The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-03-03
NeWSy Items Gathered from All
Parts Of the World.
PREPARED FOR The BUSY READER
Less Important but Not Less Inter-
esting Happenings from Points
Outside the State.


Rioting against royalty en'ed the
carinvival week at Lisbon.
Hartman is to address the Texas
legislature on railroad laws.
The Balkan trouble is about to prove
too much for the powers to untangle.
Heney's fees for prosecuting the
Oregon land frauds amounted to $685.
600.
Great Britain has provided for an
increase of about 100, 900 men in the
army.
Senator Fulton will in all probability
be appointed as the new Federal judge |
for Oregon.
The butterine and storage house of |
the Swift Packing company at Chicago
was destroyed by fire.
The plan of keeping half of the navy
on the Pacific has been left to the dis
cretion Of the president.
The pope is not enjoying the best of
health and public audiences have been
discontinued for the present.
All members of Roosevelt's cabinet
who will not continue IN Office have
completed plans for private life.
Three holdup men accused of the
theft of as cents have been sent to the
penitentiary for life by Chicago judge
and jury.
Senator Root has denounced anti-Jap
agitators and canal muckrakers.
Taft has declared for prompt tariff
revision and the creation of commits
sion later.
A man horsewhipped Billy Sunday at
Springfield, H., for using vile language
before women.
A million dollar corporation has been
formed to manage the discoveries of
the wizard Luther Burbank.
Won Buelow has warned Russia that
If she helps Servia against Austria
Germany will fight for Austria.
Seismographs in various parts of the
world have recorded another severe
earthquake. 1t is thought have been
in South America.
The battleship fleet has begun to dis
perse to the various Atlantic navy
yards and the work of overhauling the
vessels will begin at once.
Important reductions in freight rates
throughout the country are to be made
by the railroads. In most cases the
advances made in January are to be
annulled.
The United States revenue cutter
Mohawk struck the rocks off He'll Gate
at the entrance to New York harbor.
A bad leak was sprung but the vessel
may be saved.
Hartman has just celebrated his
6lst birthday.
Riotous suffragettes have been sent
to Jail in London.
A direct primary law is to be rushed
through the Colorado legiulature.
Oklahoma is accused of reviving
secession document in new form.
Lucky" Baldwin is seriously il
and his physicians say he cannot sur
vive.
The railroad right of way up tn,
Deschutes river is being held up by tn,
reclamation service.
A Salt Lake man committed suicid,
by filling basin with chloroform anC
immersing his head.
Following the cut in freight rates b,
the Hartman line of steamships, raj
lines may reduce their charges.
Professor Lowell, of the Lowell
Ariz., observatory, says the earth viii
collide with an unknown dark planet
but cannot give the date.
A suspect has been arrested at Ia
coma in connection with the Portlan,
East Side bank robbery. The bank wa,
held up several months ago and sl7, ,O0t
secured.
The international Opium conference
at its session in Shanghai. expressed
the fear that with the restricted trafii,
in opium morphine would become
popular drug.
II has developed that the late Cover
nor Sparks lost all his property in be
ing elected governor and trying to b,
elected United States senator. H,
was once rated as one of the wealth
lest men in the state.
Bryan is preparing for old age b,
buying Texas fruit ranch.
The Calhoun jury at San Francisc,
has not yet been completed.
Encroachments of Russia on Chin,
in Manchuria are increasing.
The Pacific Mail Steamship eompan,
has made heavy cut in all east bounc
freight rates.
Five counties of Indiana have voted
dry. One hundred and forty-three sa.
looms are put out of business.