Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-12-08
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.

The election campaign in England is
marked by radical change of policy
by the Tories.
Disastrous storms have swept the
Philippines, killing many natives and
doing great property damage.
General Wesley Merritt, commander
of the land forces in the Philippines
during the Spanish war, is dead.
1t is said President Taft is making
every effort to bring about peace be-
tween the different Republican fac
tions.
A clairvoyant medium in San Fran
cisco has been sentenced to five years
Imprisonment for swindling a patron
out of $3.50.
Robert E. Davis, aged 20, known as
the ''boy broker" of New York, has
disappeared with several hundred
thousand dollars belonging to investors.
Kyrle Bellew, noted actor, will fit
up large steamer with complete
theater and make a world tour, cover
ing three years, carrying two theatri-
cal companies.
The Chicago garment workers
strike has finally reached the point of
arbitration, and a settlement has been
reached with one of the largest cloth
ing manufacturing concerns.
A Spokane anti-suffragist will give
cooking lessons to young men.
The Navy department opened bids
for two new Dreadnaughts, one to cost
$5,760,0 900.
President Diaz was again Inaugural
ted as president of Mexico. This is
his eighth term.
1t is reported that the Mexican reb-
els have control of 200 miles of coun-
try and many important towns.
The New York express drivers
strike has been settled, the men win
ming all but the closed shop principle.
A private yacht drawing II feet of
water navagated the Panama canal !
from the Atlantic side as far as the !
big Gatun dam.
Two girl strikebreakers in the gar il
ment workers strike in Chicago were t
brutally beaten by two men and ones a
purse was taken. a
Chicago garment workers have no !.
faith in Mayor Busse's efforts to effect =, -
a settlement, and are preparing for an =
indefinite struggle.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the
president, made her debut in Washing =
ton society at brillinat reception in y
her honor at the White House.
The Pullman company has offered
20 per cent reduction in the price of tn
berths, but the Interstate Commerce re
commission says that is not sufficient 81
reduction. fiji
A big rush is expected among Spo- g,
kane women when the registration ;+
books open. -
Madero's brother says the Mexican
revolt is gaining and that President ed
Diaz is badly scared. in
A bank at Bath. Me-, has failed on "a "a
account of competition, after az years AZ AZ
u successful career. n ~.
The German leather industry is en- on
langered by the high price of the
American hide supply. da
Austria refuses to discontinue dis SCI
against American oil and oe
is products and diplomatic conflict un
s on. en-
Louis Brandeis, Of Boston, asserts wo
hat American railroads could save ST.
100, 900 day by scientific manage
1ent.
The proposed river and harbor bill his
0 be placed before the coming session as
congress carries appropriations ag- II.
$50, 900, 900. the
Rate experts testifying on behalf of exE
nippers before the Interstate Com llv'
lerce commission declare the proposed He
ate increases were unjust and unfairly tnl
attributed. eig
The report of the Washington state Mir
Oard of control on the insane asylum 1os,
lows that the cost of living has in mir
'eased out of all proportion to the in
ease in wages.
Mexican rebels at Chihuahua have Y
zen reinforced and a big battle is ex- arm
ected. shol
The commission form of government Jap
Is failed to cut down municipal ex- lI1 lllin
,nses in Tacoma. sui
perC
The physical valuation of railroads the
believed to be a long step towards wor
gulation of rates. aug
com
In a suburb Of Berlin 2, 500, 600 gal ball
rs of benzine exploded. No one was
lied, but the property loss is $780,
0. u
A theatrical magnste Of Baltimore Chic
s given 800, 600 to build a hospital les
d industrial home for crippled chill Two
silvs
The government has begun a second circl
sperate fight against the sugar trust, one
lsisting of nearly 80 separate con- easil
ms. to pi