Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-29
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.

Prize scores OF grand opera worm
$50, 900 were stolen in New York.
"Jack the Slasher" is again at work
in San Francisco, slashing .women's
dresses.
Missionaries in China are calling for
relief for 8, 200, 900 natives left starv-
ing by floods.
A woman's club at Eli, Neb., has
declared that baldheaded men make
much the best husbands.
Railroads are making every effort to.
settle the controversy with conductors
and trainmen regarding a raise in
wages.
A Los Angeles iron plant, involved
in wage controversy and strike, was
partially wrecked by dynamite ex-
plosion.
Senator Curtiss, of Kansas, seeks
harmony and will propose Governor
Stubbs for vice president in 1912,
with Taft for reelection.
The compromise offered by Commits
sioner of Labor Neill is accepted by
both sides and the threatened strike of
$1,000 locomotive engineers is averted.
Aviator Hoxsey, at Los Angeles,
reached an altitude of 7 7,299 feet and
disappeared toward sea. He next ap-
peared by diving through cloud over
the aviation grounds.
The commission form of government
is proving a great success at Baker, Or.
An explosion in the Little Hutton
colliery at Bolton, England, entombed
230 miners.
Russia is aroused over the numerous
attacks on the Cossecks by Chinese in
Manehuria.
About 90 Philadelphia fremen and
police were killed by falling walls at
fire in that city.
Robert s. Lovett, successor to E. II.
Hartman, favors government super
vision of railroads.
Fire at Cincinnati destroyed one of
the best blocks in the city, causing
a loss of abou $2,000,000.
Government officials believe that
fraudulent refunds on sugar exports at
New York will reach millions of dollars.
Customs officials are holding goods
valued at 100000 imported by Duveen
Bros, art dealers, of New York, for
alleged differentiation.
st. Johns, Newfoundland, expert
enced one of the worst storms in many
years, and it is feared many coasting
vessels are lost.
James T. Harahan has resigned the
presidency of the Illinois Central and
will be succeeded by c. II. Markham,
formerly of the s. P.
A shipment of oysters from New
Jersey will be seized upon arrival at
San Francisco They are reported to
have been taken from polluted waters.
An insurance expert says New York
CITY is at the mercy of the fire fiend,
should some accident burst a water
main and start fire at the same
time.
After lying unconscious for IS months
a Greek laborer in Portland, who had
been injured by a blow on the head,
was relieved by a surgical operation,
and is now recovering.
United States authorities seized
large consignment Of tomato paste in
San Francisco. The stuff was shipped
from New York and is said to contain
large quantities of decomposed vege-
table matter.
A Trenton, N. j., burglar, cropping in
the dark for valuables, was caught IN
a steel trap.
Considerable opposition to the exon
Grafton of Senator Lorimer has devel-
oped in the senate.
A Pasadena, Cal, millionaire viii con-
struct the finest office building on the
Coast in Portland.
The lifeboat of the lifesaving crew
at Roekaway Beach, N. Y, turned turtle |
and two of the crew are missing.
A San Jose, Cal, lawyer will wed the
daughter of one of his clients who has
been sentenced to a term at San Quen-
tin.
Customs authorities have discovered
an oil painting believed to be a famous
masterpiece stolen in Berlin some years
ago.
A Mexican government supply train
and 500 men have been trapped in the
mountains by revolutionists and cap
tured.
A Dayton, Wash, duck hunter car
ried a charge Of buekshot in his thigh
for a week before he would consent to
call a surgeon.
With a gift Of $1O,OOO,OOO John D.
Rockefeller has completed his aid to the
University Of Chicago. He has given
about s35 100000 to the institution.
The new lift span bridge at Portland
is thrown open to the public.
Karl Hagenbach, the animal show
man. is not dead, as reported.
Ayeona appeals to the people Of the
United States to protest against Diaz
alleged tyranny.
The railroad machinists' strike in
st. Louis has been settled, the men
receiving more pay.
The commercial and labor orgsniza-
tions are planning TO drive loan
shsrksr ont Of Chicago.