Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-10-27
DOINGS OF THE WEEK
Current Events Of Interest Gathered
From The World at Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.


Walter Wellman says he will again
attempt to cross the Atlantic in an
airship.>
One man was killed and two others
injured in the first football game under
new rules at ST. Louis.
Andrew Carnegie has returned from
Europe and appeared very feeble upon
landing from the steamer.
The New Mexico constitutional con-
vention refuses to support the initia-
tive and referendum feature.
Graham White, in Farman biplane,
made over 63 miles in two hours in a
drizzling rain and 27-mile wind.
Dredges on the Panama canal have
uncovered an ancient galleon buried in
20 feet of sand 800 feet from the beach
line.
Federal officers in Chicago seized
$500, 900 in counterfeit Nicaraguan
bank bills, and also captured three of
the counterfeiters.
An attempt was made to assassinate
Major General Pine Guerra, command
er of the Cuban army, by member of
the Cuban secret police.
The imperial senate of China, before
it had been in existence three weeks,
voted to memorialize the throne for the
establishment of general parliament.
A dynamite bomb with lighted fuse
attached was hurled from suburban
train into Chicago residence, but the
lady of the house seized it, pinched off
the fuse and threw the bomb into the
street.
A slow moving freight train on the
Southern Pacific near San Jose, CAL,
ran into a pile of boulders which had
been placed on the track with the evil
dent intention of wrecking train.
Had passenger train struck the OBJ
struction a serious wreck would have
resulted.
David B. Hill, ex-governor of New
York and noted New York politician,
is dead.
Senator Stephen B. Elkins, who has
been i'll all summer, is reported to be
improving.
Thirteen are known to have been
killed in the recent Gulf storm, and
some localities have not yet been heard
from.
The Swiss balloon landed at Villa
Marie, Quebec, l, 100 miles from the
starting point in the international bal
loon race.
The National Y. M. C. A. has raised
one million dollars with which to ex-
tend its work in foreign countries.
John D. Rockefeller gave $450,OO
The new White Star line steamship
Olympia was launched at Belfast, Ire
land. She is the largest vessel afioat,
measuring 1929 feet in length and 81
feet in width.
A Seattle man was shot four times,
but escaped serious injury, as the only
bullet which landed on vital part was
caught by his necktie and caused only
a slight wound.
Five members of the joint advisory
board of the Tobacco Workers union of
Tampa, Fla, have been arrested,
charged with conspiring to keep work
men from seeking employment.
BY vote of ,O24 to 925 the Pitts
burg streetcar men have empowered
their executive committee to call a
strike whenever they think proper.
Discharge of $50 union men is the
cause.
Hurricane sweeps Florida, causing
heavy property loss and many casual
ties.
A woman has been arrested as an
accessory in the Los Angeles Times
dynamiting case.
Roosevelt did some explaining" in
his political speeches and his friends
fear he is losing ground.
At banquet given in Chicago to
steel magnates, it is estimated that
seven billions of wealth was represent
ed.
A donkey engine set fire to the new
Madison street bridge in Portland and
caused considerable damage. The
bridge is not yet finished.
Walter Wellman and his crew Of five
men were forced to abandon their air
ship, en- route to Europe from Amer
lea, and were rescued by a passing
steamship.
A Tacoma man has just celebrated
his Tooth birthday. He is in good
health. He can trace his ancestry d.
rectly back to Sir Thomas Cox, first
lord mayor of Cork, Ireland.
Willard Stephen Whitmore, inventor
of the papier mache matrix for max
ing stereotype printing plates, is dead.
He received no benefit from his inven-
ton, although it is now in use in every
civilized country in the world.
The political situation in Iowa is so
eomplicated that both parties are wor-
ried.
Julia Ward Howe, authoress and