Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-04-01
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS D0lNGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers-National Political, His
torical and Commercial.

Austria demands the abandonment O.
Servian claims.
The Illinois senatorial deadlock re
mains unbroken.
More than 0,O00 aliens arrived il
New York one day last week.
Ten persons were injured and severa
buildings damaged by an explosion OF
gas at Pittsburg.
Iron workers in Pennsylvania con.
template strike because their wages
have been reduced.
Naval Constructor Evans, of the
Mare Island navy Yard, says fleet is
needed on the Pacific coast.
1t is said that Hill and Hartman
have settled the controversy over the
Portland terminals and big improve
ments are to be made.
An explosion in the plant of the Illi-
nois Steel company at Joliet, ILL.,, re-
suited in the death of four men and the
fatal injury of six others.
Mrs. Boyles, one of the principals in
the Whitla kidnapping, made desperate
attempt to escape by jumping from a
train, but was seized in time by officers.
Officers for the graft prosecution in
San Francisco raided the offices of the
United Railroads and secured valuable
papers which had been stolen. A num-
ber of arrests have been made.
Charles w. Fairbanks is visiting in
Southern California.
The volcano of Izalco. Salvador, is
showing increased activity.
All Middle West railroads have de-
cided to restore the Scent fare.
The Iowa Legislature has voted down
an absolute bank guarantee bill.
Twenty-Five Russian political pris-
oners have been condemned to death.
Senator Depew says Roosevelt loved
his job as president and regretted hav-
ing to leave.
The government is testing rifle
equipped with an electric light which
enables aim. to be taken at night.
Canada proposes to build dread
naught or two and turn them over to
the mother country should the neces-
sity arise.
In the recall election for mayor of
Los Angeles, George Alexander re-
ceived about 2, 900 votes more that his
nearest competitor.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalini, of Hawaii,
who has been to Washington in the in
terests of her claim against the gov
eminent, is hopeful that her visit has
not been in vain.
Castro says he will start revolu-
tion on arrival in Venezuela.
Physicians have abandoned hope of
saving the life of Madame Modjeska.
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, wife of the
tobacco magnate, committed suicide in
Washington.
Coalition in the German reichstag is
broken and Chancellor Won Buelow's
power is again tottering.
The Colorado legislature has modi
fed the direct primary measure by
adding the convention plan.
The Whitla kidnapers have been in
dicted in Ohio, but will be turned over
to Pennsylvania for prosecution.
The speaker of the Nevada house &C
cuses the senate of fraud in connection
with the report on defunct bank.
Porto Rican delegates to congress
say tariff has ruined the coffee industry
and that self government is farce.
A Russian woman has been arrested
who, during the past 80 years, has rid
800 women of troublesome husbands.
Prince George, of Servia, has re-
nounced his rights to the throne, fol-
lowing newspaper charges of murder.
The Whitla boy has identified his
kidnapers and the house where he was
kept.
Carnegie proposes an Anglo-Ameri
can alliance.
New York and New Jersey receive
reform measures with apathy.
One of the severest billiards of the
year has just swept Oklahoma.
1t is expected that worlds fair
will be held in Panama in 1912, the
year the canal is expected to be
opened.
1t is reported that Brewster, Kan,
has been struck by tornado, but wires
are down and nothing definite can be
learned.
The governor of Nevada has signed
a banking bill which is compromise
on the guranarantee plan of Oklahoma.
San Francisco police have arrested
five men, believed to be the most des-
perate gang of safe crackers that ever
operated in that city.
Burglars shot patrolman at Pueblo
when about to be caught.
Castro has left Germany for Bor-
deaux, where he will embark for Vene-
zuela.