drowning and number of
injuries. The property loss is heavy.
An explosion on Russian submarine
boat caused injury to IA men, one IA
tally. The vessel was American built.
Millionaire Bradbury, of San Rafael,
CAL, sentenced to serve term in the
penitentiary for perjury, has received
a reprieve, bput will have to serve 80
days in the county Jail.
The shah of Persia is married. He
is IL years old.
There are rumblings of revolution
in Northern Mexico.
A hot wave in London has been the
cause of many deaths.
Wholesale executions and fghing
have been renewed at Barcelona.
Thaw has been given a few days
respite before returning to the insane
asylum.
Almost the entire town of Milton,
Del, has been destroyed by fire. The
loss will reach 100000.
johnson Porter says there is room
along the Deschutes for two railroads,
each having double tracks.
Greece will ask the advice of the
powers before answering the last note
of Turkey on the Crete affair.
Mrs. Parkhurst, the English suffrag-
cite leader, will soon visit the United
States and deliver sreies of lectures.
Rioting has occurred at Stockholm,
Sweden, in connection with the strike.
Dynamite has been used to blow up
street cars.
William K. Payne, son of the house
leader. has been appointed deputy assis-
tant attorney general at salary OF
$4,000 year.
Minister WI, of China, has been re-
called.
The earnings of the Northern Pacific
show an increase of $250,G00 over last
year.
An Evanston, ILL.,, tailor has had q
diamond set in the nail of his little
finger.
A New York girl is the first Ameri-
can woman to own her own balloon for
use as pleasure.
Porter Brothers are further causing
Hartman contractors trouble in the
Deschutes by hiring their men.
In a battle between dock laborers
and police at Fort William, Ont, "a
men were injured, three fatally.
The court has decided that Thaw is
still insane and must be returned to
the asylum. An appeal will be taken.
Fifteen people were more or less SER
iously injured by an electric car run
ming off bridge at Vancouver, B. G..
China has sent note to Japan in
which the mikado's policy regarding
the railroad rights is called unjustified
aggression.
Richard Carlin, who confesses to
having been burglar for seven years,
has told the New York police that there
is no profit in the business.
Colonel Albert A. Pope, the auuomo-
bile manufacturers, is dead.
The town of Monticello, N. Y, has
been almost completely destroyed by
fire.
Taft has cut Madison, Wis, from his
itinerary in order to avoid meeting La
Folletet.
OUlc6rS anu men Ol Ine C1ulSer OI.
Louis are suspected of smuggling goods
from Samoa.
Six chiaIdren are dead at Reading,
Pa, because they were attended only
by witch doctors.
The famous Kiel canal of Germany
has been temporarily blocked by the
sinking of a steamer.
A French aeronaut has crossed the
Alps in balloon. The highest altitude
attained was 1888 feet.
Samuel R. Van SAINT will probably
be elected commander-in-chief of the
G. A. r. and Atlantic City selected as
the next meeting place.
English cablegrams say that Ameri-
can iron and steel manufacturers have
placed lagre orders for the immediate
shipment of ireclsy brick for the erec-
tion of many additional blast furnaces.