Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-08
DOINGS 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.

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death of over 1,400 persons.
Hop harvest has begun in many
yards in the Northwest, but pickers are
scarce.
Two Cinnamon were shot down in
San Francisco at the reopening of a
tong war.
William Barnes, Jr., political leader
of Albany, N. Y, makes fierce attack
ON Roosevelt.
Complete reports show that 131 per-
sons sacrificed their lives to the 1910
Fourth of July celebration.
A whale and two sea lions became
entangled in big fishing net near
Cape Flattery and will probably be
drowned.
Joseph A. Holmes, of the U. S. geo.
logical survey, has. been appointed di-
rector of the new bureau of mines at
Washington.
Roosevelt says the United States is
the best place to live in. He also de-
clares the Panama canal should be
well fortified.
Many widows in Chicago claim that
Ritcher, who was associated with
Banker Walsh in his defalcation, has
swindled them out of sums aggregating
100000.
The steamer Watson went on reef
near Cape Flattery at 11:15 at night,
but no trouble was experienced in trans
ferring her 80 passengers and entire
crew to another steamer, and all were
saved.
In the fight for higher freight rates,
the railroads may turn on shippers.
A Federal grand jury will investigate
violations of the corrupt practices act.
Three prisoners in an Iowa Jail beat
the sheriff into insensibility and es-
capped.
A Placerville, Cal, man while blowing
in his orchard, has gathered gold mug
gets ranging in value from 81 to $119.
A Danish Count is said to be working
with pick and shovel in Tacoma. He
is heir to the throne and vast fortunes.
Isaac W. Hallam, aged 81 years, is
dead at Wilmington, Del. He has been
a Western Union operator continuously
for over 50 years.
The chicago school board has decided
to admit adult foreigners to the public
schools, provided they are of good
moral character and vouched for by
someone known to some member of the
board.
Two collisions between motorcycles
and carriages occurred in San Bernar-
dino, Cal, within a few minutes of each
other. One man is dead, four badly
injured, both machines and both buggies
wrecked, and three horses will have to
be shot.
A logging locomotive at Dunsmuir,
Cal, got beyond control and dashed
down a four-mile grade, the terrific
speed heating several boxes so that they
finally stopped the engine just in time
to prevent it from plunging through
the sawmill buildings.
A gale is sweeping the Texas gulf
coast and government launch is mis-
sing.
Sir Wilfred Laurier, of Canada, will
aid in the improvement of the Upper
Columbia rivera
The emperor and empress of Russia
have arrived safely in Friedberg, Ger
many, on visit.
Senator DolIiver, of Iowa, insists
that Roosevelt will be the insurgent
candidate for president in 1912.
Three cars were wrecked by dyna-
mite and four persons injured in the
streetcar strike at Columbus, o.
The cholera scare in Berlin has
greatly subsidized, and physicians de-
clare that it is not cholera at all.
C. F. Libby, president of the Maine
Bar association, denounces the election
of senators by direct vote, and also op-
poses the income tax.
A lone highwayman held up the
stage between Ash, Wash, and Shep-
herd Springs, and secured about $3.50
from the three passengers and the
driver.
The failure Of the Fidelity National
bank of Cincinnati, % years ago, is
about to be investigated by Chicago
men, who claim the failure was caused
by run purposely started by a rival
house.
Major Henry Reed Rathbone, who
was an aide to President Lincoln and
received stab wound in.trying to save
the life Of his chief on the night of the
assassination, is near deaths door in
ward of the asylum at Hildersheim,
Germany, of which he has long been
an inmate.
A bi-plane carrying five passengers
and the driver made a successful flight
in France.
Cotton sold for zoe on the New York
stock..msrket. the highest price since
the civil war.
Kaiser William explains his relation
to God as being the same as any other
good Christian.
Rioting continues in the street car
strike at Columbus, Ohio, and SO ar
rests have been made.
Colonel Roosevelt severely eriticiz-
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