The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-08-13

Colonel Albert A. Pope, the automo
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.
Officers and men Of the cruiser st.
Louis are suspected Of smuggling goods
from Samoa.
Six chialdren 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 steamer.
A French aeronaut has crossed the
Alps in balloon. The highest altitude
attained was 1878 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.
Gorzag, town of 300 inhabitants,
has been selected as the future capital
Of Brazil. Owing to its altitude it en-
joys q pleasant climate.
English cablegrams say that Ameri-
can iron and steel manufacturers have
placed lagre orders for the immediate
shipment of fireclay brick for the erec-
tion Of many additional blast furnaces.
Orville Wright says he can fly 1000
miles in his aeroplane.
The first signs of a break in the
Swedish strike are appearing.
China has yielded TO Japan in the
Antung- -Mukden railway affair.
Count Zeppelin, the German aero
naut, has Undergone an operation for
abscess.
The Milwaukee road will soon estab-
lish through service from st. Paul to
the coast.
Greece refuses to renounce her claim
TO Crete and Austria warns Turkey
against war.
Cannon intends spending the time
until the regular session Of congress
taking rest.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. likes the
air and will apply for pilots license
to go ballooning.
Hartman is to merge the Illinois
Central and New York Central with
the Union Pacific.
Mrs. Harry Thaw wants $500, 900
from the Thaw family purse, but the
price Is considered too high.
A Los Angeles inventor is looking for
wife with money enough to back him
in building flying machine.
The Forty third National encamp-
ment of the G. A. X. is in session at
Salt Lake. Fully $4,000 are in attend
ance.
Mobile, Alabama, 10 now in the list
of "dry" towns.
Spain explains the Barcelona out
break as local affair.
A granddaughter of General Corbin
Is to marry Japanese.
Great Britain is not greatly alarmed
at the Japanese threats on China.
Jerome says Thaw Is still crazy and
should be kept in an insane asylum.
Japan has commenced work on the
Autung railroad in deafince Of China.
California gardeners at Basadens
have passed resolutions declaring Bur
bank fakir.
A California couple returning from
a honeymoon abroad have been arrested
for Undertaking. goods brought home.
Turkey has renewed her threat to
send an armed fierce into Greece il that
country does not withdraw her troops
from Crete.
The Swedish general strike contin-
ues and leaders claim more men are "a
be called out. Two regiments of sol
diers have mutinied.
Japan has sent China an ultimatum
on the railroad situation in Manchuria.
Cleveland. Ohio. officers are having
row over the Whitla kidnapping re-
ward.
Lord Kitchener is 10 be field mar
shal and organize the British colonial
forces
Marriages of pretty cashiers has
caused Los Angeles hotel men TO EN-
ploy men.
The Moors are again showing activ-
ity and another clash with Spanish
troops is expected.
The murder of Mexican girl by a
Chinaman has caused an outbreak at
Zapotlan. Mexico.
Venezuela is about 20 bring to q
close the disputes with foreign powers
dating from Castro's regime.
The Chinese government has made
arrangements TO install q telephone
plant in Pekin with a capacity Of 200.
900 lines. The instruments are 10 be
American make.
Heat is claiming more victims at
Chicago.