The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-07-09
Missouri crops have suffered greatly
from the heavy rains.

Missouri crops have suffered great
from the heavy rains.
Nine men we're killed by an explosio
of gas in coal mine near Trinidad
Colo.
The mission steamer Adler is miss
ing in the Arctic ocean with 10 per
sons.
The American Sugar Refining com
pany says it is not guilty of violating
the antitrust laws.
Wheat has been damaged in Nevad
by the extreme cold weather. Ie
formed in many places.
Damage from rain is reported from
many points in Nebraska. At 0mahs
part of the streetcar system is out o
commission.
Railroad bLOckades in various parts
of Colorado, due to heavy rains, have
delayed more than 1000 delegates Il
conventions i'm the West.
Latest reports of accidents due e
Fourth of July celebrations show II
dead and 2,774 injured. This is one,
half less than last years record.
After seven years of legal delays,
John A. Benson, convicted at San Fran,
cisco of conspir;ng to defraud the gov
ernment Of land, has been sent to pris.
on to serve his sentence of one year.
English suffragettes will appeal d.
rect to the king.
Burglars opened a Los Angeles safe
and secured So, 700.
All railroads leading into the Mexi-
can capital are tied up by floods.
A California boy carried up in the
ropes of balloon came down I'M
harmed.
Storms in Colorado have done dam
age estimated at $500, 900 and railroad
traffic is demoralized.
Jap leaders in the Hawaiian planta-
tion trouble have been arrested for kid
naping strikebreakers.
A suit has been started in Oklahoma
to settle claim to some town lots in
which there are /, 400 defendants.
What is claimed to be the largest
flag in the world was unfurled at Pitts
burg the Fourth. II is lS0 feet long
and 80 feet wide.
L. T.. Calvin, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Southern Pacific,
is critically i'll in San Francisco and
his recovery is doubtful.
Many infants are dying in Chicago
as the result Of the intense heat.
Artesian wells are being sunk in
Cape Colony at the rate of l, 400
year.
Seismologists have figured out that
earthquakes travel at rates varying
from 470 to $50 feet per second.
Grand Duke William, of Luxem-
bourg. is seriously i'll. His successor
to the crown is his daughter, l5 years
old.
A farmer and his entire family of
wife, three daughters and son drown
ed while fishing near their home at
Wellington, Colo.
The American Geographical society
has accepted Mrs. Coils p. Hunting
toms gift of a $3.50, 900 site for a new
building ut New York.
At the 5Oth annual commencement
Of the University of Wisconsin one of
the class of 1859 was present and gave
the class yell of that year.
The two battleships authorized by
the last congress will carry heavier
batteries than any other warships
atloat or ordered by any nation.
The United States Steel corporation
will endeavor to prevent its employees
from using liquor. especially while ON
the property of the corporation.
II has been demonstrated that the
blue rays from mercury vapor lamps
kill bacteria and steriliZe water in
which the lamps are placed without
appreeiably increasing its temperature.
A landslide at Newport. England,
resulted in the death Of 90 laborers.
King Alfonso. of Spain, has under
gone slight operation. which proved
successful.
A thief in London grabbed handbag
containing $500, 900 in jewels and made |
his escape.
While the temperature in the East |
has greatly moderated. there is still
much suffering.
Russian and Chinese officials have
clashed because the latter insists on
her treaty rights.
Many British officials fear an upris-
ing in India.
A prominent Australian merchant
says his country would help the United
States fight Japan.
The greatest American fleet ever
is TO engage in maneuvers
on the Atlantic coast.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has been indicted at Cincinnati
for helping a bucketshop to do busi-
hess.