Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-08-05
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DO|NGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

President Fallieres.
Count Zeppelin has made flight of
220 miles in his airship.
Major Burnham his found evidence
in Mexico of an extinct race.
Governor Shallenberger and party
of so will tour the Pacific coast.
Chicago school authorities are to do
away with high school societies.
A streetcar strike involving every
line in the city threatens Chicago.
The Chinese vice consul in New
York has been murdered by a crazy
Chinaman.
A daring robber held up a Vancou-
yer, B. c., bank in broad day, but Sc
cured only slOO.
Spokane police will overlook the
anti-cigarette law during the National
Irrigation congress.
The king and queen of Great Britain
reviewed the great naval pageant,
which was made up of a line of war
ships seven miles long.
An explosion of gasoline at St. Paul
caused the death of five persons and
the injury of seven others. A four
story building was also destroyed.
Goldfeld, New, mines with a capital
of over $19, 900, 900 have been consoli-
dated.
The anti-Diaz riots in Mexico are
said to have been started by expelled
students.
The French talk of other powers
helping Spain in Morocco, where the
situation is serious.
A Denver man has received de-
mand from blackmailers for $40, 900
with death as an alternative.
Chicago is experiencing the hottest
weather of the year and there are doz-
ems of deaths and prostrations.
A gang which has been systemati-
cally smuggling goods across the line
has been broken up at Vancouver, B. G.
Wright's aeroplane has successfully
passed another government test, max
ing 42h miles an hour with passen-
ger.
The Colombian congress wants to
know why President Reyes left the
country and then sent in his resigna-
tion.
Terror and tragedy are supreme in
Spain. Burning buildings have turned
night into day at Barcelona and it re-
quirs constant vigilance by troops to
prevent further trouble.
A storm off the German coast has
caused great damage to shipping.
The Great Northern is planning sew
eral extensions in Pacific Coast states.
Northwestern senators fought to the
last to secure higher tariff on rate on
lumber.
Another hot wave is spreading over
the East, causing many deaths and
prostrations.
The sugar trust may have to pay
fine of $3.50, 900 for absorbing Penn
sylvania refinery.
A California man has tasted 80 days
and as he does not feel hungry will not
eat until he does.
A Chicago man has figured out that
the Windy City will have population
of 5, 900, 900 in 1910.
A moral crusade has started in Chi
cago and 20 divekeepers have been in
dicted as beginning.
Bleriiot, who successfully crossed
the English channel, is willing to enter
race with the Wright brothers.
The Italian king has announced that
he will send the princes of the royal
blood to visit Italian colonies in North
and South America.
President Rafael Reyes, of Colom-
bia, has resigned.
Crete has raised the Greek flag and
declared independence of Turkey.
The United States Steel corporation
has increased the dividends on its COM
mon stock.
French Socialists have protested
against the proposed visit of the czar
to France.
Colonel Leopold Markbreit, ex-min-
lister to Bolivia and mayor of Cincin-
natl, is dead.
A coal train on the Denver & Rio
Grande ran away in Utah, but the
crew escaped unhurt
The Wright aeroplane has a device
to prevent accidents in case the ma
chine should fall in water.
Senator Stone, of Missouri, has been
arrested at Baltimore for striking a
negro waiter who did not serve the
senator just to suit him.
Tourist travel to the Yellowstone
park is 30 heavy that all hotels are
full and the Oregon Short Line has
stopped traffic to that place temporar-
lily.