Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-06-03
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.

Troops are said to be plotting new
outbreak at Adana, Turkey.
A Chicago society girl who married
Filipino is said to be hypnotized.
Attempts to resume service on the
Georgia railroad have resulted in riots.
Philadelphia streetcar men have
gone on strike for more pay and regu-
lar hours.
During a fight with Moro bandits
two soldiers were killed and third
fatally hurt.
Girls at the House of Good Shepherd,
Los Angeles, started disturbance and
were taken to Jail.
Four armed Emen entered Seattle
aveneue, New York, restaurant and
held up 20 customers and made their
escape.
The men arrested at Omaha have
been positively identified as the Union
Pacific train robbers and may also be
the Spokane train robbers.
The Northern Pacific and Hartman
lines are both rushing preliminary
work on lines from Missoula through
Lolo pass into the Clearwater, Idaho,
country.
The Presbyterian General assembly
has rejected the pension scheme for
aged ministers and says they should
receive sufficient salary that pensions
would not be needed.
So far Roosevelt has secured Sc ami
mails of % different varieties.
The Illinois house has voted to do
away with capital punishment.
The National Negro American league
denounces Taft's Southern policy.
An assassin attempted to kill the
Chinese grand counsellor at Pekin.
People of the Eastern states can see
the new comet with the naked eye.
A Walla Walla Chinaman tried to
propose to Spokane Japanese girl by
phone.
The strike on the Georgia railroad
has been broken and trains are again
running.
The Isthmian canal commission has
just called for bids on 10000, 900
pounds of dynamite.
The Presbyterian general assembly
has approved a ruling that members
abstain from the use of tobacco.
Pasadena, CAL, has won its suit
against the Sunset Telephone company
and every cable into the city has been
cut.
The North German Lloyd passenger
steamer Princess Alicia grounded while
entering New York harbor. 1t will be
necessary to move the cargo.
A Norwegian has invented process
of writing by wireless.
An Indianapolis man shot and killed
his wife, mistaking her for a burglar.
British Premier Asquith refuses to-
tell whether American naval building
influences the British policy.
Military authorities are considering
the removal of Abdul Hamid to one of
the stands in the Mediterranean.
Records of Los Angeles county, CAL,
show that for every four marriages
since January ! a divorce has been
granted.
A storm off the coast of Bilboa,
Spain, sank over 60 fishing vessels and
it is estimated that no less than loo
fishermen were lost.
James A. Moffat, a director of the
Standard Oil company, will assume the
vice presidency made vacant by the
death Of H. H. Rogers.
While the outlook is discouraging in
some sections, the general conditions
indicate the best wheat crop for the
Northwest in ten wears.
Chicago will not have President Taft
Law the cornerstone of the new city
hall. 1t will cost SIS, 900 and the coun-
Gil feels it cannot afford the expense.
C. S. Cameron, convicted of offering
a bribe to a Pittsburg councilman, has
been sent to prison for two years.
A Georgia negro has been lynched
for wounding a white man.
France is alarmed lest American
competition kill the lace industry.
Two Americans confined in Mexi-
can prison for murder have been liber-
ated.
Tennessee lynchers are to be pun
ished for contempt of the Federal Su-
preme court.
Heney has called on United Railway
employees to testify against Calhoun.
Numerous earthquake shocks have
been felt near Oaxaca, Mexico. A
serious shock is feared.
Astronomers in the East have dis
covered huge comet, which is visible
in the early morning hours.
Wheat, corn and oats have taken an
other advance at Chicago. causing great
excitement. All made new high rec
ords.