Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-08-11
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.

Cuba faces a crlslS IN her pollClcal
affairs.
Chinese and Portuguese forces have
captured the pirate city of Colowan,
island of Macao.
The American Federation of Labor
has endorsed the platform of Socialism
at meeting held in Chicago.
Mine "tailings" worth 81 to the
ton in gold have been used to lay ce-
ment walks in Jacksonville, Ore.
Nine persons were injured, two of
them perhaps fatally, in runaway of
a picnic wagon near Oswego, Ore.
A Missouri convict says he can solve
all numerical equations by logarithms,
and demands pardon for his discov-
cry.
A 5-year-old boy in Chicago was
badly injured by thoroughbred game
rooster. He was unconscious when
rescued.
The royal family of Italy has con-
sented to the marriage of the Duke of
Abruzzi to Miss Catherine Elkins,
daugher of Senator Elkins.
A spontaneous explosion in corn
products manufacturing plant at Gran
ite City, Ill.,, wrecked the building and
killed two men and badly injured seven
others.
The lighthouse keeper at point
above Vancouver, B. c., by making
three trips in his lifeboat, saved the
passengers and crew of small excur-
sion boat which went on the rocks in
a fog.
A noted Japanese historian predicts
war with America as absolutely GER
tain.
A pleasure yacht at Santa Cruz, CAL,
is missing with 20 young people on
board.
Government agents find evidence of
wholesale liquor traffic with Indians on
5elitz reservation.
Ex-President Zelaya, of Nicaragua,
is held to be an active supporter of the
revolutionary movement.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma, claims
he was offered $4,000 to $50, to
put certain legislation through con-
gress.
The Japanese expedition to the
South Pole, which was to have started
this month, has been postponed for |
lack of funds.
A Montana stage driver is under ar
rest for horse stealing and his wife is
driving in his place, SO as not to de-
lay the mails.
Rockefeller and the Standard Oil |
company have been sued for $3.50, 600 |
by private oil interests, who claim the
monolopy has caused them to lose that
amount.
An "orhpaned" humming bird no
larger than a humble bee is being
raised by hand on four drops of honey
every two hours, by parties at Pull
man, Washington.
A forest fire was seen to start near
Anaconda, Mont, from sparks from a
passing locomotive, but before it could
be reached it was beyond control, and
has burned over 500 acres.
Five sailors on a Great Lakes ore
steamer mutinied and planned to attack
a party of women guests on board.
They were placed in irons and now find
themselves subject to fine, imprison-
ment, or death, under the marine laws.
Politicians would force Ballinger out
of the cabinet.
Another big bribe scandal has devel-
oped in the Illinois legislature.
Only three buildings now remain in
the burned town of Hoover, Oregon.
The order of Eagles is said to have
lost large sum through grating Of
its national officers.
Eastern business men have COM
bined to force the express companies
to grant lower rates.
Many thousand acres of government
land in the Northwest will be thrown
open to settlement this fall.
The Reform league of Chicago as
serts that millions of dollars worth of
property evades paying its just taxes.
The revenue cutter Perry is ashore
on a reef of the Pribyloff islands, in
Behring sea, and has been abandoned
as a total loss.
Three cruisers which cost the gov
ernment S8, 500, 900 exclusive Of arma-
ment few years ago, are now 'consid-
cred entirely out-of-date and practi-
cally worthless. One is the Brooklyn,
Admiral Schley's flagship during the
Spanish-American war.
The time limit has expired for the
extradition of Porter Charlton, who
murdered his wife in Italy, and as he
is safe in America it is likely he will
never be brought to trial.
An aeroplanist in Brussels reached
height of $50 feet.
Locomotive engineers on IS Western
railroads will ask for a raise.
A detective has sued the estate of
Lucky" Baldwin for alleged services
pondarad