The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-07-16

children as its victims.
A California couple was married il
an automobile in an effort to find som,
rovel way.
The English house of lords does no
favor the conscription plan of increas
ing the army.
Nationalists are in full control o.
Teheran and have summoned the Per
sian parliiment.
Following Roosevelt's policy, Taf
has withdrawn a number of water site,
on public domain in the West.
Secretary BaIlinger denies that h,
has quarreled with Secretary Wilson
and says their relations are the best
The commanders of Adana are to be
court martialled for alleged compl city
in the Armenian massacres of last
April.
Two trunks, said to contain the books
of Heinze and the United Copper com.
pany, have been seized by government
officials.
A man has been sentenced TO serve
seven years at San Quentin for his
many marriages. He admits having
been united to about 20 women during
the past three years.
Floods around Kansas City have de
layed mails.
Trouble in Kansas may tie up 3s coal
mines, and thros 5000 men out.
A tornado near Danville, ILL.,, did
considerable damage to property.
The chances of Thaw being freed
from the insane asylum now seem good
Persian re els have entered Teheran
and there has been much fighting in
the streets.
An explosion on the cruiser North
Carolina killed Ensign Aiken and
blinded anOth,r man.
Taft and congress leaders have
agreed TO reduce the corporation tax
from per cent to per cent
A cloudburst Mt Orizaba, Mexico,
drowned 100 natives. The property
loss will reach $500, 900.
Castro has renounced all claius to
the pres dency of Venezuela, but war Is
TO return home 30 that he may die on
native soil.
A French woman is in America Offer.
ing TO sell one OF her 20 titles. She
says sh" needs the money and has been
Offered $500, 900, but wants million
Heat in Texas is causing much suf-
fering.
Two arrests have been made in Chi
cago for bomb throwing.
w. ID. Conner will try TO secure La
Folette's seat in the senate.
Immigration officials are at FL Paso,
Tex, inquiring into Chinese smuggling.
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and three
children are at Naples, on their way to
Rome.
T.. +. Calvin, the Southern Pacific
officer, is not yet out of danger, but is
doing well.
Bryan says the time is at hand for
all states 10 act in the ratification of
the income tax.
A Detroit woman has confessed mis-
deeds in order to save her husband
from the gallows.
Canadian officials say the report is
false that the bars are to be let down
to Chinese immigration.
Flood conditions along the Missouri
and Kansas rivers have improved but
little and much Apprehension is felt.
NJ. Sakao, president If the Japanese
sugar company, committed suicide
when convicted of grating by the gov.
ernment
The Austro- o-HIungarian union is again
menaced.
Prince Miguel. son of the Portuguese
pretender, is TO marry an American
woman. +.
English suffragettes have succeeded
in reaching Premier Asquith with their
petition.
Ambassador Reid has given a dinner {
and dance TO the king and queen of q
England. Z
Bolivians have mobbed the Argen- ,
line legation at La Paz. because of an
adverse arbitration ruling.
There is an immense building in
:rease in Chicago. At the present rate !
1909 will show gain of 90 per cent '
,ver 1908. a
Hundreds of new cases of cholera a
ire appearing daily In ST. Petersburg. /.
A vigilance committee at Los Ange- q
es prevented the elopement of white II
woman with negro. The colored man :
vas horsewhipped. a
John ID. Rockefeller has given ar
'ther $40. 900. 900 20 the General Eau-
alton board The hoard now has an