Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29
DO|NGS OF THE week
Current Events Of Interest Gathered
From The World at Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.

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Six were killed and IL injured in
trolley car wreck at Upton, Ind.
The Sultan of Sulu has arrived il
New York to study American customs
Bobby Lynch, of Niagara Falls. Ont.
successfully ran the rapids in barrel
Forester Pinchot captured a gian
swordfish at Avalon, off the CaliforniI
coast.
The village of Flippin, KY, was
wiped off the map by a terrific winC
and rain storm.
A strike has been begun in New
York City which will affect 125, ,00C
bricklayers and workers in kindred
trades.
A woman claiming to be the legal
widow of Lucky" Baldwin. has
brought suit to break the will of the
deceased millionaire.
A French countess has arrived in
New York to bestow an estate of many
millions upon her American grand
daughter, whom she has just discover
ed living in Pittsburg.
A veteran of the Boer war, unable
to support his wife and baby, attempt
ed suicide with the same revolver
which had saved his life in battle, but
the bullets failed to make a mortal
wound.
1t is said the Illinois Republican
convention will endorse Taft and ig-
more Lorimer.
John F. Gilman was elected COM
mander-in chief of the Grand Army for
the ensuing year.
Roosevelt predicts complete rout
of the "Old Guard" at the Republican
state convention at Saratoga, N. Y.
During the recent forest fires in
Washington photograph was picked
up by the wind and carried six miles.
An international Cancellation board
has been organized in San Francisco
and in future it will decide all labor
differences.
John B. Ryan, a New York multi
millionaire, offers to build at his own
expense feet of 1000 aeroplanes for
war purposes.
The steamer Mariana, en- route from
Australia to Vancouver, B. c., re-
ceived messages by wireless from an
Alaska station $500 miles distant.
The steamer Olson & Mahoney and
the bark McLaurin collided off Point |
Arena, and the bark was badly dam
aged. The steamer towed her into
port at San Francisco.
Testimony before the Interstate
Commerce commission elected the in
formation that the Northwest extern
sion of the Milwaukee road earned $9,-
600, 900 the first eighteen months.
The Electric Bond & Share corpora
tion has absorbed the Hartford Irriga-
tion & Power company of Washington,
and now owns property of this kind in
the Northwest amounting to S95, 5,00O,-
600.
A cat perched in a tree waiting for
birds at Des Monies, pounced upon a
hat worn by woman who
passed underneath. The woman's face
was badly lacerated by the cat before
be discovered his mistake.
Exporters are again buying wheat
for shipment from Coast ports.
Statewide prohibition will be the
slogan of the Idaho Republicans.
The Southern Pacific has advanced
the rate on lumber to San Francisco.
Sever meat dealers at Lawrence,
Mass, were indicted for giving short
weight.
Representative Tawney was defeat
d for denomination at the Minnesota
primaries.
The resignation of Senator Lorimer
rom the Hamilton club, of Chicago, {
las been accepted.
On account of danger from hydro
,hobia, General Funston has ordered
III cats removed from the post at Fort
and all dogs kept Sc
urely tied.
Germany has discarded dirigible bal I
Oons for army use, on account of the /
many accidents that have befallen the ;
zeppelin airships. Aeroplanes will be
sed exclusively.
Stockholders of the o. R. & N. at
heir annual meeting at Salt Lake =
,ity October IL will be asked to in t
rease the capital stock by many mill a
ons. the money to be used in con- Q
tructing a line across Oregon from 1
asst to west.
Taft and Roosevelt held a conference f
nd Taft promised to aid in the New S
'ork campaign. v
A Louisville pastor was forced to re- Z
gn because he INDUCED in baseball
nd other athletic sports.
The attempt to cross the Alps in .,
sroplanes met with failure, though !
ne machine rose 1886 feet.
Evidence of manipulation of stocks Il
, railroads TO hide dividends was il
ought out ct the rate hearing. 81