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

An Illinois legislator admits receiv
ing 81, 900 to vote for Lorimer for U
S. senator.
Patten and his friends on the Chi
cago cotton exchange cleaned up $500,
600 in one day.
Witnesses state conclusively tha
Swope, the St. Louis millionaire, was
killed by violent poison.
One person was killed, two fatally
injured and about Is others hurt in {
street car collision in Seattle.
British Democracy has forced the
Lords to pass the budget which was de-
feated last fall, and expects further
triumphs.
Portland is much worked up over the
alleged carelessness of census takers.
1t is claimed that at least $4,000 per-
sons in the city were not counted.
Speaker Cannon declares the minor
ity rules the house and that such rule
must be stopped, even if it becomes
necessary to change the constitution.
A rich rancher of Elk City, Idaho,
has not been heard from since he went
hunting March 7, and two men who
went in search of him two weeks ago
have not returned.
President Taft, speaking at Buffalo,
apologized to the state of New York
and congratulated the entire nation up
on the appointment of Governor
Hughes to the Supreme court.
Negotiations for about 280 locomo-
tives and 5, 1000 to 5000 freight cars,
which the Hartman lines expected to
purchase, are retarded because of ina
bility to secure satisfactory terms.
The Indiana Democratic convention
has endorsed John W. Kern for U. S.
senator.
The New York stock market is de-
moralized, everyone trying to sell to
avoid loss.
Charles Weller, confessed murderer
of Mrs. Schultz at Gig Harbor, seeks a
second degree verdict.
Amid wild enthusiasm, San Fran
cisco business men subscribed $4,000,-
600 for their 1915 fair.
Ruth Bryan's first husband, Leavett,
says her second marriage will be IL
legal and that he will fight it.
Rockefeller is discouraged at the de-
lay in securing national charter for
his great philanthropic project.
An insane young man aged 10 shot
and seriously wounded three persons
in New York and then committed sui
eide.
Newspaper publishers in the East
see famine in paper unless congress
passes the Mann bill removing the duty
on pulp and paper.
A cod fishing schooner from San
Francisco is reported lost with several
members of her crew. She has been
missing since last October.
The bridge of the Milwaukee road
over the Yakima river was destroyed
by a washout and an engine and five
cars of lumber went into the river.
About fifty acres of ground, piled rs
feet high with lumber in the yards of
the Humbird Lumber company at Sand
Point, Idaho, were swept by fire, des-
troying about 100000 worth of lum-
Der.
Peary is off for Europe on lecture
tour.
A negro leader and % followers have
been arrested in Havana for melting
revolt.
Reports place the damage by Chin
ese mobs in recent riots at Changsha
at 1000, 900.
Lawyers of Reno, Nevada, seek to
disbar one of their number who adver-
tises a specially of easy divorces.
Two hundred girls at Cornell college,
New York, are seriously i'll from pto-
maine poisoning caused by impure
milk.
Edward Keaton, aged 11O, living
near Natchez, La, was bitten by
but the doctors say he will
recover.
A jury has been chosen to try F.
August Heinze, accused of misapply-
ng funds of the Merchants bank, of
New York.
A huge Russian bear in the New
York Zoo turned on its keeper and
nearly tore him to pieces before he
vas rescued.
The heirs of Mrs. Octavia Adelaide
Moss, a rich New York woman, are |
laving hard time finding her wealth, {
which was hidden about her house in
ecret places known only to herself. !
Cotton seed in the South is now
worth $50 ton.
A New York girl committed suicide ,
n the beach at Naples, Italy.
Thirty-six hundred miners of Phoen-
< and Greenwood, B. C., are on strike.
500, 900 subscribed for a Lincoln
funnd 40 years ago is lost
nd cannot be located.
Governor Hughes Of New York, has I
cen appointed associate justice Of the 8
-nited States Supreme court. Ia