Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-05-12
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.


uation in England.
A season of 20 weeks of grand opera
in New York cost the managers ST.
100,O0 yet they made money.
John A. Benson, who had served
time for land frauds in California,
dropped dead from heart disease.
Roosevelt will not be entertained at
the German emperor's palace, as that
government is in mourning for King
Edward.
Spectators caught betting on the ball
games at Los Angeles are elected from
the grounds. The manager believes
the game would be demoralized.
King George V, who now ascends the
throne of England, made a good inn
preston by his brief speech upon TAX
ing the oath, and his people express
great confidence in him.
A compromise has been reached on
the exposition question between San
Diego and San Francisco. The former
will hold an industrial exposition and
the latter worlds fair.
An Illinois grand juror says if they
want to paint the state black, he will
help all he can, and has no doubt it can
be done, as legislative bribery scandals
are growing all the time.
A Philadelphia policeman rescued
three children from death under the
hoofs of the horses in chariot race at
a circus, but was himself fatally in
jured and died soon after.
A brother of DR.. Cook says he is a
physical wreck, and is living near a
sanitarium, under the care of its ply
sicians, but has never been in South
America, as was reported.
King Edward is seriously i'll with
bronchitis.
The theatrical trust of Klaw & Es-
langer is declared to be broken up.
1t is estimated that 80 per cent of
the shingle mills of the Northwest are
idle.
James ]. Hill has announced defin-
itely that new passenger depot will
be built in Portland for his lines.
An explosion in No. 8 coal mine at
Palos, Alabama, entombed about 200
men. Bodies are being recovered.
Four hundred striking miners at
Pittsburg, Kansas, wrecked several
coal mines and drove away the men
who were at work.
The pure food commissioner of Lou
isiana has condemned and ordered des-
troyed thousands of cases of canned
salmon that was put up on the Colum-
bia river.
Cartago, the picturesque and ancient
capital of Costa Rica, has been almost
entirely destroyed by an earthquake.
At least 500 persons were killed and
as many more injured.
Speaking in the National theater at
Christiana, Norway, Roosevelt gave
hope of universal peace and reverenced
the name of the gerat Norwegian poet
Bjornson, who died recently. .
In order to avoid a collision with an
other car containing a number of wo-
men, Los Angeles auto driver turned
his own car into the curb and was
killed in the smash which followed.
An excellent photograph of Halley's
comet has been taken at Lick observa-
tory, in California. The comet is now
plainly visible about 8 80 a. m. about
10 degrees above the eastern horizon.
Two French counts exchanged six
shots in duel and neither was hit.
A daughter of Richard Crocker, ex-
Tammany boss, married groom in a
riding academy.
Mark Twain left all his property to
his only surviving daughter. He left
about s18O,OOO.
The jury returned verdict of muir
der in the second degree for Charles
Weller, Tacoma murderer.
A second man has been found who
received 81, 900 tor voting for Lorimer,
of Missouri, for u. S. senator.
The New York state legislature fail
ed by one vote to pass l resolution en-
dorsing the Federal income tax.
The police chief of Council Bluffs,
Ia, has been ousted by the courts for
completely in the Maybrsy fake fight
frauds.
Woman suffragists will campaign |
the entire state of Illinois during the
summer in an effort to carry the fall
elections.
President Taft eulogizes Secretary |
Knox and his work.
Ninety bakers in Victoria, B. c., are
on strike and the city is about out Of
bread.
A raid on gambling houses in Sc
attic revealed all kinds Of games in
full swing.
A Mexican multi-milliOnaire, who is
dying in San Antonio, Texas, has sum
moned his children, grandchildren and |
great grandchildren to the number Of
los. A small hotel has been leased
for them.