Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-06-16
OOINGS OF THE week
Current Events Of Interest Gathered
From The World al Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

A free municipal day nursery has
been opened at New Brighton, Eng
land.
Over Is, 900 delegates will stand ir
line to receive Roosevelt upon his ar,
rival in New York.
Charles X. Hamilton flew sever
times around Governors island, New
York harbor, in pouring rain.
A St. Louis multi-millionaire has
decided So, 900, 900 worth of property to
a trade school which he had founded,
keeping only So, 900 year for himself.
The beef trust has again raised the
price of beef in New York. 1t is now
a cent pound higher than when the
people began the boycott gainst it sew
eral weeks ago.
A company has been organized in
London to make business of recover
ing cash, bullion and other valuables
from the many wrecked ships about the
southern coast of Africa.
A dog in Oroville, CAL, makes it his
business to stop runaway horses, and
has succeeded in stopping number of
them. In recognition of his services
the city makes him exempt from taxa
tion or license fee.
A Lincoln, Neb., boy cut the para
chute rope of balloon just as it was
ready to ascend, and leaving the aero
naut on the ground clung to the severed
rope and made a 6,O00-foot fight,
alighting safely in a shallow lake.
A big red touring car containing two
persons plunged over the trestle lead
ing from Portland to the Vancouver
ferry slip at 1870 o'clock at night,
into rs feet of water in the Columbia
slough. The wrecked car has been re-
covered but the bodies cannot be found.
Every building in the town of Hahn's
Peak, Colo, was destroyed by fire.
President Taft announces that he
feels he has made good his promises.
An airship dashed into the grand
stand at Buda Pest, Germany, injuring
many persons.
Texas rangers and other armed
guards are protecting strikebreakers
working on the Gulf road in Texas.
A delegation of Jewish rabbis took
up with the president the question of
the expulsion of Jews from Russian
towns.
Colonel Roosevelt slips quietly away
from London to avoid big sendoff,
and goes for long hike through the
country.
A lone highwayman held up a Texas
passenger train, robbed every person
in the Pullman car, and escaped across
the desert into the mountains.
At Worcester, England, an aeroplane
fell on the spectators, killing one wo-
man and injuring several persons. The
aviator himself was uninjured.
President Taft refused to receive
Representative Harrison as chairman
of a Jewish delegation, because of
criticisms regarding the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy.
The Colorado anti-coercion law en-
acted 20 years ago, which provides
that no employer shall discharge any
employe because he belongs to labor
union or attends union meetings has
been declared invalid by Judge Sulli-
van, of Mesa county. This law is re- !
garded as the strongest in Colorado
for the protection of labor unions and !
has never before been attacked. s
Coreans are planning arevolt against
Japanese land-grabbing. )
L. K. Bernard prophesies that in
two years flying will be as common as {
c
A consolidated band of 112 pieces 5
formed one of the attractions at the
Portland Rose Festival.
Roosevelt made speech in P histor-
ic hall at Oxford, England, and ex-
pressed optimism as to the worlds fu- ?
ture. =
Seattle citizens are aroused against t
the colored regiment OF Y. >. troops
stationed at Fort Lawton, and will re- b
Juest their removal to Alaska. n
A Milwaukee judge says Sunday +
closing in that city cannot be enforced, Il
an overwhelming majority of
public sentiment is against it.
A steeplejsck at FL Paso, Texas, fell
'5 feet from a smokestack which he o.
vas painting and escaped with a dis 81
ocated wrist and a broken rib. e.
Madriz is warned that if he fires a oi
ingle shot at any vessel carrying the te
American flag, his forces will be ami ],
ilated by United States gunboats. it
William D. Crum, colored, of Char ., =,
sston, S. c., has been appointed min II
ster to Liberia. He has held the =,
flee Of collector of the port at Char ~
sston.
A department of public health and
ever medical colleges were the chief q,
oints urged in the opening address Of P,
Dr. William H. Welch, of Baltimore, Ii,
resident of the American Medical A