Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-07
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DO|NGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-NationaI, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

The Italian earthquake will not af
feet the fruit trade.
Heney says Hartman is behind al
San Franciso grafters.
Local option people expect that 6
large part of Indiana will go dry this
year.
All hope of American Consul Cheney
having escaped the earthquake has beer
given up.
Lack of funds may cause the investi.
CATION of New York's financial condi.
tion to stop.
Night riers of Tennessee made ar
unsuccessful attempt to kill Attorney
General Caldwell.
A Japanese steamer was wrecked
off the coast of China and the surviv-
ors murdered by Chinese.
Roosevelt has cabled the Italian gov
ernment offering the use of the battle
ship feet, which is near there.
Poisoned candy has been sent through
the mails to two families at Denver.
The police are entirely at sea.
Roosevelt has sent two cargoes of
supplies to the earthquake sutft rers
and will ask congress to give $500, 900.
All lines of the Milwaukee road have
been reorganized under the name of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railroad company.
Heney says he is not seeking public
Office.
The Italian governmen has reduced
relief work to a system.
The first step in restoring independ-
ence in Cuba has been taken.
A volcano at sea and field of boil
ing water is reported off the coast of
Georgia.
Ex-Consul Price, of the United
States, and his entire family perished
in the earthquake.
The Baltimore water front had fire
which for time threatened the entire
district. The damage is placed at
5000, 600.
The Chinese imperial railway has
displaced almost all foreign employees
and hereafter the road will be operated
. by natives.
The government has secured evidence
that meat packers have been soliciting
rebates from railroads in the form of
damage claims.
The Hamburg-American steamship
line is preparing for direct line from
Europe to the Pacific coast through
the Panama canal.
Every state and city in the United
States, led by the government, has
hastened to raise relief funds for the
stricken earthquake sufferers.
Postmasters' throughout Great Brit
ain have started paying old age pen
sions, by which the government will
distribute $35, 600, 900 annually.
Venezuelan students burned Castro
in effigy.
All nations are hurrying aid to the
Italian earthquake sufferers.
For a second time vandals have loot
ed jewish temple at San Francisco.
Cracksmen broke into the Fowler,
CAL, postoffice safe and secured 81, 300.
The number of deaths in the Blue
field, w. Va, mine disaster may reach
so.
All cities in California have Joined
in protest against the new freight
rates.
The government has secured substan-
tial evidence against the beef trust at
Chicago.
The Pioneer Flour mill at Sacramento
has been destroyed by fire of incendi-
ary origin.
Count Boni has lost control of his
children, the court awarding them to
the mother.
James A. Finch has been convicted
at Portland of murder in the first de-
gree for killing Ralph Fisher.
Two men held up a Rose Ciy park
car at Portland and secured $40, escap-
ing by taking the car. They were
later arrested.
The Chicago police department and
the Law and Order league have joined
hands in a crusade to prevent society
women from gambling.
Claus Spreckles left an estate valued
at about $50 100000.
The Yaqui Indians and the Mexican
government have arranged terms OF
peace.
Cosgrove has improved so much
that he has seen several callers.
A movement has been started in Ok
lahoma to disfranchise negroes.
The county treasurer at Woon-
socket, s. D., was robbed of $4,000.
An Austrian scientist believes the
greater part of Sicily will sink beneath
the sea.
A blizzard in England has tied up
railroad traffic. Several persons have