Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-11-13
NEWS ITEMS.

October was 40, ,946 tons.
The public debt decreased during Oc>
tober 81, ,lo3,257.
Customs receipts for British Columbia
since July |, figures $244,257.
During the last week 81 wrecks are re-
ported on the British coast and 186 are
known to have happened.
Public business was at stand-stilI
Monday, at Washington, because Of ex-
citement over elections.
Latest news from Cabul is all satisfac
tory. The Ameer is not murdered and :
everything promises well.
Bridge building and grading on the
North Canadian Pacific win soon be COM
pleted to Frazer river.
A conference between Chill and Peru,
held under the auspices Of the United
States, ceased without results.
The Porte is sending troops and am
munition to the Greek frontiers. Unless
the Turks retire to the new frontiers,
war is certain.
Apples in John Day Valley have suf-
fered some from the frost, yet there is
plenty of good fruit left
An elderly shoemaker from Victoria
committed suicide at Tacoma by shoot
ing himself. He had refused to give his
name
A whale found on the west shore Of
Whidby's Island was twenty-five feet
long and yielded over fifteen barrels of
oil.
An important trial of Nihilists ap-
proaches in ST. Petersburg, including the
/ alleged authors of the explosion in the
Moscow building and at the Winter
Palace.
| On the west coast of Africa the native
King Chaca died, and his son will cels-
hrate his memory by four months per
formance, during which two hundred.
captive chiefs will be beheaded.
| OF late the Berlin police have seized
thousands of revolutionary pamphlets
published at Hamburg, and the Official
Gazette announces that the senate Of
Hamburg has declared the city in state
of siege.
Franciscans have been expelled from
their establishments in Rennes and Ayig-
non. At the latter place the police forced
the doors and demolished barricades.
Expulsions Of various orders took place
at Toulon, Villas, Carpsntras, and Mar
/ settles.
A telegram from Denver states that
. A. B. Meacham has been arreated,
charged with the murder of Jackson the
freighter. Mr.. Meacham's love for the
'snoble redskin" will yet be the cause of
: his death. The most charitable construc-
D ton is that he is insane
The Port Townsend Press tells how a
partp of Englishmen from the Victoria
!. Navy Yard took sloop for two weeks
trip to hunt among the islands and some
s spiteful man, who was not allowed to GO
: with them, had all hands and the vessel
arrested for violating our laws.
A number of immigrants are msving
into st. Helens and new houses are to be
built, new school house is in progres.
. and business is reriving there. The
Muckle Bros mill turns out 81, 900 feet
of lumber daily. A schooner of 240 ton,
;, burden, 100 feet long, is ON the stocks
). there, near completion.
! Last Monday, as George s. Barnes
employed in the Company's car-shops, me
/, with a singular and very painful mishap
:, He was hammering heavy iron bolt in
to car which was in process of construc
. tion, when his maui slipped and the boil
= slipped out, hitting him in the ankle ane
. inficting painful bruises. A workma,
!, in Puget Sound shipyard met with
Il like accident some years ago. by whiel
Is he lost an eye.-Inlgrsa Empire
Of The rocf of T. F, Moody & Cos stor
se was opened by burglars last Friday nigh
'e and an attempt made to drill through th
e, safe, which was one of the ld-fashiol
o Tilton & Mcfarland patent. They Gu
Or through the plsster and.cut off two of th
bolts but before they could reach th
:. inner compartment which contained th
~ money, daylight put stop to their opel
re ations. AS Moody voted against the ma,
at row gauge bill and against the Umatill
division, the thieves were foolish to tr
and rob him. They ought to have rea
v the sayes and nays" on those lucratiy
measures and they would haee undertal
en- to rob somebody else. No clue to IL
perpetrators rs.-Inlas.d Empire.