Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-05-26
DO|NGS 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.

tai fear OF the cartoonlsts.
A severe wind storm did much daI
age in Clay county, Kansas.
Army engineers approved the pl,
for free government locks at OregC
City.
Jewish families to the number
$50 have been expelled from sever
large cities in Russia.
A hundred-million dollar combine {
Chicago street car lines and termin,
companies is proposed.
1t is said the death of of King Ec
ward leaves Kaiser Wilhelm in muc
more prominent light than formerly.
George Sontag, ex-train robber, des
perado and convict, will lecture on tn
uselessness and folly of life of crime
Count Jacques de Lesseps crossed
the English channel in a Bleriot mono
plane. He intends to return by thu
same method.
Socialists at their national congress
refused to vote at elections where theil
candidates have been eliminated from
the ticket through the commission
form Of city governments.
The Worlds Sunday School conven-
tion at Washington elected President
Taft, Colonel Roosevelt, King George
of England, President Diaz of Mexico,
and W. ]. Bryan as life members.
4 partiy wrecked areoplane was the
only accident that marred the aviation
meet at Sutherlin, Ore.
Firemen on the Delaware, Lack
auwanna & Western have been given
an Increase Of 12 per cent in wages.
A Greeley, Colo, man paid up all
his old debts so he might die with a
clear conscience when the comet came.
Thieves stole a package containing
S32, ,024 from the express office at Oil
City, Pa, while the agent wasn't look
ing.
A woman in San Ana, CAL, went in
sane and another tried to commit suicide
through fear of the coming of the
comet.
George Pepoon, of Northport,
Wash, was found guilty of murder in
the first degree for poisoning his wife
last August,
]. Voliva, former overseer on the
Dowie farm near Chicago, has begun
suit to recover control of the property,
valued at 81, 600, 900,
Many farmers in Wisconsin removed
the lightning rods from their buildings
as a precautionary measure against in
Jury from the effects of the comet.
Twenty-eight bodies have been re-
covered from the ruins of the barracks
at Pinar del Rio, Cuba, which were de-
stroyed by an accidental explosion OF
dynamite.
George Westinghouse has invented
an air-spring for vehicles which will do
away with pneumatic rubber tires,
and reduce the cost of automobiles
about one-half.
The steam schooner J. Marhoffer was
burned off the Oregon coast. She was
beached when the fire was discovered,
and all hands we're saved, but one man
died from exposure.
A pair of scales, exact duplicate of
those used in weighing sugar at the
custom houses, were exhibited in the
sugar fraud trial in New York, and it
was plainly shown how they were
made to weigh nine pounds short on
less than thousand.
Prohibition was defeated in Denver
city elections.
Henry Watterson says "yellow jour
nalism" is causing the press to lose its
hold upon public opinion.
Two dogs at Condor, Ore, were so
badly injured in fight with porcu-
pine that they had to be killed.
A Tacoma man, his wife and daugh-
ter, are critically i'll from eating what
they supposed were mushrooms.
Millions of dollars were secured
from cotton buyers all over the world
by swindlers who used bogus bills of
lading.
A lieutenant and eight men from the
regular army will spend the summer
making maps of the coast about Sea-
side, Oregon.
A millionaire gas manufacturer Of
Illinois has offered extensive financial
aid to the bribery investigations now
in progress there.
Shippers from the Pacific coast to
the East have challenged the railroads
to prove that any necessity exists for
increasing freight rates.
Ignorant aud superstitious people all
over the world are in mortal fear of
the consequences when the tail Of Hal
ley's comet sweeps the earth.
The city Jail at Portland is crowded
with drunks who are celebrating their
last davs before the comet comes. All
holiday records were broken Tuesday
night.
John w. Gates, famous New York
stock market plunger, settles lawsuits
hv filming a coin.