The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-08-11
NeWSy Items Gathered from All
Parts Of the World.
PREPARED FOR The BUSY EEADER
Less Important but Not Less Inter-
esting Happenings from Points
Outside the State.

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 pasadena
have passed resolutions declaring Bur-
bank fakir.
A California couple returning from
honeymoon abroad have been arrested
for undertaking goods brought home.
Turkey has renewed her threat to
send an armed force into Greece if that
country does not withdraw her troops
from Crete.
The Swedish general strike contin-
ues and leaders aim more men are. to
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 to 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 a Mexican girl by
Chinaman has caused an outbreak at
Zapotlan, Mexico.
Venezuela is about to bring to a
close the disputes with foreign powers
dating from Castro's regime.
A case of Bubonic plague has been
found in Sacramento county, Cal. The
situation is not regarded alarming.
The Chinese government has made
arrangements to install telephone
plant in Pekin with capacity of 200,-
600 lines. The instruments are to be
American make.
Heat is claiming more victims at
Chicago.
Striking bakers at Montreal, Canada,
have caused bread famine.
The Japs have called off their strike
on Hawaiian sugar plantations.
The Stockholm strike is causing a
famine and is spreading throughout
Sweden.
An Oregon woman has been arrested
at Oakland for swindling railroads by
fake injury claims.
Bernard j. Mullaney has declined
Mayor Busse's offer to be chief of po-
lice in Chicago.
One of the four surviving wives of
the Mormon leader Brigham Young, is
dead. She was SO years old.
Three wealthy Los Angeles men
have received demands for money with
death as the penalty for refusal.
Mayor Eby, of Burkeville, Pa, has
been arrested for threatening to dyna-
mite Pennsylvania Railroad trains.
The Illinois board of arbitration is
at work at Chicago and hopes to be
able to settle the streetcar trouble
without strike.
The direct primary law was the
cause Of riot at Indianapolis.
A bronze bust of James j. Hill has
been unveiled at the Seattle fair.
The asylum superintendent and two
experts agree that Thaw is still insane.
In referendum election Scent
street car fares was beaten in Cincin-
natl.
Spanish soldiers at Melilla are said
to have trapped the Moors and routed
them.
Germany is now the only nation op-
posed to giving Americans share In
the Chinese railway loan.
Charles H. Meyer has been reelected
president Of the Western Federation OF
Miners for the eighth time.
Two thousand Cooneyites are await
ing the end Of the world at Dublin,
spending their time in prayer.
A Mississippi preacher has beer
forced to flee for his life because he at.
tended conference Of negro preachers.
Count Zeppelin has made two un.
successful attempts to fly from Frank.
fort to Cologne and each time an acci'
dent caused failure.
Don Jaime, the pretender, says hs
will not take hand in the revolt un
less Alfonso Is unable to handle the
situation and asks his aid.
A labor crisis is fast approaching ii
Sweden.
Great Britain has begun building al
serial navy.