The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-04-07
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.

the population at 255, 900.
There is Civil war veteran living
in Missouri who is 110 years old.
Fire at Dallas, Tex, destroyed
property worth $25O,OOO, nearly all
residences.
A big Chicago grain brokerage COM
pany has failed because of the advanc-
ing wheat market.
Canadian miners on strike believe
the fuel shortage will force the mine
owners to give in.
Students of Ruskin college, Oxford,
England, have struck against the re-
moval of the principal.
Admiral Cervera, one of the Spanish
naval commanders during the war
with the United States, is dead.
There is a report that Fairbanks has
been offered the ambassadorship to
Great Britain, but he refuses to discuss
the proposition.
Philip Caine, cousin of the novel;
ist, is dead. He had existed for years
by selling shoe laces, ignorant of the
fact that he was heir to $50, 900.
Roosevelt and party have arrived
at Gibraltar.
A contest is imminent on the estate
of Lucky" Baldwin.
Roosevelt denies that an attempt was
made on his life while crossing the
ocean.
The leader of Chicago Black Hand
society has been trapped and informed
on his confederates.
A New York broker has been arrest
ed for swindling investors out of $780,
900 in mining stocks.
The French government may make
formal protest against some of the pro-
visions of the tariff bill.
It is said Hartman will make chang
es in the Union Pacific line and invade
the Burlington's territory.
President Eliot, of Harvard univers-
ity, has declined the appointment of
ambassador to Gceat Britain.
Every coal mine in Western Canada,
except the Crows Nest collieries, are
tied up by strike of the miners.
One hundred and fifty thousand Chi
cago women have signed petition
protesting against higher duties on
gloves.
King Victor will meet Roosevelt on
an Italian warship.
Thousands of men are going to the
newly discovered gold fields near Phoe-
nix, Ariz.
Professional gamblers are giving
officers of the transatlantic liners
great trouble.
A Baltimore clerk, only 26 years of
age, has been arrested for embezzling
$1,000 from the city.
Hartman says the government
should set the states an example by
repeating repressive railroad laws.
Most Of the oil wells in Oklahoma
will shut down for four months on ac-
count OF overproduction and adverse
state laws.
General Kuroki, commander of the
first Japanese army in the field against
Russia, has retired, owing to the ex-
piration of his military term.
Statistics show that convictions for
drunkenness have increased 164 per
cent throughout the Dominion Of Can
ada during the past 10 years.
Paris students. who had been sent to
prison for misdemeanor, took revenge
on the convicting officer by sending
400 wagon loads of merchandise to his
home.
Only two men are needed to complete
the Calhoun jury.
Indians in revolt in Mexico are
spreading terror.
French manufacturers are alarmed at
the Payne tariff bill.
A great mass meeting in London
called for big navy.
I Russia is retiring the older generals
to promote young men.
1t is reported that Castro will 60 tc
Colon instead Of Venezuela.
The Panhandle district of Texas has
just had the worst storm of the winter
Ex-Secretary of State Owen, of In
diana, has been arrested for gigantic
frauds.
The government is worried about th'
reception that will be accorded the JaI
warships at San Francisco.
A Union Pacific passenger train hi
slide near Ogden and two trainmel
lost their lives and five cars were burn
ed. Not passenger was injured.
Fear that the stroke Of "piano play
ers' cramp' may disable him for life
Paderewski has cancelled all engage
ments in this country and gone ;
Europe.